Recently had the opportunity to talk to the legend who made my childhood-beloved game Fable! @bbbscarter.bsky.social have worked at Bullfrog on Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper after which he and his brother Dene joined forces to work on something that would later become Fable! youtu.be/69pvUyBsruQ

Here's an article I wrote a few years ago for The Casket of Fays (Dragon Warriors Fanzine). It was an expansion on one of the 'monsters' listed in the original Dragon Warriors rules. Mix of historical and contemporary inspiration (Jack Skellington). Casket of Fays can be found on Drivethru & Itch.

Playing ‘James Bond: First Light’, I’ve learned that everyone in British Intelligence is apparently enormously pass-agg.

Sigh. “Anthropic’s new model automatically finds flaws in software that runs with restricted permissions behind a firewall. Doom!” vs “VSCode extensions are neither moderated nor sandboxed, and execute arbitrary code locally on 50 million installs. Meh!” www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

I'm trying to write a little more frequently, so I wrote some words about the development of the original Fable. Yay! blog.simoncarter.me/blog/the-ori... #gamedev #fable #games

Hurrah! The Nintendo Switch port I’ve been working on is finally done - Moonring is out today! #gamdev #moonring www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

I’m curious how people organise their ‘entity’ setups in Godot. Examples I’ve seen: - Component-like. Generic root node, component nodes directly under, accessed via node path. - Inheritance + module nodes. Root node is specific type, with members to assign sub module nodes. - etc #godot #gamedev

I very much like Godot and how architecturally agnostic and flexible it is - but I still find myself missing a first-class component-system. Sure, you can emulate it using nodes, but a proper component system is more than just nodes-with-children, and filling those gaps is tricky. #godot #gamedev

Watching Tenet over the weekend has me contemplating if every Christopher Nolan film is secretly a high budget episode of Red Dwarf with all the humour removed and padded out by 2 hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahH...

Looking into creating a small desktop GUI tool using something modern. Most tutorials assume you’re creating a business web app. “Obviously you want to use MVC/MVVM/Reactive/DI/Providers/Notifiers/State management.” No, I just want to hook up a few buttons to some data structures, thanks.

Excited to reveal Genie 2, our most capable foundation world model that, given a single prompt image, can generate an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D worlds. Fantastic cross-team effort by the Open-Endedness Team and many other teams at Google DeepMind! 🧞

Oh wow - just stumbled across sokol as an SDL/gpu alternative. It’s very impressive! github.com/floooh/sokol #gamdev

A short post on getting Emacs/Evil to work consistently with snake_case and camelCase, which was harder than I expected. blog.simoncarter.me/blog/emacs-e... #emacs #evil

Hurrah! Godot is getting in runtime game editing support in 4.4. godotengine.org/article/dev-... Looking forward to not having to support my hacked together workaround - though it still works if you need a solution in the meantime: github.com/bbbscarter/G... #godotengine #godot