@timboc_

Interactive/realtime/visuals/games/tools/dev @timboc.bsky.social

 Oxford, England
Joined September 2011
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Doing visuals at Glasto for Bonobo using our software - sweet! 🥳👌@ExperienceVolta
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The free demo for Order of the Sinking Star has been going great -- people really like it! We will upload Part 2 for you on Friday morning, but if you haven't tried it yet, you may want to get in there and play before the new puzzles drop! store.steampowered.com/app/4…

Steam Store

Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

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This! Especially if dirt rally sim is your vibe, definitely pick it up. I was fortunate to briefly work with the (very small) team who are lovely and have been working mega hard on this for years. Wishing them every success.
🧃Thomas Reisenegger_xcx@OlimaJun 10
this brutal & realistic rally sim on space planets is made by a tiny dev team (2-person core team) - inspired by brutal off-road rally like Dakar, Baja etc - no roads. no authored racing line. just you and a stupidly powerful rover - career mode, car & stage editor, leaderboards
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Hobby project in the process of going rogue 😅- why not create a quick web app that can interpolate vectors via sdf representations, warning of laser cutting issues like islands and too small bridges with tooling to fix
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Looking for work again in case anyone's willing to signal boost! Mostly C#/Unity/@threejs but interested in all interactive things that move ✨ Finally updated my portfolio (small threejs site of course) - link in thread 🙏
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Portfoilo: timwatts.work

Tim Watts | Creative Technologist / Lead Unity Developer

Creative Technologist / Lead Unity Developer working across Unity games, tools, installations, VR/XR and real-time interactive systems.

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Bit of experimentation, messing about making some brush inky thing in @threejs 🖌️
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Fullscreen Exclusive - Avoids the Windows desktop compositor - Historically made significant difference to latency - much less so these days - Effectively the default for Consoles - Monitor & OSes can take a very long time (seconds) to switch resolution and refresh rates - Pain
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✨Wrap-up✨ Borderless windowed mode isn’t niche — players and streamers actively want it. The APIs are old. The OS rules are subtle. The hard part isn’t calling the functions — it’s understanding how the OS actually behaves.
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The Win32 calls we all LLM our way to are fine, but there is nuance around DPI, input capture etc (that a lot of us can ignore). It feels like a place where engines could reasonably step in and finish the abstraction. Until then, hopefully this was a useful summary!
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🧵 Unsexy Game Dev #1 Display modes — notes from Streetdog Most PC games today default to borderless fullscreen. In practice, on Windows 10/11, this means: “a top-level borderless window, sized to the desktop, presented through the compositor.” That detail matters👇
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Adding a top region (or button) mouse-draggable area becomes necessary - unless an immovable window was the goal!
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Windowed - Borderless - Usually requires manual Win32 api calls eg SetWindowPos(hWnd, IntPtr.Zero, 0, 0, w, h, SWP_FRAMECHANGED | SWP_NOMOVE); - Timing can be a bit tricky in conjunction with using Unity APIs (wait a frame after calls to eg SetResolution)
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Windowed mode (who actually wants this?) - Esp useful for streamers and multi-taskers - Can help with some multi-monitor setups - BUT, damn that window chrome is ugly
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What FullScreenWindow means on Windows (Unity & Unreal) - A borderless HWND - Sized to the desktop resolution - Managed by DWM (the compositor) - Looks fullscreen, still a window - No monitor res/refresh-rate switches so fast and alt-tab friendly - Immovable and on top by design
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Streetdog BMX is live! @yeahusgames has totally smashed this out the park with this one - if Nintendo did BMX - all support greatly appreciated (steam link in reply)
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store.steampowered.com/app/2…

Streetdog BMX on Steam

Get ready for massive tricks, high scores, and gnarly slams in Streetdog BMX. Carve your way through six huge maps featuring hidden spots, handcrafted challenges, and flowing lines!

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So for anyone wating for it... I release the Steam review guesser thing on Github: github.com/LooveToLoose/Jona…

GitHub - LooveToLoose/Jonas-Review-Guesser: Chrome extension that turns Steam into a review guesser...

Chrome extension that turns Steam into a review guesser game. - LooveToLoose/Jonas-Review-Guesser

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I've been inspired to note each acronym I've hit, a few days into web, coming back after some years: SST WSL IAM SSO TS CSR SSR (not reflections) HMR ISR MPA PWA SPA SSG LID PID DRF
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Bonus ones used this week: OSC, CDK, SVG, UID, ENV, URI, CDN, CDK, IDE, NPM, AWS. Plus the mundane CLI, FPS, GPU, OBJ, PNG, JPG. Not to mention the specific Svelte, Vite, Routes etc
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Quick #unity3d editor script (link in comment) - help team-mates commit all the files. ** Warns if files staged in Git reference assets that only exist locally. ** No idea how useful or annoying it might be tbh
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github.com/BoxOfClicks/Unity…

GitHub - BoxOfClicks/UnityGitCommitChecker: Editor script to detect when a user has missed staging...

Editor script to detect when a user has missed staging a dependency that the staged files depend on - BoxOfClicks/UnityGitCommitChecker

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