My biggest ever tweet was one suggesting we crowd fund the replacement of a certain character with Jar-Jar Binks. Months of death threats. 🥰

Yooo that tech4gamers "Windows 12" article everyone is sharing is completely made-up fluff. I hate Microslop more than anyone but it's a complete fiction. It's based on a bunch of leaked speculative strategy docs from 3-4 years ago, completely misunderstood and headlined to make you rage-share it.

So, I didn't think it newsworthy, but the RAC did this to me too. Twice! Had the newborn in the car, in literally freezing temps, and both times they quoted 6+ hours. Needless to say I recommend never going with the RAC for breakdown cover. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Your sleep paralysis demon is probably just the resurfacing of a deep, decayed, memory of an extremely tired parent standing over your cot silently pleading for you to go back to sleep.

I made the pipeline for building the terrain for my RTS years ago now, but I still love how good it looks even in an editor window and how quickly I can build new maps.

A 1977 print of Player Piano showed up in the charity shop. Timely.

Slightly worrying that every time I get back into working on my war-in-the-middle-east-inspired RTS game there is a huge flare up. Aiming for a first playable by the end of this week. Let's see what that causes. 🫣

Frankly heartbreaking.

suuuuuuch a tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8i1...

I’ve also recently been consulting for game designers adapting their projects for TV and film- writing dialogue, converting branching to linear storytelling, and honing pitch documents to sell the project best. So if you’re moving your game to a new medium, I can help!

Sally's great to work and collaborate with!

Bridge Command is really, really good. I definitely recommend giving it a go if you're in or around London.

It's interesting to see so many people speculating about what Muslims collectively think about the Greens' stance on trans people's rights and whether that could be a problem for their strategy while the Tories fielded a gender crit and absolutely ate shit.

Gorden and Denton saving us from evil once again. #byelection

I think a lot of unaware streamers and maybe a few gamedevs are going to be made very unsafe by this.

Big data security issue: If you have a public Amazon Wishlist, you'll want to delete it immediately. Amazon are making a change that is going to make your address public.

I don't have any death animations done for my placeholder infantry so they just get red-misted.

The organiser of beloved dev conference Reboot Develop Blue has been issued with a bankruptcy order, following months of concerns over the event's future. www.gamesindustry.biz/organiser-of...

People get hyped when I show them my C&C-style RTS prototype, but even the most barebones version of it is going to need over £70k to complete (140k for the full vision).. and I just can't square that with the current state of funding and niche indie games sales figures. 🤔

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

Oxford Indies drinks this Saturday 6.45pm at the Royal Oak! Bring your builds. 😉

Calling time on Cauldron so I can move on to Golden Demon stuff. This was such a fun project and taught me a lot about color and being a bit braver than I normally am. #MiniPainting

Help me out and pop over to the not-worst-but-still-bad-place and share this plea for support for @limitbreak.co.uk We've had some AMAZING businesses and individuals step up to keep the program alive but I'd love to see a bit more to fulfil our potential🙏💖 www.linkedin.com/posts/heydan...

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

PC part prices up 600%, high end phones cancelled or delayed, Nintendo raising prices, Sony, Microsoft and Valve indefinitely delaying console releases. For the first time in half a century, the market for video games is going to shrink as devices to play them on become slowly unattainable.

Worked on my RTS tonight, going to make something playable by the end of the month. I have no path to market for it, but hey, the entire industry is on fire, maybe something will come up?

Was talking with someone about Xbox/MS taking ages to pay some money owed a few weeks ago and I said to push hard for it while Xbox still actually exists. We laughed, but I wasn't actually joking.

I cannot stress enough to people outside the US how dangerous coming to this country is right now. There is still time to cancel your GDC trip. Stay safe, and do not come.

If you think it's a worldwide disaster that computer CPUs, memory and GPUs are soon to be completely unavailable... Wait until you hear about what's happening with the availability of raw materials like copper, gold, silver etc. 🥲

The art book is really worth checking out. I'm super impressed with how professionally it came together. www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

My workplace is running a merch kickstarter <3 So excited by how nice all the merch looks, and the artbook is really, really special

"I am a fucking idiot who thought I knew better than the NHS and now I am scrabbling to play catch-up because actually, it turns out I don't want my kids to get sick." www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

See that little cut-out with blue bits in it. That's a sewage works. It reeks to high hell all summer. Good luck to anyone buying a house there. 🥲

Unity's value is dropping so hard and fast they are going to need to create another rendering pipeline to draw the smoking crater that was their share price.

Unity's value is dropping so hard and fast they are going to need to create another rendering pipeline to draw the smoking crater that was their share price.

Where does one find cool freelance games dev gigs? Tbh I relied on Twitter for too long.. and now that's dead. I'd usually just poke contacts, but so many long term gamedev friends have been laid off or got out of games entirely.

It feels like you either need a bigger team or 10 years of dev time now to stand out. Outside of some outliers. Or you’re forced to make a multiplayer thing because that’s what the kids want.

Indie games are no longer novel and that’s a bummer, but also probably for the best. It was a fun 10 years or so though. 2010-2020’ish

given this won't appeal to people who care for the process or understanding of how to make things, and exists solely for people who view games as a means to some other profitable end, unity wants to imply these games can be profitable. were that true unity would pump them out instead of selling this

We find ourselves having to second guess every PR from new contributors, multiple times per day: - The description is verbose LLM output, is the code written at least partially by a human? - Does the "author" understand the code they're sending? - Did they test it? Are the test results made up?

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

The main dress code rule at goth night is no blue jeans. But for every rule, I am the exception. 😏

Interesting bit near the end of the video. The Tory Minister who came up with the Orwellian online safety act... Now is on the board of the companies selling the face scanning tech!

Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxs...

Hangon. 🤔

Vampire theme for goth night tonight, so I'm breaking all the rules by going as 70's-flashback Spike from Buffy.

Paternity needs to be completely reworked. I got £186 a week for 2 weeks and that's it. At 2 weeks I was still driving to the hospital daily! Being self employed I have just had to take the hit to not work for 2+ months @laylamoran.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

I need to file a patent immediately.