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Simon Carter

@bbbscarter.bsky.social

Shiny headed game developer. Formerly of Google DeepMind, Bullfrog, Big Blue Box, Lionhead, No Man's Sky. Co-creator of Dungeon Keeper and Fable. Posts likely to be about #gamedev #godot #emacs #coding

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Simon Carter@bbbscarter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Microsoft is gutting id Software, and effectively killing off idTech? Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake were genre defining games, and the recent Dooms were technological marvels. Very sad, and very short-sighted. www.resetera.com/threads/id-s...

ID Software's Director of Engine Technology (id Tech) laid off along with engine support staff

The WARN notice lists the roles impacted (laid off already): The layoffs include the director of id Tech and the related programmers and leads.

resetera.com

Wayne Imlach@wimlach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's an article I wrote a few years ago for The Casket of Fays (Dragon Warriors Fanzine). It was an expansion on one of the 'monsters' listed in the original Dragon Warriors rules. Mix of historical and contemporary inspiration (Jack Skellington). Casket of Fays can be found on Drivethru & Itch.

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Simon Carter@bbbscarter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sigh. “Anthropic’s new model automatically finds flaws in software that runs with restricted permissions behind a firewall. Doom!” vs “VSCode extensions are neither moderated nor sandboxed, and execute arbitrary code locally on 50 million installs. Meh!” www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.

bleepingcomputer.com

Simon Carter@bbbscarter.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m curious how people organise their ‘entity’ setups in Godot. Examples I’ve seen: - Component-like. Generic root node, component nodes directly under, accessed via node path. - Inheritance + module nodes. Root node is specific type, with members to assign sub module nodes. - etc #godot #gamedev

Simon Carter@bbbscarter.bsky.social · last yr.

I very much like Godot and how architecturally agnostic and flexible it is - but I still find myself missing a first-class component-system. Sure, you can emulate it using nodes, but a proper component system is more than just nodes-with-children, and filling those gaps is tricky. #godot #gamedev

Simon Carter@bbbscarter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking into creating a small desktop GUI tool using something modern. Most tutorials assume you’re creating a business web app. “Obviously you want to use MVC/MVVM/Reactive/DI/Providers/Notifiers/State management.” No, I just want to hook up a few buttons to some data structures, thanks.

Tim Rocktäschel@handle.invalid · 2y ago

Excited to reveal Genie 2, our most capable foundation world model that, given a single prompt image, can generate an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D worlds. Fantastic cross-team effort by the Open-Endedness Team and many other teams at Google DeepMind! 🧞

Jack Parker-Holder@jparkerholder.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.