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Alex Darby // darbotron πŸ›Ή

@darbotron.bsky.social

Tech/Design director. Human, husband, parent, skateboarder. Gamedev since '96. Company founder. BAFTA member & winner. GameDevHeroes Programming Hero 2019. Co-creator DJ Hero. #UKGI Cthulhu fhtagn ;,; www.darbotron.com www.linkedin.com/in/darbotron

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A photo of a magazine article. The title reads "Cinematography is not just for Cutscenes'

A photo of a magazine article. The title reads "Cinematography is not just for Cutscenes'

In the latest hot-off-the-press edition of @debugmag.com I'm talking about gameplay cinematography.

08.02.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

this is very exciting news :D thanks Sarah!

08.02.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that sounds perfect. I'm very much a doodler / competent amateur at arting but very much like the idea of being able to connect the wacom thingy to my PC - that's really the main thing that I'm missing from the ipad pro πŸ‘

08.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, I use procreate on iPad which is very much not like Photoshop.

08.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ahhh. nice. that sounds cool af. how does csp run on it?

when I last tried it on an ipad pro it felt like the hardware struggled to run csp (though that was one of the 1st releases of it to be fair ..)

08.02.2026 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that is surely just some crazy wide angle nonsense? your forehead was more like a three head last time I saw you on a zoom call!

08.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

what software are you using on it?

I was intrigued by these but have an iPad Pro (it's the only apple device I own) & whilst it's great, apple are evil, & I miss the wacom pen.

Looks like wacom might be adding firmware support to use movink tablets as PC screens via usb too so am very interested πŸ˜…

08.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Squid Bits: That's a Nice Hat will be out in June and I'm very excited! This collects a whole bunch of SB comics from the last ten years as well as a whole new story featuring the Doodles!

08.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
It’s a photo of me with red lipstick wearing my Joanne Zebra jumper. Across me is this text: Reminder that I have 7 specials available.
Chatterbox - my YouTube channel
Thoroughly Modern Millican - my YT channel
Home Bird - my YT channel
Outsider - my website
Control Enthusiast - my website
Bobby Dazzler - my website
Late Bloomer - my website

It’s a photo of me with red lipstick wearing my Joanne Zebra jumper. Across me is this text: Reminder that I have 7 specials available. Chatterbox - my YouTube channel Thoroughly Modern Millican - my YT channel Home Bird - my YT channel Outsider - my website Control Enthusiast - my website Bobby Dazzler - my website Late Bloomer - my website

Reminder that I have 7 Stand up specials available. They’re all either on my YouTube channel or on my website. Just in case you need a laugh. How many have you seen?

07.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

This is me kicking off a brand new PC Gamer feature by talking about the importance of Snipping Tool.

07.02.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh Anisa. I'm so sorry. Cancer is fucking shit. πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”

07.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

love this! 11/10

07.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Finneas and Billie

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

06.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 40065    πŸ” 9204    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 273

omfg. That is amazing. Photos please

07.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oooh! very business. much profession.

06.02.2026 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

first political in 2 decades who has made me feel like meaningful change is possible. I really really hope that we can find enough people to vote for the goodies to stop the baddies.

06.02.2026 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hahaha! "Hotdogs are tacos" is the best sandwich take I've ever heard

06.02.2026 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy? Apparent collapse of Nvidia–OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI’s expansion

Looks like maybe the AI circle jerkers have finally started to get achey arms? πŸ˜…

06.02.2026 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok this slaps.

05.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today I finally got annoyed enough by Excel constantly telling me about One Drive (which I have disabled) that I googled how to stop it telling me that. Turns out you can go into Options/Save and uncheck some boxes.

05.02.2026 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Seconded. Have been made redundant 4 times in 29 years. It would be more, but I've (mostly) been working for myself since 2014.

05.02.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know this is a profoundly unoriginal take, but this is why Shakespeare is still awesome: the times change, but people don’t. When performed, rather than read, his work is a portal demonstrating the unity of humanity across time and space. There is comfort and tragedy in that reality.

05.02.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

04.02.2026 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 24181    πŸ” 6173    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 159
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

04.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 19409    πŸ” 8797    πŸ’¬ 698    πŸ“Œ 718

oh ffs.

03.02.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Completely agree, Wonderman is πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³.

Also, for real though, Earth's Mightiest Heroes is the best (non comic) superhero media ever*.

(* Yes. I realise it's blasphemy, but I think it's better than Batman: the Animated Series)

03.02.2026 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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03.02.2026 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My advice is, right, if you want to make ONE big game to begin with, before you even consider that, work on 5 small bus rides to just outside the woods, walk into the woods, keep walking, stay there, become one with the trees. And just never make any videogames.

02.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who's envious of the socks I got for Xmas?

02.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 17507    πŸ” 751    πŸ’¬ 1243    πŸ“Œ 96
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More people despair over β€˜broken Britain’ than during financial crisis Poll finds dissatisfaction at state of the nation higher than after 2008 crash, with Reform voters most likely to believe UK is in decline

The only reason Farage is telling you Britain is broken is so in the same breath he can tell you Reform will fix it.
Britain is not broken

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

01.02.2026 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 422    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 10

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