Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games
@andrewfray
Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies.
Orleanists: want a Parisian who descends from the last king of France, King Louis Phillipe. So called because this guy is the head of the house of Orleans. Good head for a king, actually French, not related to the loser of waterloo. If I had to pick, I might be an Orleanist too.
Bonapartists: “napoleon bonaparte” exists and he’s married to the aristocracy in Austria. But why the descendant of a despotic general is a good idea is beyond me. ❌
I’ve now read too much Wikipedia about the competing lines for the vacant French throne: Legitimatists: their guy is literally a Spaniard living in Spain, get a grip. Plus, Phillip II literally gave up his claim in the treaty of Utrecht. ❌ He does look very Kingy though.
This is spectacular on the real problems with games industry budgets and project length. www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
If the astrologers are correct, there’s about six hours until this big stick knocks the hot ball from the sky and we can finally relax. Join me in giving praise to the stick. All hail the stick, bringer of darkness.
I guess that’s why they call it BRIGHTon Say hi if you’re at develop too!
Held the photo up to the bins when I got home, it’s a little better
If you’re wondering what the bright star next to the moon is, it’s Jupiter
forgive the very linkedin-coded post, but I'll be at @developconference.com in brighton, and if you want to chat about how I help developers improve their shipping experience through automatedaf.dev, dm me!
this is far from the biggest deal in the world, but Develop Brighton's registration page will automatically Capital Case words. I hope no-one from XBOX is attending!
my post that did the biggest numbers in the old place was ironically talking about how the numbers should be smaller
Unreal has a commandlet to run data validation against your assets, which is great for CI. If you need to _exclude_ some assets from validation, you can add the below to DefaultEditor.ini. This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere! Luckily I read asset validation pipelines for fun. #unrealtips
The musical kids got their elpheba sex cardigan. Now the space nerds get their grace science cardigan. The people crave cosy knitwear.
I still suspect that the white ring lock-on from dark souls was programmer art. It’s so incongruous with the rest of the UI.
Forgive me for LinkedIning on main, but proud to be adding another GDC speaker’s badge to the pile, and looking forward to a week of bone-melting jetlag
My flight home from GDC is not until the evening, so I just uber’d to Baker Beach, then walked up under the Golden Gate Bridge, across crissy field, to fisherman’s wharf and a well-deserved in-and-out burger
The Sony car is outside my hotel window I guess
Getting a Mel’s out of the way early in the week, so I don’t have to worry about it later
So begins mission Stay Awake For At Least A Bit
This weekend is the last for subbing a talk to Qualicon! This is a great virtual conf focused on quality and games, and there's a track just for automation. The submission is only 300 words! I'd love to hear about your scrappy-yet-effective automation solutions. gamequality.org/qualicon/202...
The axis cube and the ghost cube are other great examples! Both of these are 3x3!
working with a US client, figured I'd try to add a world clock to the win11 widgets. nope, nothing there. the clock app has a world clock! and you can Pin To Start! ah that must be useful! ...why. who designed this. what happened.
StoryGraph’s summary stuff is half-broken but here’s all this year’s books. Wolf Hall is an instant all-timer; have been gorging on the third over the Christmas break. 26 books is even with last year, I think that’s about my level after three or four years of linear increases.
The most important bin in my Lego organiser is the “bits that can pass for wings” bin
I wondered why one of my fave @puzzmo.com puzzles, Wordbind, never left Experimental, and then they announced they were sunsetting it. Turns out the reason wasn't that it was unpopular or buggy - they just ran out of unique puzzles! There's no scale to it for a daily site like puzzmo. Interesting!