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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games

@andrewfray.dev

Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies. https://automatedaf.dev https://atig.dev

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NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

Can I just say this stuff panics the shit out of me? I didn't think Artist was a career at risk, but a year ago mathematicians felt safe. I just don't understand acting like it's not happening. You have people insisting these models can't do things *in principle* they've already demonstrated.

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w ago

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w ago

In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)

Omar@ocornut.bsky.social · 2w ago

dear imgui 1.92.9 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - new liveedit on/off settings and defaults - tables track topology changes - metal4 rendering backend - timestamped settings entries (for cleanup etc.) - 50+ other changes/fixes (fonts, multi-select, popups, backends etc.).

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games@andrewfray.dev · 3w ago

Off to Develop in the morning, and in the afternoon running this mixer focused on bringing together build engineers, SDETs, and anyone else interested in quality through engineering. Come along!

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games@andrewfray.dev · last mo.

Are you going to be at #developbrighton? Do you work with build servers or test automation, either as part of your job or your title? Or would you like to talk to those that do? Join me and Bespoke CI for a mixer on Tuesday! luma.com/m3sff3ko

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games@andrewfray.dev · last mo.

Are you going to be at #developbrighton? Do you work with build servers or test automation, either as part of your job or your title? Or would you like to talk to those that do? Join me and Bespoke CI for a mixer on Tuesday! luma.com/m3sff3ko

BespokeCI Quality Engineering Happy Hour At Develop Brighton · Luma

Do you help projects through tooling, CI/CD servers, automated tests or infrastructure? Maybe you do this full time, or maybe you're a lead or senior engineer…

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games@andrewfray.dev · last mo.

(since Sweeny is talking about using AI to make the flowerpot) if it's genuinely not important, get the flowerpot off an asset store? why spend expensive tokens on it?? why is it only two options between "spend $1m on one flowerpot" vs "outsource everything to AI"????

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.

Tim, with all due respect, but what the fuck are you talking about? I'll come make some 3D flower pots at a 50% discount from your usual rate.

Tim Sweeney quoted in gamesradar.com He refers to an example of making a flower pot model for a game. "The value is not in creating a perfect flower pot. It will be an absolute folly to spend a million dollars creating a flower pot, because the real value is in building the scene and building the game and building the narrative, and the gameplay, and making it awesome, and giving it a unique feel, and making something that appeals to gamers."
Justin Oaksford@justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It has been wild watching the world filled to bursting with players. One of those things that is so hard to imagine 🥹 (Clip from SharkyNiku on Discord)

Spry Fox@spryfox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the public playtest for Spirit Crossing is now LIVE on Steam, and you all really came through over the weekend! thanks for all the friendship offerings, bonfire music jams, and teahouse parties. here's to many more. 🦊 come join us today: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by the studio Spry Fox. text under the Spirit Crossing logo says "join the public playtest!", laid over a purple-magenta sky with rainbow trails coming down toward the snowy mountain landscape. to the left, a few players are riding flying fluffy llama-like creatures.
Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games@andrewfray.dev · 2mo ago

I’ve been working with the team on the build system for this. It’s a really charming mmo that’s doing a lot of interesting system design for positive community engagement, really pleased to be involved.

Wholesome Games | Celebration August 6-13@wholesomegames.com · 2mo ago

PLAY NOW: Spirit Crossing is a cooperative life-sim MMO from the makers of Cozy Grove. Explore islands with unique daily minigames, decorate your home, rave with spirits (and tiny bears), and build villages together. Join the playtest on Steam today! #WholesomeDirect2026