Andrew Gillett

Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values.

Gameography:
Dog's Life (2003)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (2004)
RCT3: Soaked!/Wild (2005)
Thrillville (2006)
Thrillville: Off the Rails (2007)
LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias (2009)
Kinectimals (2010)
Kinect Disneyland Adventures (2011)
Elite Dangerous (2014)
Partition Sector (2021)
Reality Drift (coming 2025)

Books:
Code the Classics Vol 1/2 (Raspberry Pi Press, 2019/2024)

Banner art by Zyalin

2025-06-06

Loving the cow in #MarioKartWorld !

2025-05-28

@Brenden It's a Unity orthographic camera, the game world is regenerated as a mesh each frame, with all transform being done in C#. The tracks are primarily procedurally generated. I wrote a bit (and did a video) about the origins of the game: reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comme

2025-05-28

@llamasoft_ox One of my old ideas was Cattlefield 1942. You experience WWII from the perspective of a cow.

2025-05-28

I'll be demoing Reality Drift at the Norwich Games Festival tomorrow and Friday!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Screenshot showing a car driving down a road lined by giant cats
2025-05-28

@llamasoft_ox My initial idea for my game jam game was to do a version of Hard Drivin', called Herd Drivin', where you would collect 3D beasts and they would trail behind your car while you did stunts. I made this model for it, but I don't know how to do decent car physics so I abandoned that idea and did Captain Beast instead.

Crude 3d model of a deer
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2025-05-17

Nothing says "rebel" like a corporation hiring a consulting company to conduct a user survey to determine if the new design enables brands using it to appear sufficiently more "rebellious" than the previous design language.

Irony is dead.

Screenshot of the Material Design 3 site showing that according to their user survey, M3 leads a brand to appear 30% more "rebellious" than the previous design language.
2025-05-11

Excellent new character artwork from @emilylorange

Game: Reality Drift

#games #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames

A half-man half-fish in a red hoodie, with glassesA fish-headed man moving his arms as if explaining something
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2025-04-29

Imagine my disgust when I realised Xbox achievements "icons" need to be 1920x1080p.

Can achievements just fuck off, now? The absolute worst part about shipping a game by a million billion fucking miles.

2025-04-19

I made a game for Atari's "I, Rebel" game jam, to be judged by, and the theme "A Perfect Beast" chosen by, @llamasoft_ox

"Captain Beast" is inspired by the 1988 #AtariST game Captain Blood.

This is the first time I've done a #gamejam despite having started as a professional game dev 25 years ago

arganoid.itch.io/captain-beast

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

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2025-04-14

The Church of Our Lord of Psychedelia

A trippy, colourful churching space. A glowing psychedelic figure spreads his arms in a pixelated display down the far end, as if offering appropriate mushrooms.
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2025-03-09

The fact that this is what Microsoft calls it's Office App on mobile now is absolutely hilarious to me. No sane person would look at this name and conclude it's office

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2025-03-09

Unity has updated their DOTS Samples repository with two new documents: "Misconceptions about DOTS and Entities" and a performance checklist.

They are both really good and should be pinned because they are a fantastic step towards undoing a lot of confusion that Unity's communication has caused in the past.

Find them linked in the ReadMe here:
github.com/Unity-Technologies/

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2025-03-04

More & more convinced the Zelensky dressdown went exactly as planned.

Still too many people, even republicans, viewed him as a victim. How to sell to your voters that you'll abandon someone like that?

So they set up the "how dare you not be thankful" trap, expecting this to be so brazen that in the moment he would not just roll over and die. Then they could just make a scene.

The result: they can now claim he is ungrateful & disrespectful. You can stop feeling pity for him. Absolved of guilt.

2025-02-19

Some coverage of Reality Drift!

"You may be wondering why you would want to drive to hell when there's a world of cats you could go to. "

xda-developers.com/indie-games

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2025-01-23
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2025-01-11
Abstract mathematical art. Pink, blue, yellow interlaced loop.
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2024-12-31

Baa

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