Matt Phillips
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Lead Programmer - Red Dead Redemption for PC/Switch/PS4 - @DoubleElevenLtd . Graphics programming. Creator of @tanglewoodgame , ex-Crytek/TT Games.
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Excited to FINALLY reveal I've been leading the development of Red Dead Redemption for Switch and PS4, coming 17th August! The care we've put into this port is like nothing we've ever done before and I'm so SO proud of my team ❤️
On August 17, the beloved Western experience Red Dead Redemption and its horror companion Undead Nightmare arrive together for the first time on the Nintendo Switch and modern PlayStation systems.
Add Red Dead Redemption to your wish list now:
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My proudest moment. Fully playable, native 4K port of TimeSplitters 2 hidden in this arcade machine in Homefront: The Revolution.
Today’s Easter: game devs, please respond with the best Easter eggs you ever hid in a game! 🥚✨
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In LEGO Lord of the Rings on PS3, the hobbits shrink. Very, very, very slowly.
If you adjust your power settings and leave the game running overnight, they'll only come up to Gandalf's shins.
What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
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"Sorry my compiler is in French :/" is one of the best error messages I've seen
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Vehicle game, launch title for a console with an AWFUL optical drive. When hitting a boost pickup the drive couldn't keep up with the demands of the world streaming.
So we made boost just widen the FOV and apply some *woooooosh* sound effects. The car remains at the same speed.
Now that Twitter is actually going to die you legally need to admit your game dev sins
I have hidden abstracted versions of Loss in older projects and you’ll NEVER find them.
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Let's write a game for the original PlayStation, a thread:
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Proud to have been a part of the team bringing this to PC
Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare coming to PC October 29.
With a host of PC-specific features, including native 4k resolution, Ultrawide and Super Ultrawide monitor support, and much more:
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Finally got off my ass and went to IKEA. These babies are doomed to cardboard boxes NO MORE.
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As a 15 year+ games programmer with 24 triple-A titles released on every Nintendo, Microsoft, and PlayStation machine under the sun, neither I nor anyone else in my field has *ever* used "teraflop" as a unit of measurement of any kind. Just drop the word, it's utterly meaningless
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For the love of God, please stop putting progress bars on your CVs. You can't 100% C++ like it's Uncharted 4.
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"sO 90% oF GaMeS sHoUlDn'T gEt AwArDs ThEn?"
Correct.
"LoL sO sHoUlD wE dO ThIs WiTh MoViEs ToO?"
Yes.
"So CyBeRpUnK tHe BeSt GaMe oF ThE CenTuRy sHoUlDn'T wIn AnY aWaRdS lMAOLOL??"
Did I stutter?
Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don’t Deserve ‘Best Direction’ Awards
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The demons of hell are twisted... but your neck doesn't have to be!
Introducing TOOM: the tate-mode DOOM experience for IBM PC compatibles and portrait monitors!
Thanks to
@Bhaal_Spawn
and
@AngryBossBee
for help, and
@lazygamereviews
for inspiration!
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"Ship it!" will never not be funny. It is the evergreen gamedev joke. You will crowbar it from my cold dead hands.
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My little game for SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive is 60% off on Steam right now.
ROM file included if you'd prefer to play on emulators/Everdrive.
RT's appreciated ♥️
#sega
#megadrive
#gamedev
#SteamAutumnSale
#RETROGAMING
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My mum just found this photo of me opening Sonic 3D! I had l idea this picture existed. I'll treasure it forever.
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So I signed contracts for a new place today, then refreshed my email...
Bear witness to the most satisfying reply in the history of email communications technology.
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Walked into a pub wearing a Dreamcast t-shirt, met ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF THE SH-4 PROCESSOR. Unreal evening.
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It's probably about time this small fact came out, too: I ported the network stack to ride on top of HF:TR's co-op mode. If, and that's a big if, anyone was able to hack two or more arcades into one of the co-op maps, it'll boot to the multilayer menu.
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@lunasorcery
Render models. We tracked it down to some superfluous scale operation of 1.0f, but whatever maths we were doing made it scale by 1.0-epsilon (I think a half float optimisation gone wrong?). Got a picture somewhere, I'll try and find it.
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@TanFlo1997
The unlock code has been lost to time, I don't have the notebook with it in any more. I once gave it to a friend to leak in some Discord channel and they called him a liar and banned his account ahahah
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IT WORKS! It actually bloody works. C++ as a scripting system, compiled to 68000, running on Mega Drive, via the LUMINARY engine. All boilerplate auto-generated, and compiler built into editor.
Here's a script that grabs the PhysicsChar component and sets Sonic's ground speed.
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Not enough aspiring game developers know this and I think it's important that it becomes common knowledge - your very own Xbox One/Series S|X console can be a fully licensed devkit for just $19, and you can start getting console dev experience right away
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One fully refurbished Sophia devkit. So so so happy to have it repaired, it's been wasting away in a box with leaky caps for years. Massive thanks to
@A3rgan
!
Going to see if it shows up on the SCSI bus later, then go and find my CartDev to see if I can get Hello World running.
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I'm in absolute AWE that LGR not only covered it, but in a dedicated video, and on the main channel. Holy hell.
TOOM. IT EXISTS.
In my Oddware vid on the Radius Pivot, I showed how games like Doom aren't designed for portrait mode. I also said it would be dumb/fun if something like 'Tate Doom' actually existed, and TOOM is the result! A vertical mode Doom for DOS!
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What's important for the quality of our games in new hardware: good devkits, the latest C++ and shader compilers, an excellent suite of CPU and GPU profiling tools, fast iteration times, no gimmicks.
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This is absolutely surreal. I just walked into Game, and found my game.
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Lots of RAM, and as modern a CPU and GPU as is reasonable certainly helps, depending on the type of game you're making, but we've hit the ceiling for visual fidelity vs. time/budget/staff requirements, and bigger specs won't solve this.
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The end of an era. About to solder the last two Tanglewood carts.
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Christ, this hit a nerve? I have no "side" here, I want all consoles to be amazing and sell well. I'm baffled as to how this arbitrary number continues to be held up on a pedestal when it has no meaning to the quality of the games or the process by which they're made.
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Dear PC manufacturers, please stop putting the power and reset buttons on the top of the case. I have a cat.
Yours sincerely,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGHH.
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This is a Net Yaroze. It was a COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE (!) PlayStation development kit for schools and hobbyists, released in 1997, for around $750 American dollars, or £550 in real money.
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Well, it's taken around 10 years, but I finally acquired the holy grail of dev hardware. Please welcome the Net Yaroze to the Big Evil family! Looks like it was just used as a region free PlayStation all its life; the dev stuff is all sealed!
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Monthly PSA: go through your retro console collection and CUT THE BATTERIES OUT, they are slowly killing your machines.
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@flibitijibibo
bool IsNegative(int val)
{
char* str = new char[128];
sprintf(str, "%i", val);
return str[0] == '-';
}
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Challenge: don't think of the theme tune.
This one STUNG. Will look a bit better when the swelling goes down.
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I dunno how feasible that is though, since it's all server authoritative and they never offered dedicated servers.
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So drunk me bought sober me a present. It just arrived.
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It's also a very janky prototype. One TimeSplitters byte == one CryEngine packet. But for a 2003 game that's probably not a lot of traffic today.
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So now is as good a time as any to announce I'm in TiTAN demo group. No, I've no idea how it happened. Yes, I'm in way over my head. Here's my initiation package! One Mega Drive dev board, the same used on Overdrive 2.
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Crunch causes more bugs than it fixes. Tired programmers can't code.
These publishers have A LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY. Their shareholders take home eight figures. They can absolutely afford more time, more staff, more equipment. They can afford to restructure PR campaigns.
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So these "frame spikes" I've been debugging for the last hour... are caused by rendering the frame spike graph. I'm going to bed.
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Today is a very, very big day. I'm only allowed to show so much, but with
@BitmapBureau
's permission I'll be dropping a few small tidbits over the weekend. I'm excited!
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I'd love to know what kind of rigs are running PS Now. Server room full of rackmount PS3 devkits? Emulation? Recompilation?
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Emulation is important, and piracy is bad. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Some *weird* takes from this latest drama...
Buy the cool game, but also play it however you damn well please.
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Pleased to announce I'm now a lead programmer at
@DoubleElevenLtd
, and also project lead on a super secret thing! I'd been contracting there for a few years, loved it enough to go full time.
Still making stupid retro games don't worry ;)
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Just for a massive laugh and no other reason, I modified my Mega Drive emulator to support 32:9 aspect ratios for my housemate's ridiculous monitor. We've had a giggle at a few games, however...
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I'm throwing down the gauntlet to Sonic ROM hackers to make new content for the Sonic & Knuckles lock-on cart.
Here is my hijack that allows you to boot to user code contained in the top cartridge. You can even access the S&K data ;)
#megadrive
#gamedev
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The Mega Drive isn't truly 16-bit; the 68000 CPU is hybrid 16/32-bit, and why the SEGA marketing team didn't run with that and bleed it dry I will never understand until my dying days. They had a golden goose sitting right there.
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End of an era. Goodbye to the Big Evil Office! Happy to announce that as of today, all employees are now fully WFH.
(Me. I am all employees.)
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Okay got Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast dev stations running on Win 95, 98, and 7 (Win2k HDD died!). Need some KBM switches next, and a scart switch so I can run them all through the OSSC, and arm mount for the TV.
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Setting up the console side is easy - pop the access card into the memory card slot, the boot disc into the CD drive, the data cable into the serial port, and fire it up. I'm using an OSSC here to make those pixels look extra sexy on my PC monitor.
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On this day 12 years ago, I started TANGLEWOOD. Codename 'Project Watershed' was supposed to release in 2013! A bit ambitious.
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You could supercharge your dev environment for an extra 90 bucks, by purchasing the Codewarrior IDE and debugger (image not mine). These days that luxury costs approximately 100 billion pounds so I'm going to improvise instead with Notepad++ and good ol' printf() debugging.
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This is the most needlessly complex dev setup SEGA could have conceived, anybody got any work done I'll never know. This isn't even its final form, by the way, there's an EVA unit to fit next, and for dual CPU debugging you need a Hitachi E7000 debugger attached and a SECOND PC.
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Just been reminded that I own the world's greatest PS2 controller.
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100% neutral in whatever cat fight you got going on, kids. I release on all of them, I quite literally couldn't give a toss who's "winning" by some arbitrary metric you plucked from the spec sheet, it's not gonna make the games better.
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And there's the money shot, whatever it is! A person? Need to figure out filtering and calm that lighting down.
Anyway, we got everything we need for a simple game: graphics, and gamepad input. Going to make something basic with it tomorrow!
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For the dev PC, I'm using a Pentium II running Windows 98 SE. Installation is as simple (...see previous thread, ahah...) as copying the contents of the dev CD to your hard disk, and editing a batch file to point to its location.
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"AI powered" jesus christ, it's an assembly line, we've had them since the 1940's. Like calling my toaster sentient.
And that pizza looks basic ass boring.
This AI powered pizza robot from a Seattle startup named Picnic can assemble 300 perfect pizzas an hour
#CES2020
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Charity shop score! Ten English pounds.
There's a Wii for £7 if anyone's interested. Barnardo's Chorlton.
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BOOM! Here we go, knew I had one somewhere. Welcome to the family, my new SEGA Saturn development machine. Hope it boots :(
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Getting this Psy-Q SEGA Saturn development kit working today. Just a few progress photos, won't be doing as big thread like usual, too hungry:
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Missing from my kit is the official Net Yaroze gamepad, here's an eBay photo. Like other PS1's, you can use any original or Dual Shock pad, including PS2 pads, so I'm not so bothered.
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For the six hundred and eighty millionth time - "The Cloud" is just an annoying marketing term for "Someone Else's Computer". Your code, videos, photos, music, games, could just be wiped tomorrow if they don't feel like they're making money off it.
Backup your stuff.
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I paid far, far too much for this. A once in a lifetime opportunity, though.
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And here's that bouncing ball demo, which also shows off gamepad input, image loading, sprite drawing, and CD audio. Great!
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Car boot sale haaauuuuuul! £10 all in. All MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups disks, all manuals. Just a broken hinge, should be fixable.
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It's world mental health day. A poignant time to pick this back up and actually get it finished and released.
Tanglewood nearly killed me. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, the worst crunch I ever put myself through, and the effects will stay with me for years.
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So, I'm probably going to write a cross-platform framework along with this. An "engine", if you will, that allows my game to compile and run on PC. Then Saturn. Then N64. Probably.
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@The_Ti_
Dambusters' parent studio bought the license again recently, so it's back home where it belongs. There's hope.
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Watched the Netflix gaming thing. It's very... American.
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@MikeDiver
Dambuster Studios was Crytek UK was Free Radical. We still had the source and the rights. Started as an office joke, like they all do...
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2022 was the best year of my life so far, but most of the reasons why are under NDA ahahah 🥲
Also bought a house, paid off my student loan, cleared all credit cards, properly settled back into Manchester, got some old friends back, relationship is amazing.
Happy new year ❤️
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The CD comes with the most basic of samples - Hello World, and a bouncing ball demo. To compile these, you just run the batch file to set up the environment, then type 'make'. This environment uses the DJGPP compiler. Retro!
That gives us tuto0 and tuto1 compiled binaries.
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Don't work on the same game for 8 years, it does things to your head.
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Everyone's gone awfully quiet about teraflops lately huh, I wonder why that is
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"Well akchually T poses are far superior because it lets you..."
"I was Kratos' fucking hairdresser. Sit down."
I was lead character artist at Ubisoft on the preproduction of Assassins Creed. I made Rocksteady's Batman for the pitch to DC. I was lead character artist on Unreal Tournament 2004. I made the first Dragonage Grey Warden for the launch trailer...
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So what shall we make? Contrary to popular belief, nothing on the Net Yaroze is "locked off" in any way. It can use all of the PS1 RAM (plus an extra 1.5mb for program binary), the full 3D capabilities, audio features and save functions.
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200 case covers, all the wrong size. Would be a shame to throw them. Anyone up for a nice framed wall piece?
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