Alan Jack

educator, game designer, ADHD and neurodiversity advocate.

He/Him.

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

In preparation for the new teaching year, I've updated my #gamedesign cheat sheets for #gamedev learners!

Each is a summary of a lecture (and workshop, and tutorial) that is meant to build to a deep and meaningful understanding of the toolset of the game designer.

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[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Very impressed that the @westcoastbuses 17 driver took the time at a stop to make sure a lost cat got across the road safely.

What a champ!

[Kuba c: 💙💛🍉 @KubaKuleszewicz]

Unfortunately I've been affected by the layoffs at KING Art.

If you're looking for a Senior VFX Artist with 5+ years of experience, then feel free to message me!

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Updated my @UnrealEngine "Mass Transference Gun" prototype w/ a couple more puzzles, better controls and a bit of UX.

Pushing the puzzle design as far as I can before I add any other mechanics!

#gamedesign #gamedev

https://t.co/1edWHdIBKI

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Geometry Script continues to be one the most "hell yeah" inducing features of Unreal Engine.

[Elhoussine Mehnik 🪁 @HoussineMehnik]

[WIP] Upcoming #UE5 sample project
#UnrealEngine5 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

[Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh]

Here we go:

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Was working on an item respawner for my @UnrealEngine #gamedev #levelDesign puzzle game template.

I needed a "preview" of the object it spawns, and felt like it needed some kind of connection to the object it would despawn, so tried something...

Not sure if I like it or not!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

It's timely to highlight the life & work of computer scientist Lynn Conway.
In the late 1960s, she transitioned from male to female and was sacked by IBM as a result. For some years, she went underground and, for the rest of her career, worked as a woman - herstory unknown.

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ Amsterdam Timeline :

1 - Israelis attack personal property

2- Israelis attack taxi drivers

3- Israelis chant "“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”

4- Israelis get beat up

5- Israelis start to market the story under the title "savage Islamic migrants attack peaceful Jews"

6- Israelis call it a pogrom against Jews

7- Israeli government and social media accounts exploit the event to the maximum to market / justify their genocidal war on Gaza and rally Europeans around their "cause" in "defending against terrorists"

[milo edwards @Milo_Edwards]

it’s very funny to be watching so much porn that a bunch of russian soldiers are like “woah these guys love porn”

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Planning on contextualising my design class around politics this week.

Game design is about understanding motivation and "least resistance -> most reward".

If you're dumbfounded by whats happening, understand that its about what people perceive locally as rewards and resistance

[Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸ @KaySocLearn]

Time for teachers across all sectors to deviate from the lesson plan and facilitate meaningful discussions.

We’ve seen very clearly the power education holds and what happens when it is seized by the far right.

[They Got Me @PaulTweetsRIP]

I hate people for less lol

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Its probably preaching to the choir ... but please, if you're #teaching #gameDesign or #gamedev, I'm begging you ... stop getting designers to write GDDs for games that don't exist.

So much of my time is spent explaining to designers that writing docs isn't their only job.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

From language nerds on Insta. Love it.

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

Not that AI slop isn't bad, but are people forgetting that the Internet existed before Google and but crawlers?

The Internet isn't dead, we just need to find new and better ways of curating it.

[DragonsofWales @DragonsofWales]

Incredible how our species was able to build the most amazing, comprehensive resource of all human knowledge and culture, freely accessible to all….

…and then willingly destroyed it in six months to make a handful of snake oil salesmen richer.

[Alan Jack @alanjack]

PUT YOUR DOG ON A FUCKING LEASH.

I don't care how well trained you think it is, or how proud you are of it. Your dog is not an extension of your ego.

It's a living breathing being and it's not safe near roads.

Quit showing off and put it on a leash before it gets run over.