Sean Davies

Blue sky invented the link because I sausage fingered a full stop I think - it was this game fwiw

My first PS1 game abused portals as a batching mechanism in a whole number of surprising ways to solve sorting problems that would otherwise be beyond the capabilities of the CPU. Amazing what you can do if nobody remembers to tell you it's not possible :)

Different use case to your solution here, but one of my favourite early stage game prototypes was a wireframe engine with portal occlusion (essentially sorted wireframe but only at the room level). There is something deeply satisfying about super lo-fi graphics with just one surprising trick :)

Ouch

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Even my wife has never really understood what I do. She regularly describes me as "King of the nerds - you know with maths and that" which honestly is probably better than I can do given an hour :)

Context: one of my most memorable days out was when I accidentally walked into a pub where a wake was happening wearing a shirt that read "We are all going to die but I intend to deserve it". I had a load of lovely chats with people who started aggro but realised I was genuine and a little mortifed

I like to think he knows this and would love you to have called him on it.

Hack the planet! :)

Can't like more than once but you've provided me a lot more dopamines than that so please accept this gift of 1000 dopamines. (979 of these dopamines are for phonogram season 2 tbh -it's still great)

The bus stop toy shop in Largs, Scotland.

Proud geek dad moment this week. Conversation with my 10 yo daughter about Percy Jackson spiralled into us buying a big pile of Magic cards and having a very lovely day being big ol' nerds. Big thanks to the lovely Bus Stop Toy Shop in Largs for spending time with us and enabling my nonsense :) #MTG

I loved my degree and have absolutely used all the maths and theory over the years, but it didn't make me better than the self taught engineers, just different - which is what diversity is about after all.

100% I learnt more practical knowledge in my first 6 months in industry than in my whole degree and all of my mentors were self taught. Arbitrary barriers for smart people to join the industry help no-one except possibly the universities.

I've been working on apprenticeships at Rare for exactly this reason. Economic diversity is visibly missing in AAA at least. If I can spare someone the 35k degree tax to get into the industry and pay them that can only help. I bet on my team turning a smart candidate into a good engineer in 2 years.

I think this started in the late 90s. Pretty sure I was part of the first intake at Gremlin that had a degree as a CV requirement for engineers. I remember Phil Rankin in particular being horrified at that as most of the existing staff didn't have degrees as experience had always been preferred.

Or to put it another way - even an infinite speedup in building a thing makes no material difference if it's the wrong thing...

Amen. I am deeply suspicious of anyone who believes the amount of time spent inputting code is a limiting factor to how quickly a feature can be developed. They almost certainly haven't spent enough time thinking

Looks like Parallax Occlusion Mapping to me TBH :)

Open stitch notebook with custom butterfly book cloth covers. Stitching is in purple embroidery floss in a Coptic stitch style

Inside of the notebook with a tiny watercolour painting palette clipped to the top of the page

My 10 year old daughter resting in the park. Baseball cap reads "Goblin of the Month". Face indicates she was smiling till she spotted the camera :)

Handmade coptic stitch watercolour sketchbook with world's tiniest palette. Present for my wonderful daughter, now inexplicably TEN years old... @ginnydi.com her "goblin of the month" cap is favourite present this year :) #handmadegifts #newskills

No downside detected - let's go?

Zakalwe is the chairmaker

Me, my wife and my Daughter triumphant at the end of a very muddy run

Family holding hands wading waist deep though a river

Family running across the finish line holding hands. Big smiles all round

Muddy muddy people on their way to get a shower :)

Sundays are for recovering from Jet Lag. Family wolf run is the perfect cure :) #familyfun #wolfrun

This sounds great - where do I sign up :)

What really is "in scope" if not a provocation to do more...

Agreed

Hard agree. We do lots of different tests but honestly Asset Validators are the easiest win. Bad texture formats, typos in data tables, missing files in complex asset chains etc have stolen thousands of hours of valuable artist and designer time on projects I've worked on and they just go away..

Harry and Chris holding up the Sky Team Box. The picture is framed with board games.

We're LIVE, playing Sky Team, raising money for PASIC - a charity for kids with Cancer! twitch.tv/DaggersMcTimbers

So close to £200 - please donate! www.justgiving.com/page/harriet...

Sometimes you just have to get overexcited for Monday dinner :)

Fun with simple materials today. A few sheets of paper, a scrap of leather and some thread turned into a little sketch journal. Lots of things learned but not bad for a first effort :)

Hard agree. It's never been a goal to magically fit in to the neurotypical world without understanding what was going on. Every single gain I've made fitting in has been through hard work in understanding why people think differently and all of them have broadened and improved my ability to be me