Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me
Game developer @foldedfox.games | Previously: Bad North, Little Nightmares, LittleBigPlanet | He/Him
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Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me
· Sep 26
RTM Blueprint Exceptions
A plugin providing a clean and easy way to implement Blueprint Exceptions in your UE5 codebase, from Blueprints or cpp code, with automatic breakpointing on errors and integration with the Message Log...
www.fab.com
Also in exciting news: I've published my little blueprint exceptions plugin on the Fab store. It lets you raise blueprint exceptions from Blueprints and CPP using Assert and Verify behaviors. With support for auto-breakpointing on errors and custom diagnostic messages
www.fab.com/listings/e3a...
www.fab.com/listings/e3a...
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🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
February 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
If that's a double rocks glass, which it really looks like, then that's almost half a bottle of hard liquor being recommended there
And like, who amongst us, right? But maybe it should be a less-than-reputable friend, or your own inner demons, encouraging this, like God intended? Not a fucking app
And like, who amongst us, right? But maybe it should be a less-than-reputable friend, or your own inner demons, encouraging this, like God intended? Not a fucking app
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
If that's a double rocks glass, which it really looks like, then that's almost half a bottle of hard liquor being recommended there
And like, who amongst us, right? But maybe it should be a less-than-reputable friend, or your own inner demons, encouraging this, like God intended? Not a fucking app
And like, who amongst us, right? But maybe it should be a less-than-reputable friend, or your own inner demons, encouraging this, like God intended? Not a fucking app
February 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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the "Isla de Muerta" pattern of UI design: functionality that cannot be found save by those who already know where it is
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
the "Isla de Muerta" pattern of UI design: functionality that cannot be found save by those who already know where it is
FINALLY, they've stopped blaming us innocent millenials for ruining the economy and can focus on the real culprits, people younger than me!
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 AM
FINALLY, they've stopped blaming us innocent millenials for ruining the economy and can focus on the real culprits, people younger than me!
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In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
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Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.
Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.
www.readtpa.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.
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Streisand Effect in action with this online age verification thing. I've just found out what "porn" is (pictures of people shagging!!) and it's brilliant. A real own goal for Keir Starmer if you ask me. But don't bother asking me, I'll be too busy enjoying "porn"! 😎
July 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Streisand Effect in action with this online age verification thing. I've just found out what "porn" is (pictures of people shagging!!) and it's brilliant. A real own goal for Keir Starmer if you ask me. But don't bother asking me, I'll be too busy enjoying "porn"! 😎
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I've got 90 slides of magic tricks prepped for my @officialgdc.bsky.social talk, How We Draw a 3D Sprite World: The Stylized Art of Never’s End
Join on March 10th to find out how @hypersect.com is making a fully 3D world feel like hand-drawn pixel art! #GDC2026
schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
Join on March 10th to find out how @hypersect.com is making a fully 3D world feel like hand-drawn pixel art! #GDC2026
schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I've got 90 slides of magic tricks prepped for my @officialgdc.bsky.social talk, How We Draw a 3D Sprite World: The Stylized Art of Never’s End
Join on March 10th to find out how @hypersect.com is making a fully 3D world feel like hand-drawn pixel art! #GDC2026
schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
Join on March 10th to find out how @hypersect.com is making a fully 3D world feel like hand-drawn pixel art! #GDC2026
schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
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Get Relooted today on
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...
The Epic Games Store: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/relo...
Xbox Play Anywhere & Xbox Game Pass: www.xbox.com/en-za/games/...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...
The Epic Games Store: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/relo...
Xbox Play Anywhere & Xbox Game Pass: www.xbox.com/en-za/games/...
Relooted on Steam
Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you...
store.steampowered.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Get Relooted today on
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...
The Epic Games Store: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/relo...
Xbox Play Anywhere & Xbox Game Pass: www.xbox.com/en-za/games/...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...
The Epic Games Store: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/relo...
Xbox Play Anywhere & Xbox Game Pass: www.xbox.com/en-za/games/...
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We weren't able to get funding for ENGINE ANGEL and I've been laid off from Ivy Road, so I'm looking for new full-time animation work (New reel is below! YT link: youtu.be/S4QWqyw_vEs)
Everyone else laid off in the thread are amazing people and great at what they do so please hire them ASAP!!
Everyone else laid off in the thread are amazing people and great at what they do so please hire them ASAP!!
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We weren't able to get funding for ENGINE ANGEL and I've been laid off from Ivy Road, so I'm looking for new full-time animation work (New reel is below! YT link: youtu.be/S4QWqyw_vEs)
Everyone else laid off in the thread are amazing people and great at what they do so please hire them ASAP!!
Everyone else laid off in the thread are amazing people and great at what they do so please hire them ASAP!!
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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IF I SHIT MYSELF EVERY MINUTE, AND YOU ONLY POOP ONCE A DAY, WHO IS GOING TO WIN?
I'm going to win.
February 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
IF I SHIT MYSELF EVERY MINUTE, AND YOU ONLY POOP ONCE A DAY, WHO IS GOING TO WIN?
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This piece is deeply depressing and also extremely dumb?
She says she makes six figures because she pumped out hundreds of books with AI. But the books aren’t how she’s making that. She “offers a course” on how to churn out AI slop books and charges people for it.
So, a bog standard grift
She says she makes six figures because she pumped out hundreds of books with AI. But the books aren’t how she’s making that. She “offers a course” on how to churn out AI slop books and charges people for it.
So, a bog standard grift
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This piece is deeply depressing and also extremely dumb?
She says she makes six figures because she pumped out hundreds of books with AI. But the books aren’t how she’s making that. She “offers a course” on how to churn out AI slop books and charges people for it.
So, a bog standard grift
She says she makes six figures because she pumped out hundreds of books with AI. But the books aren’t how she’s making that. She “offers a course” on how to churn out AI slop books and charges people for it.
So, a bog standard grift
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This is a pretty good example why, even outside of creative, if I find out your business uses AI at any point in your workflow, I lose 90% confidence.
It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.
It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.
I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny
February 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
This is a pretty good example why, even outside of creative, if I find out your business uses AI at any point in your workflow, I lose 90% confidence.
It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.
It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
It's wild how much charisma and heart this guy has
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's wild how much charisma and heart this guy has
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How the grey, heavy skies of Half-Life 2 set the scene for a dystopian sci-fi tale: @konstantinosd.bsky.social pays homage to the work of Viktor Antonov in our first article on Skyboxes.
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
Designing Oppression in the Skies of Half-Life 2
How Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov created skies that were vast, heavy, and deeply moving.
www.eteogames.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
How the grey, heavy skies of Half-Life 2 set the scene for a dystopian sci-fi tale: @konstantinosd.bsky.social pays homage to the work of Viktor Antonov in our first article on Skyboxes.
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
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new blog post about: makin' it easier to integrate elaborate (or not) contextual character animation stuff into gameplay in @sleightofhand.game. Like all the best shit, this is not so much technically impressive as workflowily excellent.
www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...
www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...
February 5, 2026 at 7:20 AM
new blog post about: makin' it easier to integrate elaborate (or not) contextual character animation stuff into gameplay in @sleightofhand.game. Like all the best shit, this is not so much technically impressive as workflowily excellent.
www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...
www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...
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Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
![Nadella is, at his core, a bullshit artist. Every speech that he gives meanders for what feels like days. When asked at the World Economic Forum what would seem obvious in a few years looking back at 2026 (a nonsense question asked by an imbecile), Nadella responded by saying, after several seconds of word salad thanking everybody for the opportunity to ramble:
“I think, when it comes to AI, the real question in front of all of us is, how do you ensure that the diffusion of AI happens, and happens fast. You have to have that line of how do the models, data and infrastructure spread more-evenly to create surplus everywhere if you sort of think about it. The way I come at this is not that, this has always been the arch of computation, you can sort of take it in the last 30 years, or the last 70 years, it’s always been about can you digitize artifacts about people, places and things, and then build analytical and predictive power, right, that’s what the mainframes did, that’s what the mini computer did, that’s what the [unintelligible] era did, that’s what the web era did, the mobile cloud era did.
It depends, in respect to which paradigm or platform it has been one continuous arch of “let’s make better sense of this world by reasoning about it in digital form,” because in some sense, once you have these artifacts in digital form, you can use a more malleable resource like software, which doesn’t have the same type of, I’ll call it “marginal cost economics” associated with it, that allows us to then build more insight and more capability. And in that context AI, I’ll say, is of the same class, at least, like the web and the internet or mobile or PC or the cloud or maybe even greater. And so to me, right now where we are, let’s take what just happened with software engineering, which is knowledge work, you can say it’s “elite” knowledge work. It started off, in fact my own belief in this generation of AI and its capability really got built up when I first saw Github …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreic5oila23hrfgseskz25uuxv7vd7l6c3v7se5ikfderbrikz6gbg4@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
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Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?
a woman wearing a wig is singing holla !
Alt: a woman wearing a wig is singing holla !
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?