Gareth Fox

As a man of a more compact stature, I love exit row seating on airplanes. Everone wants to be tall until you can't stretch your legs for three hours 😆

It's impossible to explain to my kid's friends that watching brainrot on these platforms is just diluting the real content and rewarding and retraining slop factories. I can't even blame them; AI content is weapons-grade dopamine. We just don't have natural defenses against this crap

New filter idea: "LLM Epoch". Only shows content published before 1 December 2022: ChatGPT's launch. Why do we need this? Check YouTube on any topic - the first several pages are AI slop.

I'm not one for self promotion, but I'm very excited to be a speaker at the upcoming SXSW Sydney. I'll be presenting a talk called "The Parasite and the Half-Baked Cake" - about how creative constraints helped to guide and shape our quirky game about a giant headlouse. October 13-19 in Sydney 🇦🇺

Samsung, I don't know how to say this delicately. You make great phones. But... I don't want your bloat apps. I don't want Bixby in my life, and I'm deeply suspicious of anyone who does. I'm never going to use Samsung Health.

I love the hardware. But for me it's only physical. I'm sorry.

Your storm supplies are spot on 😄

Ah yes, the nightly mating call of the critically endangered 𝐵𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠. The male of the species uses roaring V8s and squealing tyres in urban areas to attract a mate. Unfortunately, the sound only attracts other 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑖. Auckland used to be home to thousands; now a solitary few remain.

Hot pink is so in. Let's write a petition

I know I am very late to the party here, but as a lifelong trekkie, Strange New Worlds is so seriously good.

It's such a perfectly measured take on serious themes and genuinely interesting sci-fi while also embracing the inherent goofiness of the franchise. Season 2, Episode 9 🤣🎶

Seeking feedback on art can be a pretty rough experience. And if you're going to multiple sources, that can feel like you're eating a steady diet of criticism. Lucky for me, I have experience. I'm not just a game dev - I'm an amateur novelist too! I'm not even sure I know what praise tastes like 🤣🤣🤣

I should be wiser than this

A loaf of sourdough bread on baking paper

Look it's not software or games related but I want you to know that my latest sourdough loaf came out pretty okayish.

I love just scrolling bsky on indie dev tags first thing in the morning. Pages and pages of talent, skill, and passion. It's better than a coffee for an energy boost!

But, I mean I have the coffee too. I'm not crazy

Twitch Twitch is the world

Despite working on horror games as a genre, I don't think I have it in me to play Dreamcore, creeping dread and wrong otherworldly spaces ick me out. Lucky for me I don't have to, I can watch streamers like @vanoradarkwolf.bsky.social play it instead!

www.twitch.tv/videos/23696...

Amazing news! Our Kickstarter is now LIVE! Back us at www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...

Coming soon: Headlice: A Reverse Horror Game Pilot human meatsuits and escape The Coffee Corp in our absurd, chaotic game. Support our final push! Demo out now

We are very excited to announce that our Kickstarter goes live within the next 24 hours!

You can follow the campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...

Two more bunguins made. There are now about 30 of these gorgeous little abominations in the world! Mostly I give them to friends, colleagues, kids. It's my most satisfying non-digital hobby ❤️

We've reached the point of the year where the camera shop on lower George St in Sydney sends me their annual Merry Christmas message in fond remembrance of the single lens cloth I bought from them in 2011. Very heartfelt and personal.

Right back at ya, mailchimp list. 🎄❤️🎄

Our business still maintains a Xitter account, because with PR reach, "free" is a smart price to pay.

The post quality on that platform seems to have taken a massive dive lately, borderline content, bots worshipping Elon, and a lot of weird "anti-woke" reposts. Dead Internet Theory maybe?

I'm looking out for new contracts, and I've already found a couple of gems. Wanted: entry/mid level developer with 6+y AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, .net, html5 css Vue/React, postgres, REST/GraphQL, terraform, ci/cd. My brother in Christ, that is not an entry level job, that is a whole IT department

I'm looking at the docs for the bluesky API, but all the passwords show up as "******", is this a known bug? #bash.org

No, no, no. You scream in to the VOID. The abyss is strictly for staring in to. PSA or something

Every now and then I peek in to the dev cave at Bunguin Games and it's the developers asking eachother stuff like "would the crab wear a fedora or a trilby?" and i can't believe this is our actual jobs 🦀❤️❤️

Also, if you are a game dev and would like {yourname}.develops.games while you find a really cool subdomain of your own, DM me - I'm happy to share that one around. You can change handles easily later on and all previous @ will still point at you.

one thing that makes @bsky.app pretty cool: AT Protocol support. You can use a custom domain as your username such as @bunguin.games . Great for branding and auth/identity. Article here: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

YouTube video by Valve Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

Just finished watching the documentary for the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2. Fascinating behind-the-story take on one of the best games ever made, and the time at Valve when they brought Steam in to being. The secret? Passion, smarts, talent, and failure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjN...

YouTube video by Unity Making Waves with DREDGE - Black Salt Games Creator Spotlight

Caught a Unity developer stream this morning with the makers of Dredge (@blacksaltgames.bsky.social). Love watching those nerds talk nerdy. Come for the fish, stay for the wave mesh deformation math www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awr5...

I need to know what to call the twee... x.. messages on here. In the interim, it is very important to me that I show you my cat.