me to my laptop everytime i change timezones but it won't update.

Also, if you're in town and want to chat about your Unreal projects or are looking to swap over from another engine for a project and want to sound out if that's a good idea for it or not hit me up and we can have a chat.

I'm delivering a talk alongside the wonderful @amathlog.bsky.social on Large Procedural Systems with PCG. If you're working with PCG at a large scale, come! There's a lot covered including Biome Core, Builders, Hierarchical Generation and more. All are common problems I keep chatting to Devs about!

Managing Director is my favourite job title because it implies the existence of another Director who is just.. totally not managing right now.

If you're going for this with an Unreal Engine project and you want some last-minute technical tips for polish advice, feel free to hit me up!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

One really interesting thing that seems to be pretty consistent is that the Steam Deck has actually provided a definitive min spec for PC game developers. Historically this was a bit more vibes based for a lot of folks and it's great to see something so standardised.

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

New in UE5-Main, AccumulationDOF, A close to physically accurate DOF implementation specifically for production renders!! And damn it works far beyond what I expected, can focus THROUGH transparencies correctly! Into Reflections, no foreground artefacts! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX

I'll be presenting with the awesome @highlyspammable.bsky.social at the GDC26!! Come say hi :D Developing Large Procedural Systems with Low Friction and Fast Generation (Presented by Epic Games) #GDC2026 #PCG #UE schedule.gdconf.com/session/deve...

Bone Temple was not only great, but it somehow improved the parts of 28 Years Later that I had a beef with. Rare to see a sequel that improves the predecessor like that. Go see it!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Was pretty keen to try Gears Tactics on the Legion Go as a successor for my Xcom addiction but it turns out it needs to login on launch which means you can't play it on flights. Really thought Xbox Offline Mode would've solved that, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Not sure who could use this info but it turns out that Intel Connectivity Performance Suite was lowering my laptop internet speeds by 95% due to "Prioritization" being enabled and.. bad, I guess.

Playing Mortal Kombat 1 and... the story mode is kind of incredible? They really just made a movie where you hang out and then play the fights every now and then as a treat. Acting and facial animation are great, effects are great.. they just.. kinda knocked it out of the park.

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

Can't help but wonder how good my Grandma would have been at visualising UV maps, given they're basically just sewing patterns.

Crazy. I’m tinkering with a small screen for VR featuring octopods. And while trying to push the interactivity they became fully physicalized using Physics Control in @unrealengine.bsky.social Now I exchanged their movement also with forces and the result feels very believable. (Don’t do this IRL)

These folks are lovely people. Throw them a vote. It takes like 2 seconds!

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

Finally got around to trying Star Wars Outlaws and it's great! It's a really solid stealth game where I can be a scruffy-looking-nerfherder and get up to shenanigans across the galaxy. I'd heard weird stuff when it launched but I'm really glad I'm giving it a try! Team did a wonderful job.

Digital Confectioners are some of my favourite devs and their new title looks absolutely rad. Can't wait. store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/...

If you're testing a multiplayer game, Unreal has a great "Allow late joining" experimental feature under Editor Preferences. It adds an "Add another client" button that is shown when you run the game. #UnrealEngine

I lived off a partner for years - essentially - while working on Unfortunate Spacemen. It makes getting up in front of a crowd and talking about "my journey to success" feel priviledged and fake. But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.

Dylan is a superb Unreal TA and every day he goes unhired I lose a little faith in humanity.

blog post: cool little tech art thing I did a while ago on Sleight of Hand. lights that dispel volumetric smoke, with occlusion www.joewintergreen.com/tech-art-thi...

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

The worst line delivery is not by Gal Gadot. It's by Joe Pantoliano in The Matrix. He puts this random emphasis on the word "for" in "the image translators work FOR the construct". Kills me. Every time. Seat in front of me is watching it, and I can hear IT IN MY BRAIN... I still love this movie.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

the rest of the world: we have ronald mcdonald and grimace for mcdonalds adverts. japan: hold my beer.

In need of a new job! I'm a Tech Artist who loves pushing visual side of things in real time, with 13 years of #UnrealEngine, Tech Art, Lighting, Lookdev, Env, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python as well as a Houdini & Substance skillset Avaliable mid Dec #GameDev #VFX #FX #GameArt

This is perhaps the most under viewed Unreal Engine video. If you use UMG in Unreal you should really give it a view, Adrienne killed it with this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHI...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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Finally got around to seeing Thunderbolts and I think it's the best film Marvel have put out in a long, long time.

Taking ebikes off trains because they sometimes have bad batteries feels like a step backwards. If it's a genuine concern I'm happy to get the batteries reviewed every few years or something. Survey closes today! Please fill out it!

We're hiring a bunch of Design and Art roles right now at @gravitywell.games! We are: 🔥 Making rad new IP ❤️An empathetic AAA Team 💸 Have profit sharing and focused on being sustainable long term If this interests you, please apply here! gravitywell.games #gamedev #gamedevjobs

Hit 9 years at Epic yesterday. What a ride it has been.. Thanks for being a part of it folks!

Windows 11 update formatted my machine without saying it would. Cool. Cool Cool Cool.

It'll never not be bizarre to me that Suicide Squad is one of the worst comic book movies, but The Suicide Squad is somehow one of the best. Shows you what good creative on a project can do.

Property History is out! Quickly see the history of any property in Unreal Engine

Netflix hitting me with trick questions.

bug - something broken in a tech thing buggy - a way to describe tech that has bugs bugged - something or some place that has a secret microphone or camera planted in it for spying on people Whenever I read 'the code/game is bugged,' I get a lil tripped up 😅

The new Nanite Foliage Voxel representation is an absolute game changer for distant environments, density preservation is pretty much perfect. 5 min test scene i whipped up here. ~1 million 20 million poly trees scattered with PCG #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #RealTime

First Early Access update by one of my favourite teams in the business. Worth checking out if you haven't already!

Civilization 6 Platinum Edition, which contains 6 DLC packs and 2 Expansion packs, is free at the moment on the Epic Games Store. store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sid-...

First parts of Nanite Foliage pushed to UE5-Main today which includes the Voxel distance representations, upon some quick testing the perf increase in my scene was insane, 2x faster and looks much more dense too! 62fps -> 119fps 77,376 20 milllion poly trees #UE5 #UnrealEngine #NaniteFoliage

Is the opposite of "half assing" something whole assing, not assing or still just half assing?

Watched Sinners last night and I'm so glad I went in not knowing anything but a quick warning if you haven't seen it: it has both a mid & end credits scene. One of which is super important! HBO switches to suggesting movies before it gets to them. Only caught it because the soundtrack is a banger.