maybe if he takes more consultant advice to move to the right on immigration he can turn those numbers around

Godot peeps: what we using to do our dynamic controller icons in labels and buttons (changing based on inputs being attached detached, players remapping keyboard and controllers etc)? Is there a goto asset or plugin, or am I cooking up my own?

I really enjoyed doing this. Hmmmmmm

Man, Predator Badlands. Trachtenberg remains the absolute master of setup and payoff. Shows you the mechanics and skeleton of a world then plays a tune on the ribcage. Lovely game design in his films. That final sequence, my god

I can’t get over how much using Godot in 2025 feels like using Unity in 2010. Common sense memory.

It’s 2010, AAA is chasing bullshit trends, leaving behind opportunities for small indies with good new tools and respect for the medium It’s 2025, AAA is chasing bullshit trends, leaving behind opportunities for small indies with good new tools and respect for the medium

The time draws near

networking is an incredibly important part of maintaining a professional presence in your creative industry, but it can be daunting. have you tried being completely fucking ridiculous online

I wonder if, every day or two, film people are all on social media like ‘fuck wide shots, lazy. Indicative of societal trends and also massively patronising to the cinema going audience. All my films are shot mid and close up, because I make art’ I bet they do.

My general status

The Rockstar union case made its way into UK Parliament earlier today

Godot bat signal after hitting my head on a bug for a bit. Google not helping After a few months of working with one screen resolution, I’ve changed to another, but now all scenes instantiated at runtime load in offset down the screen. Assume I’ve checked the obvious, and nothing is reading as off

Frankenstein was excellent. So good that it makes me feel even more embarrassed that I once accidentally barged into Del Torro walking around a corner at comic con. That man must be protected, especially from me.

Okay. I’m gonna need all that steam hardware, ta.

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Re: that rt. the average businessy business suit type would be so much happier if they really WERE the soulless capitalist they like to posture as. The reality is that most do what they do for the same reason creative types do: a crushing need for love, respect and community. They should paint.

I feel like devs and CEOs need to accept that a consequence of using gen AI is that a lot of people won’t like it. That’s just the case as it is and the risks you take

Regularly frequenting small coffee shops is such a ‘I want to feel rooted in my local community’ hack. Make the effort to be on ‘friendly nod when I see you on the street’ terms with 20 people who live within a half mile radius of you.

It is time that the game buying public accepted that all game development studios are headed up by a lazy man who can’t be arsed to go get his morning coffee. It is the new normal. The question is not “am I comfortable buying games by a sleepy man?”, the question is “am I, the consumer, wrong?”

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But have you considered that, I, the protagonist, might be right?

A cool thing about being in London is when I realise that a primary source for the research I need to do this week is 30 minutes away from where I’m staying. “Oh, I need to learn about x? fuck it, I’ll go hang out where it was invented on Tuesday”

Thomas Was Alone week is almost over, but we have the rest of our legacy celebration to go. Here's to the game about rectangles that made all those future titles possible. 🟥

Had both a birthday and a wife with exceptional taste in all areas except romance, so found myself building the Lego Gameboy. My god. Just a beautiful bit of engineering and design celebrating a beautiful bit of engineering and design.

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

Love is as blind as a targ

It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

Pluribus starting unsurprisingly well. Immediately playing with your genre expectations. 5 seasons please.

I am a self indulgent man

Shout out to the escape room designer(s) they brought in for the finale of traitors

I like the idea of a 90s musical rendition of Waiting for Godot: Godot! (The exclamation mark is vital)

Godot feels like what it is: an engine made in 2025 by people who know how small to mid size games are actually put together.

Sick, so taking natural remedies (point and click adventure games).. playing The Drifter and loving it. More of you need to release your adventure games on Mac, is the thing

What’s that.. is it the low hum of humanity realising they can laugh in the face of establishment power and narratives?

Just checking you all know about Spirit Swap, the game that came out this year that I directed alongside many incredibly skilled friends and workers! We’re a majority (uh I’m pretty sure 100% tbh) marginalized people co-op and self-published! Please check out our trailer I love it so much!

Good job, guys

Realized I forgot to share this one! The latest PWL is about indie game marketing, and why you should make bad games. DO IT. (ft. @mikebithell.bsky.social & @charalanahzard.bsky.social) youtu.be/cFAihl5DNAc

There is for sure a marketing gap. It’s not that narrative games don’t sell, it’s that a lot of publishers aren’t set up to sell them. It’s a lot easier to blame the marketplace or devs for an issue than to give their marketing teams the resources they need to get it done.

Go on New York, do the thing. Ripples.

Across the world, game dev unions are standing with us. @rockstargames.com - reinstate our members, now!

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The entirety of my baseball knowledge comes from that one episode of DS9.

Good shit. Terrifying, but good. youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?...

Looking forward to the #aiandgames conference this week. Say hey if you see me wandering around (Conference on actual proper ai stuff devs use like machine learning, enemy behaviour etc, I’ll be dodging any generative crap, obviously, hate that charlatans force that clarification)

I’ve talked a lot over the years about my career being a search for good teachers and learning opportunities. The prototype I’m poking at right now feels like the culmination of all those lessons. Feels good.

One of the finest high intensity moments of my early career was printing a cv at work, but accidentally sending it to the CEO’s office printer. I _sprinted_

A little context for non-uk people: the bar for misconduct leading to immediate dismissal in the uk is really high. We have employee protections that make US biz people throw up. It’s incredibly stupid and probably quite actionable to lay off a lot of uk people without serious evidence.

The documentary on 2010-2015 indie games scene in like 20 years from now is gonna be so good

Writing day. So my house is very tidy.