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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why the hell is salad on that plate

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

food/drinks/hangs/something at AdventureX please it's been FOREVER

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[freelance hat on] who in the games press should i talk to about developers who are also youtube stars? is this anyone's special interest? :D

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I still have visceral memories of setting an alarm to wake up at like 3am on the first... monday of the 2-3 months before I wanted to go to the Studio Ghibli museum and trying to rapidly navigate the site. Some things don't seem to change eh.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was the man with the alpine horn by the lighthouse??

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Waterstones has a lot of copies, where I got mine (my first book is also on loan otherwise i'd offer it)

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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 11/09/2026

I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...

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Fuck it, make it anyway

Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

is time travelling jean reno in this one.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But could it fix as many things as a Steve McFadden cushion?

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 12/09/2026

an absolute truth in game design

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've somehow stumbled across the geoguessr world championship final and it hurts my head how they can locate places so quickly.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i have only ever remotely heard of sunshower before and the rest feel like traps

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@nikkyarmstrong.bsky.social I've finally tracked down the PlayerLoop system stuff you mentioned in your talk on the unity docs site! Honestly so happy to start to split out gameObject<>Manager-script relationship from my next project.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah it'll absolutely be matrix stuff and manipulation here. Getting flashbacks to that 3D renderer I had to write in 2D/gdiplus now. I can fish out that codebase to check how I was doing the wireframes if that's of help?

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can finally talk about the PS5 project I've been involved with - Hunter's Moon, out Oct 26! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMa...

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Hunter's Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bow and arrow at the ready! He Who Watches by @danga.games is out TOMORROW! If you haven't already, please wishlist the game on Steam 👁️🏹 store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

6.7 (i think) is bringing in CoreCLR to replace Mono, which is going to massively reduce compilation times and bring c# up to modern standards as well, rather than whichever archaic version of c# unity/mono supports at that time.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Runa is the queen of that. Also enjoy that the bond level also dictates the type of barks the operators say to each other in combat. Whoever wrote Kabb must have had so much fun

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it's the music man, the music bloody gets me every combat.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

how stinky we talking with the cheese

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

my zcom journey so far is trying to play the guitar

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

and any trains which do happen to have a tiny table can only fit one cup of coffee in a section with 4-6 seats.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I get the same ones, interesting they keep targeting game folk

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy birthday! (Also fuck off are you 40 I thought you were younger). Go have a big bike ride and a big piece of cake <3

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Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 26/05/2026

I'm looking for work! - Characters - Environments - Animations Whatever your needs, I can do it 💪 I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm going to be at Gamescom (primarily dev, and floating rest of time). Who am I going to see there? Always down for coffee/beer/general hangs. Also if there's anything recommended to check out at the main expo, do shout!

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

just switched it over and yup, all working as intended :)

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I owe you a drink of choice next time I see you, this is pretty much what I'm after

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah I somehow conflated the tooltips of hovering over the item, with the 'action menu' tooltips. So I think that one's more on me.

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Unless there's a way to programmatically auto subcribe/attach to a specified signal within code already? In which case yeah a floating global-node with signals I can hook into on tree-scene load or something would work the same

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I guess I'd want something more along the lines of event subscription? So that the 'Global Node' doesn't have a pre-defined list of signals it emits. Also, if it's in a core scene, you can't really setup the signal-attachments to other nodes in other scenes off the bat?

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

so far, been really nice tinkering away and things just working. Definitely a lot of docs and google searches to figure out some things, but definitely getting there. Would love a 'global signal' feature, which is basically me going 'oh no here comes the rabbit hole of me writing a plugin'

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(Andrew) Roper @arndreth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just you wait for my lunch-break today

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