Olly Skillman-Wilson

Come for the pixels, stay for the nodes.

Games are made by people and game studios are made of people but game studios are also made of institutional knowledge, continuity, practices, standards, technology, resources, and IP. And those things do mean something, and it is a loss when they're discarded.

Did anyone really think a new mass effect was going to come out and be good at this point, too many things have changed. Still, horrific news about bioware and more fuel on the industry bonfire.

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Having said all this, the political reality was that Jackdaw was pretty much a baked-in decision and long widely expected. The much bigger decision will be over whether the Rosebank oil project gets the green or red light.

From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Got artist biographies working in Jellyfin, AudioDB has in insane amount of cobbled together trivia. Lovely to see though, adds another layer of enjoyment to building and exploring the collection.

Brain totally shredded by PCG and landscape splines. Only mush remains.

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#blackfrost #wip #gamedev

people are going to dislike Digger. it's loud, over the top, with a lot of scenery chewing, and it is bleak. but i LOVED it, start to finish. saw it in IMAX. comparisons to Dr. Strangelove are apt, though Digger has a more interesting structure. alejandro, cruise, goodman, hüller, et al are bold.

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

Really enjoyed Digger, so playful.

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The beauty of a pre order arriving one day early 🤘🏻👀🤘🏻

yes

I am thrilled beyond words with what Tim and the team have made here. So excited to see it out in the world!

bsky.app/profile/jame... legitimately hilarious how unfit for purpose it looks. and i STILL havent seen footage of it being used with rapidly moving cameras

Donate to the defence fund here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rockstar-3...

Found a bug that I might keep? I forgot to add chair occupancy restrictions, and penguin hips are simulated with physics, so you can get in tiny chairs with other penguins and shove them aside. 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

After a few years of work, I can finally talk about this! I’ve been designing puzzles and levels for Uncanyon. I’m super excited to share what we’ve been working on and to be part of the team at @graceful-decay.bsky.social Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3372610/...

I was half joking when I said this, turns out it's true. Play it with people you like, and you will have a very special experience. I feel full of love and awe.

Money spent on South of Midnight now supports its developers, not Microsoft aftermath.site/compulsion-sou...

Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...

Huge win today getting home assistant to suspend *and wake* my ancient laptop with the homelab stuff on it. Turns out the laptop itself is too old to do things like RTC wake alarms, but MQTT and Wake on LAN have it covered! Been chipping away at that for 3 months just to save 37kwh a year 😅.

📣Audiophile PSA📣 If you have some nice lossless audio and pair of headphones you can crank the bitrate and frequency response waaay up in windows settings. I also found I was getting weird stereo imaging when changing volume recently, and I think turning off audio enhancements in here has fixed it.

This is obscene and we should all be enraged about this all the time.

🗳️ Norfolk PCC by-election in Norwich: 🟢 Grn: 35% ( +6 ) 🔴 Lab: 20% ( -26 ) ➡️ Ref: 14% ( +14 ) ⚪️ Ind: 12% ( +12 ) 🔵 Con: 8% ( -8 ) 🟠 Lib: 7% ( -3 ) ⚫️ Res: 6% ( +6 ) This marks the first time that Greens have won the popular vote in a local authority in a PCC election. x.com/LeftieStats/...

Very very excited to see Mick Gordon live at Radar next year, once in a lifetime opportunity.

Huge

I actually polished some noise up a little bit, from a while back, got sidetracked making cover artwork, never posted it, but now I've fixed that! Here it is alongside some fittingly crude imagery: vilejelly.bandcamp.com/track/this-b...

Just discovered the graph heatmap plugin for obsidian. I've been searching for something that could do exactly this for a long time. Its beautiful. Want to make your thoughts look like a virus, a volcano, synapses flickering like the northern lights? community.obsidian.md/plugins/grap... #obsidian

Ubisoft Barcelona goes on strike. The company wants to layoff 51 #ACResynced developers after game success. 🏴 No to ERE (redundancies) in Ubisoft Barcelona!

Develop was a good time, lovely blend of familiar and new faces.

this week's text is about AI art + hallucinating a horse in Palazzo Te thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/p...

And here's some still screenshots cause the video compression is garbagio here.

Duskers was an incredible game, may have to check this out 👀

Possibly the most adorable thing on the planet is when I sneeze loudly and then the cat comes over and squeaks a lot to reassure me.

Death Stranding is real if you want it to be. For @aftermath.site, here are some of my favorite forms of modular storage: expensive wall units, knock-offs of vintage Italian furniture no longer produced, modular German tool boxes, and entirely new 3D printed systems. aftermath.site/best-modular...

I played #Mixtape recently and this mini-game of TP-ing the principal's house really tickled my brain in the way that I couldn't get it out of my head. So obviously, I tried to recreate in UE for myself as a fun challenge.

I've been reading through a near-complete version our next #TTRPG book, GOLD TEETH, and while I am not exactly a neutral commentator I can say that @marshdavies.bsky.social is now operating on another level. Do not miss. You can still secure a late pledge copy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...