Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹
@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.darbotron.com
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Almost at 20,000 followers! 🎉 To celebrate, here's 10 copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 you can claim (see bottom of page). If you can, please either share or follow so I can finally wave goodbye to that other dread social platform 👋
kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...
kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...
Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 by Kenney
Includes 60,000+ game assets including 2D sprites, 3D models and more!
kenney.itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Almost at 20,000 followers! 🎉 To celebrate, here's 10 copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 you can claim (see bottom of page). If you can, please either share or follow so I can finally wave goodbye to that other dread social platform 👋
kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...
kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Part 2 of my procjam diary!
This time its wonky mesh generation, triplanar pseudonoise and even more cheats!
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
This time its wonky mesh generation, triplanar pseudonoise and even more cheats!
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
ProcJam 25 Diary - p2 a 3D dungeon
This is the second part of my 2025 procjam diary. The previous…
www.nullpointer.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Part 2 of my procjam diary!
This time its wonky mesh generation, triplanar pseudonoise and even more cheats!
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
This time its wonky mesh generation, triplanar pseudonoise and even more cheats!
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
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Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with?
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with?
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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We’re just normal men
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We’re just normal men
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Was hoping to get the next part of this done for today, but it might have to wait until tomorrow now. However if you are curious, you can still try a simple version of the dungeon generator below.
I finally started doing some stuff for #procjam It's slight revamp of an unfinished SCP bunker generator I started years ago.. As with most things pcg it started with a dungeon generator.!
You can read about it here, and try out the WebGL version
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
You can read about it here, and try out the WebGL version
www.nullpointer.co.uk/procjam-25-d...
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Was hoping to get the next part of this done for today, but it might have to wait until tomorrow now. However if you are curious, you can still try a simple version of the dungeon generator below.
Drop some HEADWEAR
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Drop some HEADWEAR
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Kirby Airriders looks kinda fun. Don’t wanna buy it, but I wish I could rent it from the video store for the weekend.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Kirby Airriders looks kinda fun. Don’t wanna buy it, but I wish I could rent it from the video store for the weekend.
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I love it when everybody is talking about something horrifying but no sign of the source is on my feed, it's like using the gravity of unseen objects to make speculation about bodies in space
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I love it when everybody is talking about something horrifying but no sign of the source is on my feed, it's like using the gravity of unseen objects to make speculation about bodies in space
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
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The Gill story was 5 or 6 stories in on the news last night, after the cricket.
Today, nothing at all.
How, I wonder, would this have been reported if the leader of Labour in Wales was sentenced to 10.5 years for taking Russian bribes ?
I thought Reform were a ‘government in waiting’, according
Today, nothing at all.
How, I wonder, would this have been reported if the leader of Labour in Wales was sentenced to 10.5 years for taking Russian bribes ?
I thought Reform were a ‘government in waiting’, according
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The Gill story was 5 or 6 stories in on the news last night, after the cricket.
Today, nothing at all.
How, I wonder, would this have been reported if the leader of Labour in Wales was sentenced to 10.5 years for taking Russian bribes ?
I thought Reform were a ‘government in waiting’, according
Today, nothing at all.
How, I wonder, would this have been reported if the leader of Labour in Wales was sentenced to 10.5 years for taking Russian bribes ?
I thought Reform were a ‘government in waiting’, according
...aaand presumably the muppets who voted for it are now backing the party of the tweed wearing racist buffoon who will make it worse if he gets the chance.
(I'm not saying that the current govt are doing a great job either 😭)
(I'm not saying that the current govt are doing a great job either 😭)
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
...aaand presumably the muppets who voted for it are now backing the party of the tweed wearing racist buffoon who will make it worse if he gets the chance.
(I'm not saying that the current govt are doing a great job either 😭)
(I'm not saying that the current govt are doing a great job either 😭)
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
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The new economy is a closed loop where the same trillion dollars is spent over and over again by one of seven companies.
Anthropic will pay Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Microsoft and Nvidia can pay Anthropic
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure capacity in new deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The new economy is a closed loop where the same trillion dollars is spent over and over again by one of seven companies.
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A 'texture atlas' is where you take the textures for several objects in a scene and combine them into a single set of maps.
The reason we do this is so that all the objects that use the atlas can be rendered in one call, rather than as dozens of separate calls, and with no state changes.
But...
The reason we do this is so that all the objects that use the atlas can be rendered in one call, rather than as dozens of separate calls, and with no state changes.
But...
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A 'texture atlas' is where you take the textures for several objects in a scene and combine them into a single set of maps.
The reason we do this is so that all the objects that use the atlas can be rendered in one call, rather than as dozens of separate calls, and with no state changes.
But...
The reason we do this is so that all the objects that use the atlas can be rendered in one call, rather than as dozens of separate calls, and with no state changes.
But...
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
Post one of your favourite 90s comedies....
Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!
Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Post one of your favourite 90s comedies....
Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!
Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!
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Hope remains!
Come on authors, we're all rooting for you!
Come on authors, we're all rooting for you!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Hope remains!
Come on authors, we're all rooting for you!
Come on authors, we're all rooting for you!
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I get that shit for free, yo.
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I get that shit for free, yo.
Ridge Racer & Parappa.
The rest are all rubbish.
The rest are all rubbish.
You can only pick two. The others disappear forever.
Which two are you keepin'?!?!?!
(I know this is a lot for a Friday, but I saw it... and now you have to, too!)
Which two are you keepin'?!?!?!
(I know this is a lot for a Friday, but I saw it... and now you have to, too!)
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ridge Racer & Parappa.
The rest are all rubbish.
The rest are all rubbish.
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