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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

The PS2 manifesto: - 7-13 hours of content - Combine a few old ideas in a new way, or have one big new idea - no complicated character upgrade trees - limited online, little post-launch support - 2 ish years, 30 game devs - thanks for your money, on to the next one

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7 months

Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game

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@tenpn

5 years

I’ve got a non-obligatory word for this #unionise

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@GIBiz

5 years

CD Projekt Red wants to be "known for treating developers with respect," pushing "non-obligatory crunch"

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

8 years

Wow From @briecode 's

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

You want to play a retro ps2 game that got sucked through a wormhole to 2022? @rollerdrome

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 months

my favourite thing artists do is say "oh those shadows have some blue in them" and they wave a wand and a flat image suddenly comes alive. magicians. in older societies we would have burned them.

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@vaccaro3d

2 months

I understand how almost all disciplines in game development are done expect for Programming. I cannot fathom how you are just there typing a bunch of letters, numbers and symbols and somehow I now have a game engine I can put my pretty little art in!? Absolutely mind boggling

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

#unitytips you can use rich text in your Debug.Log statements, which is great for colour-coding output

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@tenpn

5 months

@headfallsoff I love the bits that are like “evil man behaves obviously evilly. Paul, because of his mental/bene gesserit training, spotted that he was evil.”

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

@docky We’ve lost them already. We need to start on the next generation!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

This game won a bafta

Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

There is legit a coroutine in rollerdrome that yield return nulls seven times in a row, with a comment above that says “this should do it???”.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

@joewintergreen - machine learning dev mentions Fourier transforms to the marketing team, where it makes sense in the context of ML and style transfer - marketing team misinterprets - somewhere else in the huge unity org, they hire for Actual NFTs You don’t need a conspiracy for this

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 months

I've been made redundant from @Roll_7 alongside a host of wonderful and talented people. I'm a better dev and a better *person* for having shipped games with them, and I'm heartbroken that we won't ship more. This goes for the studio heads as much as anyone.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

"It's done but not tested" == "it's not done" discuss

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Today I saw a king at a nativity scene that was giving me big @Jam_sponge energy

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 months

the last 12 hours of twitter have been emotional, it means a lot

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Kiddo now has a little sister. Meet Babs! Both she and her mum are doing great, and Kiddo has been a star.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

@CharlieBeatnik I want to be in on the ground floor of this viral sensation

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

tenpn's second law of gamedev: you can make most games in a week. it's the menus and savegame code that take 2 years.

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@MortMort_

7 years

Day4 of playing around and learning 3d and unity

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

One of my fave stories like this in my career: in rollercoaster tycoon 3, you could crash the rollercoaster and the people would fly out and pinball around your park. Someone complained it was horrific. So we made them laugh while they were flung around, and players loved it.

Chris Bratt

@chrisbratt

5 years

🚨 NEW PMG EPISODE! 🚨 Here's the story of a weapon in Wolfenstein: ET that sounded so powerful, it was leading to players getting more kills. They'd eventually ask for it to be nerfed, thinking the weapon damage itself must be too high. But it wasn't.

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2 years

THEY’RE QUADS, OR JUST ROLLERSKATES, NOT ROLLERBLADES. IT’S A DIFFERENT DISCIPLINE WITH ITS OWN SKILLSET. IF YOURE STRUGGLING, TRY REBINDING AIR OUT TO L1. ALSO SABLE DIDN’T INVENT THIS ART STYLE; IF YOU WANT A COMMON TOUCHSTONE YOU CAN REFERENCE MOBIUS OR HERGÉ.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Friends, we’re adopting a cat! Please meet Minerva:

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

this month, I've been a professional gamedev for 16 years! - 1 redundancy - 2 baftas - 6 studios - 7 GDC speaker passes - 14 titles - 65 thousand stack overflow searches - one billion bugs

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

Kiddo made me a ⁦ @CozyGrove ⁩ Father’s Day card, but I’m not sure why she picked Arjun. He’s forgetful, old, and never finishes his side project. Nothing like me.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 months

Got quoted in the guardian newsletter, thanks @kezamacdonald . Now that I’m Big Time I’ll be taking applications for sponsorship. I’ll shill for anything, honestly. No standards.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

Wasn’t hard to find my house despite the hangover

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

lol twitter DO YOUR THING #alphabear2

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

There is legit a coroutine in rollerdrome that yield return nulls seven times in a row, with a comment above that says “this should do it???”.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

once again, I'm the lead programmer of a multi-million dollar video game

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

@rollerdrome And if you’re a networking programmer or a systems designer, maybe you’d like to help us make our next Thing?

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

8 years

On top of #bushidobear , we also shipped the long-awaited Dessert Bears chapter for #alphabear today!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

these are the first functions I add to a new unity project, because I still remember @tom_forsyth 's advice to put the coordinate system in the function, so the code reads `newCoord = NewFromOld(oldCoord)` -- makes it really easy to see typos

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@tenpn

10 years

DecisionFlex, my @unity3d tool for making your AI more emergent and human, is now out on the @UnityAssetStore : http://t.co/nZuY3pYUrW

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

In gamedev you say "there are too many indie games now" which means "I liked it when marketing was free and easy don't @me ". So romantic.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

@lucasmillingt0n more weird DS games please

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

It’s Kiddo’s birthday this week, so in her honour, 1 LIKE = 1 KIDDO FACT

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

jesus @eurogamer stop doing this

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

you have to walk your BAFTAs every day, to keep them shiny ⁦ @dreofthedead ⁩

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Figured I’d get married today, what you up to?

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

@RaveofRavendale . @SteambirdsGame ! A Permadeath Bullet-Hell Co-op MMO! Think the vehicle bits from Destiny, but... different and good. In closed beta now, you can wishlist here: or visit our stream on wednesdays for a key:

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

@donttrythis this is kiddo and she’s knolling of her own volition after helping me on too many lego/ikea builds. Happy holidays!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

We need creative folks who enjoy freedom. Remote work, flexible hours. Diverse candidates highly encouraged. jobs @spryfox .com

Spry Fox

@spryfox

7 years

We're looking for a senior engineer who wears many hats but has strong interest in tackling security-related work at all levels on an MMO!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

#baftas #bestbritishgame #rollerdrome #olliolliworld #butletsbehonest #vampiresurvivors

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 years

Feels wired amid all the injustice and chaos, but some personal news: last week was my last week at spry fox. The last seven years have been amazing: I’m proud of all the games I helped ship, and humbled to have learned so much from such amazing people.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

more good news that might help when dealing with all the 🔥: there's going to be another Kiddo in about 6 months

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

There’s a skeleton steaming our game @elbowrocket we are blessed

Level1Cleric 💀 Vtuber

@level1cleric_VT

2 years

if even a skeleton like me can A-Rank Civetta Summit, you can too! #Rollerdrome #Vtuber

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

when bugs remind you of memes #alphabear2 #beargoals

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

@VoicesByZane "but you HAVE to rate limit"

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 years

two interesting unity tools for profiling you might not know about:

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

it's a wonder @spryfox ever ships any games

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

Using a ⁦ @pimoroni ⁩ tufty to display jenkins build data, updated over USB from a process running on the PC

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

Check out this cool origami puzzle: fold each sheet, without rips, so one side is all black and one is all white. It’s like 2D Rubik’s cubes! I’m obsessed.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

9 years

Apple have selected #alphabear as one of the games of the year, to go with our award from Google Play last weekend!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

@MrHelmut -- so good I've paid them money show us screenshots of the embedded easings!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

Don’t forget this radio drama by @emshort is on tomorrow!

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Game Over

Video game designer Chelsea has a tough job ahead building her game, Glacier.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 years

Dreamt I tweeted “new chess pieces just dropped” and then a long thread of hilarious new chess pieces. But the only one I remember is the Swarm Pawn, which spawns two new pawns when you take it, unless you behead it with a knight. Please pretend that all happened.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

I’ve written build scripts like this

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@Error4019082820

3 years

🤬فقط في مصر 🤬

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

After 18 years of living together in sin, I’ve been an Honest Man for exactly 12 months. She’s not on twitter but for that you should be thankful, because she’d kick all your asses.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

Oh god imagine what they can do with Netflix money. They’ll be unstoppable. It’s over for the rest of us. Congrats friends!

Spry Fox

@spryfox

2 years

We have some very big news!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

. @Rollerdrome is nominated for best indie game, and @Roll_7 is nominated for best studio at the golden joysticks!

Time is running out to cast your vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2022

Horizon Forbidden West, Splatoon 3, and Final Fantasy 14 are also up for multiple awards

www.gamesradar.com

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

My wife joked about buying this Christmas duvet, and I asked why it was a joke, and she agreed it wasn’t, and now we sleep on this

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

my dream game would be dwarf fortress, but you're beavers building damns and taking care of the ecosystem

💀Chris Priestman💀

@CPriestman

5 years

Enough city-builders! I want games about planting masses of trees, considering soil type, root real estate, water retention, branch formation, all at a micro and macro scale

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 years

@JamboGT @JeanLucSeipke @dannyodwyer Iirc that was actually an advert by the government on in-game dynamic billboards?

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Kiddo did this yesterday, and now she’s in school, my wife is out, I don’t know where the nail polish remover is, and I need to run some errands. Time to smash some fragile masculinity I guess.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

9 years

Use Profiler.BeginSample("foo")/Profiler.EndSample() to profile a function without having to enable slow deep profiling. #unitytips

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Pls everyone stay home and we’ll run GDC entirely from within Animal Crossing

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

my wife: "do you want these peaches?" me: "how many? millions? for me?" my wife: "what?" anyway now we're getting divorced

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

9 years

Google put #alphabear first in their best indie games of year list

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

unity did a case study with @Krovartist and I about the tech behind @rollerdrome :

Rollerdrome Case Study | Unity

Learn how Roll7 used Unity’s multiplatform capabilities to ensure their dynamic action shooter shines at 4K 120 fps.

unity.com

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

@elbowrocket what have you been doing

Alex Eccleston

@AventuraObscura

4 years

Ghsotly mannequin head covered in stalked barnacles that washed up on the shores of France

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 years

We only do facts here

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

I knew shu before we both won BAFTAs, when we were small time, yesterday

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 years

Putting the iso pad to good use

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

/r/animalcrossing is so pure. just people posting hand-stitched Isabelle dolls and getting thousands of up votes. can we let them be in charge for a bit?

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

7 months

me, reading CVs: what! they only graduated in 2016, how can they be applying for a senior role! oh oh no

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

8 years

Was supposed to be making a dungeon generator but we made a Han Solo blaster generator instead

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

This is my 14th game in 14 years. My 4th sequel (if you count Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising). Those games are on 11 platforms. They've been played by over 100m people (grossly dominated by the 100m sonic dash players 😁).

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

It works! This is test data cuz there’s no trains today but the back end is all working. Red trains coming down, green trains going up, white are the stations between me and the city center. @pimoroni

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 months

Last mince pie of the year. I mismanaged my stock so this is a few weeks out of date. If I die, I die doing what I loved.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

I just possibly the nerdiest thing I have ever done, and registered for a network rail API key so I can do a homebrew train departure board. But I’m using an xml endpoint because no-one is nerdy enough to use *soap* urgh

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 months

the world doesn't deserve eurogamer ❤

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

4 years

today is the 20th anniversary of gemma and I being a couple, and in a few days our second wedding anniversary. to celebrate, I wanted to share my wedding speech. I make no apologies for the mush! I raise my morning smoothie to all you other curled jigsaw pieces out there.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Infinity Ward’s traffic light screen for their build system. Super simple, easy to scan. #gdc2018 #autotestinggdc

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

quietly, since the new year, I've been attempting to only post and share positive things on social media. I don't really know to what ends, it just feels like something I want to try. but please, always remember: fuck brexit

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

9 years

#alphabear on Instagram is a thing of beauty: http://t.co/vVZogwXe2d

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

8 years

We've booked our GDC accommodation. ITS A BOAT ⚓️⛵️

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

Top of the New And Trending, as it should be

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Looks at this amazing portrait my wife commissioned from @Honeydew_Mellen and marvel at how lucky I am

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

3 months

The programmers I worked with there were some of the best gameplay and prototyping programmers I've ever worked with. They're getting snapped up fast, but if that sounds like something you need for your team, DM me.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Unreasonably excited about going on a jumbo jet for the first time. I am 37.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

Let’s assume they’re being sincere: there is a fundamental misunderstanding here so deep I don’t think you could change their mind.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

1 year

Welp no GDC for me, have fun everyone

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@tenpn

2 years

This @rollerdrome poster for TGS became the most sought-after print in the studio until they finally gave us all one at the Christmas party last week. There was air punching. People cried.

Lost In Cult

@lostincult

2 years

[lock-on] Vol. 005 Deluxe Edition Includes: -A Rollerdrome Print -A unique Immortality Print -Norco Prints -A Reversible Downwell/Poinpy Bookmark -Season: A Letter to the Future Polaroids -A Cult of the Lamb Sticker -A Tomorrow Children Sticker -A TUNIC Fox Papercraft

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

We just bought our wedding rings. They’ve got super geeky secret engravings, and mine has like a polygon soup faceted finish! And they were less than we we were budgeting! Woo!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

I did it, I scrambled it. Wish me luck. (bonus @HeyMinervaFray )

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Big day. Been hovering at exactly 80kg for three mornings in a row. Glad to finally break into the 70s. I was 90kg at Christmas so it’s been slow but steady.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

This fills me with joy

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

2 years

This was a belated 40th present from my wife: my first damascus chef’s knife. Such a jazzy handle!

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

5 years

It’s a particularly sucky day for her husband, her mum, her insanely cute and talented 4yo daughter, and my wife, who was her surrogate sister from birth. None of them are on social media, so I just wanted you to know Jozie’s name. Hug your friends today.

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Andrew Fray

@tenpn

6 years

Generominos by @GalaxyKate is here! I made a pipe that spits fire when someone walks by in a grumpy mood?

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