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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 26d

I've now added a workshop on November the 18th!

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · Aug 29

Game devs!
- want to make big changes closer to launch?
- scared of a buggy launch that might impact discoverability?
- like QA to do more exploratory testing, not repetitive checklists?

Join my virtual workshop on 1st Oct to learn about pragmatic test automation!

andrewfray.dev/workshops.html

Andrew Fray Automation Workshops

Learn about test automation in game development from one of the leading experts in the field

andrewfray.dev

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 2d

In case you had any doubts Skin Deep is a good game, here's an excerpt from its patch notes.

Fixed: mech glass wound bug
Piloting a mech and stepping on glass shards would sometimes result in getting glass stuck in Nina's feet. This was not intended, as Nina's feet are fictionally safe inside the mech. Using the mech to stomp on glass no longer applies glass wounds to Nina. Nina is now safe.

Fixed: pod departure logic
Under certain circumstances, the player was able to deposit all of the cats into the cat pod and then force the pod to leave before Nina could enter it. This resulted in what felt like a soft-lock where the pirate boarding ship never appeared.

Fixed: swordfish consumed by trash chute
If the player had a swordfish impaled in their body and then stood near a trash chute, the trash chute sometimes
"ate" the swordfish. This was not intended. It sort of made sense and was an interesting systemic behavior, but the interaction was a little too confusing. In this update, the trash chute now ignores impaled swordfishes.

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Brum Indies @brumindies.bsky.social · 4d

Our October in-person meetup is coming!

Join us in Cherry Reds (next to New St Station) for casual chats with other friendly gamedevs 👻

www.eventbrite.com/e/1652236597...

October Brum Indies Gamedev Meetup

A relaxed evening of chat and networking with other local gamedevs

www.eventbrite.com

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 3d

Tracery is sentient now

Shrikant Joshi @shrikant.bsky.social · 3d

That's a very dismissive construct of LLMs, IMHO. Yes they are stochastic and yes they are 'robotic' but here's a sentence for you to ponder:

Humans are just advanced language output algorithms that spit out returns based on input and their reference library.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 3d

I’d try a unity hub reinstall?

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 4d

idgaf man gimme those mincies

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 4d

I’m already 2 boxes down, have an M&S collection lined up next

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 13d

here we go lads

Sainsbury’s taste the difference mince pies

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 6d

Still only 150 pages in, but for a book about the executives of Disney, they sure is a lot of executives of Disney in this.

While it’s fun watching them bash each other over the head, I still have no idea if they’re actually any good at their jobs.

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 7d

...not french cleats tho, they're legit

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 7d

COROLLARY: or they're sponsored by bambu labs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NDx...

My Satisfying Workshop Transformation

YouTube video by Wintergatan

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 8d

oh god "stop working on that, it's going to be deprecated" already giving me the cold sweats

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 9d

I keep meaning to do a GDC sub that’s five micro talks, all showing off different debug menus

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 9d

Today I learned about GulfOfMexico, a normal programming language you can use to write normal programs with

github.com/TodePond/Gul...

Lu wilson @todepond.com · 10d

FEELING OF COMPUTING
LET'S TAKE
ESOTERIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SERIOUSLY

feelingof.com/episodes/078

78 • Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

feelingof.com

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 9d

my first workshop is this wednesday! there's still some space but you're probably more interested in the 18th november date:

Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · Aug 29

Game devs!
- want to make big changes closer to launch?
- scared of a buggy launch that might impact discoverability?
- like QA to do more exploratory testing, not repetitive checklists?

Join my virtual workshop on 1st Oct to learn about pragmatic test automation!

andrewfray.dev/workshops.html

Andrew Fray Automation Workshops

Learn about test automation in game development from one of the leading experts in the field

andrewfray.dev

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10d

I mean there’s ten pages about them changing architects and builders three times so eisner could build this

The dolphin and the swan hotels in Disney World, which look like what chat gpt would generate if you asked for “80s movie exec on coke gets to design hotel”

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 11d

Summary of the first 100 pages: everyone was on a lot of coke. Sorry, “exuberantly creative”

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 11d

Reminder: applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant close tomorrow evening! (23:59 Pacific Daylight Time)
grants.draknek.org
Good luck to everyone applying :)

Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant

The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.

grants.draknek.org

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 12d

From the back, yeah. You make anything black with red accents and it looks better, though.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 12d

We used to be a country

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 12d

It’s SO bad

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 12d

Am I really really old or is this just terrible. I’m not even a car guy but I just saw some it in person and felt the urge to kill.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 13d

Are you going to the deifenbunker?! Like fallout but real life, which is always fun and never existential.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 14d

how can you easily catch bugs like missing textures, bad physics layers, and dangling narrative trees?

if you can fix a problem by changing assets at edit time, you can probably make an asset test for it, and stop the problem ever coming back.

but how do you implement an asset test in #unreal?

🧵

a close up of a woman 's face with the words alien earth written on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words alien earth written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 13d

Ah ok great, “design patterns” is great for architecture design, but also game programming patterns for more specific games stuff. Have a look at some kind of functional language like Clojure or Haskell too: that will teach you a lot about design in procedural langs like c# too.

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