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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
Why on earth are we sacking people from the BBC to make the Orange buffoon happy?!

(I mean, from what I can tell, they're awful people & at least partly responsible for the beeb's rightwards slant over recent years... but we shouldn't be sacking people to appease that idiot)
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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At the Tesla dealership in Tottenham

Even his fellow 11 and 12-digits-of-wealth peers donate much more to health and social causes than he does...
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This is a great read.

Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.

Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games.
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
As viral hits like Escape from Duckov and Megabonk change the industry, Falconeer developer Tomas Sala has found another way to survive
What if you didn't have to spin the roulette wheel every time you released a new game, hoping for it to find an audience? What if there was a better way?
www.eurogamer.net
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Happy 10th anniversary, @andyrichter.co
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Hey #PitchYaGame!

Mythmatch is a Greek myth anti-capitalist merge game about the power of community over authority.

💪 Recruit and Empower the Mortals
🏠 Build and Upgrade Ithaca
⚡️ Challenge the Gods
🐐 Create Cute Creatures

Wishlist Now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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My inner voice when I clock off early on a Friday.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
God Tier Indie Dev Anxiety Inducement Post...
Stuck in the mental loop of "is it financially viable to be making this sort of game? - and -Is it financially viable to be making any game?"
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Stuck in the mental loop of "is it financially viable to be making this sort of game? - and -Is it financially viable to be making any game?"
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).

Humans shouldn't need to work to live.

We are not work machines!
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.

morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Polanski has blended anger with hope.

“Hope is much more difficult to sell than outrage, but he’s finding a way to do it that connects with people.”

Let's make hope normal again!

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Green party surging as Polanski’s social media strategy w...
Green Party membership has more than doubled, driven in part by its platform messaging on apps like TikTok
observer.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Even a big far-right vote couldn’t give the far-right total control, because the Dutch democracy promotes cooperation.

Here in the UK, just one-third of the vote could give Nigel Farage a huge majority of MPs.

Our democracy isn't fit for 21st-century politics. We need Proportional Representation.
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My Death & Dying class this week was all about ghosts. Naturally, we spent yesterday in @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Centre for Research Collections looking at a manuscript on how to summon a demon
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me! 🖤🤘🖤

#musicsky
Killing In The Name
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Happy Halloween! This is a big tattoo flash-inspired linocut I made last year for the occasion. 🎃🍂🌛

#halloween #art #printsky #illustrator
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
potentially interesting thread for #gamedev - mathematically perfect cctv camera placement
It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.

Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
🧵
www.bbc.com/news/art...
1/9
Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?
Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Steve Fisk’s 1978 proof is a one from the book: triangulate the gallery, color vertices with 3 colors, then pick the smallest color set for camera placement.
Elegant, efficient, and guaranteed coverage.

5/9
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Its true, I am terrible at advertising my games once they are released....
I am such a terrible marketer for my own games...sigh..
However I MUST TRY HARDER!!
if you were holding off on leaping into The Horror At Highrook for some reason... Its currently 30% off as part of the Steam Scream Spooky Festival!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I think the proliferation of online betting apps and ads for them is a danger to society and requires much tighter regulation
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Still a few slots open on the Nov 18th workshop - come learn about shipping better games faster through test automation!

(If you’re indie, dm me for a discount)

(If you’re Netflix, dm me for a price increase)
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
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan.
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM