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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 22/09/2026

Run-through of the intro sequence for Waterline, a 'space game on a single planet' that I am developing. None of the ships are final, obviously. #spacegame #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 14/09/2026

Here is my first successful playthrough of the ESCORT mission type in my space (without space) game called Waterline. Very much alpha, but everything worked. youtu.be/MxLQAy_9nuc #gamedev

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Waterline "space game" Alpha Escort Mission Test

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 13/09/2026

Did they intend to create an #F1 track that races like Monaco without the prestige?

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 16/08/2026

For learning, you dump memory, change something, dump memory, examine for changes. You'll sometimes get hundreds of things that changed and you have to eliminate those down to find the right thing. It doesn't just 'give you' a track map, but gives enough data to code one in the tool. #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 10/08/2026

I had to edit my Web site markup code so it wouldn't switch " - " to am em dash, because it did that automatically when I typed it as quoted. Outlook switches it. Word does. I mean, do people not see them naturally when they use a dash?

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 07/08/2026

Wait until he finds out it didn’t happen to him. It happened to her - because of him.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

...bounty payments and other financial systems, ship upgrades and ship sales. Pirates currently aren't aware of player approaching, which is why its easy to send them into panic/flee mode. Nothing is final, especially all the prices, etc. None of the ships are final models. There are bugs.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

...pirates that spawn both in air and on ground ready to intercept cargo runners (much emergent gameplay to be had), escort fighters will deploy from nearby stations when cargo runners ask for assistance with pirates, ship scanning...

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

...mission systems, staffing, passenger missions, package transport missions, cargo (from trade goods), cargo scooping and capture, radio comms, weapon systems, health systems, cargo runners that take major exports to major import locations...

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

I have a flight model (thrust forward, back, up, down, left, right, landing gear, boost, jump drive for surface jumps, day/night, terrain, water surface simulation (drag if you skim it, etc), time acceleration, docking, undocking, traffic management, trading...

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

Even though it can use pads and sticks, I am using mouse and keyboard currently. The mouse uses roll-to-pitch, so you won't see a lot of yaw until I get out of coding so much and want a pad on my desk.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

I don't know how much time I will have to put into it over the next couple of months, but... #gamedev youtu.be/X_F7NlGYjXo

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"Waterline" Alpha Gameplay (game I am developing)

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/08/2026

I’ve wanted to setup stations to have PCs displayed and ready to play for a really long time. Still lots to do, but you can see the direction. And no i have a lot more in the basement … #retrogaming #dosgaming

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 31/07/2026

Just had a potentially life changing phone call. Opportunity I’ve looked for since 1998.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 30/07/2026

And he accepted it because he feels he deserves it. Let that sink in.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 29/07/2026

Still without mains power. Just trying to minimize the situation for the kids but this is actually pretty exhausting.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 28/07/2026

This database of information was very valuable to me when we started the process of trying to help my youngest daughter. Finding out about others with the same microdeletion told us what kind of life and challenges we could expect for her. Great resource.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 28/07/2026

It’s quite humid without the AC.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 27/07/2026

We just had a tornado. We’re ok. Lots of big branches down and we’re running on a generator. Others on our street lost more trees and property from them falling than us. We will be a while without mains power.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 19/07/2026

I don’t think I understand #F1 rules anymore. Leave a cars width and make contact in a committed corner-penalty. Drift over and take a cars width away, with contact-no penalty.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 16/07/2026

And, in turn, it's made it very easy to understand GDScript (which, to me, seems very similar to PHP) and now after nearly 40 years start developing my own games because I want to. It genuinely all comes back, I believe, to my parents putting the time in and computers pushing the belief on kids.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 16/07/2026

My parents would sit with me for hours and hours typing code from magazines into our computers and trying to help me understand what they didn't. Although I let what *I* think of as coding go away, I did find it easy to teach myself HTML, CSS, PHP which led to my career through the Web site I made.

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Sinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Has anyone else noticed that the ZX81 manual casually introduces arrays, FOR-NEXT loops, and conditional branching within the first 30 pages, as though teaching structured programming to nine-year-olds is a perfectly normal thing to do on a Tuesday? Because it worked. And nobody has apologised.

ZX81 screen showing: Has anyone else noticed that the ZX81 manual casually introduces arrays, FOR-NEXT loops, and conditional br

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 15/07/2026

This has timestamps. Dogfight with a pirate under attack from all angles and in mostly 'flee' mode. #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67b...

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Dogfight example with mouse (game in development - no sound)

YouTube video by 88mphTim

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 15/07/2026

Awesome game that you should try.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 15/07/2026

Mouse control is pretty hard, and I've gone with roll to pitch for the defaults there and you can see my inputs from the dot in the reticule. You can also see factions at work (everyone hates pirates). If you have a ship manifest scanner you can see everything... #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 14/07/2026

Everything shown in the options/player screens is working. Pause and have a look. #gamedev

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12/07/2026

At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography

The Milky Way rising above a hill at Hoopers Inlet on Otago Peninsula with crazy lines of satellites in the sky

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 12/07/2026

It's very important that you allow your NPCs to express their anger in an appropriate manner. (This is a solo dev game I am working on). #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 11/07/2026

I haven’t watched any pregame stuff during the World Cup. Is the American on the right actually trying to be unlikable? A contrarian for the sake of, what? Because he thinks it makes his opinion of value? It really doesn’t…

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 08/07/2026

This is a person who thinks 1 in 8 people on the planet are her target audience for playing Xbox.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 08/07/2026

Did you play the Marine Fighters addon, too? I have that as well. :)

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 08/07/2026

I don't think I will ever be excited by Xbox ever again. Their strategy is self serving, board serving, bonus serving. They don't care about games. They don't care about their customers. They don't deserve your excitement, your money, or your time. I'm done, and I hope you are, too.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 07/07/2026

My head canon is that without the corruption of FIFA undoing bans the US would have put a reserve player on the pitch, they’d have had a breakout performance, won the game. We’ll never know.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 06/07/2026

Yep! This is a pc I am bringing to the sim gaming expo in September for people to play :)

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 05/07/2026

F1 Media: Leclerc bounces back from the struggles we had decided he was having.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/07/2026

We’re on a generator I bought this morning

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/07/2026

We have a flooded basement. No power for hours. Battery is dead on the backup. Stores are closed. Rain expected for hours. I feel really helpless. I can’t do anything about it.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 04/07/2026

That’s annoying. Could do with the money, any money, and after getting the monetization requirements done in 9 days out of 30 I have to wait until August? Meh.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 02/07/2026

Not surprised, I get the logic behind it, but it's terribly bad for consumers. Most EULAs you do not own what you bought, you license it. Digital means a complete lack of ownership. You don't get to press agree anymore.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 02/07/2026

My distraction project... Honestly, everything I try to do teaches me a new skill. I love this. #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 01/07/2026

Listen, I like my gaming media. I think we can see that (excuse the mess). For Sony to put out notice to users that movies they purchased will soon be 'removed from their account' and that they will be ceasing physical media production within a week is truly disappointing. I think it stinks.

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 30/06/2026

So the game area for a game I am making, using real geo data for terrain, is 4,000,000 km2. It loads in on my system (even at 81m tris), but I am currently trying to write a script to chunk it so I can get it to LOD in sections by distance. First time tackling that. #gamedev

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Tim Wheatley @88mphtim.tv · 29/06/2026