Samples! Means to means? (10) Hot drink on call (7) Lying regularly locks criminal up until death (8)

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

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)

Another full grid. This time one that actually had a tester! (Thanks, @liari.bsky.social !) mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3591

Would anyone here be so kind as to test a full cryptic grid? Looking for feedback on whether clues parse, difficulty etc. :)

How do we feel about the word "lots" being "sea", as in "a sea of options"? Full clue: 19d. Hot lots on call (7)

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

People went bananas for this morning's themed mini, maybe they will get some déjà 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!

mycrossword.co.uk/mini/275 A little mini cryptic for Sunday. Can you figure out the theme??

Very loosy goosy themey withy my crossy wordy mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3569

Equal parts excited and nervous to watch someone solve one of my grids!

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

Spooner's safe speaking such statements, say? (13)

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)

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

This is me!!! Thank you so much!

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?

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.

gamedev.city is like HackerNews for gamedev. So much cool content in one place! Went straight on my browser startup page. #gamedev

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.

Mfw the snow consistency is juuuust right

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

imgur.com/KIrRM9k Amanita Muscaria grows near spruce or birch, in wet, acidic soil that has low nutrients 🤓 #unreal #ue5

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 #ue5

#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

Just remember, when someone MakeEmptyPromise, it means the Future they give you is inaccessible <3

imgur.com/k1b2dLV 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 :)

Some lovely nacreous clouds in Oslo this evening #photography #mobilephotography #norway

Using ParallelFor in #unrealengine for the first time, thank goodness TQueue is thread safe!

That was smart! 👏

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.

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 :)

Fiddling with Geometry Script in Unreal to generate mushrooms. Here's a first spin on Boletus Edulus (Porcini, Steinsopp).

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

Bitches get scritches

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