It’s here! Now if I could only find the correct cable for the 1084S!

I was doing some C64 coding yesterday and was using AI for some hints and direction. Didn't take long before I hit its limit - and that limit is drawing a line in Hires mode on the C64. AI couldn't do it. I ended up spending half an hour teasing it for being useless.

Oooh! Soon, my pretty, soon!

I _think_ my C64 is being delivered tomorrow. Something is coming from the Netherlands anyway...

It’s not every day you see a crowd surfing dinosaur.

I'm heading to Froth & Fury tomorrow. Originally I was really excited to see Archspire and other international acts. But after listening to most of the lineup, I can't wait to see some of the local acts - Frenzal Rhomb of course, but also BattleSnake and Rocky's Pride and Joy look like stupid fun. 🤘

Got home last night after a month of travelling and for the first time in a month, I woke up and had no idea where I was.

What a day. Started with a visit to the Titanic museum in Belfast, followed quickly by a car accident (no one hurt) then a 4 hour walking tour in east and west Belfast covering both sides of the “Troubles”. Now in a bar with my Son drinking beers. Travel is good.

I’m travelling and started getting constant notifications from my front camera. I checked out and, well, it’s a huntsman. Not sure if it’s eating or shedding.

Bloody hell York. You look like a fairy tale.

Just arrived at our new accomodation and found the lift was out of order. Lugged 100kg of luggage upstairs (4 of us) and this is our new view.

Last night I went to the “oldest pub” in Nottingham. Then I went to the other “oldest pub” in Nottingham. Then I went to another “oldest pub” in Nottingham. I suspect they were all also “the most haunted”

This might be the best thing I’ve seen all year.

Yeah. This is good. A fantastic Xmas diversion.

I think I just saw Rammstein at a Xmas market.

The Berlin sky put on a bit of a show for us today.

You know you’re in Berlin when you stumble across a random bar and it has a shrine to The Hoff

From the Tower of London - the most Bloodborne axe ever. It functions as a gun and an axe.

You know what’s worse than 24+ hours of travel to the UK from Aus with the whole family? Getting to the hotel and finding out we have a 7 hour wait for our rooms.

League of Legends has been around for over 15 years. It's changed and evolved constantly, releasing new versions nearly every 2 weeks. This is a talk on the start of the refactoring process for our Particle System - how do we refactor something that is constantly shipping? Why would we even do that?

Sektori is pretty bloody good. Awesome twinstick shooter, with a banging soundtrack. I'm getting a work out from the ceaseless foot tapping it triggers.

Shut up Spotify. You don't know me.

Soon, my Precious, soon you will be mine.

It feels like the 80s again. I'm going to see Suicidal Tendencies support Metallica on Wednesday, and at the same time I'm waiting on my newly ordered #C64 to be shipped.

This game scratches a llamatron shaped itch

One of the early Aussie Game Dec conference bags. (Early 2000s)

Hello Melbourne!

TFW you are furiously working on a presentation for a conference and you get the "Checkins are open" notification for your flight to said conference. So you stop to post about it on Socials instead of working more.

I'll be at #GCAP next week! If anyone wants to catch up, HMU. Also, I'm landing in Melbourne Sunday arvo, so if anyone wants to catch up for a drink, let me know. Purely for jetlag remediation of course - that 30 minute difference can be a killer.

"Solving the Autism problem" You mean stacking the dish washer the CORRECT way?

Just got a new #C64 tattoo! It’s still a bit angry but it really complements the rest of my C64 sleeve.

This. A thousand times, this.

This showed up in my feed yesterday. A snippet from a different time, hilariously understated.

I just spent 4 hours debugging something that I had previously documented as not yet implemented. At least now I know why it doesn't work. sigh

Getting back to my roots, doing some weekend programming..

Hello. I just realised that I much prefer Star Trek to Star Wars. What does that say about me?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for my C64 -- and I said "Fuck that, you suck" and made an angry post on social media.

This is glorious. There is a real joy in building a creative product that you love, and we so often forget this. Deadlines, budgets, bad management, massive teams, and bad tools can all detract from this. If you are a Game Dev, don't forget - you get to build games for a living! How cool is that?

A friend recommended this game to me one week ago. It sounded good, so I bought it and started playing. I've now spent 40 hours on it in the last 7 days. 40 hours! Yeah. It's fucking good. It has depth - even it's layers have layers. Do yourself a favour and grab this one.

Guess who's talking at GCAP 2025? I'll be talking about rewriting a particle system which has been modified by dozens (100+?) of people over 15 years and is a critical part of a game that ships every 2 weeks to millions of players. Lessons learnt, problems found, solutions created. It's a journey.

I just finished Death Stranding 2. Loved it. I loved the insane cut scenes, the crazy story lines, the stupid boss fights, the fact that you can skip boss fights if they're too hard (I didn't. I'm a big boy now). The game is beautiful and I cared about the characters. Now I'm off to build more roads

Me At Work 2 weeks ago: "This system has been stagnating for years. It seriously needs a refactor. I'll just change a few things..." Me today:

Damnit. Animals As Leaders have cancelled their tour. I'd forked out for the VIP tickets and was looking forward to meet them.

Shroom and Gloom is a beautiful looking game! And it plays well too - First person Slay the Spire? The demo is out now - if you like rogue-lite deck builders (like I do) then you'll probably like this.

In October we're getting a new C64 and a new Tron movie. Both were inspirational and led to me eventually pursuing a career in game dev. I'm really looking forward to October.

For your Wednesday listening pleasure (and the video is awesome too)

This is not something I expected to be saying in 2025. I just ordered a new Commodore 64. www.commodore.net

Just had a horrible 20min. My steam deck wouldn’t boot. With 24 hours trapped on a plane WITHOUT A GAMING DEVICE looming before me, I was lucky enough to find the magical start up button sequence to resurrect my dead device.

Bloody hell Paris, what are you doing?

Last time I was in Paris I saw a lot of tiled Space Invader graffiti. Looks like the artists have upgraded to 16 bit now.