Archie Yates

@archieyates.co.uk

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Game Programmer | Speedrunner | Twitch Streamer he/him pfp @loobydoodles.bsky.social‬ My Work: https://archieyates.co.uk/ My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reicha7 All views are my own

Grid of the top 30 popular games on Backloggd for the year 2008.

Depicts:

Mario Kart Wii, Grand Theft Auto 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Castle Crashers, LEGO Batman, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, Call of Duty: World at War, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Spore, Metal Gear Solid 4, LEGO Indiana Jones, Devil May Cry 4, Sonic Unleashed, Little Big Planet, Gears of War 2, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Far Cry 2, Burnout Paradise, Persona 4, Saints Row 2, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, Fable 2, Braid, World of Goo, Animal Crossing City Folk, Prince of Persia, and Guitar Hero: World Tour

1998 Backloggd game of the year awards giving Game of the Year, best Gameplay, best Narrative, and best Soundtrack to Metal Gear Solid, best Art Direction to Spyro the Dragon, and best Multiplayer to Starcraft

Counts of games released on Steam by year.

3903 games released in 2026 (cumulative: 124795)
20008 games released in 2025 (cumulative: 120892)
18480 games released in 2024 (cumulative: 100884)
14063 games released in 2023 (cumulative: 82404)
12275 games released in 2022 (cumulative: 68341)
11238 games released in 2021 (cumulative: 56066)
9648 games released in 2020 (cumulative: 44828)
8070 games released in 2019 (cumulative: 35180)
8871 games released in 2018 (cumulative: 27110)
6930 games released in 2017 (cumulative: 18239)
4652 games released in 2016 (cumulative: 11309)
2822 games released in 2015 (cumulative: 6657)
1713 games released in 2014 (cumulative: 3835)
436 games released in 2013 (cumulative: 2122)
303 games released in 2012 (cumulative: 1686)
281 games released in 2011 (cumulative: 1383)
275 games released in 2010 (cumulative: 1102)
380 games released in 2009 (cumulative: 827)
242 games released in 2008 (cumulative: 447)
135 games released in 2007 (cumulative: 205)
70 games released in 2006 (cumulative: 70)

Screenshots from the 1987 Metal Gear and 2004 Metal Gear Solid 3 with captions "What you think Metal Gear was 20 years ago" and "Metal Gear 20 years ago"

"Press X to doubt" meme from L.A. Noire

My top 5 games of 2025 in order: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Sword of the Sea, Clover Pit, FlyKnight

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Cover

LOK Digital Cover

Sword of the Sea Cover

Garlic Cover

Tomba! Special Edition cover

Boltgun Words of Vengeance cover

Final Sentence Cover

Hollow Knight: Silksong cover

Flea! Cover

Clover Pit cover

Ghost of Tsushima Cover

Rooster cover

Black Myth Wukong cover

Peak Cover

R.E.P.O. cover

Mark of the Ninja Cover

Vicious Void DLC Cover for Astro Bot

Berserk or Die cover

Into the Restless Ruins cover

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Cover

Crash Bandicoot Cover

Tomb Raider II cover

FlyKnight cover

Bloodthief cover

Tomb Raider cover

Hogs of War cover

Elden Ring cover art

Cover art for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos

Visual Studio Customize window in the Commands Tab with the Context Menu radial selected and "Other Context Menus | Code Window" selected as the current menu.

Visual Studio Options Menu with a filter for "copilot" showing both the copilot section and a setting in General Environment options

Gabumon being crucified

Preview of upcoming Games Workshop Iron Halo Strike Force Space Marines box. Box contains Company Heroes, a Powerfist Captain, Sternguard Veterans, Hellblasters, a Ballistus Dreadnought, and a Redemptor Dreadnought.

Backloggd Game of the Year awards showing Bloodborne taking Game of the Year, Best Narrative, and Best Art Direction. while Metal Gear Solid 5 takes Best Gameplay and Best Soundtrack, and Heroes of the Storm takes Best Multiplayer

Screenshot of the Title/Main Menu screen for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos

Git check-in comment simply titled "Had a breakdown"

Screenshot of texture packer with multiple sprites of different sizes lined up

ImGui window showing a very rudimentary sprite editor showing a dropdown menu for selecting a spritesheet texture, a dropdown for selecting a sprite within that spritesheet and controls for setting x, y, width, and height of sprite on the spritesheet

C++ Macro for establishing a "Named Class" which takes a ClassName parameter and creates a static variable and accessor function using it.

Named Class is also depicted with a pure virtual getClassName member function. The macro also provides an override call for this member function.

Manager member variables showing it has a unique name, the previously mentioned Behaviours bitfield, and a map of vectors of names for the dependencies this manager has.

C++ enum called Behaviour with the behaviours Update, PreRender, and Render set up as bitfield flags

ImGui developer window showing the status of all keyboard keys in the game dev project

Screenshot of the main space in Dareloth's House.

Screenshot showing the player character wearing the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal with the rank of "Gray Fox" in the Thieves Guild.

Mario Kart World store entry showing a digital price of £66.99 and a physical price of £74.99

Astro Bot: Winter Wonder

Celeste: Farewell key art

Fistful of Frags key art

Old School RuneScape key art

Isonzo key art