Alex Moore

@oldestpingu

Founder and Design Director of Lead Designer: Rogue Trooper • AvP2010 • The Persistence and more

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Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 8

@ianhigton.bsky.social I don’t think you usually review books but this one might interest you. And because today I’m wearing my favourite t-shirt 😀

Me wearing a T-Shirt with Alien written on it, with a picture of the titular HR Giger creation in all its glory.

It says est. 1979 which is for the film, only a year out from when I was born.

I wear this just in case I forgot that I worked on an Aliens game once.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 27

Sean Connery would take those odds

Headline from the bbc sports page declaring that Scotland have a 0.07% chance of making it into the knockout stages of the World Cup.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 22

I'd been hoping to finish A4 in time for the 30th Anniversary... but a super quick mix of A3 - from 2001 - will have to do. Without Quake I wouldn't be in the industry. Playing again today still feels as fresh as ever. @johnromero.bsky.social your legacy on this industry is IMMENSE

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Apr 26

The Wayfarers trilogy by Becky Chambers. They’re sci-fi but incredibly grounded and all feel very real. They’re set in the same universe but about different characters, so the order you read them doesn’t matter.

Three books written by Becky Chambers, “the long way to a small angry planet”, “a closed and common orbit” and “record of a spaceborn few”, which make up her Wayfarers Trilogy

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Feb 6

The version we use has had it since about November... unfortunately it hasn't solved all the world's issues but it doesn't blind us anymore.

Small grab of the options window from Unreal Game Sync (UGS) which a theme option

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jan 17

The cake was a success 🥳

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jan 16

Decided to try and make one of these, I really should’ve actually read the recipe before embarking on a 2 hour cake making journey 🤣 The icing is amazing though! Almost like making fudge to start… Shame my icing skills don’t live up to the taste

I made a cake, it took longer than expected

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Dec 31

Visited the Kielder Observatory last night, and completely lucked out with clear skies 🤩 (No filters, though obviously some magic computational work in the background on my iPhone to get these shots)

Kielder Observatory at night, ice forming on the wooden frame which slopes down on the right the the entrance to the Patrick Moore room.

It’s all gently lit with faint red lights in perfect contrast to the clear sky above.

Kielder Observatory, looking out through one of the hatches onto the night sky. The other observation room can be seen at the bottom, illuminated with faint red lights.

One of the telescopes at Kielder, aiming towards Orion’s Belt.

Again, all the man made areas are lit in faint red light so it doesn’t interfere with the view of the deep blue skies.

A shot of the moon, taken on an iPhone through the viewfinder of one of the telescopes at Kielder Observatory.

We were told this was around 87 times magnification.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Nov 9

Our squirrel has spent about a week checking this apple out before finally tucking in, so I’m sure yours will come back

A squirrel eating an apple on our garden table

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Nov 4

Wait… (no, they didn’t come clean. Why my kids love wearing white socks and running around on mud I’ll never know)

A pair of very dirty white socks soaking in a bath, which didn’t come clean

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Nov 4

I probably have more mundane than this, but here’s me mid-repairing our leaky flat roof

A very boring photo of our leaky flat roof, with a single line of waterproof sealant on

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Nov 4

I’ve broken my own rule of ignoring Christmas until after Bonfire Night, but in fairness, Amanda told me to brighten the dark corner in my office. (Print by the incredibly talented @bhaalspawn.bsky.social, buy her stuff!)

Christmas lights up already in my office, above a print of Amanda Ripley from Alien Isolation, by Yavin Prints on Etsy

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Oct 8

Bought a brand new book… and it’s come with its own train ticket as a bookmark 🧐

Cover of The Gamedev Business Handbook, along with a train ticket from 24th Feb 2019 from Ashtead to Ewell West

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Sep 8

Big skies!

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 22

Quick holiday trip to the zoo, but took my 17 year old Canon 450d out. The lens (a 28-135) has never been exactly crisp, but it’s strange how much I think I still prefer using a viewfinder to frame shots. Mild processing done in Apple Photos as Aperture no longer supported 😢

Elephant walking from stage left to right, with a fake waterfall behind

Two lizards, one very proud of itself with its claw firmly holding the head of the other in place, who is wearing an expression of “this… again?”

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 15

The sunflower is starting to look a little tired, but the bees seem very happy 😍

The sunflower, now on about day 12 since opening up. Deeper yellows now, but the outer petals are starting to droop a bit. A bee is merrily investigating it

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 4

The sunflower is holding up well and, honestly, after this week it feels like we all need a bit of sunshine ☀️

Close up of a fully opened up sunflower, with a darkening centre ring as it grows seeds for the next!

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 1

Working on placeholder assets, might be taking this concrete theme a bit far

Screengrab of my Apple Music, listening to Concrete by Dolores Forever, while working on a blender file of placeholder assets of concrete blocks - UV editor showing a lovely Quixel texture on a very basic block

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jul 1

Unreal crashed while deploying to my iPhone. Now the Platforms dropdown is just stuck on a loop of Querying devices that Xcode supports (I only have an iOS). Restarts haven't fixed this. Lucky I'm not trying to get something ready for Develop next week 🤦

Screen grab of the Platforms drop down in Unreal 5.6, stuck Querying every single device I can technically deploy to :/

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 30

I had far too much fun with this a few days ago; not exactly sure what I did but I did manage to get your second idea working - this returns the right size on mine. It is in the player character BP but is event triggered once spawned.

Snippet of an Unreal blueprint showing canvas panel then slot as canvas slot then finally get size

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 30

Sunflower update

Third photo of the sunflower, now fully open and looking very happy in this hot weather

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 29

How it started | How it’s going 🌻

The sunflower seed my son brought home from school, the first day it sprouted. It’s a tiny little green fleck

And a few months later, the sunflower now just starting to open up. It’s not the tallest sunflower but it’s still beautiful and makes me smile.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 19

This is my current favourite, though nobody wanted a hug today. Maybe just because it’s too hot? 🫠🧐

Me wearing a t-shirt that says “free hugs” along with an image of a face hugger from Aliens. Below that is the Weyland Yutani tagline “Building better worlds” and Established 1979.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 17

They’re lush… but I’d need a new mug 🤣

Picture of the mug my wife bought me, with a print of a Polestar 2 on it and the registration “Alex’s Baby” 😀

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 17

I've tried so many different ways of debugging blueprints, but this still seems to be the most reliable (turns out I wasn't dpi scaling my button size... works fine on device but was bugging me out when trying to test on PC)

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 3

Can I raise you with a rotating boat lift? (The Falkirk Wheel) empnefsysandtravel.com/wp-content/u...

The rotating boat lift in Falkirk, part way through a rotation

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· Jun 2

Might have gotten a little closer to the 3:30 target than I intended on this one 😀 But this is it - the final video in the series. Super happy to have got this far.

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· May 29

Tree roots or face hugger? 🫣

Close up of exposed tree roots that look like the legs of a face hugger from the Alien universe

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· May 21

"I'll just see if I can do simple motion graphics inside DaVinci" 4 hours later... 😭

Close up of a spline graph in DaVinci Fusion, which is now an absolute chaotic mess of lines

Alex Moore@oldestpingu· May 7

Just shy of 55,000 views a minute. Think it’s safe to say GTA IV will most likely sell quite well. And honestly: it deserves to. This all looks phenomenal.