Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games

@andrewfray.dev

Ex: Roll7, Spry Fox. Now: helping teams ship faster with test automation, also Brum Indies. https://automatedaf.dev https://atig.dev

The Brighton 360 pole, against a blue sky and a flaming hot sun

A selfie of me, on the Brighton beach. The burnt out pier is behind. I’m wearing a cap, shades, a tee and a short sleeved shirt.

A crescent moon over houses, low to the horizon. To the top right of it is a bright dot.

the dominoes meme, with the small domino being "chat to andrew at develop" and the biggest one being "faster iteration, empowered QA, stable builds"

there's a small "Turn off auto-capitalise" button!

A tweet:
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

Retweeting a gi.biz post about 95% of studios working on a live service game.

[/Script/DataValidation.EditorValidatorSubsystem]
+ExcludedDirectories=(Path="/Game/Developers/")
+ExcludedDirectories=(Path="/Game/ThirdPartyContent/")
+ExcludedDirectories=(Path="/Game/WIP/")

Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace in Project Hail Mary. He’s wearing a heavy knit Scandinavian (?) cardigan, creamy white with a knitted red Rudolph motif.

A screenshot of dark souls, a third person action game. In the near distance an enemy has a pure white ring over them, indicating you can strafe around them

Ten GDC speakers badges going back to 2013, speaker badges from various other confs on three continents

Bakers beach in the foreground, the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Deep blue skies.

The Sony/honda afeela, shot from above, at the end of an ally

A mel’s booth, very retro, a jukebox on the wall

A red ale and the book In Ascension by Martin macinnes, on a red wooden bar

Leek and potato soup with chunky sourdough croutons. Three bowls, one centered, on a wooden countertop.

The seminal Capability Trap paper, Nobody Ever Gets Credit For Fixing Problems That Never Happened, by Repenning and Sterman

A ghost cube that does not look like a cube

26 books including Talented Mr Ripley twice (a bug), two of the wolf hall trilogy, handmaid’s tale, the first two hyperions and the last of the scholomance trilogy

Lego triangles and truncated triangle panels of various colours. More Lego is in the background.

a post by me, "person who's only read disneywar, looking at financial news: ah getting a lot of "disneywar" vibes from this"

A circular stage, bathed in purple light. It’s from quite high up, so the band are small. Above the stage on a suspended screen you can see thom yorke singing while playing guitar.

Unity email outlining an inclusion of 100 mac minutes on top of the 200 windows minutes for build automation. And an increase from 5gb to 25gb. “Changes to go into effect by end of Q1”

A poster using mamdani’s font and colour, saying “I” as the title and “can’t think of anything funny but want to join in anyway” as the subtitle

The mamdani font and colour scheme, but it says “show yourself, coward” in the capitalised font and “i will never log off” as a subtitle

The spine of The Mirror And The Light, held in my hand so you can see how thick this boy is

Windows 11 install, asking if I want to turn on Find My Device, in case I lose it

A huge monster of a pc case. A more normal sized gaming pc from eight years ago is in the background.

A post that says, “things I miss being indie indie vs AAA:

Build machines and automated builds.

I was not grateful enough to all the build engineers I worked with and I apologize”

The dolphin and the swan hotels in Disney World, which look like what chat gpt would generate if you asked for “80s movie exec on coke gets to design hotel”

Sainsbury’s taste the difference mince pies

$#include "AssetRegistry/AssetRegistryModule.h" BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC( FLevelPrototypingStaticMeshAssetTestss, "_A.AssetTests.LevelPrototyping.StaticMeshes", EAutomationTestFlags::ProductFilter | EAutomationTestFlags::EditorContext) END_DEFINE_SPEC(FLevelPrototypingStaticMeshAssetTestss) void FLevelPrototypingStaticMeshAssetTestss::Define() { FAssetRegistryModule& AssetRegistryModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<FAssetRegistryModule>("AssetRegistry"); TArray<FAssetData> AllStaticMeshAssetDatas; FARFilter AllStaticMeshesFilter; AllStaticMeshesFilter.ClassPaths.Add(UStaticMesh::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName()); AllStaticMeshesFilter.PackagePaths.Add( "/Game/LevelPrototyping/Meshes" ); AssetRegistryModule.Get().GetAssets(AllStaticMeshesFilter, AllStaticMeshAssetDatas); for(const auto& StaticMeshAssetData : AllStaticMeshAssetDatas) { Describe(StaticMeshAssetData.AssetName.ToString(), [this,StaticMeshAssetData] { It("Has navigation data",[this,StaticMeshAssetData] { const auto StaticMesh = Cast<const UStaticMesh>(StaticMeshAssetData.GetAsset()); TestTrue("bHasNavigationData", StaticMesh->bHasNavigationData); }); }); } }$