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Matt Phillips

@bigevilboss.bsky.social
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Lead Programmer on Red Dead Redemption for PC/Switch/PS4 @ Double Eleven. Also creator of Tanglewood for SEGA Genesis. Graphics programming, game engine architecture, optimisation. Ex-Crytek/TT Games. Never have and never will use AI for anything, ever.

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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Spent three days trying to come up with a tidy C++ factory system, but ended up with a monument to compromise full of sloppy macros. It is the year of our Lord 2026, where's type reflection? Why can't the linker instantiate globals inside a static library? Why does this language still exist?
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'd love to be considered, please! I create new SEGA Genesis games in raw 68k assembly. No AI for anything, ever 🚫
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I recommend wxFormBuilder - not for actual UI design (although it's pretty good at that), but more to try something out then inspect the code to see what flags it used etc. Useful for tracking down wrong style, colours, behaviours. github.com/wxFormBuilde...
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GitHub - wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder: A wxWidgets GUI Builder
A wxWidgets GUI Builder. Contribute to wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Highly recommend this little book, it's pretty close to what you're describing.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Still blue to this day.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My good friend is making "a comfy 16-bit gamedev simulator" and would appreciate some shares and wishlists if that sounds like your sort of thing. Cheers! store.steampowered.com/app/4828200/...
store.steampowered.com
Vaporware EX on Steam
Vaporware EX is a comfy 16-bit game dev simulator full of neon-infused nostalgia, set in the games industry of 199X. Lose the suit, put on a hoodie, and discover what it really takes to ship a game in...
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
OH HELL YES
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Remote within the UK is an option for this role
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Were looking for a senior graphics programmer, mainly for shader-side effects work. Need good maths and PBR knowledge. Raytracing experience a bonus. apply.workable.com/double-eleve...
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Senior Graphics Programmer - Double Eleven
We’re looking for a Senior Graphics Programmer to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK), home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside. As a Senior Graphics Programm...
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@moonbase.lgbt hey friend, read a while back you were on the hunt for remote C++ positions, still looking? We need a shader-side maths pro, mainly PBR work.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I didn't get a notification for this pun so now I look like a dick laughing two months later
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We're looking for a Principal Graphics Programmer! double11.com/vacancies/
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Vacancies - Double Eleven
Find your place - check out the current positions that are open at Double Eleven or drop us your details speculatively for potential future roles.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Ah the SNES scene is a bit of a shame, last I looked into it (2020 or so) there wasn't a decent C API for it like SGDK, and nowhere near the amount of resources we have for Mega Drive. Something I'd love to tackle... in retirement.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
TANGLEWOOD is coming to NINTENDO SWITCH on 16th DECEMBER! This definitive release features enhancements such as widescreen, HQ audio, new levels, achievements, and an all-new storybook mode! www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/... #retrogaming #retrogames #nintendo #switch #nintendoswitch #gamedev
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It aired in 2018 but thank you ♥️
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LÖVE Game Framework @love-framework.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This week: Alekz is making a video game about... making video games! Including randomly generated 68k assembly!
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch is about to start QA :)
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Evercade @evercade.co.uk · 14/08/2025
A very happy birthday to TANGLEWOOD, one of the first "modern retro" indie games we published on Evercade, and one half of the excellent Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood cartridge for the platform! Tanglewood first released on this day in 2018.
Artwork for Tanglewood, showing the fox-like hero Nymn and a big slobbering monster.Screenshot from the intro to Tanglewood. While Nymn sleeps, a shadowy figure looks on with a sinister grin.Screenshot from Tanglewood. Using the "yellow" colour power to float, Nymn flies over a bed of spikes in a windy, rainy part of the forest.Box art for the Evercade cartridge Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood, featuring those two games on one cart.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
FORMAT might have the potential to grow into one? Pretty successful so far
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This one, yep :)
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Grayson and Bao
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
In action here! youtu.be/TlNEIyX2HE0?...
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BBC Interview with Matt Phillips of Big Evil Corp and Developer of Tanglewood
YouTube video by Retro Megabit: Sega Dude
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I cannot understate the mental health benefits of taking a break from social media. Still alive. Still working on Tanglewood for Switch. Here's some cats.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I used a Cross Products MegaCD kit
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
added!
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Will do, cheers!
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yes I will! I think it's already been uploaded somewhere but I'll make sure. There are a few SEGA technical bulletins I don't recognise in here, too.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I can't work it out, maybe they flew too close to the sun and said SNASM (their main competitor)
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yeah I wondered too! I'll get a torch on it and see if I can figure out what it said
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please welcome a new member to the family. It's a Psy-Q Mega Drive devkit, something I've been after for the best part of a decade. I've never seen one boxed before, and I've certainly never seen one with all of the listed package contents. ISA card, disks, manuals, cables, tech bulletins.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Received a lovely gift this morning
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hey! Yep I'll pop on Discord and take a look
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Won a few awards in my time but none mean more to me than this stupid thing. Awarded to me by the sound design team at Traveler's Tales, because I went behind the producer's back and fixed some audio problems.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Okta's an interesting case for complexity/obscurity actually working against the intended goal. If you don't fully understand it, you'll just click whatever to get on with your work. Or in this case, whatever makes it stop pinging your phone at 3am. www.secquest.co.uk/white-papers...
secquest.co.uk
How Did The Uber/Rockstar Hack Happen?
This paper explores what happened within the Rockstar hack, how it happened and the risks and methods of mitigation. Read this by clicking here.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"Single Sign-on" sure except every service has a different system and they're all a pain to use and there's a million redirects before you get to where you want to go and you actually sign in 30 times a day. Today's frustration post brought to you by Microsoft and Atlassian.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I wish!
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Sheng Lam @8bitwizard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
alternate social media series i did a while ago. gonna start reposting work on here
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Some FamiCube concepts from a while back.
Borrowing SNES/SFC buttons for this one. No one really makes cube-consoles because the steel mould needs to be very deep I guess, and the sides often need to be slanted. I solved it by making it in slices (the sides can use the same mould as they're symmetrical). Apparently the Steve Jobs cube (NeXT) was very difficult to make and had a bazillion parts. Most consoles are just slabs and monoliths now because we don't really have interface buttons, knobs, displays/gauges or media ports. Sadness.Here borrowing buttons and lettering from the Twin Famicom. Keyboard based on the Family Basic one, but heavily altered. Left-handed layout! A BBC Micro -like acrylic glass over the F-keys to hold a reference sheet.Famicube joypad concept, with an analog stick borrowed from N64 I think.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A few favourites from Motorcycle Live at Birmingham NEC
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freezedream @freezedream.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hello world! My new album LAZARUS is OUT NOW! 🔊 freezedream.bandcamp.com/album/lazarus
freezedream.bandcamp.com
Lazarus, by freezedream
12 track album
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi, which platform do you develop for?
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The latest installment of "I am a grown-ass adult and I can buy what I want." I'm gonna Mad Max the *shit* out of this thing.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Behold.
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Plutiedev @plutiedev.com · 20/02/2024
"How underused is the VRAM in special stages?" "Yes"
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
@plutiedev.com Hello friend and welcome!
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Half-Life 2 is free to own on Steam (offer expires Nov 18th). The game is also updated for its anniversary buff.ly/48UyM5O Free offer also includes Ep 1 & 2 Happy 20th to the GOAT FPS
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
That's a terrifying prospect I didn't even think about (I don't do web dev, can you tell). At least it's a toy and not a bank, I guess.
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Yep if it comes to GB you'll get added :) Your pixel art is amazing btw
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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really excited for this, Devwill Too is one of my favourite Mega Drive homebrews!
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