Adam Rhys Boulton
@adambysea.bsky.social
PhD Survivor and Principal Technical Designer @ Creative Assembly
Working on a sequel to Alien Isolation
Previously attempted to make games at Hangar 13
Working on a sequel to Alien Isolation
Previously attempted to make games at Hangar 13
It's pretty funny how we went from "the internet is great, if one node goes down we can just reroute so there's no single point of failure that can take out half the internet" to "lol, half the internet is down because of AWS"
"again"
"again"
October 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's pretty funny how we went from "the internet is great, if one node goes down we can just reroute so there's no single point of failure that can take out half the internet" to "lol, half the internet is down because of AWS"
"again"
"again"
Ah I see it's that time that comes around every few years, "Can I make it past the half way point of a Between the Buried and Me album before I turn it off"
September 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Ah I see it's that time that comes around every few years, "Can I make it past the half way point of a Between the Buried and Me album before I turn it off"
need another quiet saturday night like this one again soon
September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
need another quiet saturday night like this one again soon
Fun fact: as a technical designer, GAS can stand for both Gameplay Ability System and Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
August 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Fun fact: as a technical designer, GAS can stand for both Gameplay Ability System and Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Grabbed a JHS 3 Reverb Pedal.
I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.
I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.
August 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Grabbed a JHS 3 Reverb Pedal.
I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.
I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.
Giving the ol earplugs a workout
August 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Giving the ol earplugs a workout
today is a momentous day as we have finally paid off our car
it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people
it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people
August 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
today is a momentous day as we have finally paid off our car
it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people
it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people
looking at the new games workshop logo and for some reason wondering if bolt thrower ever reformed they'd use this logo
July 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
looking at the new games workshop logo and for some reason wondering if bolt thrower ever reformed they'd use this logo
Moved into our house this week. It's great, but: lightswitches. WTF.
"Let me just turn the hall light on"
"Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"
"Let me just turn the hall light on"
"Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"
July 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Moved into our house this week. It's great, but: lightswitches. WTF.
"Let me just turn the hall light on"
"Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"
"Let me just turn the hall light on"
"Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"
against my better judgement I read a games tech thread on resetera today and learned that because a lot of people don't know what anti aliasing is that games don't actually need it
June 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
against my better judgement I read a games tech thread on resetera today and learned that because a lot of people don't know what anti aliasing is that games don't actually need it
I do solemnly swear that if I ever get to start my own game studio in the future, I will make a cool modestly scoped game as a foundation and not promise to redfine the entire industry with my quintuple A hubris
June 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I do solemnly swear that if I ever get to start my own game studio in the future, I will make a cool modestly scoped game as a foundation and not promise to redfine the entire industry with my quintuple A hubris
One thing in the game price discourse that makes me laugh is pointing out how N64 games were, and that they're cheaper after inflation than games are today. As if they live in the alternate universe where wages even remotely kept up with inflation and we aren't all significantly poorer than then.
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
One thing in the game price discourse that makes me laugh is pointing out how N64 games were, and that they're cheaper after inflation than games are today. As if they live in the alternate universe where wages even remotely kept up with inflation and we aren't all significantly poorer than then.
I don't really have a horse in this "dev team size" race that's going on at the moment, but I'm happy that all of the most annoying people on the internet have something new that they don't really understand to be really annoying about.
June 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I don't really have a horse in this "dev team size" race that's going on at the moment, but I'm happy that all of the most annoying people on the internet have something new that they don't really understand to be really annoying about.
sorry random toad player, but lets be honest you probably deserved it
June 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
sorry random toad player, but lets be honest you probably deserved it
The letters from the car finance people are incredible.
"hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!"
Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it
"hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!"
Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it
June 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The letters from the car finance people are incredible.
"hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!"
Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it
"hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!"
Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it
Lots of amazing stuff in Mario Kart World, but so far the online races feel like a massive miss to me. It's basically like the only thing that actually matters is how close to the finish line you are when your turn to get battered by 8 billion items and sent to last place comes around.
June 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Lots of amazing stuff in Mario Kart World, but so far the online races feel like a massive miss to me. It's basically like the only thing that actually matters is how close to the finish line you are when your turn to get battered by 8 billion items and sent to last place comes around.
Reposted by Adam Rhys Boulton
Our team has some open roles. Are you up to the challenge?
➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers
➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers
June 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Our team has some open roles. Are you up to the challenge?
➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers
➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers
every day I tell myself linkedin can't get dumber and every day I am wrong
May 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
every day I tell myself linkedin can't get dumber and every day I am wrong
"per artificial analysis"? I see the AI grift has moved onto "our bullshit generator can generate bullshit more quickly than everyone else's bullshit generator", presumably because like everyone else they don't want to admit that they don't know how to make it stop generating bullshit
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"per artificial analysis"? I see the AI grift has moved onto "our bullshit generator can generate bullshit more quickly than everyone else's bullshit generator", presumably because like everyone else they don't want to admit that they don't know how to make it stop generating bullshit
Reposted by Adam Rhys Boulton
Every interview with Yvette Cooper
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Every interview with Yvette Cooper
Reposted by Adam Rhys Boulton
I think the GTA delay is good for almost everybody making games. Nobody has to compete with them for mindshare in 2025. Folks act like money flowing into "the industry" affects others, but it doesn't. This delay only affects GTA fans, who can wait, and take-two investors, who I don't care about.
GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead www.eurogamer.net/gta-6s-delay...
May 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think the GTA delay is good for almost everybody making games. Nobody has to compete with them for mindshare in 2025. Folks act like money flowing into "the industry" affects others, but it doesn't. This delay only affects GTA fans, who can wait, and take-two investors, who I don't care about.
I like the way these achievement names are written like linkedin job titles
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I like the way these achievement names are written like linkedin job titles
doom wads, where the answer to the question of "what does this do" is always "8000 revenants, 12 archviles and a cyberdemon"
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
doom wads, where the answer to the question of "what does this do" is always "8000 revenants, 12 archviles and a cyberdemon"
cool feature of the oblivion remaster, if you max all the sliders you get JD Vance
April 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
cool feature of the oblivion remaster, if you max all the sliders you get JD Vance
wow the Oblivion remaster is 120GB? I can't believe the devs didn't press the magic "compress all the assets losslessly" button, smh
April 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
wow the Oblivion remaster is 120GB? I can't believe the devs didn't press the magic "compress all the assets losslessly" button, smh