David Smith
@trigpointdave.bsky.social
Director at Trigpoint Games. Unreal Engine Programmer (porting), Game Developer, Trail Runner.
https://trigpoint.games/
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David Smith
@trigpointdave.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Video posts are here! So here's my finish of a (hilly, rainy, boggy, windy) 47 mile Ultramarathon around Lake Windermere from yesterday! Hardest thing I've ever done.
We used to build things in this country
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We used to build things in this country
*flying with the snowman when a plane gets in the way*
HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
December 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
*flying with the snowman when a plane gets in the way*
HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
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Okay this is some strong as hell maths.
Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out.
If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out.
If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
Okay, it's that time again: you can currently buy all available Size Five games on Steam at 75% off. That's six brillo games for less than a tenner! What a festive treat!
December 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Okay this is some strong as hell maths.
Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out.
If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out.
If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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Back in 2011, ROUTINE & ETHER ONE were ideas yet to be realised - our teams hung out on Skype, dreaming up worlds together.
14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved.
Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved.
Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Back in 2011, ROUTINE & ETHER ONE were ideas yet to be realised - our teams hung out on Skype, dreaming up worlds together.
14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved.
Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved.
Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
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> Booting ROUTINE…
> Initializing lunar base exploration…
> Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam.
Only one way forward. ▌
► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
> Initializing lunar base exploration…
> Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam.
Only one way forward. ▌
► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
> Booting ROUTINE…
> Initializing lunar base exploration…
> Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam.
Only one way forward. ▌
► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
> Initializing lunar base exploration…
> Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam.
Only one way forward. ▌
► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
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hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation.
noplayersonline.net/statement
noplayersonline.net/statement
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation.
noplayersonline.net/statement
noplayersonline.net/statement
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I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea
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MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...
As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ...
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...
As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
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It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
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What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG??
You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG??
You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
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If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:
✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
store.steampowered.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:
✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
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EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Distributed Denial Of Silksong
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Distributed Denial Of Silksong
@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks
August 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks
SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends
August 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends
A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP
August 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP
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It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...
August 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...
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In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV
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Deep breath.
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
August 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Deep breath.
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
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It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
Renaming my toilet the Payment Processor
July 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Renaming my toilet the Payment Processor
Have they invented super coffee yet I need some
July 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have they invented super coffee yet I need some
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it is now my turn for the "role at risk" post
www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...
www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...
July 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
it is now my turn for the "role at risk" post
www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...
www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...