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Former ace goalkeeper, head of product design, ex BBC Computer Graphics Workshop. Into Design, 3d, cycles, photography, kites, films & creative coding.

Nottingham, England
Joined March 2009
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Back working on my #GMTKJam entry: You Are What You Eat! Overcooked, but you're the food - mixed with a pinch of Lemmings for good measure. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegamedev
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Got my main game loop and theme sorted for the #GMTKJam so calling it a night! I know it's not much of a looker, but any guesses on where it might be going? #gamedev #indiedev
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Happy to show what I've been working on for the past few months! Grapull is a colorful adventure set in an open world. Use a set evolving grapplehook mechanics and exploration to find your friends and save the day! #gamedevelopment #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity
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Check out this new trailer for "Not Your Average Joe" - Now live on Kickstarter. Come join the campaign and bag yourself some amazing, exclusive merch. #jaws #closeencounters #efny #ce3k kickstarter.com/projects/jam…
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ChatGPT is changing the game, and I want to share real things you can do with this AI system today. Please save this thread and start testing this technology NOW so you’re ahead of the curve.
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'There are only two countries in the world that automatically give places in their parliaments to clerics. One is Iran, that bastion of religious brutality... The other... That'll be the UK, where 26 bishops are guaranteed seats in the House of Lords.' mirror.co.uk/news/census-pro…
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In 30 years of UN climate negotiations, eliminating the primary cause of global heating - fossil fuels - has never been mentioned in the decisions, not even in the COP27 in 2022. And these were the results.
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At the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we find self-actualization: the desire to become the most that one can be. What is the most UX design can be? Read in @uxmag — bit.ly/3TNWx6K #ux #design #pyramid
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Narrator: How they'd move such monuments remains a mystery forever. ☝️🧐 Ancient Egyptians: These? Pushed them here. 😏 Narrator: Not a trace of how they could have done this. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Ancient Egyptians: Haha. Pushing and pulling. 💪 Narrator: Baffling. 🤯 Ancient Egyptians: 🤨
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This is fascinating. My mind is blown.
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This website runs on a solar powered server and will go offline during longer periods of bad weather: solar.lowtechmagazine.com/po… The background is a battery meter & always display the relationship of the energy powering the website and the visitor traffic consuming it. Brilliant☀️
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“I believe you have a funny story to tell us Kwasi. Is it true you were Chancellor of the Exchequer for about a month?”
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Hey Google, show me videos of dangerous sociopaths in positions of power – at Radcliffe on Trent, England
‘I would love to be having a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That’s my dream. That’s my obsession’ Home Secretary Suella Braverman
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Be rude not to share this classic on a day like today ... The Day Today - Pound Stolen
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This new @Polycam3D room scan tool is bonkers … another step closer to the commoditization of the digitization of assets. 😳🚀 #lidar #3D #metaverse @Apple #Apple
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Replying to @daraobriain
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This GOP Jesus ad will never age out
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This AI was trained to search public camera feeds against Instagram posts to find the moment that a photo was taken. petapixel.com/2022/09/13/ai-…
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I don’t understand how the British ever conquered all these hot places.
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