I usually try to avoid mentioning my day-job on here, but it’s awesome to see our game popping up all over the place. Incredibly proud of the team and what we’ve done to rep Brisbane.

This is the kind of smart, dense, mixed-use urbanism you’ll only find in Australian cities.

The Big Sand desert party is happening this Saturday at the Red Rattler in Sydney, I'm super excited to show off what we've been working on 🏜️
events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

Love this Joker origin story

My talk on building open world game systems with World Partition in #UnrealEngine is finally up online! I was really worried about missing things on the day and yes I totally did, but I got most of it and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Link to full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuz...

My virtual sci-fi band played SXSW Sydney! Here's what happened. YouTube video by Big Sand

I've been working with my friend on a live show for a virtual band at the end of this month. This video goes into the fancy cameras, Unreal trickery, and puppetry that makes up the show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWV...

Had a really good time playing @doublefine.com’s Keeper, but my partner and I just spent the whole time arguing over which one of us would be the bird in the relationship.

This is just a frame from Twin Peaks.

Being social can feel impossible in this hyper-connected age, and as a community we need to come together and support each other in destroying all identification and disappearing in the wilderness for 8-10 years.

Whether you broke your ankle dancing the night away or have been uncontrollably foaming at the mouth, consider getting therapy when you get home.

It’s been an amazing week - an exhausting week. Take a moment to congratulate yourself on making it through.

It’s also important that we listen to our bodies coming away from these events. If it’s telling you that you need to faint and cough up blood, give yourself the patience and space to do so.

A beanie-clad individual at a lectern in front of a slide titled “who am I?”

A beanie-clad individual shrugging sheepishly to camera

I have survived the consequences of my actions

STREAMING & SERIALISATION FOR UNREAL OPEN WORLDS JONATHAN MOALLEM LEAD PROGRAMMER @ GAMELOFT BRISBANE Unreal Engine 5 provides built-in solutions for chunked streaming management, multi-user editing, instancing, and LODing with its World Partition systems. Theres a ton of great tunctionality to lean on that will get you 90% of the way to your open world game, but there's also a lot of glue and gotchas to look out for. This talk offers an overview of some of the systems and strategies we've used at Gameloft Brisbane to manage multi-platform, open world games, from schedule and world state to streaming and serialisation. TUE 7TH OCT @3PM

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

STREAMING & SERIALISATION FOR UNREAL OPEN WORLDS JONATHAN MOALLEM LEAD PROGRAMMER @ GAMELOFT BRISBANE Unreal Engine 5 provides built-in solutions for chunked streaming management, multi-user editing, instancing, and LODing with its World Partition systems. Theres a ton of great tunctionality to lean on that will get you 90% of the way to your open world game, but there's also a lot of glue and gotchas to look out for. This talk offers an overview of some of the systems and strategies we've used at Gameloft Brisbane to manage multi-platform, open world games, from schedule and world state to streaming and serialisation. TUE 7TH OCT @3PM

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

It’s so cool that the biggest game in the world right now is an Australian Indie

A white and green mug featuring a cheat sheet for the x86-64 calling conventions

New favourite mug! Compiler Explorer knocked it out of the park with this merch.

A newpaper titled Fantasy Town Daily with 2 articles, an ad, and a drawing of a scarecrow. Scarecrows Had The Final Straw All across our fields, farmers have awoken to a shock, as scarecrows have up and started walking about! Little is known of the scarecrows motives, but they have become territorial of their fields. On the advise of local agricultural and enchantment experts, the farmers guild have agreed to "Burn it all down and send those monsters back to the inferno." Townsfolk are warned they may notice a slight food shortage in the coming weeks, and to avoid wearing any overalls and sun hats for their own protection. The Orb of Awakening Local innkeeper Veronica Stalwart has gained supernatural powers after she touched an orb containing the soul of a long dead god while cleaning her attic. When asked about her intentions, she stated "I promise to use these powers for good, no matter WHAT the being inside of me says!" Donate Blood Today! Please, Don't ask Why!

Scarecrows are my personal favourite animated humanoid constructs

It’s honestly cost me more time than saved having used it for a while. It was almost never strictly faster than a few autocompletes and sometimes even recommended something that LOOKED reasonable enough only for me to say “wait a moment that’s not what I wanted to do at all!”.

Big Walk - Gameplay Overview YouTube video by House House

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵

Join us for a tour around our new game.
Coming 2026.

Map screen from Elden Ring highlighting Church of the Bud, Main Entrance.

I have spent this entire game being told to “touch grass” and now finally my time has arrived!

Special Edition of Fantasy Town Daily!

DnD is for Nerds has been a huge inspiration for the events in our game, and I've been so psyched to see how successful their new board game kickstarter has been.

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?

1/x

let's talk internships

in the past 5 years (when #gamedev industry money was flowing) there was loud discourse about offering paid internships only

in the era of studios scraping to get by, has this had a chilling effect on the # of internships offered? is this a problem?

share your thoughts

Beyond being potentially exploitative, it’s also a liability, and wrong to charge clients for the work of a pseudo-employee. Generally the intern should be getting way more out of the relationship than the business (who would be sacrificing time to educate them). Business work = junior or graduate

On the point of different definitions, I would suggest that internships do not have to be a paid program, but they should not have the individual working on anything providing business value. It’s a teaching opportunity provided by the employer to reach out to students; not a source of free labour

Craft 3D objects from Lua code in my new puzzle game “Replicube”, releasing in April, try the free demo now on Steam 🤓
s.team/a/3401490

The Woods Last Song: The notorious Princess Woodsong and her bloodthirsty band of furry friends have been brought to justice by our brave adventurers. The princess is awaiting trial for her crimes, including: • Insubordination • Unkemptness • Murder If sentenced, she will be locked in 'The Tower', an asylum for runaway princesses. DID YOU KNOW? The cost of a single health potion is enough to feed a family of five for a year! Donations to your local Guild Co. branch will increase start of next quarter, to help afford essential costs. GET A NEW FOCUSING CRYSTAL! Your spells will backfire no more!

Extra extra! Read all about it! Princess Woodsong has been brought to ‘justice’!

For-Profit (Creative) Software YouTube video by EndVertex

I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...

Fantasy Town Daily newspaper with the following articles: Princess Out for Revenge: Princess Woodsong, who apparently has been captured for six months, has grown tired of waiting for rescue. She was broken out by a band of befriended woodland creatures, who she has trained into a deadly miltia. Now, reports indicate she's out for revenge against the town for forgetting about her. Our correspondent from GuildCo. has reached out to clarify the situation: "We think her ransom note got caught in our spam filter. Think you might be Psychic? Get tested today, at any nearby inquisition outpost! Royal Spell Bans: Following a royal decree, the following spells have been banned from non-authorized use: • Zone of Tax Evasion • Repress Trauma • Powerword: Gaslight

Be careful out there, rogue deer WILL attack on sight!

Fantasy Town Regional Manager - Quality of Life Update v2.2.7 - Steam News We're back at it again making some little changes so the game is all up to date just in time for our biggest sale yet!

Just in time for the Steam sale, we’ve released a new patch cleaning up some of those small outstanding nitpicks that have been keeping us up at night.

Patch notes:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/152...