Here's a bouncing rock. The rock will not be in the game. #gamedev It's bouncing because this morning I wrote a simple 'tweening' plugin for basic procedural animation in #ue5, modelled on the ones popular in the #flash / #as3 days. I'll stick it on Github when I've thought of a name- suggestions?

#screenshotsaturday this scene is still a testbed for developing tech for elsewhere, but it's quite fun in it's own right. Dynamic texturing allows me to accumulate blood on the pylon over time, and there's some subtle IK used to make sure the punches connect. Sound too! #ue5 #gamedev 1/5

It's #screenshotsaturday! Following on from last week: I present a man's futile battle with an electricity pylon, as filmed by a camera drone which I simulated using the #UE5 Gameplay Cameras plugin. Next up: hitting the pylon, blood loss, and exhaustion. #gamedev #existentialism #rochdale #pylons

#screenshotsaturday some fun stuff this week prototyping a traffic system using #UE5 Niagara- but doing so in style, by attempting to capture the feeling of the M62 motorway near Rochdale. 1/6 #gamedev #unrealengine #motorways #pylons #rochdale #flytipping

If nothing else, the finale of #StrangerThings really shows how a public execution can bring a community together

London tourists- be sure to get away from the main attractions while you're visiting and do some exploration, because there's beauty around every corner #Kensington #London #travel

Beating your shit into pineapples is the 2025 equivalent of beating swords into plowshares

Working a contract- someone has created a "socials" page that links to some short videos on Instagram The caption they have used for this? "Explore our Shorts"

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#gamedev still on the backburner while I refill the company coffers with some "real" programming work. Office life sucks in a lot of ways, but cycling home through #London at sunset almost makes up for it... #barbican

Gamedev on the backburner for a bit while I do some paying work to get the company funds back to health. This means cycling to Kensington every day, a place where people love cars more than humans. There's a lot of Ferraris here, but the owner of this car is clearly rich in things other than money

Now that's what a computer should look like #sciencemuseum #london #tech

Tom Waits is currently on display at the Natural History Museum #london #tomwaits

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev fixed up and extended Lump, my "Mass for Idiots" system- now you can't see where it switches away from ISM to mesh or actor. Framerate stays nice and high thanks to object pools, and only using physics where needed. Next job: use it to make cars and pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev Turns out the bits of Mass I wanted to use are dependent on ZoneGraph, and ZG can't be rebuilt at run time, so I can't use it. Mass is also fully C++ and honestly a bit of a headache. So, I nicked the ideas from Mass I wanted and built something a lot simpler. 1/n

Neuron here is watching my Pain au Chocolat like it's his ancestral birthright

Today in fun #gamedev bugs: the SUV Centipede, coming to a school run near you very soon.

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev #london- infinite PCG road now features intersections and buildings (well, connection points for intersections and placeholder cubes). The pop-in is a bit brutal but I can fix that later. Implementing traffic comes first. And breaking the legs of pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday The Last Gig is on hold for a bit while I try to find funding, so I'm now cranking out a quick one-month side project, Electric Rental Bike Simulator. Infinite procedural #ue5 road working great, now working on intersections, buildings, and detecting the breakage of traffic laws.

I have been "verified as an adult" on #BlueSky: I feel I should make some framed copies of the email and send them to my old school teachers. I'm sure they'll be proud, and glad all their work wasn't for nothing.

The football song "Three Lions" will be 30 years old next year- so that line about "30 years of hurt" (which in 1996 was the time since England won the World Cup) can be read as "30 years of national depression every time that Three Lions song comes on" youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?... #itscominghome

Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) (Official Video)

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#screenshotsaturday- needed a break from tech debt and UI so have implemented ridable Lime bikes. It uses the #ue5 vehicle system, plus control rig IK for the hands and feet. Below is an accurate demo of a typical #London Lime bike usage- note the use of proper parking technique. #gamedev 1/2

Been a while since my last #screenshotsaturday post- fixing AI bugs isn't exactly a visual treat. However now it's a LOT more stable, and even uses the correct escalator when given the option. Plus it can jump if it's sufficiently annoyed. #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev 1/3

Unintentional environmental storytelling in Alton Towers #gamedev

#screenshotsaturday - mostly getting rid of tech debt this week so the AI has fewer existential crises, but also some combat tweaks. Question- should robots care about which way an escalator goes? It's easier if they don't, but I can't decide if it looks "menacing" or "stupid" #ue5 #gamedev

It's #wishlistwednesday! So here's a WIP of part of the demo for The Last Gig (store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/...) Very quick to put together thanks to @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe plugin, and @nebukam.bsky.social's PCGEx to get rid of the need for boring wall / room placement #gamedev #ue5 1/3

Today for #screenshotsaturday something that should be trivial but turned out to be a massive headache: hanging from a rope in The Last Gig (wishlist pls store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... thx) . Simple right? Well, no- the Character Movement Component doesn't like constraints #gamedev #ue5 1/3

I can do #wishlistwednesday now! Here's more fun with the grapple / pogobat in a procedural Barbican Centre- making a procgen level has been really great for tuning (grapple is still way too powerful mind). Wishlist The Last Gig on Steam here! store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... #gamedev #ue5

OK I think that's enough menacing #robot megastructure iterations for now, better get back to making the actual game #ue5 #gamedev #blender

fortune.com/article/duol... If #Duolingo are replacing people with AI, I'll be replacing Duolingo with people. Subscription cancelled, 1647 day streak ended. Take your #AI and your greed and shove it up your owl.

It's #screenshotsaturday ! Think I've got the grappling hook feeling mostly right for The Last Gig ( store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... )- there's a fun balance between "player control" and "forceful yeetage". Needs better animation and sound etc, but it's on the right track. #gamedev #ue5 1/4