Ben Newbon

2nd time lucky - no copyright claims this time! Finally have a demo reel I can send out when I audition for things - watch out AP and v/o casting calls, here I come! youtube.com/shorts/9yJPm...

Something occurred to me lately that seems to have quietly crept about... What happened to posters? There used to be shops full of posters back like 20 years ago. Do kids not put posters on their walls anymore? What happened to all those shops? When did this happen!?

I've put up a one-shot of Beam Saber for this! Chill, casual, mecha fun at a reasonable UK evening time. Come join the server and play with me and my European friends :)

Wonderful to see Brazil and Serbia showing the rest of the world how the far right can still be beaten. Now we all need to follow suit. Their rise can be halted. We can take our countries back!

Aha we enter the twilight zone of most of Europe being an hour closer to most of North America. How I love time being an arbitrary social construct determined by government entities

The scheduling demons deploy their twice yearly bullshit to throw off your gaming plans. Don't let them win! Clocks went back last night in European timezones. This makes time differences wobbly for a while. Always try to use unicodes (like hammer.time or Discords @time function) to avoid mix ups!

We're SCREAMING out for FRIGHTFULLY good games! Live on YouTube next week, @in-the-pan.bsky.social, @jcdarcy.bsky.social, and @michellicopter.bsky.social want to SINK their FANGS into the BEATING HEART of European creativity. Offer up your spookiest creations! (tell us about your games please)

You all should know by now what I do when something pisses me off youtu.be/9DenvH23kgQ

Gaddamn the games industry just can't let up on the layoffs. We were already dealing with a sizeable one and now this and apparently more to come next month and early next year... How do they manage to keep finding more to break in this industry!?

So if you have a PHP-based website... No you don't. In seriousness, two serious exploits have been discovered and there's no patch out yet, but they are actively being exploited in the wild. If you run a php-based site (Wordpress for instance), take it down until there's a patch available.

You may appreciate the naked contempt dripping from this email reply @loremistress93.bsky.social. Just a reminder to all UK creatives that UKGE does not give a shit about you or your opinions, and the recent AI stuff is more than just a simple mistake.

Employers: if the law says you have to have a policy for something, your employees’ Union will already have a draft of that policy. You can show it to your ”people” for checking but you’ll probably find there’s nothing egregious in it. It’ll be easy to amend and save you hours of time and money.

I know, I know. The Repository might sound too good to be true, but I promise you it's EXTREMELY REAL! Free (downloadable) pitch decks and design docs submitted by some of the best to ever do it!

I need 4 players who are also GMs and are either local to Washington State or willing to travel there AND would be willing to GM for a live, multi-day in-person event. This is for a paid gig, but it’s a bit of a complicated setup, if the ask wasn’t a hint.

Data viz friends, any recs for plotting locations on a customisable map? Would love to create a graphic of all the countries we’ve sent packages to (like a 90s action film nuclear strike map lol) and if there’s a lazy way of animating it onto a spinning globe I’m all for it

okay, so since it's become something of a keen interest of mine lately, could a TTRPG on the theme of high school romance anime work? maybe an adaptation of Pasion de las Pasiones? Is this something ppl would be interested in or is playing teenage romance a bit icky? (obv with safety tools, etc.)

oh hey!! if you were thinking man i'd love to hire hailey as a GM but i hate playing online, then you're in luck: arcaniststavern.uk/privatehirep...

I thought it was just that I really liked Blue Box for being so sweet but have started Ramparts of Ice lately and also super into that, so I guess I just really like cute high school romance animes :) Anyone got other recommendations in the genre?

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Good lawd that was a fun miniseries! It's amazing how much character development and story you can squeeze into 5 sessions! Catch them all on the Halfling Wizards YouTube if you missed it or even if you didn't, go rewatch all the big robot drama all over again!

Just what I've been needing! I already can tell this is going to be dang good!

🚨NICHE JOURNO REQUEST🚨 I'm looking to speak with someone who intricately understands how Video Games Tax Relief functions here in the UK. Have a few questions about something that may or may not be a story!

My stock response to the folks now saying they include “just a little AI” in their shitty games.

I find it hard to talk about genAI. There are so many complex problems, it's difficult to know where to begin and how to explain them. So I set myself a challenge: choose 5 key issues with genAI and talk about them clearly in less than 30 minutes. Here's what I made. I hope you find it useful!

I'm looking to talk to layout designers - considering getting some work done but first wanna chat about how it all works because I've never worked with one before. Process, pricing, timescales, that sorta jazz. If you are one, plz pop me a message :)