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Game Designer & Developer - Lead Programmer at Sonderlust Studios - Also, working on Cabs of Chaos and making Unity videos at: youtube.com/GameDevGuide
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Without fail, there's a point in every video where a certain cut just feels *off*. Then I try using a J-Cut. Amazing how often the answer is simply: basic principles exist for a reason. Endlessly humbling.

ABSOLUTE GAME CHANGER

I'm just happy to bring back bloom in this day and age and if any of you complain I will crank it even more download the Generation Exile demo right now on steam if you want to yell at me

Holy shit, we're number two!

The game I've been tirelessly working on for the past 4 years finally has a demo available as part of Steam's Next Fest! We've still got a long way to go, but I'm super excited that you can now see what we've been cooking up by trying it out for yourself (and add it to your wishlist!) 👇🏻

ICYMI: I made an SVG Renderer for UIToolkit and it's now available on the Asset Store!

Tired of jaggy SVGs in Unity? I made a tool that fixes that. 📣 SVG Renderer for UI Toolkit 📣 ➡️ Crisp, scalable SVGs ➡️ No mesh conversion ➡️ Works in Editor + Runtime Out now on the asset store! Trailer below! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #unity #gamedev #uitoolkit #svg

Tired of jaggy SVGs in Unity? I made a tool that fixes that. 📣 SVG Renderer for UI Toolkit 📣 ➡️ Crisp, scalable SVGs ➡️ No mesh conversion ➡️ Works in Editor + Runtime Out now on the asset store! Trailer below! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #unity #gamedev #uitoolkit #svg

applying for jobs again

I'd have remorse for Polygon, and I'm sure there are some fine writers there. But, I also distinctly remember the time they published a hit piece on me and my friends that ended up with a number of us getting our social media doxxed and death threats sent our way so uh... yeah.

Same location. 24 years difference.

I've been slowly working on a plugin for UIBuilder that adds PROPER SVG Support into UIToolkit. Here's a look at some example SVGs rendering CRISPLY and CLEANLY within UI Builder/UITK.

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I see there's a proper Game Of Thrones RPG on the way that looks pretty decent. You know what style of game I think would be an absolute knock out of the park for that IP though? A musou game. Working title: Westeros Warriors. Koei Tecmo, call me. 🤙🏻

Oof. New Civ is using Coherent UI 😬 As someone who has had to navigate that middleware in the past a lot of the reviews make sense now.

I've hacked custom styles support into UIBuilder! It took an ABSURD amount of fiddlefucking with reflection to figure out how to get this working, but I can now view and edit custom styling values on my C# components. No more switching back and forth!

I FEEL LIKE A PROGRAMMING GOD RIGHT NOW. SUCK IT UNITY. YOUR INTERNAL CLASSES CAN'T STOP ME.

Unity: "We don't support custom editor code for the UIBuilder. You can't extend it." Me: We'll see about that...

All of the other characters in this game are so thirsty for the main character it's absolutely unhinged.

Okay, I've played a bit more tonight and I can't get over just how epic the "large force" battles are. Absolutely revolutionary addition to the series. Even without the roster, this is easily the best Dynasty Warriors game I've ever played.

Alright so I'm still mad that there's no split-screen but this game is absolutely incredible, it's also one of the first games in the franchise to achieve this score on steam in YEARS.

I'm reading that the new Dynasty Warriors game doesn't have split-screen co-op. We're truly living in the worst timeline.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is such a breath of fresh air. I spent the break playing & completing Valhalla (meh) but immediately a few hours into the latest entry and it's like I'm back playing the earlier games. Definitely prefer the more confined scope over the huge open world(s). I'm so tired 😂

After living in North America for over 5 years now, I can finally announce that I absolutely despise base-board heaters. MASSIVELY INEFFICIENT ELECTRICAL FIRE HAZARDS SPREAD ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF AN ENTIRE WALL. Absolutely criminal.

PlayStation store is selling TimeSplitters: Future Perfect for £2 right now. A game from 2005 with a campaign that still holds up, and supports 4 player arcade split screen against bots. New Years Eve party game sorted!

The draw distance for Vancouver is low today

Planet Coaster 2 is so good, I've already played as much of it in one month as I did in eight years of the first game. 😅

Officially de-activated my Twitter account. Thought it would be more bittersweet, but honestly, that place is such a dumpster fire that I kind of feel no emotion whatsoever around removing myself from it.