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🇵🇹| Senior AI Programmer @Flying_Wild_Hog, ex @Ubisoft. History aficionado, HEMA nerd and sometimes artist when I'm feeling adventurous. Opinions are my own.
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The Nintendo Direct today

First time I've seen a Portuguese colhona sword (or carrack black sword) represented in a piece of media. I approve of this choice.

New batch of study material

Great looking sword! You may like getting into HEMA and swinging it around too! It's very fun and swords are awesome! ⚔️

Even confluence is doing rewinds now

So 2024 just ended and I wanted to put some thoughts out there on this last year and 2025. Safe to say the last year did not go how I expected it to go. There were some tough times and big changes coming my way. Thankfully everything went well and I think I made the best of it!

Glad to see this released to the public finally! 😄 I spent 18 months working on the bots and it was really fun. One small detail I really liked was adding the kill emoji reactions to bots. I don't know if many people will take a look at them but here's 1 min of me struggling against them today

I think that if chess had come out in today's gaming culture, it would be called a woke game with a girl boss character and forced inclusion.

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Very glad to see @amirsatvat.com recognised in the Game Awards! Nice change from the head in the sand attitude from last year.

Sad to see this, though not entirely unexpected. I've got to say I had a great time working on this game and it taught me a lot! Sad to see that some of the things I worked on might never make it into the hands of the players. There was so much potential... 😔

This is a really good article on StateTrees in UE for anyone interested: jeanpaulsoftware.com/2024/08/13/s...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Counterpoint: Gladiator Gladiator 360 Gladiator One (Gone for short) Gladiator Series X

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Gameplay Programmer: Our fluid system doesn't support containers of that size, what if we use a can instead?

icymi here's the main game i'm working on: "sci-fi mad max" or "what if snowrunner had laser cannons" is this anything (@mooncandygames.bsky.social for more)

This seems like an interesting project to follow for Godot users that might want a bit more performance in some key scripts. Easy to use C++ scripting within! Makes adding C++ code almost as easy as GDScript. I'm definitely trying it when I have time github.com/Jenova-Frame...

1/ This masterpiece is free. 2/ An audio commentary has been added to Half-Life 2! 3/ A one-hour documentary is available! (next post) 4/The "Raising the Bar" artbook, which I've never been able to buy because it was far too expensive second-hand, WILL BE EXPANDED AND RE-RELEASED IN 2025!

The ice gun and the blob enemy actually look incredibly fun to play with

On HL2 new documentary they show Episode 3 footage for the first time of what they were working on, including an ice gun and a blob type that could absorb enemies and was later used as the paint in Portal 2. full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjN...

Found this game for cheap while here in England and it looked interesting. Love the classic horror artstyle. Has anyone played it before?

Seething and raging at Portuguese customs platform for how shit it is. They want me to input a category for the product and the only way to do that is by inputting related words to your item at random and hope the category shows up. Just let me put the numeric code!

Got to York, acquired tea. Mission accomplished

Had a great time at the @aiandgames.bsky.social conference. In particular the post mortem about the AI in Space Marine 2 and the two Guerrilla games talks were very interesting! Hope to see this become a regular occurrence, as there aren't many events dedicated to AI for games!

Got some more #HEMA reading

Pretty interesting, never would have thought about this

Parallel.ForEach implies the existence of Perpendicular.ForEach

Some rapier fencing I did a few days ago. Italian vs Destreza

I've been trying my hands at designing a strategy board game these last couple of months and yesterday I tried the first full game with some friends. It went along great! Already have some stuff to change and improve and some stuff I felt that worked 😄🗺️

How many times will these people get sucked into a game before they learn?