Ben Dawes
@bendawes.bsky.social
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Game dev in Oslo. Formally of UK. Formerly of Snowcastle Games. Founder @ No Bad Weather
Samples! Means to means? (10) Hot drink on call (7) Lying regularly locks criminal up until death (8)
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6 days ago
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Try out my latest cryptic on MyCrossword! Not being numerical is a quite vital failing (11) Thanks to
@henriwords.com
and
@metagloria.bsky.social
for testing
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3603
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Cryptic crossword No 3,603 路 MyCrossword
Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,603 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 30 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Tue 23 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3603
6 days ago
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Sample clues: Public space where it's open to air? (5) Holder of the holy grail decapitated; with query, tortured (9) Fails to set straight, as I'm returning mixed signals (9)
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9 days ago
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Another full grid. This time one that actually had a tester! (Thanks,
@liari.bsky.social
!)
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3591
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Cryptic crossword No 3,591 路 MyCrossword
Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,591 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Fri 19 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3591
10 days ago
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Would anyone here be so kind as to test a full cryptic grid? Looking for feedback on whether clues parse, difficulty etc. :)
11 days ago
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How do we feel about the word "lots" being "sea", as in "a sea of options"? Full clue: 19d. Hot lots on call (7)
12 days ago
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Ben Dawes
Unch Crosswords
14 days ago
Thanks so much to everyone who's bought their copy on pre-sale so far! Not on the list yet? Secure a copy here:
unchcrosswords.com
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Unch Crossword Magazine
Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine
https://unchcrosswords.com
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People went bananas for this morning's themed mini, maybe they will get some d茅j脿 clue with this one?
mycrossword.co.uk/mini/277
Thanks to my friend for the special suggestion for this one - try it and see if you can spot it!
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Mini crossword No 277 路 MyCrossword
Solve Mini crossword No 277 on MyCrossword. 7x7 grid with 6 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Sun 14 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/mini/277
14 days ago
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mycrossword.co.uk/mini/275
A little mini cryptic for Sunday. Can you figure out the theme??
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Mini crossword No 275 路 MyCrossword
Solve Mini crossword No 275 on MyCrossword. 7x7 grid with 6 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Sun 14 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/mini/275
15 days ago
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Very loosy goosy themey withy my crossy wordy
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3569
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Cryptic crossword No 3,569 路 MyCrossword
Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,569 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 26 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Sat 13 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3569
16 days ago
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Equal parts excited and nervous to watch someone solve one of my grids!
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17 days ago
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Ben Dawes
Liari
17 days ago
Going live around 2:30pm BST. Will start off with MyCrossword puzzles by
@archelina.bsky.social
,
@skirwingle.bsky.social
, and
@bendawes.bsky.social
then go from there.
twitch.tv/liari77
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liari77 - Twitch
Just a gal solving cryptic crosswords.
https://twitch.tv/liari77
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Spooner's safe speaking such statements, say? (13)
18 days ago
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Samplers: At first glance, you have to admit, dad turning back up shows a lack of caring (6) Make Lord's doilies messy (7) Covet ye to caress virgin's exterior, from bottom to top? (4)
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18 days ago
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Cryptic crosswords have been one of many hobbies I obsess over in waves, but now MyCrossword makes it so much easier to make them than my old "spreadsheet mangling" methods... Anyway, I made another!
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3560
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Cryptic crossword No 3,560 路 MyCrossword
Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,560 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 28 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Wed 10 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3560
19 days ago
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This is me!!! Thank you so much!
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20 days ago
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Trying to come up with a more fine-grained list of rarities for plants in my game than the usual "common, uncommon, rare, mythic". Does this feel like a natural ordering to you?
about 1 year ago
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Today I sat with a designer and reviewed a table. He pointed at one of the columns and said, "We need to make some changes to this column. The header should be different. And we need to change what data it contains". So, I realized. It was not the same column. And I was not the same man.
over 1 year ago
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Ben Dawes
Thomas Viktil
over 1 year ago
gamedev.city
is like HackerNews for gamedev. So much cool content in one place! Went straight on my browser startup page.
#gamedev
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Just started playing Kingdom Come Deliverance for the first time. Finished the lil tutorial village area, within 10 seconds I was dead. 10/10 medieval experience.
over 1 year ago
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Mfw the snow consistency is juuuust right
over 1 year ago
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When there were two sets of footprints in the sand, then I was walking beside you. When there was one set of footprints, that was when I carried you. When there were just right-hand footprints and holes on the left, in the sand, that was when I had a peg leg. When there were three parallel groove
over 1 year ago
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Amanita Muscaria grows near spruce or birch, in wet, acidic soil that has low nutrients 馃
#unreal
#ue5
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over 1 year ago
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Made a bunch of perf improvements and tweaks to me procedural actor spawning system. Now even more threaded and timesliced. Very happy with the performance, more than quick enough to keep up with a normal moving player. Each tree is an actor!
#unreal
#unrealengine
#pcg
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over 1 year ago
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#Threading
in
#Unreal
is actually super easy, I noticed that converting a mesh description to an actual mesh was particulaarly slow and swapping it to another thread and returning a future was actually such a tiny change with major frametime improvements
over 1 year ago
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Just remember, when someone MakeEmptyPromise, it means the Future they give you is inaccessible <3
over 1 year ago
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Plugging a few things together, here's my first functioning prototype for fully determinsitic from seed (custom)
#PCG
terrain with actors spawning, in-editor viewport in
#Unreal
. Plants can spawn based on properties in the world, like moisture and nutrients :)
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over 1 year ago
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ViewPoints Photography
over 1 year ago
Some lovely nacreous clouds in Oslo this evening
#photography
#mobilephotography
#norway
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Using ParallelFor in
#unrealengine
for the first time, thank goodness TQueue is thread safe!
over 1 year ago
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Ben Dawes
Thomas Viktil
over 1 year ago
That was smart! 馃憦
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Made a little debug tool for the biome system I just started on. Live visualization of the various environmental properties - moisture, pH, nutrients and so on.
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over 1 year ago
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PCG + Geometry Script to spawn a bunch of unique mushrooms. I'll probably drop PCG for something custom and easier at runtime, but it's nice to drop some meshes around easily :)
over 1 year ago
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Fiddling with Geometry Script in Unreal to generate mushrooms. Here's a first spin on Boletus Edulus (Porcini, Steinsopp).
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over 1 year ago
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When playing Baldur's Gate 3, my keyboard illuminates the numbers to show how many dialogue options I can pick. Such a tiny detail that somewhat confuses me as to whom it benefits but... It's nice anyway
over 1 year ago
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Bitches get scritches
over 1 year ago
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Tinkering with PCG and Geometry Script in UE5.5. This lil guy is a dynamic mesh that's just a plane displaced by a bunch of simplex noise samples. Then those meshes are used by a PCG graph to place the trees. So satisfying to move it around inside the nosie :D
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over 1 year ago
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