Was looking at this object-inspection system again - it had several edge cases where it wouldn't work properly at unusual angles (like if you were standing directly above it.) Think I've fixed them all, but urgh was that some annoying maths.

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

I added Unreal 4.27 support to my Save/Load plugin for #UnrealEngine. I know there's quite a few people still working in UE4 for various reasons, so it seemed worth supporting it.

The perennial question.

Some people pay 1 million dollars just so people will look at their trailer in the game awards. Amateurs! This is how you do it: please look at my trailer. Please! Pretty please! I worked so hard on it. PLEASE just look at it. I only have 51 wishlists I NEED THIS JUST LOOK AT IT PLEASE PLEASE OH PLE

NO LAW - first-person cyberpunk immersive sim shooter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFoQ...

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

The Darkside Detective is currently free on Epic Games. A nice classic-style humorous point-and-click adventure game, set in short episodes, and made by a local studio.

Disturbing thought: Can we really say our games are AI-free if all the tools we use are probably using AI code now? Thinking specifically about Unreal Engine (due to Tim Sweeney's awful stance on AI), but I'd say the same will apply (or soon apply) to other engine and tools. And OSes.

I started writing a custom uOB filter list to block intrusive AI content. Starting with annoying things like the AI summary on YouTube and the AI results on Google.

I've launched my Save/Load plugin for #UnrealEngine! It can save and load the entire state of a level, with no per-actor setup required - it "just works" in most cases. It's also optimised to load extremely fast when reloading from the same level. Available now on Fab! www.fab.com/listings/75b...

The 10 years of Tide celebration is far from over! Seize the opportunity to get new friends into the rat-slaying hobby. That's right, anyone who downloads Vermintide 2 on Steam this weekend gets to keep it forever, in perpetuity, until the end times! #warhammer #fantasy #steam #freetokeep

Fatekeeper gameplay reveal trailer looks great. Clearly inspired by Dark Messiah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaRW...

Audio (sound effects, music, and dialogue) has a weird relationship with temp assets, mostly because of issues revolving around human psychology. Problem #1: How do you communicate that something you're hearing is temp?

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Are there any actually good search engines without any AI these days? Even the supposedly privacy-focused ones like DuckDuckGo, Quant, Mojeek, are all talking about or already have added AI summaries and other AI garbage.

The upcoming Dishonored-inspired Immersive Sim "Devoid" has a demo up. store.steampowered.com/app/3999040/...

Looks like the new class is Hive Ganger after all.

Good to see Fab finally get reviews! (I still find it incomprehensible that they launched a shop without this, but better late than never.)

A reminder that for every billion dollars made on PC gaming, Newell pockets $300m. He keeps out of the public eye better than some billionaires, but he is still a libertarian billionaire, and billionaires should not exist.

A singer/songwriter I liked has now switched to writing songs and having them "performed" by AI. Is this the future of music? I hate it.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Flowchart showing my process for releasing my Unreal Engine plugin.

New game announcement time! #indiedev #gamedev It is the fall of 1881 and your bounty hunting agency is in dire straits. Catch bounties and get revenge in this Wild West RPG, coming to Steam in 2026. Welcome to the Bounty Trail! store.steampowered.com/app/4126530/...

Flowchart showing my process for releasing my Unreal Engine plugin.

New awareness campaign

#UnrealEngine developers - I've made a generic save/load plugin designed to "just work", saving (almost) everything that's changed in a level with only minimal setup. I'm looking for a few people to help me test it.

Great to see Catherine Connolly win our presidential election with such a huge mandate! I do find it depressing that nearly 17% of our electorate voted for truly evil candidates who support genocide and ending Ireland's neutrality, and a further 54% didn't bother to vote at all.

Today is Ireland's presidential election. If you're following me and you're an Irish citizen, go out and vote today! I will, of course, be voting #1 for Catherine Connolly. She's the only candidate who would actually represent Ireland and her people.

Every time I visit Germany, it makes me want to build a medieval fantasy city.

There are many haunting lines in the report, but one stands out: “The Irish government increasingly operates on a dual track, giving rhetorical support to popular causes like Palestinian rights while actively working against them behind closed doors. #Speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This makes Simon Harris, and by extension the current government, directly complicit in a genocide under the UN genocide convention.

Amnesia: The Bunker - a really good horror game set in a WW1 bunker - is currently free on Epic. Well worth picking up if you don't have it already!

HELLO to all my new followers! I'm a Finnish #gamedev, recently released my third and biggest game yet: POGOPPL. A pogo platformer. Total flop. Nevertheless I am forging on working on my next project, a cowboy game! I'll share more about it soon. Here's a peek at some of my earlier games.

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

Got an email from Discord that their customer support system has been hacked - in my case, the ticket in question was me contacting them and complaining about their awful AI features, which got an automated reply and then they ignored it. Seems somehow appropriate.

Amazing brush and texture work here! TrenchBroom FTW! #gamedev

I still love how idling Chaos troops in Dawn of War will randomly break out into maniacal laughter. (Sound ON)

Test of saving and loading Unreal Level Streaming. This is using Unreal's system for dynamically loading in sub-levels as you move around the world. It normally wouldn't remember state when an area is unloaded/reloaded - I added that too.

Lol

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

In space, death is contagious. When we die, the Scarabs decontaminate our ships and lay us to rest. But when Dalia gets cleanup request from her childhood home, she finds something she’s never seen before: a contamination that doesn’t want to be cleaned. This is Ambrosia Sky.

If you're in Ireland, make sure you're registered to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the deadline for updating your details is the 7th of October. We need to prevent the corrupt FF/FG candidates who want to scrap our neutrality from getting in. www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/

Today I learned that IronSource - the ad and malware company who merged with Unity and pushed them into the hated pay-per-install fiasco - are an Israeli spyware company, installing backdoors for the most evil regime on Earth. It really is time people got away from Unity.

Announcing: Iron Blight • True survival horror experience • Ominous locales from a 90s Eastern Bloc town • No health bars, no ammo counters, no menus Coming this March to Steam! #TrailerTuesday #survivalhorror #FPS

if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.