Simon Barratt

Very proud that we managed to raise £13,569 for @SpecialEffect at our annual @developconf party this year! Thanks to everyone who came along for another great evening & to our generous sponsors (@CoopInnovations, @Escape_Tech, @Centroid3D, @maginteractive and @HiroCapital) xx

📣 RE:FORMAT week is here!!!📣 This Thursday, kick off the FORMATGG 2025 event season with our RE:FORMAT x Gaming Rally | Game Industry Summit taking place in our home town of Manchester! 🐝 150+ games industry leaders join us for a day of epic networking. 4 more sleeps!! 🧡

A new paper by @Cambridge_Uni academics across economics, policy and ML says the UK government should rethink their proposal on AI and copyright cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

@tinastowell @alexgkendall @jameswise @Erin_Platts @Barney_H_Y @leoringer @vriparbelli @Springcoil @paulbz Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who gave evidence, especially those at 'the coal-face', including : @alexgkendall @jameswise @Erin_Platts @Barney_H_Y @leoringer @vriparbelli @Springcoil @barog @paulbz. I salute all tech start-ups & hope our inquiry helps breakdown barriers so they scale!

UK has a serious problem: we're great at AI and createch start-ups but bad at supporting them to scale. We lose too many great firms and our greatest talent overseas. We're becoming an 'incubater economy'. This needs to change if we're really serious about economic growth. 🧵1/

Green-Bit is hiring Senior C++ Programmers, a Full-Stack web dev and a Project/Product Manager - help us optimise the worlds software! greenbit-jobs.notion.site/greenbitsoftwa…

We are live now with @CoopInnovations, @aflorithmic, @synthesiaIO. We'll be discussing their experiences scaling up creative technology businesses in the UK. Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/a9…

@pikapies @LukeD I think I described myself as the ‘not a fan of AI training methods’ and one of the committee said I was the first founder they’d had to speak negatively / support the EU’s cautious approach

@LukeD @barog Oh for sure, I'm so happy to see UKIE are there too!

“Creative technology” and its two genAI slop machines. 🤮

Ghost Town announced for Quest, PS VR2 & PC VR 🧩 Single-player VR puzzler 👻 Play as ghost hunter, Edith Penrose 🕰️ From The Room devs, @Fireproof_Games Wishlists are live: Meta: buff.ly/40qelvm PS VR2: buff.ly/40soEiO PC VR: buff.ly/3YJuxXm

As widely rumoured, the UK government is considering legalising gen AI training on copyrighted work without a licence. This would be a huge betrayal of the UK’s creators. It would mean letting AI companies use creators’ work to build highly scalable AI models that will directly compete with them. This cannot be allowed. All UK creators, and the millions of people who benefit from the brilliant work that comes from the UK’s creative industries, should oppose this. ft.com/content/26bc3d…

HOLY $%@# WE SIGNED A PUBLISHER. Microprose is publishing Cleared Hot 🤯😮 Our nostalgic helicopter game is growing up. RTs appreciated, Wishlist it on Steam! I grew up playing Microprose games. This feels a bit unreal. Thanks to everyone who got us this far 🙏

@j_bikker Hah, I had the same flashback ♥️

@reduzio It's a shame we didn't spend more time geeking out on old school stuff at gamescom ;)

@iBrews I feel it’ll be biased by the fun weekend I had in New Orleans before everyone showed up lol! I was pleased I got to see two groups of people and have an extended stay in the US for once! Biz wise hard to say ROI wise but as you know well us VR folks stick together :)

@barog How was last year for you Simon? Are you glad you did both ?

Ok. Just got this and certainly happy to be invited but I’ve had my Unreal Fest travel booked for a while now and I’m not sure I want to deal with changing everything (Epic is also covering my flight to Seattle). Change my mind ?

My talk on Procedural Content Generation is live! I strongly recommend this talk regardless of where you're at because I deliberately went through from nothing to a pretty comprehensive scene with some tricks I don't really see online normally. youtu.be/ncokCVoN-oU?si…

@iBrews Proximity / region based disabling of recording / photo features soon I think. Could be context specific. Food photos fine, photo of person you’re with or know (from database), blur people in background, videos disabled, calls disabled. Use your phone otherwise.

here's the biggest problem with AR glasses: if you want to wear them all the time and have them also function as prescription glasses, they can't have any audio or video recording device because it will always make people feel uncomfortable in certain situations. solution ?

@alexsobel @LeedsHospitals Get well soon!

Massive thanks to the nurses, doctors, porters and all the staff at @LeedsHospitals St James for their care and treatment. I’m out of surgery and starting my recovery. Please continue to contact me as normal.

@DevRelCallum Yup this is what I got then I got kicked out saying I'd reserved too many.. then back to the queue at 100,000

StubHub saying over 12,000 tickets for resale.. £600+

@Sky_Blue_Steve @highscal :(

@barog @highscal I got kicked out to, even after they offered me 3 tickets

I think @highscal blog needs a Ticketmaster breakdown / challenge and some kind of traffic simulation for someone to prove they can do better.. how can confirming ticket availability spin for 15 mins before timing out?