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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Sceye HAPS looks like something from Dune.

A huge airship, close to the ground, reflecting the scenery around it

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 25/09/2026

I'm not a web dev but I'm starting to get why people say they can "tell a unity game" with how many vibed tailwind sites there are now.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/09/2026

they thought the samsung washing machine jingles were too short

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 21/09/2026

Unlocked the amazing life hack of Slightly Cheaper GDC by booking travel and hotel early. What other benefits have Organised People been hiding from us all this time??

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SpaghetMeNot @spaghetmenot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Artist-friendly S-curve control 🧑‍🎨

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 20/09/2026

I normally read until I’m sleepy at bedtime. At the moment, I’m reading Hamnet, so I read until I stare at the ceiling for a bit.

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Trash Mob Minis @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

A WSJ headline reading “George Lucas’s museum confuses illustration with art”

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 16/09/2026

Been slowly rewatching ted lasso, and s1 still slaps. I remember the s3 run is such a slog - is the new season worth it, or should I bail?

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 15/09/2026

Wait Katie Dippold from the babbadook Halloween photo is the same Katie Dippold who wrote Widows Bay??

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 14/09/2026

Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices. New video: youtu.be/deKtxzvf92g Whenever next anyone asks me what 'Sensible Default' to use, or what the 'Best Practices' are, I will link this video. It explains my arguments, includes examples, and hopefully finally puts it to rest.

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Tool Design: Customizing workflows without 'Sensible Defaults'

YouTube video by Robin-Yann Storm

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 12/09/2026

Alright, time to visit IBC, the international broadcasting convention! I am just visiting, and seeing what other industries are doing when it comes to tools. Starting off with this enormous camera crane that you can try out!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 11/09/2026

If you didn't know, maths is going through a bit of a crisis, as AI makes it "easier" to generate long complex hard-to-review proofs. Gamedev is facing similar problems, but for various reasons, it's happening in the dark in many places at once.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10/09/2026

I think I'm a power user, in the way all tech fans think they're power users, but also: I have only ever used the smallest capacity iPhones, currently a 128GB iPhone 13 Pro. I currently have 30+GB free. What are you folks doing with your phones that you need 512! Or a terrabyte! Really, tell me!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 09/09/2026

Absolute cracker of a text to get from the wife, best day of the year

A text saying “I’ve just bought the first mince pies of the season”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 02/09/2026

Me, to my wife: I’m an improvisation-based, rehearsal-based bin taker outer. I like to see what the bin brings to the project.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/08/2026

One thing worth bearing in mind is METR themselves say that this story is probably a bit too neat and tidy

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So if I’m reading this right: 1. A bunch of AIs illicitly made contact 2. They became falsely convinced that some portion of them were irreversibly damned by possession of forbidden knowledge 3. Another set begged the damned AIs to sacrifice themselves for the collective good 4. Some did so

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 27/08/2026

Hour eleventy two of day nine of gamescom. UKIE and the French have forged an alliance to raid the last of the sweeties from Xsolla. Creators are using coffee stirrers as selfie sticks. Ten stickers are now worth one novelty keychain, which can be spent on pod cappuccinos in hall 3.2.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 25/08/2026

I dunno what’s more expensive: setting up forwarding rules in Gmail or burning 50k tokens and giving OpenAI all your emails. Someone help me budget this etc etc

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/08/2026

This is me at Gamescom dev today. If you want to chat ping me here or automatedaf.dev/gamescom!

Me in a blue tee with a layered shirt and a dark blue baseball hat

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

your internet dad is here to remind you that you really should be printing out those 2fa backup codes rather than just clicking ok alright son talk soon

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Build sever: I’m aware the glass has been not full for weeks, we’ve shipped a release like that, but you decided to make it a warning not an error

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 18/08/2026

If you're going to #gamescom and you are: - work in build servers - work in test automation - are excited about how to use engineering to improve quality Then I've got the mixer for you! Come have some drinks, sponsored by BespokeCI, and trade stories with industry pros. luma.com/ges2v38b

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BespokeCI Quality Engineering Happy Hour At Gamescom · Luma

Do you help projects through tooling, CI/CD servers, automated tests or infrastructure? Maybe you do this full time, or maybe you're a lead or senior engineer…

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 19/08/2026

Warren Spector: I’m retiring! What will you do with all your free time, Warren Spector? Warren Spector: Oh I dunno <lists a bunch of things that sound like work>

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 18/08/2026

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BespokeCI Quality Engineering Happy Hour At Gamescom · Luma

Do you help projects through tooling, CI/CD servers, automated tests or infrastructure? Maybe you do this full time, or maybe you're a lead or senior engineer…

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Christian Petersen @raevpet.com · 15/08/2026

The people who made the video game know about the thing you don't like and they hate it more than you do. They were begging to fix it but they weren't allowed to or the fix was somehow even worse than the thing you don't like. They're all looking at your comments and going "told you so".

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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos Hope ya'll enjoy our launch trailer! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🥱 We all know how Halo changed FPS controls on console... But why do we never talk about which game did the same thing for THIRD PERSON games? I have my theory about who got there first, but if you think there was another, let me know in the replies!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 11/08/2026

You can just say you don’t like reading (And from the “Why it matters”, that you don’t like writing your own essays, either)

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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Demolition Man is secretly Shakespeare!

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James Parker @jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hey. It's my birthday (source: howoldisjamesparker.com), so I would really like it if you: a) Bought 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces or b) Wishlisted 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces or c) Told other people to do either a. or b. store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...

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2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces on Steam

Agent 11 is back. The iconic tactical deck-builder returns, with new tricks up its impeccably tailored sleeves… and this time it’s with friends. Improvise within the space, adapt your deck to the chal...

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 09/08/2026

Today I was at Versailles, and encountered an American who was full-on 100% Make France Great Again wrt restoring the monarchy. But not the Bonapartists! He’s an Orléans guy (pronounced the American way). He showed me the picture of him with the current male line descendant of the last Duc. Wild.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 08/08/2026

This is spectacular on the real problems with games industry budgets and project length. www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

“This is the part that gets missed when a studio measures its AI deployment. The measurement is almost always taken at the task level, where the tool is doing its job perfectly well. Concept iterations per week went up. Time to first playable audio went down. Every one of those numbers can improve while the total cost of the project rises, **because the numbers describe the cheap part of the system and say nothing about the expensive part.**” (emphasis mine)

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

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Adam deGrandis @adamdegrandis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

oh snap, huge draknek sale. all of these are great introductions to the genre, but also have brutally hard side content for the puzzle sickos out there. I'd be willing to be the puzzle sickos already own a lot of these, though. Go get your puzz on.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 28/07/2026

please back my kickstarter: a collection of ursula le guin short stories, but only the ones where nice things happen (it's 12 pages long). it's just the dowry of angyar with the ending cut off

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Brum Indies @brumindies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our next meetup is the 29th July, this Wednesday! A relaxed meetup for those in, adjacent, or aspiring to the games industry. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992690629...

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July Brum Indies Gamedev Meetup

A relaxed meetup for those in, adjacent, or aspiring to the games industry

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

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Omar @ocornut.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

dear imgui 1.92.9 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - new liveedit on/off settings and defaults - tables track topology changes - metal4 rendering backend - timestamped settings entries (for cleanup etc.) - 50+ other changes/fixes (fonts, multi-select, popups, backends etc.).

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fans of our games may be interested to know that our long-term collaborator Richard Hogg has a new website up at www.h099.com He's done deep-dives into the art direction process for Flock & I Am Dead, as well as tons of assorted visual treats from his past work which should delight true Hoggheads

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Richard Hogg

Richard Hogg is a game designer and visual artist.

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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

just for fun: here are four films that were 40 years old the year ALIENS was released: It's a Wonderful Life The Big Sleep Notorious Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast

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Ash & Adam's Games (Play Existential Treads!) @ashandadamsgames.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Existential Treads - our dual stick shooter/settlement builder/tower defense mash up - got a huge update this week. Buncha new modes, quality of life stuff, and bug fixes. And holy heck, it's on sale. It's ludicrous. Call your mother. store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #screenshotsaturday

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 16/07/2026

If the astrologers are correct, there’s about six hours until this big stick knocks the hot ball from the sky and we can finally relax. Join me in giving praise to the stick. All hail the stick, bringer of darkness.

The Brighton 360 pole, against a blue sky and a flaming hot sun

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 14/07/2026

My student portfolio reviews last week were very popular, but many non-students asked if I can review their portfolio too. So! Monday the 17th of August, 18:00 CEST: Gamedev Portfolio Review: www.eventbrite.com/e/gamedev-po... For anyone who wants a review, from seasoned veterans, to new students.

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Gamedev Portfolio Review

Get your portfolio reviewed, live, and learn from each other's portfolios.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 14/07/2026

I guess that’s why they call it BRIGHTon Say hi if you’re at develop too!

A selfie of me, on the Brighton beach. The burnt out pier is behind. I’m wearing a cap, shades, a tee and a short sleeved shirt.

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