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Andrew Rennie
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Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn - Star Wars Jedi Team • Accessibility Advocate • Co-Founder @wecanfixitinui.com • Scottish • My Opinions • He/Him 🌈
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Hello new folks 👋

I'm Andy, and I'm a Senior UI/UX Designer at Respawn.

I've been in games for over 12 years, working on a bunch of stuff across PC, console and mobile.

You may have seen some of my work in things like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Sea of Thieves, Dirt 5 and GRID.

#gamedev
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Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives.

If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one:
Classic Guild Wars announces hi-res ‘Reforged’ update with SteamDeck and controller compatibility
Classic Guild Wars announces hi-res ‘Reforged’ update with SteamDeck and controller compatibility
massivelyop.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It takes a special kind of asshole to set off fireworks at 1:30am.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
What if I bought the totally not intended for kids dinosaur table lamp?
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reposting cos it's that time again 👻
It's spooky season which means it's once again time to recommend my personal favourite horror game of all time: SOMA.

It has an incredible story, the ending will haunt you long after you finish, and it's relatively short at around 10 hours.

Also it's currently on sale for less than a coffee.
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Hey everyone, I'm still available for freelance UI/UX or illustrative projects!

I can take UX, UI vis dev, motion and art direction work.
Looking for short as well as long-term projects 💪

✨ Check out my work → cedrepradier.com
📮 Drop me a message → cedrepradier@gmail.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Finally wrapped up Alien Earth. And while I enjoyed a lot of the setup, the last 2 episodes fell pretty flat and didn't really pay things off in a satisying way.
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Forever wishing I could wipe this game from my memory to experience if fresh again.

But this is the next best thing.
"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week.

For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:

youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
YouTube video by Lucas Pope
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week.

For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:

youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
YouTube video by Lucas Pope
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You miss one leg day and the next one feels like you've never trained legs in your life.
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Follow-up reminder: if you want to use alt text but keep forgetting, there's a setting for that!
October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Irregular reminder that alt text on images is a valuable accessibility tool, and also lets your images show in search results or respect mute lists. For instance, I found the below image by searching "capybara alt text".
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Hey Brits! I'm sure you've seen this, but quite a lot of us don't dig this move. I certainly don't.
Seems invasive and quite open to abuse (and hacking!), especially looking at the shower in power and the worse shower waiting in the wings. Yeesh.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Happy Friday, time for a picnic ☀️ #StarWarsJediSurvivor
September 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm listening
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Spent far too many hours grinding out a gear set for a job I barely even play but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it.
September 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
what movie do you consider “perfect”?
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

The fact that they canned it after one season and left the story unfinished is frankly criminal.

I mean it literally has the greatest theme tune of all time:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0...
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today we're repping @aftermath.site and @kim-hu.com 🤍
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
them: we'll be there between 9 and 12

me, not wanting to start anything until they're gone:
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Team Cherry, to the best of my knowledge, never diminished the work of contractors. Let that be clear.

It was brainrotted assholes who want to insist that gamedev “isn’t that hard” and “only needed a few devs and a handful of contractors” to get this masterpiece out the door.

Don’t fall for it.
September 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979).

They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).
September 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
You ever see an ad for a cool shirt and when you click through to buy it you realise it's for kids?
September 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thinkin' about a boxed, teal Gameboy Color that I saw for sale yesterday.

Box looked pretty much perfect but I'd need to ask to see the Gameboy itself.

Assuming it's equal condition, would you pay £150? 🤔
August 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM