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(Andrew) Roper

@arndreth.bsky.social

Turning caffeine into code, via questionable osmosis. Freelance Programmer (Gameplay, Tools, Optimisation &c.)▫️Let's chat! www.andrewroper.co.uk ▫️Formerly at Payload Studios, Spilt Milk Studios, Bithell Games, Sigtrap GamesAid & SpecialEffect Ambassador

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Into the Slimy Mines - Official Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by Wales Interactive Into the Slimy Mines - Official Reveal Trailer

We're reuniting with @ant-workshop.com to bring you Into the Slimy Mines, a tower defense roguelike with a card twist!

You can expect...

⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves
🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes
⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES?

youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q

05.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 14    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 4
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Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.

21.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 2012    🔁 501    💬 35    📌 16

Opening Animal Crossing for the first time in... maybe 3 years, and petrified of:
- The potential whole island coverage of weeds
- Losing my favourite villagers
- Nook discovering Capitalism 2.0 and every house is now a Bank.

21.01.2026 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
18.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK.

'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon!

Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you.

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

14.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 223    🔁 115    💬 10    📌 12

a fab opportunity to be part of something wonderful!

09.01.2026 09:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The number of times I've checked and re checked is innumerous

07.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A still from Total Recall Movie, with Arnold Scwhwarzenegger explaining "You are not you, you are me"

A still from Total Recall Movie, with Arnold Scwhwarzenegger explaining "You are not you, you are me"

Everytime I go to rebase on git and remembering which way round 'yours' and 'theirs' actually is in a rebase.

07.01.2026 21:33 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's hard to put into words just how much of an impact Patrick has had in my life over the years. He'll be sorely missed.

Eyes up, Guardian💔💔

05.01.2026 18:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh i just looked it up. It's being able to edit any photo or video with AI. What in the actual fuck.

Having a nice chill one here too, mostly just shite tv, wine and cheese right now.

26.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh another Migration? Wonder what caused it this time.

Hope you've had a good festive period!

26.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@kanaratron.bsky.social I'm guessing your repost of the lists is the reason i had a surge in followers 😂

26.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

s e k t o r i

24.12.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As you vault, you realise you just played your 39th system, and fall into a pile of dice

16.12.2025 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I see we're at an impasse.

Give me a DC12 athletics check

16.12.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kat

16.12.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And no matter what you do to prevent updates, it still finds a way to update.

Before I uninstalled the update I had a functional space-heater as a CPU hitting 100C for no reason

25.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're suddenly getting a load of CPU/High-fan usage on windows startup for no reason, and CPU load is looking low in task-manager - Uninstalling update KB5068861 in Windows Updates resolved it for me. Something in that update is making the CPU go screwy (Intel i5 14600KF for me)

25.11.2025 10:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

don't forget getting hydrated

12.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My fav local coffee shop is also a plant shop which is dangerous.

12.11.2025 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

11.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 2330    🔁 528    💬 27    📌 56

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

12.11.2025 03:25 — 👍 6798    🔁 2396    💬 68    📌 52

Coffee machines are great, Mike.

12.11.2025 10:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

11.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 2119    🔁 1076    💬 16    📌 68

not my fault you don't like the answer.

06.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

join us in unreal/c++ land with macros.

06.11.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖

Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.

Get in there!

💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

04.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 208    🔁 98    💬 10    📌 48

where are the trees?

02.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

don't call me out like this

31.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel like I am forever cursed to walk into something that two-shot kills me in Caves of Qud

30.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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