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David Smith

@trigpointdave.bsky.social
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Director at Trigpoint Games. Unreal Engine Programmer (porting), Game Developer, Trail Runner. trigpoint.games

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 03/09/2026
Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏
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root @freshroots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/...
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Spelkollektivet @spelkollektivet.com · 14/08/2026
Help Save the Home for Indie Game Developers For 9 years Spelkollektivet has had more than 700 game developers stay at the co-living & co-working hub, but due to new directives in the local area, the future may be at risk. Read more: gofund.me/f4244d6de #gamedev #indiegames #gofundme
GoFundMe post titled "Save the Home for Indie Game Developers" with a Photograph of game developers working hard in the background. Goal is 750,000 SEK
With a Call To Action of "Donate Now"
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Mischief @mischief.games · 30/07/2026
Welcome To The New Apocalypse
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 29/07/2026
Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 23/07/2026
From a database to a full-fledged bible! ✨🕺 We've collabed with @eddcoates.bsky.social on the Game UI Bible, a 500+ page hardback adventure through the UI/UX of loads of your favourite games 🎮 Let us entice you with a limited signed bookplate by Edd himself and more below 🔗👇
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/07/2026
It's been so nice seeing the excitement for the courses.ramiismail.com program. Genuinely didn't know what to expect, but this is far beyond my expectations. I really hope it helps everyone!
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Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...
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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam
1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...
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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.
Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You're good at this stuff. I remember having Paper Planes burned into my head for weeks after you sent me one
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I would read that, I'm sure people would find it useful to have thoughts on scene graphs bundled together like that
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Leftfield submissions are now open for 2026: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
Photo of the game Bib Goes Home. A small projector on a Mechano stand is doing interactive projection mapping on the pages of a cardboard pop-up book.Screenshot of the game Far From Noise. A Citroen 2CV is balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff. Text bubbles: "(honk honk) HELLOOO?"A screenshot of the game Rhell. A young mage stands in front of some bookshelves and a bed, looking at a spectrral form above.Close up photo of the installation Wobble Garden. LED rings shine in many colours, at the bases of springy conical silver doorstops.
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In Webdev it's always DNS. In Gamedev it's always FMOD
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How do you handle any required Windows / Xbox Dev or have you managed to sidestep it? Windows in a VM or second machine?
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm gonna be that guy - you tempted by Linux or is too much daily stuff Windows based?
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 20/02/2026
Premium is just £2.49 or your local equivalent while we're building out the other modes. Please consider supporting us! Our game doesn't yet pay for its own servers and that would be lovely actually. Daily mode is still free and always will be!
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I started building a NAS recently and ended up buying second hand drives from Europe (still spenny as fuck). Also ended up repurposing a previous machine due to RAM (especially ECC) being unobtanium. Everything is fucked
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
He should change his name to Stefan Repro after this
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Hollie Emery 🏳️‍⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New Luna Abyss Steam demo just dropped! Please check it out. If you want to help a dev out, please reshare these posts: Insta www.instagram.com/reel/DUqRPIU... Twitter x.com/LunaAbyssGam... Bsky bsky.app/profile/luna... FB fb.watch/FdEr_z_UDh/ Wishlist Now store.steampowered.com/app/1933000/...
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The Game Bakers @thegamebakers.com · 29/01/2026
Time to climb! Cairn is available now. Mount Kami awaits, unconquered. This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I am also setting up a chonky NAS! New hardware for it was too expensive but the old pc will do just fine
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Reboot has stopped? I was thinking of going to that soon, damn
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Wallace and Gromit built this in a basement! On a bank holiday weekend!
Still from Iron Man, with Obediah Stane yelling 'Tony Stark Built this in a cave! With a box of scraps!'
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We used to build things in this country
The spaceship from Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
*flying with the snowman when a plane gets in the way* HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Okay this is some strong as hell maths. Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out. If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Nice! Didn't know you'd written your own. Will be giving this a thorough read through!
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White Paper Games @whitepapergames.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Back in 2011, ROUTINE & ETHER ONE were ideas yet to be realised - our teams hung out on Skype, dreaming up worlds together. 14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved. Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
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ROUTINE @routinegame.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
> Booting ROUTINE… > Initializing lunar base exploration… > Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam. Only one way forward. ▌ ► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/... ► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
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adam pype @adampype.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement
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Christopher Ferris @sweaterparrot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/... As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
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Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ...
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Autofrayte
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Reality distraction flowchart is very real
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG?? You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday: ✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE ✅ Buy a game on sale ✅ Share these links where you can store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
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Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Lot of work that though, first you gotta make InFlux 2, then InFlux Redux 2
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Distributed Denial Of Silksong
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Or maybe its Skill Issue, Must Do better. Fuck my life.
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Input handling is consistently the most frustrating part of unreal to me (aside from C++ Iteration even with liveplusplus, and loading screens)
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's at the point now where Unreal feels too big, and that's by design
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Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The riddle "what word is so fragile that when spoken, breaks it" now has two answers
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