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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 29/09/2026

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

It's never been this bad during the last 40-odd years from my experience. Experienced people spending over a year finding a new job. Applications into the thousands, not hearing a peep back. It's not just games though, but I'd say games is the worst affected.

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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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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/09/2026

I read that as "potential minge onslaught" and thought "he's not that good looking" 😆

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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 · 14/09/2026

I haven't really, but it's inkeeping with my general career advice.

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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

usenet-rewind.com

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

Hooked it up to XCode this time, rather than CLion. Ooh, pretty pretty autocomplete.

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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 admire and respect that, as I too have managed to avoid it for probably decades. Then I found an interesting UEFN group, and thought maybe it's not so bad after all. We will see....

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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 · 04/09/2026

I get the same. You can unfollow or even block people :)

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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...

marketplace.visualstudio.com

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

I'm not an artist, so I'm easily pleased :)

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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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