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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 10h

Eh? That looks nothing like a goa...yikes!

Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 23h

So after all that palava, the Falmouth bomb has been detonated. I've had more explosive farts. Still, glad it's all sorted.

Pathetic spurt of seawater produced by bomb detonation.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 26/09/2026

Pre-first-coffee thoughts #178: What if THIS is heaven, and we've already died?

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 22/09/2026

Does this make it 'The Main With 4 Brains' now then?

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 17/09/2026

Today is a brave day. Today I've got to pull the whole game apart, surgically remove a key component, replace it with a new shiny component I've been building in another project, then put it all back together again and hope it works. All whilst UEFN crashes every 5 minutes.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 17/09/2026

Masterchef - the TV show where you suddenly find yourself saying things like "ooh, that jus looks a bit thin", and "he's not rendered the fat on that lamb properly!", all whilst scoffing a big bag of crisps.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am a Dibnah fan boy.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 15/09/2026

Something spooky this way comes! Yes the ghosts are baaaaaaaack! From 19th September to 1st November ghostly wire sculptures will appear in green spaces across the city, including the Hall's garden. Spooooktacular!

We are looking at an opaque wire sculpture in the shape of a medieval female merchant.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 12/09/2026

Thanks to @gingerbeardman.com I've just discovered 1992 me, talking about Atari Falcons, A1200s, multisync monitors and why can't I find Joe Satriani's new album anywhere in Leeds. Things were simpler then. Take a look - see if you too can find your younger self. www.usenet-rewind.com

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Usenet-Rewind

Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/09/2026

...and 7 years ago I was hanging out with film crews and famous people.... This was the film set containing co-founder Matt Spall, Ian Livingstone and Eddie Marsan, as we filmed the sequences for Deathtrap Dungeon. This was someone's front room, in a warehouse apartment somewhere in London.

Film set containing co-founder Matt Spall, Ian Livingstone and Eddie Marsan, as we filmed the sequences for Deathtrap Dungeon.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/09/2026

9/11: 25 years ago I'd just spent the morning making a bunch of people redundant, people crying, everyone looking glum, so we were all having a horrible day already. Then someone who'd survived the cull showed us BBC news on his monitor, and the day suddenly became much more horrible and surreal.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Highway Code update.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 06/09/2026

Ooh. Visual Verse, with source generated as you go. Designers around the world go "phew!" (maybe). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyL...

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Blueprints are leaving UE6? Visual Verse sneak peek 🚀

YouTube video by LakiLOOP

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 06/09/2026

I seem to have discovered this thing called 'Reddit'. Given my inclinations, can anyone recommend any groups (are they even called groups?)

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 01/09/2026

Proton is down. It's highlighted what a dependency it's become: - no email - no calendar - no vpn - no passwords - no documents ...might have to do something about that....

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 28/08/2026

Just discovered I'm on this starter pack - there's lots of good, wrinkly people on there I know - worth a look! go.bsky.app/8VqnTau

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 28/08/2026

"UEFN has crashed. We're really sorry." Again and again and again. Happy Friday everyone!

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 22/08/2026

My Verse code completion extension for VSCode is now live. It's already miles better than any other Verse extension out there. I hope it proves useful! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Verse Magic - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Syntax highlighting and digest-powered hover/autocomplete for the Verse language used in UEFN.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 21/08/2026

Learning Verse depends on a good autocomplete plugin (I think so, anyway). There aren't any (even Epic's effort is pants), so I made one. Going to do some testing, then it shall be released upon the world.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 17/08/2026

Ooh get me, I've installed WhatsApp. I'll be on TikTok next at this rate.

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Badger Punch Games @badgerpunch.com · 15/08/2026

We've been busy badgers adding the last bits! Almost there: - New tentacled horrors in the dark - A badger who'll fight and fetch for you - Potions that light up the magic circle Roguecraft DX, releasing September 10th🕯️ Wishlist: thalamus.link/roguecraft #ScreenshotSaturday #pixelart #roguelikes

Using a potion and triggering the magic circle bonus in Roguecraft DX

Close-up of petting a badger familiar in Roguecraft DX

Two tentacles smashing the ground in Roguecraft DX

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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Today is the day everyone. If you know anyone in #Clacton, give them a call. mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/1170868…

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 12/08/2026

Decided to add dissolving platforms via a neat material function trick I found. There's no other players in there so there's no action or real gameplay, but I just wanted to show off the platform :)

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 12/08/2026

Keep seeing these videos on YT saying "How I made millions doing...". If you've made millions doing X, why aren't you doing X instead of wasting your time posting YT videos?

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RPS | Wishlist Fallosophy on Steam! @fallosophygame.com · 15/06/2026

Fallosophy is a precision pinball platformer about failure, momentum, and trying to understand why you keep climbing after falling all the way back down. Demo is live on Steam. Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3989550/...

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Fallosophy on Steam

Use just two buttons to climb a colossal pinball table spanning the history of western philosophy. Fallosophy is a minimalist game that turns pinball into a quiet struggle against gravity. No score. N...

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/08/2026

Tried searching "best small phone 2026" and it seems 6.3 inches is considered a small phone.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/08/2026

Cracking on with BONK! dev. Rewrote the lobby, so players can vote on which map to play. Adding in gameplay elements, perilous paths leading to reward/power-up chests, dissolving platforms, generally adding to the level design in levels where players don't want to just bonk each other senseless.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 10/08/2026

I watched one of Martin Piper's videos last night, where he tinkers behind the scenes of Xenon 2. He was using some fancy modern debugger, that showed you all sorts of insights into memory, blitter usage and all sorts of nerdy things that teenage me would've spontaneously combusted over.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 09/08/2026

Tonight's episode of Van Der Valk was so stupid, had so many plot holes and made no sense whatsoever, that I had to check it wasn't written by Russel T Davies.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 02/08/2026

Two things I heartily recommend: - Parsec: stunningly fast and responsive screen sharing - Lore: Epic's rapid blob-focused git alternative I can't believe how quick Lore commit/pushes are. I keep doing clones just to make sure it's all actually there. Don't bother with a GUI though, just use CLI.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 01/08/2026

Had a sudden urge to go and sort the office out. It's a mess, a desk needs taking out, plus PCs, Macs, monitors, dev kits and UPSs all need untangling and rearranging so they don't look like they've been set up by a gibbon. Walked in there, walked immediately back out again. Maybe Monday....

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 01/08/2026

A typical day in game dev. Yesterday was a biggie - dynamic level loading so players can pick which map to play in. Involved all sorts of UEFN buffoonery - data layers, load/unload sequencers, sorting out which assets could be streamed in and which were global, a meaty job.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 31/07/2026

Phew! Multi map support is in, just got to make a map selection GUI now. Up to 10 players, on an island in the sky, each with 25 coins. Bonk a player for some coins, or bonk them off the edge for all their coins. Player with most coins wins.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 30/07/2026

Looking through some 20+ year old Java code. Awww, I'm using Hungarian notation. Bless.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 27/07/2026

Whilst I've been recovering I've been trying to coax my brain into action by learning UEFN and Verse - a language so unlike any other. The game's a cross between a Mario Party game, Smash Bros, and Worms. Totally silly. Bonkers, even ;) I'll release an island code when it's ready.

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