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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blue holo-kit fitted as standard and a "Stinger" module in the MK2 slot - ohyeah

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

December seems like the perfect opportunity to roll out a new Viper, no?

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Brilliant review here from @zptr.bsky.social - a man who knows a lot about reviewing Peter Molyneux games

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The world feels a little less dark this morning, doesn't it. A tinge more Green.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Was just checking out some old links to stuff I'd written years ago for @pcgamesn.com and @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social and, rather depressingly, my name has either been removed entirely or replaced by someone else's. Classy.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Very kind. Got it in on time as well. Well, the words. Most of them.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Played a game, had some opinions, typed them up:

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This looks utterly charming. After six months exclusively flying spaceships, I'm ready to try on some different wings.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Oh my! I sat across from Nick during my short time at Imagine and we caught up again over the summer, for a feature he was writing. A really lovely bloke whose knowledge and patience will be hugely missed. Huge condolences to family and friends.

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Hologram Ghost @hologramghost.com · 03/12/2025

The Steam page for our first game is now LIVE! 🎮✨ We've heard wishlists are pretty important. (Please wishlist us!) 🐊 store.steampowered.com/app/4218800/...

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Nothing's Ever Really Dead on Steam

A cyberpunk point-and-click murder mystery. Solve the murder of your best friend ... with the help of your best friend?!

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I did actually install Eve after the new expansion and start a new character, but I only have time for one all-consuming space game and Elite Dangerous is it for now.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I would urge you to listen this series on the history of Gaza, stretching back to the Bronze Age. The ep on post-WWI British rule is devastating: at the same time Nazi's were dive-bombing Guernica on behalf of Spanish fascists, the RAF was doing the same to Arab villages in Palestine.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Time to download Too Good To Go...

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Debug Magazine @debugmag.com · 02/10/2025

Debug and Debug++ subscribers can now access all their digital magazines in one place... Not a subscriber? No problem. You can see all the digital issues you own here, too!

A screenshot from the Debug website displaying the Magazine Library, with covers from Debug magazine

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

New issue! Hope you like purple.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Pondering #EliteDangerous: What if CMDRs could opt out of weekly gameplay ARX and rather that it being lost to the ether, it was put in a big pot and either raffled or converted into $$$ and given to charity? I dunno, but with 60k stuff soon to be available, 400 is bordering on contemptuous ;)

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Tuned in to the tail end of #TheLastNightoftheProms (expecting #MOTD) and it cheers my heart that at this bastion of conservative patriotism there were more EU flags being waved that Union Jacks. Was it always ever thus?

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The "new type of mining" is an anti-climax, but just going on aesthetics I can't wait to climb aboard and pew-pew some 'roids. Hopefully the game's second dedicated mining ship won't take as long to arrive as the first! - CMDR Righton

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

3 days to decide if I want to stick with, ugh, beetroot or go back to boring black. Still hoping for the last minute addition of a national socialist Amstrad grey option 😉

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Debug Magazine @debugmag.com · 14/08/2025

Our free games industry magazine Debug++ has a Physical Edition and it’s shipping today! If you want to contribute, be featured, or have comments and suggestions please chat to editor @zptr.bsky.social Get you copy: debug.plus

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Just got back from having the father-in-law looking after the kids for 4 days and the place looks like 3 children have been home alone rather than two left with a responsible adult.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Never say never but I find myself spending as much time editing an episode as I would a mag. I need to be less fussy. I do have a couple of half-eps recorded. I should do something with them one of these days

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

You don't have to be an all-in-one #indiedev or coder, btw. Maybe you're all about the pixels, or the words, or a tunesmith, or, like me, wrangle content for others to ogle over (or whatever the aural equivalent is). You just need to identify as indie and have a god-like hero in your chosen field.

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One Life Left @onelifeleft.com · 31/07/2025

You heard about it on OLL, now go and check it out! Go on!! #GameDev

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I really should crack on with the next ish of @debug.plus, which means I need to find another victim/subject for this soon-to-be series. So, if you're an #indiedev that sees themselves more on the left of this pic, who might be the person on the right that you'd like to quiz?

Image from Debug++ magazine with Eric Barone on the right, and relative unknown indiedev Kye Cavender on the left.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm still resisting varifocals. I'm sure I can hold out.

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Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE64.com | Commodore 64 @freeze64.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The colour proof of the first ever issue of FREEZE-ZX has *just* landed, and it looks gorgeous! Hopefully the bulk order of print will arrive this time next week, at which point I’ll start posting out pre-orders. Secure your copy from: freeze64.com/freezezx-iss... #ZXSpectrum #Speccy

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

True, but that's not a deal breaker for Deck of course.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Gosh, GFN really is quite good isn't it! I've been comparing #EliteDangerous on Deck through GFN vs native and even sans tweaks it's noticably better. Kind of a shame to use the Deck as a dumb terminal though.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The mealy-mouthed Labour government continually takes 2 steps back for every inch forward. If you believe in a state's right to exist, you don't make it conditional on its neighbour continuing to be genocidal.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Did that paddleboarding thing at the weekend and didn't fall in the water once. I've now convinced myself that I need to get serious; buy my own and start thinking about the next Olympics.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I wonder if Chris Wild could be tempted to make Eye of the Moon, or a ZX Midwinter?

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Feel free to fire me over an email: richie@teamdebug.com

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The mag I've been working on, @debug.plus, is out. It's free, full of #indiedev insight, and I think quite good. Check it out so I can do another one.

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One Life Left @onelifeleft.com · 20/07/2025

Hello! Our latest episode did indeed feature Mr Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social and he did cover himself in glory despite an incorrect score! 😆 You've still time to get your letters to us before our final episode ahead of the summer hols! Zap 'em to us at team<at>onelifeleft.com ASAP! #GameDev

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Career highlight! I was invited on the @onelifeleft.com podcast this week to talk about a new mag that I've been working on and some old ones that I wish were still around. I might not have covered myself in glory, but I'll score it a 9/10 anyway. www.onelifeleft.com#listen

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One Life Left - The World's Longest Running Videogame Radio Show

Presented by Ste Curran and Simon Byron, One Life Left offers a friendly, accessible, easily-distracted look at games and the games industry.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Next™, Nexter™, Nextest™

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Every time I think about putting some ££ aside to get with the current gen, a new Speccy comes along. Life is so unfair.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If you need something to write about this week, or just want to feel old (although not as old as Florence Cohen would be), Hot Coffee was er, being reheated around this time 20 years ago. www.gamesindustry.biz/take-two-fac...

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Take Two facing possible class action lawsuit over Hot Coffee

New York grandmother sues over adult-rated game purchased for 14 year old boy

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It was a nice top floor flat above the tube station. The place was a bit noisy and sweltering in the summer, but being permanently drunk fixed both those issues.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Internal dialogue: I wonder if this free magazine needs "FREE" somewhere around the masthead? Nah, it cheapens it.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Yeah, I lived in London and the season ticket loan was still a big hit.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That was one of my failings: keeping everything I blagged.

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Me the big bucks?! There's only one journo I know who wears la-di-da hats like one of them fancy country gents!

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Left on £25k at Dennis in 2002 (dep ed). Started on £25k at Imagine in 2014 (editor). I didn't mind so much about the money, but it was 3x the work!

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Mate, even I have the skills to come up with a version of the Sliding Doors poster with Gwyneth Paltrow's head. A bit harder finding the original with mine though ;)

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've heard Future were paying about 8-9k for the equivalent staff writer roles in 97, partly because Dennis was central London, and, ofc, because Future was Future ;)

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Richie Shoemaker @zptr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've often wondered how life might've turned out had I taken the other job. Would I have been thrown on the scrapheap after working on SWOS 97/98 (as some were) to never trouble the industry again, or risen through the ranks elsewhere, throwing other people on the scrapheap 23/24?

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