Chris Murphy

This is somehow the funniest and most appropriate typo of my name I've ever seen

Devastating news today. Richard “Levelord” Gray was such a great guy. Like many of our friends, I wish I could have hung out with him again. He was full of life, a gentle soul, and an excellent level designer. He was called “Levelord” for a reason.

POV: You’re trying to watch @highlyspammable.bsky.social ‘s Unreal Engine talk but you are easily distracted. @unrealengine.bsky.social #UEDevDays

The award for best UE5 dev article that could've been a Star Trek/Hitchikers Guide Crossover is the Temporal Quality Guide. It dives into common levers for TSR, Lumen and general ghosting issues that folks encounter. dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

If you own Cinematic Lens Flares, please drop a review on FAB, its been a mountain to climb to offset the lower ratings of earlier more basic versions of the system! #GameDev #UnrealEngine #UE5 #TechArt #Cinematic #VFX #CGI

my game InFlux Redux is on sale for HALF OFF on account of the STEAM SUMMER SALE. It's got NO AI IN IT and actually is made by the person who hates AI MOST in the WORLD buy it and leave a POSITIVE REVIEW. if you are a cavalier you will do it immediately store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

This is a really great breakdown of a technical art problem that helps look at it mathematically piece by piece. If you're new to TA this is the kind talk you should definitely give a watch!

Having explored a few options, I've got to say @yarnspinner.dev 's Unreal PlugIn has been my favourite Narrative Design system so far. Really easy to integrate into workflows with everything compartmentalisted into components and some nice detailed information flowing in and out. #gameDev

her closing point here is why i think normal media should stop engaging in the culture wars at all. just don't cover these chuds or their views. it's not helping anything, it's not changing anyone's mind, it's simply dragging the mud into spaces and lives it doesn't need to touch.

My laptops GPU has died 2 days before I leave for Sweden where I'll be relying on it for numerous talks. I guess it's called Murphy's law for a reason.

Auron in FFX was canonically 35 years old. If it were set today he'd have been a 90s kid.

Mixtape. OUT NOW. youtu.be/aQoEd5rnxiQ #mixtpe #mixtapegame #indiedev #music #gaming

Just crossed 400 wishlists for our coop movie making game, Acting Out! 🎥🍿🎭 If you wanna support unusual multiplayer games, please give us a look and help get that number up! 📈🙏 Trailer below in replies

Summerfall is looking for a 3D character artist to assist us on a new prototype by sculpting a stylised character head and hair for a prototype, based on a Metahuman model. Interested? Send me your portfolio, via DM or email liam@summerfallstudios.com!

me to my laptop everytime i change timezones but it won't update.

Also, if you're in town and want to chat about your Unreal projects or are looking to swap over from another engine for a project and want to sound out if that's a good idea for it or not hit me up and we can have a chat.

I'm delivering a talk alongside the wonderful @amathlog.bsky.social on Large Procedural Systems with PCG. If you're working with PCG at a large scale, come! There's a lot covered including Biome Core, Builders, Hierarchical Generation and more. All are common problems I keep chatting to Devs about!

If you're going for this with an Unreal Engine project and you want some last-minute technical tips for polish advice, feel free to hit me up!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

One really interesting thing that seems to be pretty consistent is that the Steam Deck has actually provided a definitive min spec for PC game developers. Historically this was a bit more vibes based for a lot of folks and it's great to see something so standardised.

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

New in UE5-Main, AccumulationDOF, A close to physically accurate DOF implementation specifically for production renders!! And damn it works far beyond what I expected, can focus THROUGH transparencies correctly! Into Reflections, no foreground artefacts! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX

I'll be presenting with the awesome @highlyspammable.bsky.social at the GDC26!! Come say hi :D Developing Large Procedural Systems with Low Friction and Fast Generation (Presented by Epic Games) #GDC2026 #PCG #UE schedule.gdconf.com/session/deve...

Bone Temple was not only great, but it somehow improved the parts of 28 Years Later that I had a beef with. Rare to see a sequel that improves the predecessor like that. Go see it!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Was pretty keen to try Gears Tactics on the Legion Go as a successor for my Xcom addiction but it turns out it needs to login on launch which means you can't play it on flights. Really thought Xbox Offline Mode would've solved that, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Not sure who could use this info but it turns out that Intel Connectivity Performance Suite was lowering my laptop internet speeds by 95% due to "Prioritization" being enabled and.. bad, I guess.

Playing Mortal Kombat 1 and... the story mode is kind of incredible? They really just made a movie where you hang out and then play the fights every now and then as a treat. Acting and facial animation are great, effects are great.. they just.. kinda knocked it out of the park.

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

Can't help but wonder how good my Grandma would have been at visualising UV maps, given they're basically just sewing patterns.

Crazy. I’m tinkering with a small screen for VR featuring octopods. And while trying to push the interactivity they became fully physicalized using Physics Control in @unrealengine.bsky.social Now I exchanged their movement also with forces and the result feels very believable. (Don’t do this IRL)

These folks are lovely people. Throw them a vote. It takes like 2 seconds!

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

Finally got around to trying Star Wars Outlaws and it's great! It's a really solid stealth game where I can be a scruffy-looking-nerfherder and get up to shenanigans across the galaxy. I'd heard weird stuff when it launched but I'm really glad I'm giving it a try! Team did a wonderful job.

Digital Confectioners are some of my favourite devs and their new title looks absolutely rad. Can't wait. store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/...

If you're testing a multiplayer game, Unreal has a great "Allow late joining" experimental feature under Editor Preferences. It adds an "Add another client" button that is shown when you run the game. #UnrealEngine

I lived off a partner for years - essentially - while working on Unfortunate Spacemen. It makes getting up in front of a crowd and talking about "my journey to success" feel priviledged and fake. But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.

Dylan is a superb Unreal TA and every day he goes unhired I lose a little faith in humanity.

blog post: cool little tech art thing I did a while ago on Sleight of Hand. lights that dispel volumetric smoke, with occlusion www.joewintergreen.com/tech-art-thi...

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

The worst line delivery is not by Gal Gadot. It's by Joe Pantoliano in The Matrix. He puts this random emphasis on the word "for" in "the image translators work FOR the construct". Kills me. Every time. Seat in front of me is watching it, and I can hear IT IN MY BRAIN... I still love this movie.