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• Steam 🦊 Extension Nov 24, 2023
• QuickTextureButton for Godot Nov 17, 2023
• UberPath2D for Godot Nov 06, 2023
• Gamedev-friendly webserver Oct 16, 2023
• LLM inside Godot game Oct 09, 2023
• A quick thought on AI and games Mar 07, 2023
• Shader fun. Feb 22, 2023
• A tale of two beverages Dec 05, 2022
• Masters retrospective Nov 21, 2022
• MVP and prototype progress Mar 05, 2022
• Research question Feb 13, 2022
• Indie dev thoughts on the Xbox acquisitions Feb 13, 2022
• Two inspiring games Jan 26, 2022
• Indie Startup Finale Dec 03, 2021
• Supporting your game after launch Dec 01, 2021
• Creating a store presence Nov 26, 2021
• Creating a trailer Nov 19, 2021
• Selling your services Nov 13, 2021
• Pitching for investment Nov 07, 2021
• Reading week Oct 26, 2021
• Funding and budgeting Oct 22, 2021
• Building awareness of your game Oct 11, 2021
• Creating games with appeal Oct 06, 2021
• Creating a viable game product Sep 29, 2021
• The indie games industry Sep 24, 2021
• Final week Aug 16, 2021
• Adjourning Aug 09, 2021
• Industry Insight 2 Aug 03, 2021
• Industry Insight 1 Jul 23, 2021
• Intellectual property Jul 19, 2021
• Performing Jul 10, 2021
• Practice pitch week Jul 06, 2021
• Team norming Jul 04, 2021
• Pitching Jun 22, 2021
• IGD720 results Jun 15, 2021
• Team storming Jun 12, 2021
• Team ideation Jun 09, 2021
• Team forming May 30, 2021
• Weeks 10, 11, and 12 May 13, 2021
• Sound design Mar 22, 2021
• Level design Mar 19, 2021
• Animation Mar 17, 2021
• Reading week Mar 16, 2021
• Art direction Feb 22, 2021
• Narrative design Feb 16, 2021
• Prototype Feb 06, 2021
• Let's make a deck-builder. Jan 31, 2021
• Game analysis Jan 30, 2021
• Skills audit Jan 28, 2021
• Reflecting on the skills audit Jan 28, 2021
• More thoughts on the final project game. Dec 08, 2020
• A final reflection for development practice. Dec 07, 2020
• Personal brand Dec 03, 2020
• Desert island disks Nov 30, 2020
• Reflecting on agile game development Nov 26, 2020
• Reflecting on communities of practice Nov 18, 2020
• Shaders - a superpower. Nov 15, 2020
• Reflection on ethics Nov 11, 2020
• Reflect on Rapid Ideation session 1 Nov 03, 2020
• Phrase generator Nov 03, 2020
• Humane games Oct 29, 2020
• Development practice retrospective Oct 28, 2020
• Game jam Oct 27, 2020
• Let's get SMART. Oct 25, 2020
• Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Oct 21, 2020
• Don't let the process get in the way. Oct 13, 2020
• What is a game for the future gamer? Oct 12, 2020
• Quotes about play. Oct 11, 2020
• Reflections on rapid ideation Oct 06, 2020
• Everything must be said again. Oct 06, 2020
• Rapid ideation for the week 3 challenge. Oct 05, 2020
• Let's SCAMPER some art, part II. Oct 01, 2020
• AI in support of innovation Sep 30, 2020
• You can't know the answer yet. Sep 28, 2020
• Let's scamper some art Sep 28, 2020
• Randomised SCAMPER Sep 27, 2020
• A first reflection. Sep 24, 2020
• I'm starting a masters in Indie Game Development at Falmouth University Sep 19, 2020
• Coursera - Game Design Document - define the art & concepts, continued Sep 02, 2020
• Coursera - Game Design Document - define the art & concepts, week 1 Aug 25, 2020
• Coursera - Character Design for Video Games, weeks 2 to 4 Aug 24, 2020
• Coursera - Character Design for Video Games, week 1 Aug 21, 2020
• A narrative playthrough for a game world design Aug 20, 2020
• Coursera - World Design for Video Games, week 4 Aug 19, 2020
• A conceptual sketch for a game world design Aug 18, 2020
• Coursera - World Design for Video Games, week 3 Aug 17, 2020
• A visual sketch for a game world design Aug 15, 2020
• Coursera - World Design for Video Games, week 2 Aug 14, 2020
• Coursera - World Design for Video Games, week 1 Aug 13, 2020
• Coursera - Story and Narrative Development for Video Games, week 4 Jul 27, 2020
• Coursera - Story and Narrative Development for Video Games, week 3 Jul 24, 2020
• Coursera - Story and Narrative Development for Video Games, week 2 Jul 21, 2020
• Coursera - Story and Narrative Development for Video Games, Week 1 Jul 18, 2020
• The story of Pac Man Jul 15, 2020
• Coursera - Introduction to game design Jul 14, 2020
• Hilbert Curve Jun 29, 2020
• A code doodle. Jun 26, 2020
• Game UIs I would like to try Jun 25, 2020
• Untitled Maze Game Jun 24, 2020
• Add tag pages to your Jekyll blog without plugins. Oct 11, 2019
• Boids Sep 25, 2019
• Picture book progress report Sep 04, 2019
• Storyboard May 10, 2019
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain May 10, 2019
• 1st Draft Apr 22, 2019
• I'm making a picture book Apr 12, 2019
• Cracking the MI5 puzzle. Apr 08, 2019
• A code doodle. Apr 05, 2019
• Re-throw errors on Firebase Jun 27, 2018
• On Startups, side projects, and hacks. Mar 16, 2018
• Story. Mar 03, 2018
• Neighbour Mar 02, 2018
• A card maker. Mar 01, 2018
• Let's make a CCG! Feb 28, 2018
• I am a salt beef sandwich. Feb 27, 2018
• Might drive next time. Feb 26, 2018
• Fleshing out the idea Feb 23, 2018
• Green is the colour of mould Feb 22, 2018
• First ever Contumacious Commuter post! Feb 22, 2018
• A Ludwig Wittgenstein quote. Feb 20, 2018
• Beginning, middle, end. Feb 16, 2018
• Freelance Feb 14, 2018
• My 2017 Xmas post Feb 11, 2018
• Finishing Feb 09, 2018
• Truths Feb 08, 2018
• pdfcrun.ch Jan 25, 2018
• Week 2 of Structuring Machine Learning Projects Nov 27, 2017
• Week 1 of Structuring Machine Learning Projects Nov 26, 2017
• My deep reinforcement learning hardware, one year on Nov 25, 2017
• Week 4 of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Nov 24, 2017
• Week 3 of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Nov 23, 2017
• The purpose of life isn't to be happy Nov 23, 2017
• Week 2 of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Nov 22, 2017
• Week 1 of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Nov 21, 2017
• Neural Networks refresher Nov 20, 2017
• Well remembered! Sep 29, 2017
• A Ray Dalio quote Sep 12, 2017
• ComicBot Sep 10, 2017
• Trumpet Aug 24, 2017
• Am I? Aug 24, 2017
• A Tim Urban quote Jul 12, 2017
• Every open plan office I've ever worked in Jul 12, 2017
• Using Kali GUI apps on Mac via Docker May 11, 2017
• An Ela Bhatt quote May 06, 2017
• Dishoom It Yourself Apr 30, 2017
• A Emerson M. Pugh quote. Apr 21, 2017
• A Kofi Annan quote Apr 08, 2017
• Mini Ludum Dare 72 Mar 09, 2017
• Down to the ankles Mar 04, 2017
• A David Lynch rehash Mar 03, 2017
• Great Men, or How To Conduct A Meeting Feb 26, 2017
• Kaggle Cats and Dogs Jan 26, 2017
• Cover letter to recruiter this morning Jan 22, 2017
• The smallest thing Dec 31, 2016
• A Simon Wiesenthal quote Dec 31, 2016
• More irony Dec 31, 2016
• MMXVI Dec 31, 2016
• Oh, the irony Nov 30, 2016
• The Mexican fisherman Nov 22, 2016
• A Seneca quote Nov 21, 2016
• My new £85 standing desk Nov 20, 2016
• Before we forget... Nov 16, 2016
• Do no harm Nov 14, 2016
• It's (another) girl Oct 27, 2016
• I'm in deep trouble Oct 20, 2016
• My new home office Oct 17, 2016
• Laptopping Aug 06, 2016
• Mini Ludum Dare 69 Jul 26, 2016
• Truths Jun 29, 2016
• Finishing Jun 28, 2016
• Note to self - HP PhotoSmart on Arch Linux Apr 12, 2016
• Using Clojure with Unity3D inside Docker Mar 29, 2016
• Docker this, Docker that. Mar 10, 2016
• Ajax: when was your first time? ™ Feb 29, 2016
• Twenty Fifteen Dec 30, 2015
• Flask-Sandboy (fork) Jul 30, 2015
• Meet the new maintainer for Flask-Pushrod Jul 21, 2015
• Add logging to PostgresQL on Docker Jun 17, 2015
• A tale of two money transfers Jun 14, 2015
• 2014 — the year in review Dec 31, 2014
• I made my daughter a book for her first birthday. Apr 17, 2014
• +1 News Feb 14, 2014
• Taximeter Jan 30, 2014
• More jq fun Jan 29, 2014
• 2103 — the year's code and tooling in review Dec 31, 2013
• Using single and double pipes in Scala conditionals Dec 27, 2013
• Heuristics Dec 13, 2013
• Project Euler 18 and 67 in Scala using foldRight, zip and sliding Nov 28, 2013
• A webwords Chef cookbook Nov 10, 2013
• Pretty-print JSON in vim Nov 05, 2013
• Dell XPS 13 LE Nov 02, 2013
• AngularJS and Internet Explorer woes Nov 01, 2013
• Net-A-Porter.com Oct 11, 2013
• Failed startup #2 Jul 19, 2013
• Redefine thyself. Jul 16, 2013
• Pretty IP Feb 23, 2013
• Pollarize architecture at a glance Nov 20, 2012
• Adding SMS functionality with Twilio Oct 15, 2012
• Semantic Web Deep Dive Jul 31, 2012
• Consistent hashing with Scala Feb 27, 2012
• Programmer’s Bill Of Rights 2012 Feb 24, 2012
• Be careful what you type when using a terminal emulator… Feb 24, 2012
• Read Receipts for the rest of us Jan 25, 2012
• A dream and a lesson Jan 17, 2012
• Failed startup #1 Jan 16, 2012
• Startup Day #6 — Doubts and hamsters Sep 13, 2010
• Startup Day #2 Sep 09, 2010
• Startup Day #1 Sep 08, 2010
• Just do it. Sep 07, 2010
• Clear the Java mucky muck from Ubuntu. Apr 05, 2010
• Semantic Web — exciting times! Jul 10, 2009
• BeatThatQuote.com Jan 11, 2008
• The Light Agency Jan 08, 2008
• Prehistory, South Africa, immigration, etc Jan 05, 2008
• Breadcrumbs with Javascript Oct 19, 2005
• WebHelper Jun 01, 2005
• Web TV Jun 13, 2004
• DB Bean Creator for Java and MySQL/PostgresQL May 30, 2002