Simon Barratt

Code/Design/Biz guy. ♥ Tech, Games, VR, AR, Travel, Food. Cofounder at @CoopInnovations and Green-Bit SpecialEffect Ambassador, @uk_ie board. (he/him)

[Simon Barratt @barog]

Very proud that we managed to raise £13,569 for @SpecialEffect at our annual @developconf party this year! Thanks to everyone who came along for another great evening & to our generous sponsors (@CoopInnovations, @Escape_Tech, @Centroid3D, @maginteractive and @HiroCapital) xx

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@Griff_ Grats! Had a quick chat with Tim and got to congratulate Sean briefly :)

[FORMAT Group @Format_Group]

📣 RE:FORMAT week is here!!!📣

This Thursday, kick off the FORMATGG 2025 event season with our RE:FORMAT x Gaming Rally | Game Industry Summit taking place in our home town of Manchester! 🐝

150+ games industry leaders join us for a day of epic networking.

4 more sleeps!! 🧡

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

A new paper by @Cambridge_Uni academics across economics, policy and ML says the UK government should rethink their proposal on AI and copyright

https://t.co/OrSBlYgdvS

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@tinastowell @alexgkendall @jameswise @Erin_Platts @Barney_H_Y @leoringer @vriparbelli @Springcoil @paulbz Thank you!

[Tina Stowell @tinastowell]

UK has a serious problem: we're great at AI and createch start-ups but bad at supporting them to scale. We lose too many great firms and our greatest talent overseas. We're becoming an 'incubater economy'. This needs to change if we're really serious about economic growth. 🧵1/

[Simon Barratt @barog]

Green-Bit is hiring Senior C++ Programmers, a Full-Stack web dev and a Project/Product Manager - help us optimise the worlds software! https://t.co/iGxfkRJBr6

[Lords Communications and Digital Committee @LordsCommsCom]

We are live now with @CoopInnovations, @aflorithmic, @synthesiaIO.

We'll be discussing their experiences scaling up creative technology businesses in the UK.

Watch live:
https://t.co/Ow2UkyY0Ni

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@pikapies @LukeD I think I described myself as the ‘not a fan of AI training methods’ and one of the committee said I was the first founder they’d had to speak negatively / support the EU’s cautious approach

[VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase]

Ghost Town announced for Quest, PS VR2 & PC VR

🧩 Single-player VR puzzler
👻 Play as ghost hunter, Edith Penrose
🕰️ From The Room devs, @Fireproof_Games

Wishlists are live:
Meta: https://t.co/eEBjuTNzu9
PS VR2: https://t.co/KteTvIBDOJ
PC VR: https://t.co/AqPWiImGRi

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

As widely rumoured, the UK government is considering legalising gen AI training on copyrighted work without a licence.

This would be a huge betrayal of the UK’s creators. It would mean letting AI companies use creators’ work to build highly scalable AI models that will directly compete with them.

This cannot be allowed. All UK creators, and the millions of people who benefit from the brilliant work that comes from the UK’s creative industries, should oppose this.

https://t.co/aR3VXymohi

[Colin Karpfinger @colin_k]

HOLY $%@# WE SIGNED A PUBLISHER. Microprose is publishing Cleared Hot 🤯😮

Our nostalgic helicopter game is growing up. RTs appreciated, Wishlist it on Steam!

I grew up playing Microprose games. This feels a bit unreal. Thanks to everyone who got us this far 🙏

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@j_bikker Hah, I had the same flashback ♥️

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@reduzio It's a shame we didn't spend more time geeking out on old school stuff at gamescom ;)

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@iBrews I feel it’ll be biased by the fun weekend I had in New Orleans before everyone showed up lol! I was pleased I got to see two groups of people and have an extended stay in the US for once! Biz wise hard to say ROI wise but as you know well us VR folks stick together :)

[Chris Murphy @HighlySpammable]

My talk on Procedural Content Generation is live! I strongly recommend this talk regardless of where you're at because I deliberately went through from nothing to a pretty comprehensive scene with some tricks I don't really see online normally. https://t.co/mJnlMDY1JV

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@iBrews Proximity / region based disabling of recording / photo features soon I think. Could be context specific. Food photos fine, photo of person you’re with or know (from database), blur people in background, videos disabled, calls disabled. Use your phone otherwise.

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@alexsobel @LeedsHospitals Get well soon!

[Simon Barratt @barog]

@DevRelCallum Yup this is what I got then I got kicked out saying I'd reserved too many.. then back to the queue at 100,000

[Simon Barratt @barog]

StubHub saying over 12,000 tickets for resale.. £600+