Matthew Holland

Lecturer, writer, game designer/dev (ex-lead/ex-studio/ex-indie). Ex-teacher (11-18 maths). Hobby musician.
This is me; call me on bad RTs. He/Him.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@Hi_ImTemmy
Steam holds Tobin's Tale in good company!

[AK Faulkner - Updates Only @PoopRaven]

One THOUSAND percent funded and still five hours to go!

https://t.co/cwKBNQDcNp

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

If even a Conservative MP is forgetting their ID, then there's a problem. Also the list of accepted IDs she gives here are wrong. Only older and disabled people's bus passes will be accepted at polling stations. Young people's bus passes will not.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@Bashar3A I tend to go far too long between restarts, so I quite like it when it shows me the load-time banners again.
Especially since they improved that interface so that the advert images actually load!

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@itshannahflynn Me, a teacher: Oh, God, how am I going to mark all these entries fairly when I don't have enough time, and the assessment criteria are clearly subjective?

Also me: Hang on, they're submissions for BBC R2's 500 Words and I'm one judge among thousands, maybe I'm overthinking.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

This questionnaire is still open for a while, if you're able to help us with our research into nostalgia in those who played both WoW vanilla and WoW Classic since.

All RTs (or sharing with your guilds, etc.) very much appreciated, thank you!

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

My colleague Cenk and I (at ARU, UK) are researching nostalgia in players of WoW Classic and WoW vanilla (at the time).

The questionnaire has all the privacy/ethics/etc. info: https://t.co/1gXl4Vp4xi

Responses and signal boosts greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Keidi Keating @Keidi_Keating]

Writers need a team . . . yes, we write alone, but you still need a support system. We live in our heads. Something considered abnormal by the majority of the world’s population. We need people around us who understand the frustration and exultation of writing.
#amwriting

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@moltare It was quite a journey, considering it didn't take long and didn't leave my head.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@moltare I misread and thought you said "powered-armour scale personality"

Which I interpreted as "big and probably overkill", until I realised it was a mech thread, so presumably it means "itty-bitty by comparison".

Then I realise you said something else entirely.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@ArticSkoll Thank you!

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

My colleague Cenk and I (at ARU, UK) are researching nostalgia in players of WoW Classic and WoW vanilla (at the time).

The questionnaire has all the privacy/ethics/etc. info: https://t.co/1gXl4Vp4xi

Responses and signal boosts greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@ArticSkoll Yes, it is: our cut-off is 2007 (when The Burning Crusade launched).

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@olliegerlach They'll get him to do Falstaff in a Shakespeare omnibus next, then he'll be getting a more sensible word rate.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@johnayliff I normally aim for the former, but 'smooth' would be very generous for what I normally achieve.

[Katie Chironis @kchironis]

at this point i feel the majority of game design trainwrecks can be averted by asking:

1. is there a midway version of this feature we could build to test faster?

2. are we over-solving problems we may not run into?

3. is everyone *actually* excited to build this feature?

[George Broussard @georgebsocial]

I just started watching this and it's as phenomenal as the doc for Double Fine Adventure was. If you're a #gamedev this is mandatory viewing. It's so well produced and so real and accurate to what it's like making games. It's not PR crap like you'd see for Halo or something! #IndieGameDev #indiegame

[Sam Hogg @Zephyri]

I hear that when it's your birthday you can ask for art RTs without guilt! Dinged lvl 44 & have ALL the grey hair to prove it.

[Matthew Holland @QuixoticEvil]

@johnayliff Not to mention hardline animal rights types coming after you for the bear abuse.