Maker of Videogames & Interactive Audio Archmagician. Created @DenkiGames and #GrandTheftAuto's radio stations. Owns too many guitars and not enough #bitcoin.
Dundee, Scotland
Joined December 2008
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One of the questions I still get asked most about #GrandTheftAuto is how we initially came up with the idea for the radio station format. Here's the answer I gave @AbertayUni alumni Dr Kenny McAlpine for his online course in 2017. Full video: futurelearn.com/info/courses… #GTA #GTA25
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Little known fact about the first office... that pole you can "just" see, used to be a "bar" where we had a swinging DMA Design logo swinging on it. But a couple of weeks after moving in, there was a storm and it got blown off, never to be seen again...
#DMADesign #1stOffice
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Our yearly DMA Design meal was, once again…. Lovely. We’ve been so lucky having such an amazing group of people to have worked with, and who helped create games that have truly changed the world. 😎
(Photo from David Patterson - aka, Mattrx Man)
It’s actually difficult to overstate how much of an influence Star Trek was on 90s Game Devs. We’d grown up with the original series and Next Gen was still weekly viewing. Put it this way, DMA Design’s server name was Enterprise, and the office alarm code was 1701. Thanks Gene 🫡
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VIDEO: Rare films show final days of ferries linking Dundee and Fife and opening of Tay Road Bridge dlvr.it/TTsPXd
I’m trying to figure out at what point I stopped understanding how to purchase things from vending machines. Their interfaces are now so poorly designed I’d honestly rather starve.
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The ex-DMA Design A3000 goes through it's first clean!
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I've used @evernote for at least 15 years, and it's been an integral part of my workflow during that time, but their latest doubling of subscription costs crossed my 'bang out of order' line, so now migrating on principle. Can highly recommend @joplinapp as an alternative.
“And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.” - Frankie Mouse
“Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I’m afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”
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You have got to be kidding me. Yesterday, medical data leaks. Today, passports.
Remind us again, @darrenpjones, why is it that a centralised ID database is such a good idea for the UK?
Stop gathering people's data, or delete it already!
I completed my response to this new Digital ID consultation last night, but was so angry (after watching @darrenpjones try to sell the policy) that I had to go further.
Full response from @bitcoinpolicyuk also drafted and sent in.
Conclusion? "The UK’s lack of a national identity system is far from a failure of modernisation, but should properly be thought of as a deeply rooted constitutional inheritance that reflects a fundamental principle: that the state serves the citizen, not the other way around. The Prime Minister spoke early on in his premiership about ‘treading more lightly on all our lives’. Digital ID is in fact more akin to the boot at the conclusion of Orwell’s ‘1984’, stamping on a human face, forever."
h/t to @BigBrotherWatch as ever.
Oh my goodness - this looks amazing! Thanks for sharing @euanwilliamson - can't wait to check it out now!
Here’s one example of why I still buy music on CD. I want to listen to Going For The One and Tormato by @yesofficial on a flight today. On @Spotify, Going For The One has a track missing, and Tormato has a dozen extra tracks I don’t want 🤷♂️ Artist CD’s plus @plex FTW! 💪🤘
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Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out engt.co/4dMSTHZ
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Sophie Raworth: ‘I’ve run marathons for 15 years – these are the 7 key lessons I’ve learned along the way’ runnersworld.com/uk/training…
Everyone knows Colins are higher in fat content, but we are also the sweetest, so it’s worth the trade 😇 Accept no substitute!
🐛 It’s the treat that turns up at birthdays, office parties and family celebrations across the UK… but which caterpillar cake is the best?
We tested 9 supermarket caterpillar cakes in a blind-taste test panel of 75 people to find out 👇
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ALT A cute caterpillar-shaped cake with a chocolate covering, adorned with colorful candies on top and a smiling face at one end, displayed on a wooden board. The text below reads: "Best caterpillar cakes: Colin vs supermarket rivals" and "Which?".
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A Mars Bar cost 28p in 2000.
Today it's £1.05, and it's 18% smaller.
Price up 275%. Size down 18%.
Most people accept this as normal. It shouldn’t be.
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Progress update.
96 pages, up from 70.
The Hobbit, 10500 words up from 5000.
Level 9, 12500 words up from 6000.
9 new pieces of artwork.
#textadventure
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The Classic Adventurer: Issue 01 Remaster.
A new Hobbit cover.
Updated interviews with Veronika Megler, John Jones-Steele and Level 9.
New artwork.
Coming soon!
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