Tom Halligan

It's that time of year again when little boys and girls all over the country open the HMRC self assessment page in their accounting software and have a jolly old panic attack ✨

[Vinesauce] Vinny - Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Restrospective YouTube video by Vinesauce: The Full Sauce

Unreasonably excited for Bubsy 4D, given that I am the only person I know who

A) Played Bubsy 3D

and

B) Actually still somehow enjoyed the cartoonishly terrible design, graphics, and gameplay

For my sins, please enjoy Bubsy Visits The James Turrell Retrospective

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My government is Protecting The Children by forcing their parents to drop their ID into the Identity Theft Tombola drum, which for business reasons is located in the Seychelles.

Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine Earth and the Milky Way could be floating in a billion lightyear wide void – a discovery that could help decipher one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology

The extra-galactic moat is genuinely one of the top-tier cosmic defences

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a man in a suit and tie stands with his hands on his hips and says " i hate this so much " ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands with his hands on his hips and says " i hate this so much "

Unity's code-stripping once again rearing its ugly head and wasting my time

There is nothing more infuriating than confidently building a “minimal reproduction” project to sling at a 3rd party library developer in the hopes they'll fix a bug, only for the “minimal reproduction” project to work absolutely flawlessly and reveal that it is, in fact, you whomst is the idiot.

Don't try to do something in the cleverest way possible until you're absolutely sure you can do it in the dumbest way possible

“This Is the dumbest code I've ever seen. The person who wrote this is both an idiot and a psychopath”

git blame

“Oh”

We spent years beating DRY into programmers and now you want me to trick a computer into doing something close to what I want by writing the same thing in fifteen subtly different ways?

Simple Unity Playmode Configuration Save your team's sanity by implementing a handy configuration helper

As your Unity project grows, it can be difficult to keep iteration times down and to ensure that your team's various workflows remain pain-free. With a small investment of time, this quick utility can keep development time down & developer happiness up!

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#unity3d #unity #gamedev

"Says here on your CV that you're a Senior Vibe Coder, which sounds like a perfect fit for our Imagineering Department"

I will always find it funny that when staff leave OpenAI they always bust out a Torment Nexus tweet:

"I'm sad to announce that I'm leaving OpenAI after working on amazing things with fantastic people. Everything we did is terrifying and will hasten our demise. Looking forward to the next chapter!"

Q: How do I define a SKU of my cross-platform game that includes this set of scenes?

A: Implement a completely separate Build Profile for every platform and every SKU variation you need!

🙃

Pointless! Just script it

Unity Build Profiles are exactly what a company that builds a game engine, but crucially *not* games, would offer in response to demand for more flexible build configurations. #unity3d

Isn't the defining feature of potholes that they are, in fact, *incredibly* easy to find?

Whenever I see this complaint I wonder if they think the same thing about books, films, music etc.

Occasionally it's good to let game devs make more than one thing in their careers, as a treat.

Can you imagine a world without "AI powered brand protection software"?

I'm voting for "Slice", but I hereby vote for a "Slive" to become a real thing

If your dev team has a decent writer, then you will rarely regret fostering their talent! #programming #development #gamedev https://buff.ly/4igRjxx

Border Bots VR - Nominate Border Bots VR in the Steam Awards 2024! - Steam News Vote for us for 'VR Game of the Year' 🤖❤️

It's a long-shot in a crowded field, but please lend us a hand in nominating our silly futuristic robot game for the Steam Awards 2024! #BBVR #SteamAwards #SteamAwards2024

Code Is Only Part Of The Story Empathy might be the best programming hack

Though we might hire programmers primarily for their coding skills, it's worth keeping an eye out for other natural strengths and innate tendencies that can provide an enormous benefit to your team #programming #coding https://buff.ly/4g6DFuX

Also: yours-truly (and a bunch of the rest of dev team!) has a little voice-acting cameo in the game 🙂‍↔️

A truly multi-talented crew 💪

Some lovely comments about our previous game #BorderBotsVR

#gamedev

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😭

🎮👋 @gamerepublic.bsky.social

Unity Tutorial Projects | Unity Essentials | Unity Asset Store Browse our collection of free and purchasable tutorial projects. Learn the basics of game development in Unity, and download 2D and 3D example projects.

I'd start with Unity and use one of the free sample projects, start tweaking a few things here and there to see the effects, and then set yourself a challenge to add one new feature. Build outwards from there to explore new ideas and concepts.

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Reflection Probes IRL

Unity: Behave Yourself Frustrating beginners with style and grace

I'm happy to report that as of Unity Behavior v1.0.4 - the FindClosestWithTag node is now fixed and behaves as expected. Kudos to the devs for a quick turnaround! #unity3d #game-dev

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My appetite for learning how to make videos is incredibly small, but Shorts I can manage, and if I get an excuse to use gource too, then you better believe I'll take it ❤️

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#programming #gamedev

Grief Syrup