Gamedev on the backburner for a bit while I do some paying work to get the company funds back to health. This means cycling to Kensington every day, a place where people love cars more than humans. There's a lot of Ferraris here, but the owner of this car is clearly rich in things other than money

Now that's what a computer should look like #sciencemuseum #london #tech

Tom Waits is currently on display at the Natural History Museum #london #tomwaits

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev fixed up and extended Lump, my "Mass for Idiots" system- now you can't see where it switches away from ISM to mesh or actor. Framerate stays nice and high thanks to object pools, and only using physics where needed. Next job: use it to make cars and pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev Turns out the bits of Mass I wanted to use are dependent on ZoneGraph, and ZG can't be rebuilt at run time, so I can't use it. Mass is also fully C++ and honestly a bit of a headache. So, I nicked the ideas from Mass I wanted and built something a lot simpler. 1/n

Neuron here is watching my Pain au Chocolat like it's his ancestral birthright

Today in fun #gamedev bugs: the SUV Centipede, coming to a school run near you very soon.

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev #london- infinite PCG road now features intersections and buildings (well, connection points for intersections and placeholder cubes). The pop-in is a bit brutal but I can fix that later. Implementing traffic comes first. And breaking the legs of pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday The Last Gig is on hold for a bit while I try to find funding, so I'm now cranking out a quick one-month side project, Electric Rental Bike Simulator. Infinite procedural #ue5 road working great, now working on intersections, buildings, and detecting the breakage of traffic laws.

I have been "verified as an adult" on #BlueSky: I feel I should make some framed copies of the email and send them to my old school teachers. I'm sure they'll be proud, and glad all their work wasn't for nothing.

The football song "Three Lions" will be 30 years old next year- so that line about "30 years of hurt" (which in 1996 was the time since England won the World Cup) can be read as "30 years of national depression every time that Three Lions song comes on" youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?... #itscominghome

#screenshotsaturday- needed a break from tech debt and UI so have implemented ridable Lime bikes. It uses the #ue5 vehicle system, plus control rig IK for the hands and feet. Below is an accurate demo of a typical #London Lime bike usage- note the use of proper parking technique. #gamedev 1/2

Been a while since my last #screenshotsaturday post- fixing AI bugs isn't exactly a visual treat. However now it's a LOT more stable, and even uses the correct escalator when given the option. Plus it can jump if it's sufficiently annoyed. #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev 1/3

Unintentional environmental storytelling in Alton Towers #gamedev

#screenshotsaturday - mostly getting rid of tech debt this week so the AI has fewer existential crises, but also some combat tweaks. Question- should robots care about which way an escalator goes? It's easier if they don't, but I can't decide if it looks "menacing" or "stupid" #ue5 #gamedev

It's #wishlistwednesday! So here's a WIP of part of the demo for The Last Gig (store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/...) Very quick to put together thanks to @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe plugin, and @nebukam.bsky.social's PCGEx to get rid of the need for boring wall / room placement #gamedev #ue5 1/3

Today for #screenshotsaturday something that should be trivial but turned out to be a massive headache: hanging from a rope in The Last Gig (wishlist pls store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... thx) . Simple right? Well, no- the Character Movement Component doesn't like constraints #gamedev #ue5 1/3

I can do #wishlistwednesday now! Here's more fun with the grapple / pogobat in a procedural Barbican Centre- making a procgen level has been really great for tuning (grapple is still way too powerful mind). Wishlist The Last Gig on Steam here! store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... #gamedev #ue5

OK I think that's enough menacing #robot megastructure iterations for now, better get back to making the actual game #ue5 #gamedev #blender

fortune.com/article/duol... If #Duolingo are replacing people with AI, I'll be replacing Duolingo with people. Subscription cancelled, 1647 day streak ended. Take your #AI and your greed and shove it up your owl.

It's #screenshotsaturday ! Think I've got the grappling hook feeling mostly right for The Last Gig ( store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... )- there's a fun balance between "player control" and "forceful yeetage". Needs better animation and sound etc, but it's on the right track. #gamedev #ue5 1/4

Steam page now up- bit premature as I don't have a trailer yet, but since I'm on Inside Unreal tonight it's better to have it than not. Wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... forums.unrealengine.com/t/inside-unr... #gamedev #indiedev #ue5 #robots #london

Sorry to keep banging on about this but THEY MADE A REAL POST AND IT'S DEFINITELY HAPPENING: forums.unrealengine.com/t/inside-unr... Live this Thursday at 19:00 (UK) / 15:00 (US East) Forum announcement contains a photo of my cat Donnie, so click for that at least #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev #cats

Mood. #gamedev #ue5 #robots

Special update for #screenshotsaturday - I've made a procedural #London #Barbican centre, entirely in #UE5 using the #PCGEx plugin, and I will be talking about it on the Official Epic 'Inside Unreal' Twitch Stream THIS THURSDAY at 7PM GMT here: www.twitch.tv/unrealengine - #gamedev (1/3)

I can't sleep and my phone just updated to tell me about the new "Playground" #ai garbage machine they've rammed into #ios on #iphone. None of the selfies I tried looked any more like me than "generic white man with glasses and beard", so let's try someone more distinctive 1/n

#screenshotsaturday - not much new to show off, just pulling everything together for a demo. However I did resurrect an old pattern generator thing to make some truly horrendous carpets, and have added an authentically rubbish lift 1/n #gamedev #ue5 #carpets #london

Hey, let’s get an intros thread for all of the game devs here! Tell us about yourself, your studio, and/or your current projects! 👾♥️

Quick #screenshotsaturday update- after a lot of debate about whether it added much, I bit the bullet and added a first-person body. The pogo stick function makes a lot more "sense" with the shadow... or at least as much sense as it can. Also, now you can peek round corners! #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

Can anyone recommend a place to get #3d #gamedev assets that are just... normal? Every time I look for something like "human" I get "wizard" or "cartoon fashion victim" or "regular human but beaten up and only wearing one glove".

Five words or *fewer* (ffs): immersive sim, sentient cricket bat

I just started a list of awesome solo #indiedevs you can follow! go.bsky.app/FsTnmYb P.s. if you want me to add you to the list, please comment or DM! 💜

Very happy with this #ue5 camera effect. The core of this game is stealth and avoiding blandly murderous corporate #AI robots, so a scouting tool is required, and this turned out to be surprisingly quick to implement! Next: peeking round corners with the other camera. #gamedev #indiedev #shaders

#PCGEx, an Unreal' open source PCG plugin I've been working on for over a year is finally available on FAB! www.fab.com/listings/3f0... #ue5 #pcg #gamedev #procgen Thanks @amathlog.bsky.social for the all the support, you're not getting rid of me just yet 💙

Licenses for my new programming assistant Copawlet are available at very competitive prices. #cats #ue5 #gamedev

It's #screenshotsaturday ! In between some AI stuff, I've been looking at just how much gameplay I can cram into a (sentient) cricket bat. Movement tech in particular- I want verticality. Grappling hooks are great, but everywhere... ...so how about a pogo stick? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #ue5

"Show me the four games that influenced your current game project." Dishono(u)red (stealth, the first convincing pub in games); Prey (action, sense of place); Brutal Legend (absurd-yet-human writing); Fallout 1 (real fears given air, and the jokes were good before Bethesda ran them into the ground)

Thread.sleep() #cats #gamedev #indiedev

Some fun with procedural animation for #screenshotsaturday - #ue5 control rig is a lot easier now it's modular. Modelled and skinned this chap in Blender and then got this in UE and animating in under a day. 1/n #gamedev #indiedev #robots #blender

#gamedev gripe #236 games with drums, where you can't play the drums. BEHOLD! #UE5 #FPS #drumming. Controls need work (weird playing with fingers and without feet) and the latency isn't great, but very happy with the cymbal shader. @zildjiancompany.bsky.social : fancy talking sponsorship?

Important #ue5 #gamedev news: whilst making some blueprints to make cables less of a headache, I added a feature I have *never seen* in a gaming. Something to push immersion to new heights. Something to make the player feel as if they are truly *in* this virtual #London. YES: UK 3 PIN PLUGS

20 minutes late for #screenshotsaturday (UK time) but let's do it anyway- got basic traffic working in #procedural #london using the #ue5 Mass Entity system and the new zone graph stuff in PCGEx. No bus and cycle lanes as yet, but we'll get there... #gamedev

Been a little while since I've done a proper #screenshotsaturday post on this #ue5 #gamedev #pcg London, but I've made a ton of progress and fixed all the bugs I was really interested in fixing. So here goes... 1/n

A true great- both Dishonored and Half Life 2 have been some of the only games that really seem to "get" architecture, and that was all down to this guy. bsky.app/profile/euro...

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov dies aged just 52 www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-...

It's done! 150/150 seats filled in this starter pack: 🦋 Solo Game Developers Features #solodev game developers out there doing hard work. Give 'em a follow and spread the word: bsky.app/starter-pack...

I think that's just about enough dynamic meshes for a procedurally generated city, but given that it's supposed to be London I'll need to make the weather a lot worse #ue5 #pcg

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on the PCG stuff I've been doing in #ue5 at the London office of @officialepicgames.bsky.social for the London Unreal meetup. There's no photos of the presentation itself, but this picture of me suggests it was mostly about successful fishing techniques

Think I've finally cracked the 'natural' layout for this #ue5 #gamedev #procedural city project...

#UE5 #gamedev #PCG procedural city update for #screenshotsaturday- had a bit of a break over Christmas but now hoping to wrap this up. A few new things!