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Tom Halligan

@hallihax.bsky.social

Game dev, programmer, author of Not A Robot https://tomhalligan.substack.com/

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

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

youtu.be/ueM50O5-hhI?...

24.08.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

30.07.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€“ 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

www.sciencefocus.com/news/earth-t...

13.07.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

29.05.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

24.05.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.05.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œThis Is the dumbest code I've ever seen. The person who wrote this is both an idiot and a psychopathโ€

git blame

โ€œOhโ€

18.05.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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?

18.05.2025 00:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

buff.ly/aZh6tDh

#unity3d #unity #gamedev

16.05.2025 00:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

12.04.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!"

28.01.2025 01:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

๐Ÿ™ƒ

Pointless! Just script it

20.01.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

20.01.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.01.2025 09:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

09.12.2024 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

09.12.2024 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

04.12.2024 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If your dev team has a decent writer, then you will rarely regret fostering their talent! #programming #development #gamedev https://buff.ly/4igRjxx

01.12.2024 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Border Bots VR - Nominate Border Bots VR in the Steam Awards 2024! - Steam News Vote for us for 'VR Game of the Year' ๐Ÿค–โค๏ธ

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

30.11.2024 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

26.11.2024 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also: yours-truly (and a bunch of the rest of dev team!) has a little voice-acting cameo in the game ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ

A truly multi-talented crew ๐Ÿ’ช

22.11.2024 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some lovely comments about our previous game #BorderBotsVR

#gamedev

www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/s/NVC...

22.11.2024 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ˜ญ

21.11.2024 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘‹ @gamerepublic.bsky.social

21.11.2024 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

assetstore.unity.com/essentials/t...

20.11.2024 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reflection Probes IRL

17.11.2024 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

https://buff.ly/3YSfzOS

17.11.2024 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โค๏ธ

tomhalligan.substack.com/p/dear-stude...

#programming #gamedev

15.11.2024 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grief Syrup

14.11.2024 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No idea what I'm doing with video, but nonetheless, I made a thing!

13.11.2024 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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