Guy Simmons

Sure UFO50 is amazing, but once you get your fill of pixels, have a go with our fauxscilloscope :) Utopia Must Fall: store.steampowered.com/app/2849680/Ut…

@GoogleDeepMind has a long history of research with video games. We're gamers and many of us are former game devs. We have an immense respect for the craft and game developers. Games are a safe testbed for embodied AI research and provide rich learning challenges for AI agents.

@cake_von A useful clue, thank you!

The feckin irony Wordle 858 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So you want to make a game engine.. I've made or used many across 30 years of game dev in many AAA studios and indie. Heres my advice for best engine practises.. 🧵 1/12

Amiga Power magazine's Win a Job at Bullfrog! competition challenged programmers to write a Space Invaders game within two months. The competition resulted in both @MikeDiskett (ace developer) and @demishassabis (DeepMind AI founder) working at Bullfrog.

Coming to a cinema near you I GET KNOCKED DOWN, THE REMARKABLE STORY OF CHUMBAWAMBA AND ONE MAN'S QUEST TO GET BACK UP AGAIN. Read the review here theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/… #chumbawamba #Tubthumping

My tl;dr for games people: RL agents can learn how to play small games in real-time. At least here this works on one type of game. Designing sth where you want an NPC to get better as a human watches / plays with them? This seems potentially in reach now. youtube.com/watch?v=U93bUQ…

@MikeDiskett I usually add mint sauce first.

Who amongst us has not secretly drunk gravy direct from the gravy boat.

@LesDennis Dustin, or Gerald as she remembers him, was a childhood friend of my aunt. They lived closed to one another in York (I think Ambrose St), and she still speaks fondly of the little performances he used to put on for the other kids in the street.

Thank you for all the lovely memories of Dustin. It’s so thrilling to know so many of you remember him so fondly. Here he is before we teamed up. See how many of his impressions you can name.

@RevRichardColes @TheAnaheraRebel Lord No Pets Three Bean Medley of Amazon

Lady Inkhoney of Fortnum & Mason.🤔 Yeah, that tracks.😁

@UridiumAuthor @RMCRetro It's a fair mop too!

@RMCRetro It's a fair cop!

In December 1993 (Amiga Format) a battle for the most lustrous coiffure took place. But who won? @UridiumAuthor or @llamasoft_ox ? Poll in thread.

@UridiumAuthor I loved this game! Suddenly finding myself wanting to play it again :-)

Happy 30th birthday to the Amiga A1200.

@Kostas_Zarifis Done!

Twitter friends! We've been climbing to the top slowly but steadily! Currently 2nd place! Please can you help us get to the top? All you need is a google account and literally 10 seconds of your time. Thank you! 🙏

I took my daughter to see this last November in London, and can confirm it was rather awesome!

Hugely honoured to receive the Breakthrough Prize alongside my wonderful colleague John Jumper! This is an incredible recognition of #AlphaFold and the impact it has already had - and a great credit to the amazing work and dedication of the entire AlphaFold team at @DeepMind

@notch I remember seeing you at the BAFTA game awards after receiving your fellowship. You were alone, so I drunkenly decided I needed to shake your hand and thank you for Minecraft. Your security gently steered me away, saving blushes, but this is an excellent opportunity to thank you!

Remember that time I accepted like seven awards on behalf of Minecraft in one day? Yeah it's just now starting to sink in. Absolutely wild ride.

@mmalex That was a Mucky Foot thing too! Ours evolved into an interactive system tray thingy called "Choke the Chicken", which showed everyone the global status of the chicken (choked/not choked). Prior to committing you'd choke it if it were free, then release it once done @tom_forsyth

why chicken? well... the lovely and long-suffering jean-claude (lead engine coder) was still learning english... what started as a call of 'checking-in!' slowly evolved intoa franglais inflected 'chicken!'... and stuck. ah, happy stupid gamedev memories.

suddenly reminded of the old (early, black&white 1 era) lionhead custom of shouting 'chicken!' across the openplan office. we were unfortunate enough to use VSS, you see, a product so bad it boggles the mind. committing new code was *non-atomic* so you needed to stop others...

New account, after bailing on my trusty old @MuckyGuy one.

Working in Objective-C today, what a lovely thing it is.

Announcing Oculus Connect, RakNet Open Source, and E3 2014 Awards! oculusvr.com/blog/announcin…