Andrew Willmott

Congratulations Harry Kane, 2026 Ballon D'Or winner. A long way from when I saw his debut on a Europa League Thursday night at White Hart Lane in 2011. If you'd told me then... 😮

19 years ago, an ambitious dream to bring an iconic book series into the world of video games came to life with the release of The Witcher. It was the start of an unforgettable path, which wouldn't have been possible without our friends at BioWare.

Student List has existed as a movement lass than a year-and-a-half and as a party six weeks. Six. Weeks. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I mean, it really didn't.

Ooof, wavelength-dependent scattering + scattered surrounding sky produce incredibly soft & lovely visuals

"Unfortunately"

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Love this. tiny.london There's a "how this was made" via the '?' in the lower-right. MultiDiffusion to avoid seams was critical. (One of my favourite techniques because it's powerful but so simple 😄.)

One of the most insightful comments about game development came from a former boss. He said “Making a game is like starting a band. You can’t throw money at a new studio with random AAA veterans and expect it to crank out a hit.” 🧵

Congrats to @dylancuthbert.bsky.social & @q-games.com on 25 years of games. Personal favorite…PJ 4AM.

“ICEYE and Nokia signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's Defense Ministry on Oct. 22, formalizing a partnership aimed at developing Ukraine's own satellite communications system.” kyivindependent.com/amid-starlin...

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

No, BBC, not like that

the story goes like this

Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the Kyiv region in several waves overnight, along with more than 200 drones, including jet powered Shaheds, and that Ukraine again received no early warning from its partners.

One of the purest encapsulations of don't-give-a-shit, "fuck you" energy is punk rock^H^H^H^H^your average Windows application/driver installer.

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

@bsky.app Hiya. Just to say your tailscale.com/download/mac page still says "Requires macOS Monterey 12.0 or later", but the latest version does not support Monterey. (There's no obvious way of installing the last one that does, from the app or that page, but I'll keep digging.)

The EU (or some European country... Poland? UK?) should sink that US-bound Russian diesel tanker a few days before the midterms just for the LOLs

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

RIP Bioware 😢 www.eurogamer.net/bioware-clos... Won't be the last. But hey, Andrew Wilson and the rest enriched themselves massively so \o/

I know there's a lot of bad shit™ going on right now, but if you'd told me even five years ago you could do this interactively in a browser on a mid MacBook, I'd have been surprised at the very least. mutracer.meimu-studio.com/viewer/#mode...

Sixty years ago, 116 children and 28 adults died when a spoil tip collapsed onto Aberfan. My grandpa was amongst those who drove out to help, but for too many it was too late. The PM has visited to honour the community and lives taken too soon. They are not forgotten.

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

Improvised a little lampshade shader that imitates scattered light from inside. Code and details in the comments! :) #gamedev

Oh my DAYS

Daniel Meister and Takahiro Harada: BVH Encoding for Neural-Assisted Ray Tracing jcgt.org/published/00...

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Note: limiting Starlink to 160kph doesn’t affect strikes on refineries. Those are inside Russia where Starlink doesn’t work. So there isn’t even a wrong theory under which it lowers diesel prices. It just stops drone strikes against Russian forces in Ukraine, so Ukraine can’t defend itself.

This iconic view disappears forever next week. So for posterity, have this timelapse trip down Oxford Street from the top deck of the bus I’ll miss it, but also looking forward to pedestrianisation

#ImWidgets hack of the day, I décided to move all the styling in a json file, and allow texture and micro procedural gradient description in it. Here some examples, all are pure #DearImGui with my rendering layer on top, compatible with #ImGui test engine too!

Stereographic Rubik’s

If you're a Londoner, you really should consider a Londoncentric subscription. Even if you don't read it (and, you almost certainly do read articles lifted from it in national media), it contributes so much to making London a better place.

Body of Comet aircraft from nearby de Havilland factory turns into Bridge Street, Chester, 1950s.

decomp.dev is dead :(