Matt Farrow

@mattfatmarrow.bsky.social

1346 Followers 2061 Following

UE5 generalist and game dev, currently working on a multi-genre adventure game called "Rewriter". UK & EP patent attorney. Pro photographer once (weddings, festivals). Writes bad sci fi. Give ☕ pls.

A pink cartoon character (by Alex Norris) saying 'oh no'
A church stage with old church things in the background. A keyboard is partly in shot. At the end of the stage is a large transparent box containing a drum kit.
"The jobber" - a man with ginger beard and black t shirt sitting at a big orange microphone, during a review of liability on a car crash or somesuch
A £10 ourprice voucher
A 'Seedot' pokemon card, with a picture of a pokemon character that looks a bit like an acorn. It has one special power: Trip Over / 10+ / flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 more damage.
A Coldstream Guard lying (fainted) on the floor on a parade ground with trombone in his hand
A screenshot of a suggestion for content from Facebook, titled '13 years ago / then and now / combine your memory with a recent photo', showing a nondescript snapshot of a packet of young child's briefs from a discount supermarket clothing range (Tu), and inviting me to add a photo of something topical from recent times, somehow.
Senator Whitehouse sitting behind a name placard saying 'Mr Whitehouse'
A guardsman in formal military uniform holding a trombone. He has apparently fainted on a parade ground.
A screenshot from a train status website: "09:04 on time / Platform 9 / London Waterloo (WAT) to Poole and Portsmouth Harbour (POO)"
A LinkedIn notification, showing a logo (The Magic Hours) and the text "A Software Developer in the Computer Games industry from West Midlands visited The Magic Hours' ..."
Three vertical black bars with text beside each: "severe hype.", "moderate hype." and "mild hype.". A zoomed in portion of a picture of a blood pressure monitor display.
A picture of the late Alan Whicker, smiling
A guardsman collapsed in the heat whileholding a trombone
A portion of a screenshot with the text 'You are receiving this alert because AWS Cost Anomaly Detection ... of ongoing cost anomalies with potential root cause(s) that have been ...' with a table entry indicating an anomaly detected for 'Amazon Elastic Block Store' over two days with an associated cost impact of '$1.43...E10', i.e. $14 billion.
A metal pole on the pavement at the edge of a city side road, with a sign saying "(P) pay at machine / display ticket", but the sign has fallen to the ground.
A close up of two adjacent shop signs: "happylemon" (with a smiley and feminine stylized lemon head) and "mr egg"
A man on a stage throwing a very non-aerodynamic paper aeroplane. A woman looks on, smiling.
A forest of iron pillars in the area where the West Pier used to stand in Brighton, with the sea and a blue sky in the distance and a red car parked in the middle.
A view down on the Expo floor in Develop Conference 2026, looking on top of a variety of booths with people milling around inside and inbetween
A screen saying 'order complete! #190159547 collect at counter when number is called'
A panel of speakers on stage at Performance Day at Develop Conference 2026: "Developing Characters For Performance: a Writers' Panel"
Keynote session of Day 2 of Develop. Four figures sit on stage. "Ustwo: a Positively Playful Business"
A portrait sunny daytime view of the entrance to the Hilton Hotel in Brighton, with lots of delegates to the Develop conference milling about in front.
A seafront café in Brighton on a sunny day, with the Hilton hotel (venue for Develop conference) in the background.
A sign saying "important - please keep the lift use to a minimum due to an ongoing fault. Maximum 2 people in the lift at the same time."
A view down the road along the beach front at Brighton, looking into a cirrus-streaked sunset
A list of trains - a delayed one I can't make and three Brighton trains in a row showing cancelled
A stationary view of train tracks glinting in the sun of a hot day
A link to an article by Sky News on more than 2,700 heatwave-related deaths, with a thumbnail picture showing deckchairs on Brighton beach
A half sausage impaled on a fork, on a plate rather than sailing through the air
A decorative grave with railings around it and a large stone base in front of it with the word 'entrance' engraved into it
An old grave/monument in West Norwood cemetery which formerly had a top piece but now just has several iron bars splayed out in all directions, as if a bomb went off on top
A large crypt in West Norwood cemetery (Greek section) looming against a nearly cloudless blue sky. The crypt is in a classical style with four columns forming a portico.
A flower bed next to an old crypt and decorative ironwork railing in the shape of a rope, at West Norwood cemetery in London, UK
A LinkedIn notification about a post with the subject line 'your post got 102 impressions and drove 1 profile viewer. View your analytics'.
A screenshot from LightningMaps.org, showing a mass of lightning strikes (little dots coloured yellow through to orange) detected in Northern France, near the border with Belgium
A screenshot from the Unreal Engine 5 editor, with some blueprints having a bad day (items in the scene are replaced by a lilac square with the text BLUEPRINT BAD inside)
A sign saying "Interactive Darts" with a stylised picture of two crossed darts. Subtitle: "the new way to play, located on our first floor".
A picture of the album 'No Jacket Required' by Phil Collins, featuring his red-tinted face on a black background, looking for all the world like a balding jacket potato
A screenshot of a privacy settings screen for a random mobile app, in which the user is asked to confirm for the topics of 'understand audiences through statistics or combination of data from different sources' and 'develop and improve services', whether they consent to passing various bits of data to 'legitimate interest (27 and 36 vendors)' and (separately) 57 and 68 vendors, with the implication that the latter class do not have a legitimate interest in the data.
A partial screenshot of a text adventure in progress: The command "up" is followed by: "I slowly and steadily ascend the ladder to the roof of the utility building." A location description: "Utility building roof / I have no time to admire the view here, as a fierce flame billows wildly out of the throat of the ventilation pipe that is close by me. There is a stainless steel bucket here." The command "take the bucket" is followed by: "I take the stainless steel bucket" The command "inventory" is followed by: "I am holding a sturdy little strut and a stainless steel bucket"
A notification from an unsolicited report on my phone about my screen time usage, with title "check your weekly report" and subheading "see where you can improve in your weekly report".
A detail from the painting 'Saturn Devouring His Son' by Goya, showing the God Saturn devouring his son (sorta)
A specification list for a 'cloud III' headset, including the property 'frequency response' with a stated value of '1021000 Hz'
A picture of Sean Lock with the caption "That's a challenging wank"
The Garth Marenghi meme: "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards".
A microcontroller board attached to a breadboard and battery, and four big bananas, laid out in front of it.
A man covered in baked beans sitting in a bath full of baked beans.
Two monitors side by side, displaying a basic Google search window with 'white' background. The left hand monitor has a relative yellow/amber colour cast. The right hand monitor has a relative blueish colour cast.
A Bluesky post in Irish and an embedded (poor) translation into English. The post in Irish reads: " 'Fanaim leis an dtaighde a thabharfadh léargas ar an dtinneas. Fanaim le cóir leighis... Go leanna an lucht taighde leis an dtochailt.' Go dtaga an leigheas go luath, a chara. The translation reads: "Stay with the research that would give an insight into the illness. Fanam with treatment... Goes to the researchers with the excavation.' That the early medicine, his friend"
A large green bike store, with a cover made of consecutive flat panels forming an overall curved surface, (spoiler) looking for all the world like a 3D model that has been imported without any smoothing groups
A brass sign for room G06 and a brass plaque with 'The Marjorie Simpson Room' written on it
A packet of ready salted Hula Hoop crisps, including the claim that they are 'bigger hoop, bold flavour'.
A screenshot of an e-mail received from Chess.com, with the subject line "You could have been big, (redacted user name). All of that potential, wasted."
A red mug saying 'Controls on immigration. I'm voting Labour"
A red mug saying 'controls on immigration / i'm voting labour'
A crude montage of Petter Hörnfeldt from the Mentour Pilot channel and a Labour logo, with the caption "So what actually happened here then?"
"Snickers: you're not you when you're hungry"
A sign on a shop wall saying 'book a free and fast collection of your pre-loved furniture' with a picture of a seductive beige leather sofa