The Ryanomicon

Getting Mock Wild

Oh, 2011. You’ve been the best year of my life. Far and away. Work is great. Life couldn’t be better. And now I’m ready to take the wraps off of my year-long passion project and reveal Mock Wild Games! Mock Wild Games is a micro-studio focused on, and borderline obsessed with, crafting inventive and creative [...]

Chapter Two: The Next Chapter

2010 Wrap Up 2010 zipped by with a pitiful tally of just two posts to this poor, neglected blog. It was a busy year. And, as far as work goes, it was a tough year. But personally, I’m doing better than ever. I’m living with an incredible girl, I’m working on a couple of exciting [...]

NetHack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play

There are no two ways about it. NetHack is the greatest game you will ever play.(com) In continuous development since 1987, NetHack is the deepest and most challenging video game ever made. It’s also the great-granddaddy of modern dungeon-crawlers like Diablo. But, in a shockingly unexpected surprise twist, Diablo proves to be absolute crap compared [...]

2010

2009 Wrap Up For every new year I create a new folder to contain all of my creative output. It’s a strangely sentimental thing for me, and I always end up spending at least a few hours browsing through the ending year’s files. There are quite a few projects that are waiting to be added [...]

A Word on WordPress

Alright, time to talk shop. I’ve spent a lot of time with WordPress, my content management system of choice, since it was released in 2003, and I use it for many of my professional and personal projects. In fact, this site, The Ryanomicon, is built upon WordPress. As a web designer and developer, I’ve worked [...]

Prologue

My name is Ryan Baudoin, and I am a web designer and developer. I work as Lead Designer for a company called Inspired Environment. I also freelance. I work regularly with individuals as well as companies both large and small. I particularly enjoy working with charitable organizations. I currently call Austin, TX my home, and [...]