Alex Moore

@oldestpingu.bsky.social

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Lead Designer on Rogue Trooper • AvP2010 • The Persistence & many moore Founder and Design Director of @mooregames.co.uk

An otherwise ordinary office block, but made cool with asymmetric curves and a large glass area
The library in Helsinki
Cropped screenshot of Word Play game by Mark Brown, showing that GRAZE scored 320 points. Below that are a few of the slots for the letter tiles, with the 3x container highlighted
Me wearing a T-Shirt with Alien written on it, with a picture of the titular HR Giger creation in all its glory. It says est. 1979 which is for the film, only a year out from when I was born. I wear this just in case I forgot that I worked on an Aliens game once.
Headline from the bbc sports page declaring that Scotland have a 0.07% chance of making it into the knockout stages of the World Cup.
Very quick edit of me playing A3: The Journey Home, 25 years after making it and still loving every second.
Three books written by Becky Chambers, “the long way to a small angry planet”, “a closed and common orbit” and “record of a spaceborn few”, which make up her Wayfarers Trilogy
Small grab of the options window from Unreal Game Sync (UGS) which a theme option
Chocolate and coffee cake, sliced into
I made a cake, it took longer than expected
Kielder Observatory at night, ice forming on the wooden frame which slopes down on the right the the entrance to the Patrick Moore room. It’s all gently lit with faint red lights in perfect contrast to the clear sky above.
A squirrel eating an apple on our garden table
A pair of very dirty white socks soaking in a bath, which didn’t come clean
A very boring photo of our leaky flat roof, with a single line of waterproof sealant on
Christmas lights up already in my office, above a print of Amanda Ripley from Alien Isolation, by Yavin Prints on Etsy
Cover of The Gamedev Business Handbook, along with a train ticket from 24th Feb 2019 from Ashtead to Ewell West
Sunset and clouds over the far out tide
Close up of a giraffe’s neck and head
The sunflower, now on about day 12 since opening up. Deeper yellows now, but the outer petals are starting to droop a bit. A bee is merrily investigating it
Close up of a fully opened up sunflower, with a darkening centre ring as it grows seeds for the next!
Screengrab of my Apple Music, listening to Concrete by Dolores Forever, while working on a blender file of placeholder assets of concrete blocks - UV editor showing a lovely Quixel texture on a very basic block
Screen grab of the Platforms drop down in Unreal 5.6, stuck Querying every single device I can technically deploy to :/
Snippet of an Unreal blueprint showing canvas panel then slot as canvas slot then finally get size
Third photo of the sunflower, now fully open and looking very happy in this hot weather
The sunflower seed my son brought home from school, the first day it sprouted. It’s a tiny little green fleck
Me wearing a t-shirt that says “free hugs” along with an image of a face hugger from Aliens. Below that is the Weyland Yutani tagline “Building better worlds” and Established 1979.
Picture of the mug my wife bought me, with a print of a Polestar 2 on it and the registration “Alex’s Baby” 😀
The rotating boat lift in Falkirk, part way through a rotation
Close up of exposed tree roots that look like the legs of a face hugger from the Alien universe
Close up of a spline graph in DaVinci Fusion, which is now an absolute chaotic mess of lines
Screenshot of the details of GTA 6 trailer 2, with nearly 59 million views in 18 hours
Short clip of me saying "if you're making a Fortnite competitor, don't expect to be able to charge 40$ for players to try it out"
Crop of the cover of May 2004 issue of Edge Magazine, claiming XNA is the end of the console war
Photo of my OBS feed, two pictures of me (a 47 year old with glasses on)
OneDrive popup telling me I'm nearly out of space and need to pay for a service I don't use
Screenshot of Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf, showing level 1 which was set in a small snowy town. View looks towards the church
A dead Riekling in Skyrim
AvP2010 Front Cover
Screenshot of The Mummy from https://www.mobygames.com/game/2989/the-mummy/screenshots/playstation/170929/
The Hall of Mirrors link room
Call of Duty BLOP6 single player main menu on PC
Crop of a section of my original offer letter