Today I learned about GulfOfMexico, a normal programming language you can use to write normal programs with github.com/TodePond/Gul...

my first workshop is this wednesday! there's still some space but you're probably more interested in the 18th november date:

Reminder: applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant close tomorrow evening! (23:59 Pacific Daylight Time) grants.draknek.org Good luck to everyone applying :)

Well don't I feel stupid

Am I really really old or is this just terrible. I’m not even a car guy but I just saw some it in person and felt the urge to kill.

how can you easily catch bugs like missing textures, bad physics layers, and dangling narrative trees? if you can fix a problem by changing assets at edit time, you can probably make an asset test for it, and stop the problem ever coming back. but how do you implement an asset test in #unreal? 🧵

here we go lads

Picked a good month to start reading this, I guess

how can you easily catch bugs like missing textures, bad physics layers, and dangling narrative trees? if you can fix a problem by changing assets at edit time, you can probably make an asset test for it, and stop the problem ever coming back. but how do you implement an asset test in #unreal? 🧵

Want to learn how to ship better games, faster? 1 week until this! And there's another event on the 18th Nov!

An extremely important petition. #FreePoinpy www.change.org/p/free-poinpy

iOS26 new call screening really coming in clutch

youtube has an inspiration tab now where it suggests video ideas for you based on what is already on your channel - and specifically what's popular on your channel. it ai generates thumbnails and titles for you. it's pretty terrible but not in the ways you'd immediately think.

I watched Murderbot recently and was enjoying it, but thinking Alex Sarsgaard was maybe a bit wasted. then I got to a particular scene in the last episode and yeah ok I see what they were thinking

This sucks for many much more important reasons, but you know maybe if you hadn’t just instituted a counter-productive return to office, Microsoft, your staff would have more options right now.

ICYMI - Unity 6 can run automated tests in the Player live on console hardware (and presumably mobile devices etc.) This is AWESOME. Think you don't need tests? Check out @andrewfray.dev's excellent video to see why you're wrong www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1kD...

i think using tiny open source game engines to prototype bigger projects (ones that match the tiny engine’s strength) is a wonderful gamedev hack. like… use bitsy to prototype environments twine to prototype dialogue decker to storyboard pico8 or pocket platformer for testing interaction…

😡stop shaming your team for build failures!😡 I used to work somewhere with a plastic "fish of shame" that sat on the desk of whoever broke the build last. I assume they wanted folks to do local checks before pushing, but it just made people feel bad. our builds failed as much as anyone's.🧵

😡stop shaming your team for build failures!😡 I used to work somewhere with a plastic "fish of shame" that sat on the desk of whoever broke the build last. I assume they wanted folks to do local checks before pushing, but it just made people feel bad. our builds failed as much as anyone's.🧵

Tonight!

got a ping from @rgarat.bsky.social on our automated testing discord that after reading my blog post on asset tests (andrewfray.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/e...) they've created the first tests for their project Cleared Hot! this warms my heart in so many ways ♥

t o m o r r o w

I cannot yell about this enough. So many times I've seen an idea with lots of potential get thrown out because it wasn't "perfect" initially, only to be replaced with another underbaked idea, when we could have taken the same amount of time to reflect upon, tighten up and grow the first idea more.

one thing I hear a lot is "we want to automation but the higher-ups don't get it". well, I made this 10min quick overview for them specifically. let me break it down for you 🧵

This week!

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

We invented Connect Foubble: every time you match on dobble, you add a connect four token. Embracer where’s my money.

People who use gridfinity are into 3d printing, not organising And that’s the most controversial take I’ll tweet on Bluesky.com

Coming very soon!

I have no idea why this game jam chose to honour me, but I respect their decision frayworld.com

I've now added a workshop on November the 18th!

Friday is a great day to add our September meetup to your diary

Adam is one of my favourite people. I think he’s the favourite person of most people he meets? This will be good.

I pretty much always prefer a tool/system where assets can be viewed & debuged by their creators instead of them going into a blackbox. I never want things to be reliant on a coder to debug or even fix issues if I can give that power to the people who care most about that content

Someone don’t tell them about video games

Need a build server but don't have the bandwidth to do it yourself, or the budget to hire a full-time employee? Chat to me, I can be your fractional build engineer andrewfray.dev

Need a build server but don't have the bandwidth to do it yourself, or the budget to hire a full-time employee? Chat to me, I can be your fractional build engineer andrewfray.dev

One week!

a great post by @mikejudge.bsky.social where he put together secondary metrics on AI coding that equate to travolta-coat.gif mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Just over three weeks to my virtual workshop on practical test automation for gamedev! If you were on the fence, here's a 20% off voucher for the first person to use it: ✨M18HTM✨

Just over three weeks to my virtual workshop on practical test automation for gamedev! If you were on the fence, here's a 20% off voucher for the first person to use it: ✨M18HTM✨

In the uk, when this post is an hour old, there’s be a total lunar eclipse! Look low to the east for a red moon, the last until 2028!

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

I really like test automation. I just think it's neat! but it's useless if you don't have a build server. _and too many of you don't have a build server_ I know: you're busy, it's early in the project, silksong is out. I'll sort it for you, dm me. with indie-friendly pricing!

I really like test automation. I just think it's neat! but it's useless if you don't have a build server. _and too many of you don't have a build server_ I know: you're busy, it's early in the project, silksong is out. I'll sort it for you, dm me. with indie-friendly pricing!

If we want to track how long elapsed between silksong being released, and the devs making their costs back, do you think seconds is enough resolution

long way to go, brothers

should you drive your smoke tests through the UI? smoke tests (bsky.app/profile/andr...) are a holistic view of the health of your build. if you drive them through UI, with (eg) fake mouse clicks, you'll know when the Play Game button accidentally disappears. that seems good! but has a downside🧵

check out marty supreme, a sports biopic starring a hollywood a-lister directed by a safdie brother produced by a24 coming out this year not to be confused with the smashing machine, a sports biopic starring a hollywood a-lister directed by a safdie brother produced by a24 coming out this year

should you drive your smoke tests through the UI? smoke tests (bsky.app/profile/andr...) are a holistic view of the health of your build. if you drive them through UI, with (eg) fake mouse clicks, you'll know when the Play Game button accidentally disappears. that seems good! but has a downside🧵