Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!)

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!)

@arganoid.com

Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values. Partial gameography: Dog's Life, RCT3, Thrillville, LostWinds2, Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Elite Dangerous Books: Code the Classics Vols 1, 2

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Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

A.I has sucked the fun out of most things I like. There's still a couple of tings it can't do in my place ... #wingfoiling

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After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

its easy to confuse raytracing, raymarching and raycasting, but its simple to distinguish: raycasting is where you cast a ray out until it hits an object and you render it. raymarching is where you march a ray out until it hits an object and you render it. raytracing is where you trace a ray out unt

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

Apparently UK folks are making fun of our first official recommendation to have a basic stock of light, water, food in case of a weather or power emergency? They’re only asking for 3 days! Many EU countries recommend 7d + the more you are supplied the more gov help can get to the more vulnerable.

I've discovered that a lot of sites state my game came out on 29th or 30th Sep, including Kotaku and RPS. Perhaps because the Steam page used to say Q3 2026, or because I put out a press release on 29th Sep (which did not say that the game was coming out today!) Actual release: 11th Nov

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

The #gamedev industry is obviously going through awful times right now. Extreme amounts of job loss, especially in AAA. I keep hearing how indiedevs will save gaming. Well as an #indiedev of over 15 years I'm not quite sure about that...

Loved the description of Strange New Worlds as "Cargo cult Star Trek"

Darren Mooney@darrenmooney.bsky.social

Having released a forty-five minute video essay on “Strange New Worlds” today, which I was worried would be too “inside baseball”, even by my standards, I am heartened by quite a few comments from people who don’t watch “Star Trek” vibing with its larger points.

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

FYI, the Next Fest page has updated! Where previously it was slop, my top recommendations in the main listing are: Dead of the Brain Queen's Domain ReBlade Annalynn MD Anomalith TETRIC (which is new to me and looks WILD) Derelikt Godzilla: DAMM Surfpunk Prison Of Husks Hell Wait Zero AI. Told ya.

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

Okay, people are already getting really depressed and frustrated with the Next Fest, so I'll say what I said last time round: Wait a day or two. They order the games on the pages by hours played, and 99% of the AI garbage will sink like a stone. Right now it's just undifferentiated and unranked.

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

I still regularly see indie developers sure that once they've put a product on Steam that the store's algorithms and systems will handle promotion and visibility. I mean, that's what the 30% cut is for, right? No. Your game is barely even considered real until you hit 100 user reviews. 500 ideally.

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

#SteamNextFest is upon us... with a FLOOD of AI games? 😩 Made a quick graph and yes, it's indeed a massive spike in demos participating, almost doubling the previous record. On a more anecdotal note, I'm also seeing lots of genAI capsule art in there. Who's supposed to wade through all this?

Was testing the Next Fest build last night and found a critical bug, which was a direct result of having done an incremental build in Unity. The build had an old version of a prefab I'd edited that day. Wasted an hour and a half due to the time taken trying to debug something that only happened in

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

the labour mp who wants to ban trans people from hospitals also thinks 5G causes cancer because of course she does

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

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Replying to @innes.bsky.social

viruses challenge our understanding of what it means to be alive on account of it's not really clear if they're getting damp in there or what

Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) reposted

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads