Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹
@darbotron.bsky.social
Programmer & Designer. Human, husband, parent, skateboarder. Gamedev since '96. Company founder. BAFTA member & winner. GameDevHeroes Programming Hero 2019. Co-creator DJ Hero. #UKGI Cthulhu fhtagn ;,; www.darbotron.com www.linkedin.com/in/darbotron
Get EARTH MUST DIE super cheap alongside a whole bunch of other neat games in this amaaaazing Humble Bundle! Go! Go go go! Also share, pls.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 11h agoHumble Games Bundle: No More Robots Indie Anthology ($12 for all) buff.ly/0hAb6HI #ad
Extremely excited to say that the first ever No More Robots Humble Bundle is now live! 11 No More Robots games for a tiny price. The last 9 years of my life, bundled. Featuring games from @danthat.bsky.social, @jaytholen.net, @springloaded.bsky.social, @braveatnight.bsky.social, and loads more
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 11h agoHumble Games Bundle: No More Robots Indie Anthology ($12 for all) buff.ly/0hAb6HI #ad
Career update 👨💻 Today I started work at Unity in Stratford-upon-Avon! I'm working on the Platform Systems team* (*yeah, doing console stuff 😅)
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Great #gamedev thread! Especially hard agree on the caveats.
mmalex@mmalex.bsky.social · 3d agotoday's alex-mega-gamedev-tip: one of my favourite passtimes is getting deep into design thoughts on whatever im working on; on walks, in the shower. but dont let the thinking get more than about 1 day ahead of the process of actually making it. any more, and you're probably wasting your time... 🧵
I want to pubish a novel called Tess of The Baskervilles under the prn name Thomas Conan-Hardy, just to fuck with English teachers.
The real question we should be asking about AI regulation is who benefits? Because right now it looks like it’s tech billionaires winning and not people & communities.
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Marvel did not kill off the Black Panther, the actor Chadwick Boseman died in real life. And Mr. Boseman’s colleagues did not feel comfortable with simply replacing him with another actor. These are real people who knew him in real life. That means more than your action movie desires.
It finally happened!! Mythmatch got it's 4th Metacritic approved review and we have a Metascore of 89!! Thanks @gamegrin.com for checking out this tiny game after launch! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/... Switch (Europe): www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
This is great. This is so helpful because instead of just fixing the problem of climate change we could all get a sauna and live with it. Perfect solution, good job. Is there an issue that saunas are made of very dry wood when the wildfires catch up with you, do we think? Or is that fine?
Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.
We aren’t gonna deep discount this for a long time or ever so this is a great chance to get a deal. :-)
Night Signal Entertainment@nightsignalentertainment.com · last wk.Our cursed 1995 CD-ROM Forbidden Solitaire is having a DAILY DEAL for 25% OFF! Now's the best time yet to discover why this retro dungeon horror has a 96% 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam, and listed among the 'Best Games of 2026' by NPR. 👁️🩸 💜 store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Mike and Rami Go To The Beach New episode out now mikeandrami.com
Hypnospace Outlaw launched on mobile today! Huge thanks to Apple for the quite frankly crazy number of features on the store. I’ve found 5 separate places where the game is being pushed on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/hypno...
This is probably the biggest moment of my life 😭 After 4 years, the Game UI Bible has finally launched for all the world to see. A 400+ page tome of Game UI/UX goodness, celebrating all the weird and wonderful intricacies of this field. I'm SO proud of this book, and for you all to read it!
Lost In Cult@lostincult.co.uk · 2w agoFrom 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 🔗👇
💿EXCITING HYPNOSPACE NEWS💿 Hypnospace Outlaw is now available on: - iOS! - Google Play! - Play Pass! iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/hypno... Google + Play Pass: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
My favourite thing about publishing games on mobile, is all the negative reviews saying “eww, the game costs MONEY?” “Why don’t you just do it for the love of making games?” they say OK, will do! I assume you do your own job for free “for the love of it” too, right?
Who of my mutuals here were Counter-Strike players / fans? We’ll be spooling a project up in the autumn connected to the game and in the meantime I’m keen to make lists of folks to potentially have chats with.
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
