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Simon Carter

@bbbscarter.bsky.social
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Shiny headed game developer. Formerly of Google DeepMind, Bullfrog, Big Blue Box, Lionhead, No Man's Sky. Co-creator of Dungeon Keeper and Fable. Posts likely to be about #gamedev #godot #emacs #coding

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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Of course we put 1000 cats in a room filled with explosives and left them alone and fed for 30 days; it’s what we do. But the resulting blast was not our responsibility, it just demonstrates the extraordinary power and intelligence of cats, and the dangers of cats going rogue.”
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“He gave the disappointed sigh of a man being greeted by the Unreal Engine logo on a Steam Deck.”
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Dave @sheepfilms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've always wanted to do invisible person effects
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The pronunciation of ‘Anthony’ is unexpectedly high on the list of reasons I would be unlikely to move to the USA. #silo
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Microsoft is gutting id Software, and effectively killing off idTech? Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake were genre defining games, and the recent Dooms were technological marvels. Very sad, and very short-sighted. www.resetera.com/threads/id-s...
resetera.com
ID Software's Director of Engine Technology (id Tech) laid off along with engine support staff
The WARN notice lists the roles impacted (laid off already): The layoffs include the director of id Tech and the related programmers and leads.
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Wookash Podcast @gameengineering.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Recently had the opportunity to talk to the legend who made my childhood-beloved game Fable! @bbbscarter.bsky.social have worked at Bullfrog on Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper after which he and his brother Dene joined forces to work on something that would later become Fable! youtu.be/69pvUyBsruQ
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Inside the Development of Fable | Simon Carter
YouTube video by Wookash Podcast
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Wayne Imlach @wimlach.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Here's an article I wrote a few years ago for The Casket of Fays (Dragon Warriors Fanzine). It was an expansion on one of the 'monsters' listed in the original Dragon Warriors rules. Mix of historical and contemporary inspiration (Jack Skellington). Casket of Fays can be found on Drivethru & Itch.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Playing ‘James Bond: First Light’, I’ve learned that everyone in British Intelligence is apparently enormously pass-agg.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sigh. “Anthropic’s new model automatically finds flaws in software that runs with restricted permissions behind a firewall. Doom!” vs “VSCode extensions are neither moderated nor sandboxed, and execute arbitrary code locally on 50 million installs. Meh!” www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
bleepingcomputer.com
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm trying to write a little more frequently, so I wrote some words about the development of the original Fable. Yay! blog.simoncarter.me/blog/the-ori... #gamedev #fable #games
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The Origins of Fable
The story of Fable's origins - failed pitches, a game called Wishworld, and unlikely sources of inspiration.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hurrah! The Nintendo Switch port I’ve been working on is finally done - Moonring is out today! #gamdev #moonring www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
nintendo.com
Moonring DX | Nintendo Switch download software | Games | Nintendo UK
Travel, trade, sneak, fight and sail the world of Caldera in this retro-inspired open-world, turn-based RPG, featuring a mix of hand-crafted world and procedural dungeons.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I’m curious how people organise their ‘entity’ setups in Godot. Examples I’ve seen: - Component-like. Generic root node, component nodes directly under, accessed via node path. - Inheritance + module nodes. Root node is specific type, with members to assign sub module nodes. - etc #godot #gamedev
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I very much like Godot and how architecturally agnostic and flexible it is - but I still find myself missing a first-class component-system. Sure, you can emulate it using nodes, but a proper component system is more than just nodes-with-children, and filling those gaps is tricky. #godot #gamedev
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Watching Tenet over the weekend has me contemplating if every Christopher Nolan film is secretly a high budget episode of Red Dwarf with all the humour removed and padded out by 2 hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahH...
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The Fight | Red Dwarf | BBC Studios
YouTube video by BBC Studios
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Looking into creating a small desktop GUI tool using something modern. Most tutorials assume you’re creating a business web app. “Obviously you want to use MVC/MVVM/Reactive/DI/Providers/Notifiers/State management.” No, I just want to hook up a few buttons to some data structures, thanks.
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Tim Rocktäschel @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
Excited to reveal Genie 2, our most capable foundation world model that, given a single prompt image, can generate an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D worlds. Fantastic cross-team effort by the Open-Endedness Team and many other teams at Google DeepMind! 🧞
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Oh wow - just stumbled across sokol as an SDL/gpu alternative. It’s very impressive! github.com/floooh/sokol #gamdev
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GitHub - floooh/sokol: minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
minimal cross-platform standalone C headers. Contribute to floooh/sokol development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
A short post on getting Emacs/Evil to work consistently with snake_case and camelCase, which was harder than I expected. blog.simoncarter.me/blog/emacs-e... #emacs #evil
blog.simoncarter.me
Emacs, snakes and camels
How to get Emacs Evil to work consistently with snake_case, camelCase and PascalCase.
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Simon Carter @bbbscarter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hurrah! Godot is getting in runtime game editing support in 4.4. godotengine.org/article/dev-... Looking forward to not having to support my hacked together workaround - though it still works if you need a solution in the meantime: github.com/bbbscarter/G... #godotengine #godot
godotengine.org
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 4
After a short delay due to GodotCon, we are back with another exciting update.
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