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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Blue sky invented the link because I sausage fingered a full stop I think - it was this game fwiw

Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My first PS1 game abused portals as a batching mechanism in a whole number of surprising ways to solve sorting problems that would otherwise be beyond the capabilities of the CPU. Amazing what you can do if nobody remembers to tell you it's not possible :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Different use case to your solution here, but one of my favourite early stage game prototypes was a wireframe engine with portal occlusion (essentially sorted wireframe but only at the room level). There is something deeply satisfying about super lo-fi graphics with just one surprising trick :)

the.room

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Even my wife has never really understood what I do. She regularly describes me as "King of the nerds - you know with maths and that" which honestly is probably better than I can do given an hour :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Context: one of my most memorable days out was when I accidentally walked into a pub where a wake was happening wearing a shirt that read "We are all going to die but I intend to deserve it". I had a load of lovely chats with people who started aggro but realised I was genuine and a little mortifed

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I like to think he knows this and would love you to have called him on it.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Can't like more than once but you've provided me a lot more dopamines than that so please accept this gift of 1000 dopamines. (979 of these dopamines are for phonogram season 2 tbh -it's still great)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Proud geek dad moment this week. Conversation with my 10 yo daughter about Percy Jackson spiralled into us buying a big pile of Magic cards and having a very lovely day being big ol' nerds. Big thanks to the lovely Bus Stop Toy Shop in Largs for spending time with us and enabling my nonsense :) #MTG

The bus stop toy shop in Largs, Scotland.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I loved my degree and have absolutely used all the maths and theory over the years, but it didn't make me better than the self taught engineers, just different - which is what diversity is about after all.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

100% I learnt more practical knowledge in my first 6 months in industry than in my whole degree and all of my mentors were self taught. Arbitrary barriers for smart people to join the industry help no-one except possibly the universities.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I've been working on apprenticeships at Rare for exactly this reason. Economic diversity is visibly missing in AAA at least. If I can spare someone the 35k degree tax to get into the industry and pay them that can only help. I bet on my team turning a smart candidate into a good engineer in 2 years.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I think this started in the late 90s. Pretty sure I was part of the first intake at Gremlin that had a degree as a CV requirement for engineers. I remember Phil Rankin in particular being horrified at that as most of the existing staff didn't have degrees as experience had always been preferred.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Or to put it another way - even an infinite speedup in building a thing makes no material difference if it's the wrong thing...

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Amen. I am deeply suspicious of anyone who believes the amount of time spent inputting code is a limiting factor to how quickly a feature can be developed. They almost certainly haven't spent enough time thinking

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Looks like Parallax Occlusion Mapping to me TBH :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Handmade coptic stitch watercolour sketchbook with world's tiniest palette. Present for my wonderful daughter, now inexplicably TEN years old... @ginnydi.com her "goblin of the month" cap is favourite present this year :) #handmadegifts #newskills

Open stitch notebook with custom butterfly book cloth covers. Stitching is in purple embroidery floss in a Coptic stitch style

Inside of the notebook with a tiny watercolour painting palette clipped to the top of the page

My 10 year old daughter resting in the park. Baseball cap reads "Goblin of the Month". Face indicates she was smiling till she spotted the camera :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

No downside detected - let's go?

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Sundays are for recovering from Jet Lag. Family wolf run is the perfect cure :) #familyfun #wolfrun

Me, my wife and my Daughter triumphant at the end of a very muddy run

Family holding hands wading waist deep though a river

Family running across the finish line holding hands. Big smiles all round

Muddy muddy people on their way to get a shower :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This sounds great - where do I sign up :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

What really is "in scope" if not a provocation to do more...

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Hard agree. We do lots of different tests but honestly Asset Validators are the easiest win. Bad texture formats, typos in data tables, missing files in complex asset chains etc have stolen thousands of hours of valuable artist and designer time on projects I've worked on and they just go away..

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Chris Marlow @chrismarlow666.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We're LIVE, playing Sky Team, raising money for PASIC - a charity for kids with Cancer! twitch.tv/DaggersMcTimbers So close to £200 - please donate! www.justgiving.com/page/harriet...

Harry and Chris holding up the Sky Team Box. The picture is framed with board games.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Sometimes you just have to get overexcited for Monday dinner :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Fun with simple materials today. A few sheets of paper, a scrap of leather and some thread turned into a little sketch journal. Lots of things learned but not bad for a first effort :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Hard agree. It's never been a goal to magically fit in to the neurotypical world without understanding what was going on. Every single gain I've made fitting in has been through hard work in understanding why people think differently and all of them have broadened and improved my ability to be me

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

There seem to be a number of boggle grid solvers online. You would have to put your letters in the grid but other than that they seem to do the job you want?

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hard agree. My daughter will be 10 this month and bedtime story followed by bedtime song is still a highlight of many of my days. I do somewhat regret the songs I chose in the sleep deprived state of our first 6 months that she still requests regularly mind :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Berserker and Pyro this time round. 9 year old is already planning a new campaign with what he is affectionately calling Mr Stab Weasel though :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Just rolled credits on @sunderfolk.com with my 9 year old. We've had a wonderful week of co-op RPG fun with our chosen characters, and she has renamed everything she could - mostly to something about butts :) Bravo to the team - it's a triumph. More soon please!

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

There is very little consistency between studios in my experience. This is a pretty good match with how we assess career stages though. Increased seniority level maps to expectation of wider impact and autonomy over larger groups, either through leadership, mentorship or individual innovation.

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Not straying far from the source but Can't spell Treason without Tea is good fun in the same genre. Fully recommend

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Bank holiday leather working with my 9yo. Dice pouch for her dice goblin tendencies. Pattern made old school out of packing cardboard by tracing round plates. Saddle stitching made P slightly feral :)

Cardboard template with "Dice pouch" written on it and many pencil guidelines

Messy workbench with dice pouch pieces ready to glue and cardboard patterns.

My 9yo in full goblin mode using a stitching pony to learn to saddle stitch

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A wonderful week of contrasts with team @rare.co.uk. Dressed up to the nines for @baftagames.bsky.social awards on Tuesday night. Covered in mud and sweat at the Wolf Run on Saturday. A great team and great fun had in both settings :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

10/10 no notes - this how my brain do :)

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Sean Davies @berkbig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025