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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First play of #Nighthawks and #ThousandHells. ☺️ The latter has ultrawide monitor support! 👍 Both very engaging narratives from the off. 😎 I see lots of replayability in both titles, not just from choices made, but character traits and Hells’ randomiser option too. ☺️

Screenshot from Nighthawks, showing the description of a room and choices of what to search.

Screenshot from Thousand Hells, showing the main narrative text window on the left, a team character selection window on the right, with part of the location’s background image in the centre.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pension (local council, not state, I’m not quite that old!) payday today, so treated myself to a couple of videogames: #Nighthawks from @wadjeteyegames.com and #ThousandHells by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social 😎❤️

Steam email confirmation of purchasing both Nighthawks and Thousand Hells.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I said “mine” I meant he did my first tattoo. 😁 I’ve had another done by someone else at another parlour. 😋

Photo of my right upper arm, with two black ink tattoos, both video game logos.
Top one is Heaven’s Vault, bottom one is King Of The Castle.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like hearing the stories of how they got them done. ☺️ Mine had his neck tattoo done by a village elder in Malaysia, by a traditional method involving a wooden stick/needle. 😎

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just had an interesting conversation as to why some people on here don’t use alt-text in their images. 🤔 After their initial reply to my post about not using alt-text, that they don’t do it as it trains AI, they then said I was wasting their time. 🫤 #Accessibility

💀Their second reply to me after I asked for alt-text on their images and they said it trains AI:

Unfortunately the developers of bluesky have taken this position.
I did not.

Their final reply, with an image of a line chart, showing Pointless Questions along the x axis and Indigenous peoples time wasted along the Y, with an arrow pointing to You halfway up the line.

“You have the most powerful invention mankind has ever created in the palm of your hand. And rather than using it, you choose to waste my time? Please consult the chart.”

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been QA testing (freelance) @inkle.co games since Sorcery! Part 4 in 2016. At @adventurex.bsky.social events I've worn t-shirts I had made, with Inkle games on. @joe.inkle.co contacted me recently, to send me something for this year's AdvX. It arrived today: An official Inkle t-shirt! 😳😎❤️

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And design them in no later than at beta, otherwise you’ll likely have lots of issues. e.g. One of my favourite games, #NoMansSky, in its Fractal Update, released February 2023, increased certain menu text sizes and is STILL broken, over two years and four further updates later! 😫

Screenshot from No Man’s Sky, showing the base building system, with a building controls/options menu almost completely off the top left half of the screen.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We go there when dropping off the godson, taking the doggo (lab-collie cross) along the riverbank, letting him in the water when nobody else is in that bit, then eat in the pub until the boy finishes and joins us. ☺️

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Down Yalding way it’s a lot narrower and calmer.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Near Teston/Yalding area? That’s where my godson goes kayaking as part of Medway Sea Scouts. 😎

A teenage boy in a light green kayak, holding an oar with yellow paddle ends.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That was one of my favourite LEGO sets to build. 😎

The LEGO Pyramid of Giza set, with the top outer shell of the pyramid removed, showing the ‘construction’ diorama underneath.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Usually it’s music, like when I’m preparing/cooking for the family. One such playlist is CCR:

A playlist of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs on my iPad.
Songs listed are:

Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Down On the Corner
Fortunate Son
Travelin' Band
Up Around the Bend
Run Through the Jungle
Born On the Bayou
The Midnight Special.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jet, my sister’s retired greyhound, that I’m dog sitting (with another lurcher, Toby) while she’s on holiday, says “Hello, Kirby!” ☺️

A fawn brindle coloured greyhound, standing on a black sofa, staring into the camera, with her face very close to the lens.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RP your home river. As a Man of Kent, mine is the River Medway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_M...

A photo of Rochester Bridge over the River Medway.
The current bridge is a bowstring truss bridge, mainly made of steel.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bought my first ever guitar this week. 😎 An electric ‘Strat style’ Eastcoast ST2 from Andertons of Guildford. Started YTube lessons on Thursday. Tuned the guitar today. ☺️ Andertons do QC before they let guitars out of the shop, so it only needed a little adjustment after my abusing the strings. 😉

Photo of a red & white Stratocaster-style electric guitar, with a black guitar case, a Boss Katana Mini amplifier and a cable to connect them.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Only real issue I found with the resizing was that sentences/blocks of text needed line breaks at commas and full stops to help keep the width of the text box from getting stretched too wide. The middle box in the attached screenshot could’ve been about a third narrower. ☺️👍

Screenshot showing a central, very wide text box, with long sentences/strings of text.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Managed to download and play the demo late last night. ☺️ Had a twiddle with the sizing settings until everything was large enough for me. See screenshot attached. Post 1/2

Screenshot of a Settings menu, showing User Interface Scaling options for various parts of the UI.
Most are set just above the default size of 1.0 to around 1.2-1.3.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I still play the PC version now. ☺️ I (as part of the UK Colonial Marines costuming group) was even involved in the promotion of the game launch. 😎

Me, dressed in full Colonial Marine costume and armour, holding a replica pulse rifle, standing in my local GAME store. There’s a xenomorph head hanging from a shelf next to me.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Got a large Mighty Meaty (thin crust) pizza from Domino's, to eat while watching #SkyIndyCar @tomgaymor.bsky.social 😎

Photo of a pizza with lots of meat on it.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Now that my PC has had its issues sorted out by a full reinstall of Windows 11, I’ve put my fav dev’s games back on it. 😎😉

Cropped screengrab, with a yellow rectangle drawn around a set of games by Inkle Studios, from Sorcery!1-4, 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault, etc., with their latest TR-49.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mine too. 😎 I’m hoping that @happyvolcano.com have a sleeper hit on their hands, as I’d love to see how they develop it further (e.g. larger build area, more ways to rotate pieces, etc. #MidnightMoments A couple of my builds:

A race track, similar to an indoor go kart track, with cars on the start line having glowing neon under them, crowds of people standing on bleacher-style steps around the track and glowing light from numerous tall street lamps lighting the track, with light rain falling.

A neon lit urban area, with stairs leading up to two penthouse style open seating cafes at each end of the square diorama, with a central roadway through and under them.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We used an old washing up bowl. Large enough to contain projectile vom and any splashes.

An orange plastic washing-up bowl of vintage 1970s design.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alt-text added to image. #Accessibility Apart from the depression, one thing they could do to pass the time is volunteering, and/or go outside for long walks.

A post from
‘mat jones video game expert’

I was looking at my calendar for next week when I'm back from gamescom and absent mindedly I said, man why are the only days I can take off during the work week

oh. you mean I have to take a day off from work... during a work day?

been having the kind of low moods lately where work is a welcome distraction from my real life and the real life is the stressful and upsetting thing

basically I want to have a third thing where I'm not working but I also don't have free time I have to fill.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Stuntman and actor Trevor Steedman actually meant it when he gave me his autograph. 😋 (I asked him to write it) 😉

‘Behind the scenes’ continuity photo of Trevor in the film Aliens.
Text on the photo says
“Aliens
TREVOR STEEDMAN
WIERZBOWSKI”

His writing below the photo says
“To P.V.B.

"YOU ARE ONE SPECIAL CUNT"

ALL THE BEST”

Then his signature.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Gilby, from the C64 game Iridis Alpha by @stinkyox.bsky.social www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Iridis_...

A black line drawing of a circular body, pointy arrow style hat and two spindly legs.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Suzi Quatro. 🥰 For info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Qu...

A black and white photo of Suzi.
She’s wearing a black leather flightsuit and lots of necklaces.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Colander pic of the #SolarEclipse, taken at Ranscombe Farm Nature Reserve, Strood, Kent.

Photo of the shadow of a colander on a peice of paper, with dozens of narrow crescent shapes of the eclipse.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Spotted last night when walking the dog: Two poor reinstatements (imho) 1. Poor quality concrete around a road gully. No ‘arris trowel’ edging and the concrete looks smooth/mottled. 2. Black tarmac around a water meter cover. Footway is very old red tarmac. Also, tar edge overbanding. #StreetWorks

Black tarmac around a plastic water meter cover. A sticky tar ‘overbanding’ line has been painted around/over the edge of the patch.

A concrete patch around a drainage grid in a concrete road.
The patch has a mottled shading, with smooth surface and cracking edge where it meets the existing road surface.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My mum & dad brought my sister and I up on a wide range of music, from classical to blues and old rock & roll “Gentleman” Jim Reeves was a fav of theirs, and then mine. ☺️ My playlist:

My iTunes music playlist of Jim Reeves, which includes all of his hits, including I Love You Because, Distant Drums, He’ll Have To Go, etc.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Reminds me of the billionaires meme and one about Andrew Carnegie. 😋

I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN
BILLIONAIRES VANITY PROJECTS WERE TO BUILD PUBLIC LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND
MUSIC VENUES.

A black and white photo of an old man, sitting at a desk in a library, reading a book.
Text below it says
In the 19th century, Scottish billionaire Andrew Carnegie spent 90% of his fortune creating over 3,000 libraries worldwide, Inspired by the free library that helped him gain the education to become wealthy.

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