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DeanoC
@deanoc.bsky.social
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Co-creator with @julian_gollop of Chip 'n Clawz
Prev Silent Hill 2, Brink, Heavenly Sword, Phoenix Point, Apple
Wheelchair and crutch user.
Game dev since last century.
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Its so nice to see people enjoying a game you've made. In the end its why we do it, sure sales are nice but in the end we do it to make people happy!
September 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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<Mind-Swarm>

Artificial Life + LLMs + Tron = ???
August 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Herbert has arrived!

Checkout The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by
@cloakanddaggerg

Its a story about a bit of Herbert life with some side stuff about folk horror.
May 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Join us on a Steam Livestream with @jullian_gollop today, February 28!
Time is 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 7PM CET
We'll have some fun, play some co-op 🤝 and even some PvP Mayhem with you, the players 🏟️
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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It is about to land...
Alien landscape. Buildings of two types. Creatures of two types. Two shadows overlook it, a human and something else.
February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The invasion is beginning - @julian_gollop next game will land soon.
February 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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@julian_gollop and mine's next game, made by Snapshot Games, is coming real soon.

Expect the unexpected!
A red patterned sky with a UFO occluding the sun
February 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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These 4 will do for me, well until the next one is announced next week!
4 of my games. Silent Hill 2 Heavenly Sword Brink Phoenix Point
February 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Here we believe in equality, so here iss me testing the steam build with different control systems :)
White keyboard with a Minecraft XBOX controllor and a Zelda Switch Pro controller being used to test the PC build
January 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Brought in extra help with this part of the first level tutorialisation.
Soonish I won't have to hide the game as well :O
Midday and Sofi has decided to help with the tutorialisation process. Can see 2 virtual monitors, my keyboard to the left side and Sofi to the right
January 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Busy week so starting nice and early.

IR illuminated spooky Sofi Cat as a bonus
2 of my virtual monitors against a early morning dark room Sofi sitting in front of the IR lights that help the quest 3 track in the dark
January 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Coding and hacking have always a traditional night bias.

Here's what it looks like in the 2nd quarter of the 21st century.

With naked knees :O

And even a real use of RGB!
My night time coding setup. Dark room just keyboard lighting my knees and bit of my bed. Big virtual windows for code and Unreal Editor An RGB bluetooth keyboard and mouse that is passed through the Quest 3 to my desktop PC. 2 more virtual screens places around the area.
January 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I'm so old that I only consider this as proper safe source control...
Multiple zip backups per day of my Unreal project
January 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today we (Sofia and I) are finally (hopefully) going to get my gameplay ability system general interaction working as we want.
Sofia is up for some Sunday morning Unreal.
January 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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My Game Dev loadout:
HW:
Meta Quest 3
Bobo Strap
No facial interface
MX Ink Stylus as VR Controller
Trackball
BT Keyboard
Zelda Switch Pro Controller

SW:
10x Editor
Visual Studio Debugging + Github Copilot
Blender
Unreal 5
Copilot for non code answers
Edge
Spotify
Various programs
January 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Stripey is going for the long horizontal assistance mode. Bit of moving the virtual monitors and all is good.
I'm also trying no face interface (using the halo strap). Not sure yet, its nice to be so open but some different pressure points. Might be my glasses...
Stripey (my cat) lying along the bottom of my keyboard with the virtual monitors moved to let me work
January 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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In most cases replacing the use of verify() with something like this (code in ALT) will improve your #Unreal life.
verify et al should not be used in non engine only places because they take down the editor on failure.
This macro at least tries to gracefully tell the user.
#if WITH_EDITOR #define SH4_VERIFY(expr, str) if (GEngine && (expr) == false) { FMessageDialog::Open(EAppMsgType::Ok, FText::FromString(str)); if (GEditor) { GEditor->RequestEndPlayMap(); } else { GEngine->Exec(nullptr, TEXT("exit")); } } #else #define SH4_VERIFY(expr, str) if (GEngine && (expr) == false) { FMessageDialog::Open(EAppMsgType::Ok, FText::FromString(str)); FGenericPlatformMisc::RequestExit(false); } #endif
January 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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If you can see colour, using Unreals SetColor option on Content folders to help break up the mass of folders that develop.

The idea has been in Macs for years.
UE5 SetColor feature making it easier to find things in the content browser (if you can see colour)
January 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Sofia got on my lap before I setup my lap cushion/desk, but easy to adjust to make it work :)
Sofi (my cat) decided we aren't use a lap desk right now so virtual monitors moved to make it work :)
January 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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A different monitor setup to cope with a different (Stripey) cat.
He is about to tackle a thorny Menu issue.
Stripe (a cat) ready to tackle some tricky UI stuff in Unreal 5
January 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Advantages of spatial computing setup:

Move your setup around your cat
Virtual monitors and keyboard etc. placed around my cat Sofia
January 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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If you use C++ you want something like this.
I've carried this around for 10+ years over many codebases.

This is from my Unreal Shell 4 code base. ALT text has the implementation, its public domain.

Human Readable case statements :O
namespace Core { // FNV-1a 32bit hashing algorithm. constexpr uint32_t CompileTimeHash(size_t count, char const* s) { return ((count > 1 ? CompileTimeHash(count - 1, s) : 2166136261ul) ^ s[count - 1]) * 16777619ul; } // FNV-1a 32 bit hash without a multiple and non-recursive which might be faster? inline uint32_t RuntimeHash(size_t count, FString::ElementType const* s) { uint32_t hash = 2166136261ul; for (size_t i = 0; i < count; ++i) { hash ^= (char)s[i]; // ensure we only use the bottom 8 bits even if FString is wide hash += (hash << 1) + (hash << 4) + (hash << 7) + (hash << 8) + (hash << 24); } return hash; } inline uint32_t RuntimeHash(FString const& s) { return RuntimeHash(s.Len(), *s); } } constexpr uint32_t operator"" _hash(char const* s, size_t count) { return Core::CompileTimeHash(count, s); } // example switch (uint32_t) { case "WhateverYouLike"_hash: return "Woot!"; default: return "boo!"; }
December 29, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Downloading as we speak.
Apparently its similar to Alien: Isolation, so expecting a 3D stealth horror game :P
Warhawk is apparenyly similar to Alien: Isolation!
December 13, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Real Cat in A Virtual World!

One of the strange choices in Meta Quest OS, is that its camera snapshot doesn't capture what you see...

Stripey has lost his head!

I don't get why, its not a snapshot of what I see...?
My cat Stripey in my arms whilst I work in AR. His head is missing as even though I could see it, the screen capture cut it off.
December 13, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Stripe is wondering why he isn't on the list! Sofi is helping me in the MetaVerse!
November 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM