Chris Murphy

Oh, cool! That's great to hear it was helpful. And, yeah, I'm always happy to have a bit of a chat with local Unreal devs. The number of features we have checkboxes for that solve minor polish issues is pretty high and missing those for submission only to find out later is.. uhh.. painful.

If you're going for this with an Unreal Engine project and you want some last-minute technical tips for polish advice, feel free to hit me up!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

One really interesting thing that seems to be pretty consistent is that the Steam Deck has actually provided a definitive min spec for PC game developers. Historically this was a bit more vibes based for a lot of folks and it's great to see something so standardised.

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent.

Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.

Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

New in UE5-Main, AccumulationDOF, A close to physically accurate DOF implementation specifically for production renders!!
And damn it works far beyond what I expected, can focus THROUGH transparencies correctly! Into Reflections, no foreground artefacts!
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX

Developing Large Procedural Systems with Low Friction and Fast Generation (Presented by Epic Games) | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming The GDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.

I'll be presenting with the awesome @highlyspammable.bsky.social
at the GDC26!! Come say hi :D

Developing Large Procedural Systems with Low Friction and Fast Generation (Presented by Epic Games) #GDC2026 #PCG #UE

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Bone Temple was not only great, but it somehow improved the parts of 28 Years Later that I had a beef with. Rare to see a sequel that improves the predecessor like that. Go see it!

You can write up some yellow paint posts and have full confidence they'll still be relevant until the heat death of the universe. (I can't find a gif from The Simpsons of how does it stay up with the news like that, but you get it)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Like.. I'm not saying he hasn't because he doesn't know how to do it, but.. Ari... people are talking.

You know.. you could feed the breathing information from a metasound to the sim stage to make them sync up perfectly..

Blood and water could be done in a single pass with just one value controlling type.

You could use a sim stage for breath fog on the inside..

Oi, this is rad.

a man in a white jacket and black hat is standing in a field and says `` we were on the verge of greatness . '' ALT: a man in a white jacket and black hat is standing in a field and says `` we were on the verge of greatness . ''

Was pretty keen to try Gears Tactics on the Legion Go as a successor for my Xcom addiction but it turns out it needs to login on launch which means you can't play it on flights. Really thought Xbox Offline Mode would've solved that, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Not sure who could use this info but it turns out that Intel Connectivity Performance Suite was lowering my laptop internet speeds by 95% due to "Prioritization" being enabled and.. bad, I guess.

Yeaaaaah. The new one is a full reboot and they called it MK1.

Playing Mortal Kombat 1 and... the story mode is kind of incredible? They really just made a movie where you hang out and then play the fights every now and then as a treat. Acting and facial animation are great, effects are great.. they just.. kinda knocked it out of the park.

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam

This is where we're at now.

Can't help but wonder how good my Grandma would have been at visualising UV maps, given they're basically just sewing patterns.

Crazy. I’m tinkering with a small screen for VR featuring octopods. And while trying to push the interactivity they became fully physicalized using Physics Control in @unrealengine.bsky.social
Now I exchanged their movement also with forces and the result feels very believable.
(Don’t do this IRL)

These folks are lovely people. Throw them a vote. It takes like 2 seconds!

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

Finally got around to trying Star Wars Outlaws and it's great! It's a really solid stealth game where I can be a scruffy-looking-nerfherder and get up to shenanigans across the galaxy. I'd heard weird stuff when it launched but I'm really glad I'm giving it a try! Team did a wonderful job.

Triarchy on Steam Sail your ship, explore islands, fight monsters, choose your abilities, and craft legendary gear to hunt for deadly bosses. Play Triarchy your way! Activate Boss Challenge Modes or enable Assists to s...

Digital Confectioners are some of my favourite devs and their new title looks absolutely rad. Can't wait. store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/...

If you're testing a multiplayer game, Unreal has a great "Allow late joining" experimental feature under Editor Preferences. It adds an "Add another client" button that is shown when you run the game.

#UnrealEngine

I lived off a partner for years - essentially - while working on Unfortunate Spacemen. It makes getting up in front of a crowd and talking about "my journey to success" feel priviledged and fake.

But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.

Dylan is a superb Unreal TA and every day he goes unhired I lose a little faith in humanity.