Martin Blackmore

Great outdoor comedy festival. LFG!

Invited to a lotr costume party. Veeeery tempted to go as King Arthur from pythons holy grail for shits and giggles. Though Aragorn does have Anduril, and who doesn’t want an awesome sword?

Delightful not reading Pratchett for a good while. Time to dig back in to familiars old and some new to me ones too. Thief of Time was recommended.

#pillarsOfCreation vibes

Why with all the wonders of streaming technology, films that need that little bit of subtitles for the foreign character moment like they do in the cinema, are devoid of needed subs?

Enjoyed Hail Mary more the 2nd time. Granted there was no fire alarm evacuation this time, lol, but also went in without expectations from the book experience. Instead: it’s a story of a lonesome persons who finds connection. Saving the world is a secondary plot.

#Marathon Having to get 10 finishers as a solo for The Fleeting Grave is tough. Solos log out once downed, denying you the finisher. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

If any wants to write a handbook for game dev on how to communicate with and between neuro-divergent and neuro-typical employees that would be super. Feels like a rougher road b/c this job is a magnet to NDs (whether they know it or not). Silence, meltdowns, over-detail, bluntness, etc.

@mulaney.bsky.social sorry we had to bail early on Saturday mid set. You were fantastic but son was unwell. Yeah he’s 20 but you never stop thinking of them as at sky zone in grippy socks :). We were kinda close to the front, felt all the eyes on us like it was a quality choice.

I am delighted to just discover Puzzle Quest got a revitalization. With all the other big titles dropping this season i will defo play Puzzle Quest Immortal ed. for a good chunk of time.

#strangenewworlds “space is cold and dark and full of death” nicely done. No one in a cowboy hat here talking over #1

Yay! That said, it’s more fantastic as a result of the player’s input, rather than being more the input itself being better on a cerebral or physical level. One to simmer more on in the grey matter coffee pot.

You know when you have a game idea percolating for a long while and then something else comes out like it… I’ve had one of those darn it, but today I figured a more fantastic version.

I earned my “I built a pc and it turned on first time” merit badge today!

Superman. It’s alright.

Go watch Jurassic park on the biggest screen you can. Highly enjoyable.

Also installed another fan into my pc case and blew out all the day too. I figure it’s not going to reduce the overall heat output much, but anything to have a slightly cooler room thank you very much. 🥵

Today’s page count: 3 1/2. Covered acceptance criteria and efficiency of time. wrapped up one of the golden rules as well as edited a bit in rule #2. #GameDesign #Book

The #PikesPeak hill climb has a special place in my heart. Sent there to get the research needed to build it for Colin McRae Rally 3. Beautiful location, awesome to build. Blipshift.com has a tee with the map on it (one of those 24 hour things). Bought immediately.

Rewatched Mission Impossible while it’s still on the big screen. Spotted two Easter eggs and, I think, an f bomb.

I’m also wondering if a fave film of mine, The Martian, would also work with this principle… coincidentally staring MD. Might.

Keen to watch The Bourne Identity Solo cut tonight. Basically the whole film but with only the parts Jason is in. Apparently it works. Consider me curious!

Highly enjoyed latest Mission movie. Definitely one for the DBOX chairs that move and judder. (Part 1 was… not great and they’ve more than made up for it)

@sarahmillican.bsky.social fantastic show tonight. Congrats. One of the best, non stop laughing. Great crowd work too. Nice handle of the boozy douche nozzle, class act.

It’s wonderful to see old school rally games launch and make a splash. Such fun. Amazing they’re by 1-person/ tiny colab teams.

I’ve also been busy in other adventures but what I was getting to was a)excited and b) various symphony orchestras do this kind of thing and it will lift you if you can find one doing a movie (OST) you love.

Joyously heading to the orchestral performance of Skyfall tonight. The delight of how good Star Trek was still lives with me. And the Who proms only stoked the fires more. Gonna be great!

Finished up the #nomanssky omega expedition yesterday to get the #wipeout style ship. Today the manadlorian-est razorcrest ship is the reward. I do love they do the re-run of the year’s expeditions again in December. Such a good idea. 👍

I’m strongly considering posting #DesignerTips here. Maybe boiled down to the 100 good ones. #GameDesign #GameDev

Heavier dusting of snow on the mountains this morning. Opening day for the slopes is coming!!!!

I have been wasting YEARS on chocolate. 😁

🎵 let it cheese, let it cheese, let it cheese. 🎵

Just devoured season four of lower decks. Some genuinely good chuckles in there. All the nerdy Easter eggs hidden throughout are great.

Aaaaand Xmas music now playing in stores. About to head to Costco though, so I’m expecting to see valentines stuff too.

#vancouver ok, who ordered the weird sky ?

So a couple of hours (ok 8) into the elite dangerous new progression mechanic “Power Play 2.0” and it’s alright. Leans a lot into grind, which seems to be the vogue for that title. It does add bonus flavour to actions people were already engaging with.

Seems Elite Dangerous has done a big update on its power play mechanic. Going to put some time into that and analyze. From an early look it gives motivation for more pvp but also provides extra progression bonuses for just doing stuff you do anyway.

Late to the show on this one so currently binge watching Lower Decks. Great show. Feels occasionally like they let Conan and/or Patton O do punch up.

The wiring runs through my workspace and there’s still a couple of boxes of stuff that just… accumulate somehow. Finding so many tchotchkes of old. Good time to refresh the on view display bits and bobs.