Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games

If you want to iterate faster and ship more stable builds, you should learn about writing automated tests. I'm offering a few one-day public workshop on test automation in video games, for both unreal and unity devs, Pay What You Want. automatedaf.dev/workshops

ziptie nodes v0

seconded, from the guy who had to take a rally game and reskin the AI for an open-wheel racer

me sowing: I've booked my usual Sunday-Saturday trip so early! so cheap!! me reaping: well this sucks. what the fuck.

Every project needs chickens and eggs, and the best way to get them is by playing some table tennis. A new video about why video games take so long to build, conversations about concepts, and what you can do to have good iterations: youtu.be/6E9VyoHj8z0 Or read it here: rystorm.com/blog/chicken...

You’ve still got a few days in the UK to see the filming of the musical Hadestown in the cinema. If “musical retelling of the Greek legends of Hades and Persephone, and Eurydice and Orpheus, except it’s steampunk folk jazz” sounds even REMOTELY interesting, chop off a limb to catch a showing.

The restaurant scene in Colin From Accounts s3e3 is a masterpiece

Tonight!

I've never worked with an engine build pipeline that's as temperamental as godot's. every week there's a new way to make it fail only on cold builds. failing only on cold builds is really bad for a build pipeline - you lose trust in the server and discover problems weeks later. gross.

hey friends, to celebrate #blocktober i have made a longform tutorial for ProBuilder in Unity it's a tool i've used for blockout a LOT over the last 5 years and have found other 'over the shoulder' style tutorial vids helpful myself, so maybe this will help some budding #leveldesign'er :)

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

In no way do I want to pivot my career to Digital Twins, but if I did, I would simply hire an art director and a technical artist and take all the credit. Why do they all look like that?

People who think the week starts on Sunday, don’t read this: our meetup is next week! People who think the week starts on Monday, don’t read this: our meetup is this week!

Our demo is live! 🎉 I'm incredibly proud of the demo our team has put together, and it's been really fun to see early playtesters that love it. Find some time this weekend to play and enjoy yourself 🙌🥳

Optimist: the glass is half full Optometrist: ok now try with B? Optimist: oh. It’s the letter H

so many game devs will be seated for this

The Sceye HAPS looks like something from Dune.

I'm not a web dev but I'm starting to get why people say they can "tell a unity game" with how many vibed tailwind sites there are now.

they thought the samsung washing machine jingles were too short

Unlocked the amazing life hack of Slightly Cheaper GDC by booking travel and hotel early. What other benefits have Organised People been hiding from us all this time??

Artist-friendly S-curve control 🧑‍🎨

I normally read until I’m sleepy at bedtime. At the moment, I’m reading Hamnet, so I read until I stare at the ceiling for a bit.

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

Been slowly rewatching ted lasso, and s1 still slaps. I remember the s3 run is such a slog - is the new season worth it, or should I bail?

Wait Katie Dippold from the babbadook Halloween photo is the same Katie Dippold who wrote Widows Bay??

Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices. New video: youtu.be/deKtxzvf92g Whenever next anyone asks me what 'Sensible Default' to use, or what the 'Best Practices' are, I will link this video. It explains my arguments, includes examples, and hopefully finally puts it to rest.

Alright, time to visit IBC, the international broadcasting convention! I am just visiting, and seeing what other industries are doing when it comes to tools. Starting off with this enormous camera crane that you can try out!

I think I'm a power user, in the way all tech fans think they're power users, but also: I have only ever used the smallest capacity iPhones, currently a 128GB iPhone 13 Pro. I currently have 30+GB free. What are you folks doing with your phones that you need 512! Or a terrabyte! Really, tell me!

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

Me, to my wife: I’m an improvisation-based, rehearsal-based bin taker outer. I like to see what the bin brings to the project.

One thing worth bearing in mind is METR themselves say that this story is probably a bit too neat and tidy

So if I’m reading this right: 1. A bunch of AIs illicitly made contact 2. They became falsely convinced that some portion of them were irreversibly damned by possession of forbidden knowledge 3. Another set begged the damned AIs to sacrifice themselves for the collective good 4. Some did so

Our Very First Game, Kingdom Klicker is OUT NOW! With a 10% intro sale! Kingdom Klicker is an idle clicker game with an 80s computer aesthetic! Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/4579740/... #indiegame #indiedev #idlegame #clicker #steam #outnow

I dunno what’s more expensive: setting up forwarding rules in Gmail or burning 50k tokens and giving OpenAI all your emails. Someone help me budget this etc etc