The more physics-based character controllers I write, the more I lean towards the notion that 99% of issues are solved by it being just a rolling sphere collider that has forces pushing it and the visuals are context-aligned inside it. 🤔

Advice (that actually works) when submitting for headcount in a mega-corporation of thousands of people: - Count the amount of people you want to hire and multiply by 3. - Submit that number. - C Level & Finance will auto cut any headcount number to 1/3. - You will get exactly what you need. 😎

Here we go...

Video Podcast Idea: Gamedevs show off their internal asset zoos/dev gyms and narrate them like David Attenborough.

Sad to see people calling out Australia for this; the country is trying to reduce frustration & stress in the next generation of game artists and non-programmers! 😄

It's been a while since Giotto made an appearance here.

Secured tickets to see System Of A Down. My childhood gateway band into heavy music; but somehow had never seen them live before!

cd ~swinton

Openly pitching a revolutionary new industry: Landlords but they are not assholes.

Lots of really tasty UX improvements in this release! 🤩

This happens so incredibly often, but you rarely hear about it in public. The amount of institutional knowledge that is readily walked out the door, with a severance package in hand, is incredible. Which is why you also sometimes hear of folks being re-hired as contractors. A very expensive mistake

New trailer for 007 First Light! Using IOI's Glacier Engine! youtu.be/ladCeM1wZqc?...

State of Play presents a 007 First Light deep dive on September 3 Get ready for over 30 minutes of new gameplay. Full details: play.st/4oZz9DQ

IO Interactive has just released Hitman on iOS! This means Glacier Engine has made its way to mobile. 😊 youtu.be/fYJwROKrP6I?...

Please, could someone make a new Star Wars Podracing game?

Glacier Engine has many, many really nice QOL workflows that make dev & debugging actually fun. One day I'll talk more about them, but one highlight ill share now is being able to play the game then select anything through the game/render view and then instantly locate it in the scene context. 😍

I was 16 the last time I saw The Smashing Pumpkins live. I turn 35 soon. 👴

My wife just did her first commit. 🤩 And then immediately asked "But what if two people push the same file at the same time?" 🥲

Recent Superhero Movie Reviews! Thunderbolts ⚡️ Loved the characters & plot, but visuals were a gloomy soup. Superman 🦸‍♂️ Loved the character dynamics & message, but plot was a clunky mess. Fantastic Four 🏄‍♀️ Loved the setting & elements of the plot, but the characters had zero chemistry.

It's really awesome to see Godot being adopted more into AAA studio pipelines! 🤩

Got married yesterday! 🥰

This game feels like playing Mario Galaxy for the first time. Very chaotic but incredibly juicy & smooth. A masterclass on levelling up all the mechanics released in the most recent flagship Mario and Zelda titles and fusing them so seamlessly. I'm in total awe! 🤯

Local videogame shop gave me a free banana upon purchase.

Nearly 2 months using Glacier Engine; and its ridiculously great fun! Its a different workflow to what I'm used to with other engines; a new mindset of 'you can just make the gameplay mechanics whilst the game is running and test it all live!' that is very freeing. 😊

No polling tools so please just reply! When learning a new piece of software: what is your preferred method of tutorial form? Video? Text? In-Editor? A Hybrid? Other? Any do you prefer to learn by watching, following, doing independently, dissecting an example project or something else?

Recently passed the milestone of 2 years completely sober! Also 5 and a half years since I last drunk a beer! Best decision I've ever made. 👍

Went to see Nine Inch Nails tonight. I've seen them alot over nearly 20 years; and each time they somehow level up tenfold. A true masterclass in live performance visuals! Easily my favourite band. 🫠

1 month in; maybe recency bias but this is my favourite role I have had in my career so far! 👍

If Gandalf The Grey was resurrected but decided to focus on procedural generation instead of fighting orcs; he would definetly rename himself to Jasper The Stocker. An absolute wizard that any team would be lucky to have with them! 👏

Agree with pretty much everything in this blogpost by Garry Newman. garry.net/posts/how-do... This section in particular is super important:

Hot-take: I don't understand the hate for MS Teams.

Intimidating & humbling to have started a gamedev job where I'm not using Unity Engine for the first time in... 12 years! 🫨 But having a ton of fun already! 😊

She is here!

Wow, I really missed working in an office! After 2 years of entirely remote work-from-home, this feels much more fun. 😄

Hello! Today, I joined IO Interactive as Senior Product Manager of Glacier Engine! 🤩

Many years ago when working at Unity, a co-worker & I mapped out a 1 day optimization workshop. Attendees would be given a small already-built game that intentionally ran terribly. Over the next 8 hours we would cover analysis tools and then addressing performance issues in Graphics, Scripting etc.

After a 1160 day streak; I'm quiting Duolingo. I don't think it's an effective way to learn Italian.

Alot of new exciting things are brewing!

At London Borough Market. Life is too short to NOT buy the Locust Lollipop.

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admit when you don't know something instead of guessing. not only does this set a good example, but also anyone who reacts poorly to this is throwing up a huge red flag which can be helpful for knowing who to avoid

Learn how to admit you’re in the wrong when you are, in fact, in the wrong. If you can’t admit fault, your ego needs to go into the bin.

Sudden layoffs are depressing. There needs to be more laws in place to protect employees from business decisions that don't make any sense.

Do I know anyone on here who has released a Steam game as a 'Sole Proprietor/Owner' instead of as a 'Company'? I have questions! 😄

I am free to talk about Vesper so I thought I'd start off my feed here with a deep dive into what I was up to. We took a text based script and generated a 3D level from it. Obviously this is incomplete as we have now stopped development. It was an incredibly fun and challenging project 🥲.

The games industry feels relentlessly heartbreaking. This week many of my friends lost their jobs. I dunno how we fix it, but surely this can’t continue.

And if it is called out anywhere, everyone is told to not worry about the goals constantly shifting, as someone will be able to argue it’s actually “being agile”

You know there’s trouble when every few months there’s brand new goals to shoot for. And they’re always presented as exactly the thing that was always the plan anyway, even though they’re different every time. It creates so much whiplash eventually folks just go numb.