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Grant Davies

@GrantTheAnt

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ex-Xbox ex-Blizzard lead engineer. Co-creator of Fractured Soul. I also make Niah Text Filter.

Irvine, CA
Joined March 2009
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@GrantTheAnt
Grant Davies
1 year
Niah 1.0.0.32 is released! A few bug fixes and a bunch of improvements to the UI. If you're debugging in #gamedev or #cpp, digging through the Visual Studio output window to find your trace messages, Niah can help. https://t.co/tdKTrs9GVi
niahtextfilter.com
Output filter extension for Visual Studio
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Grant Davies
1 year
When I worked on GameBoy games 20+ years ago, we always had in-house sprite editors to add points and rectangles to frames. It seems none of the specialized open source editors have this capability. I wonder how devs using these editors edit metadata such as collision data.
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Grant Davies
1 year
Age of Empires 2 in the top 50 sellers on Steam. Amazing that a 25 year old RTS is still so loved and so heavily played. I'm very proud of the entire team for this expansion, it represents so much hard work. @CaptureAge's first expansion in the franchise β™₯.
@AgeOfEmpires
Age of Empires
1 year
AVAILABLE NOW: Experience a fresh take on #AgeOfEmpiresIIDE with Chronicles: #BattleForGreece! https://t.co/SeXgDRNB04 πŸ›‘οΈ Play as the Achaemenids, Athenians, and Spartans βš”οΈ New land units, naval units, and buildings 🌍 21-scenario campaign spanning 100+ years
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Grant Davies
2 years
Post apocalyptic RPG set in Australia, sign me up! Looks great!
@BrokenRoadsGame
Broken Roads
2 years
πŸ”₯ BROKEN ROADS IS OUT NOW! πŸ”₯ Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your journey across the vast Australian Outback 🦘 Play on Steam: https://t.co/3Tt0ZFKFT8
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Grant Davies
2 years
I was playing Brood War campaign and noticed this text bug. I wonder whether this bug has existed for 25 years?
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Grant Davies
2 years
Thank you, I'm very happy to see folks getting value out of it :)
@mkristensen
Mads Kristensen
2 years
This extension keeps a history of builds and debug sessions, and lets you filter the output window data in a super powerful way. I'm a fan! https://t.co/dbttKBa1Vw
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@williammccahill
Will
2 years
"What about Starcraft?!"
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Grant Davies
3 years
So cool! What a fun opportunity for some lucky folks! I'll be keeping my πŸ‘€ on this!
@day9tv
Sean Plott
3 years
I founded a game studio, we’re funded, and we’re hiring! If you have interest in working with me on a multiplayer PC strategy game, we have job openings for a Technical Director & Art Director. Feel free to retweet, share, ping your buddies, or apply here:
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Grant Davies
3 years
Very happy that our release of @AgeOfEmpires 2 Xbox went smoothly yesterday. Community feedback has been amazing. Thanks to all our wonderful players, old and new! And to the many people who worked so hard for so long to make this a thing. RTS can now reach more people than ever!
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Grant Davies
3 years
Niah Text Filter 1.0.0.30 is out for VS2015 - VS2022. This update includes some optimizations, specifically targeted at the error & warning build output auto filters, which could become quite slow when a project's build output exceeds a few thousand lines.
niahtextfilter.com
Output filter extension for Visual Studio
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Grant Davies
3 years
Version 1.0.0.28 of Niah is out! This versions adds a compact UI mode and perma show/hide preview window, 2 of the most requested features. Hopefully this makes it even easier to filter all that @VisualStudio debug/output text!
niahtextfilter.com
Output filter extension for Visual Studio
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Grant Davies
4 years
This marathon Age of Empires 2 game has been going for over 40 hours.
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Finnish Age of Empires 2 Dou cher, mushroom expert
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@GrantTheAnt
Grant Davies
4 years
Last month I started as lead engineer at Microsoft (World's Edge) on the Age of Empires legacy titles. It's really exciting to be working with a very talented crew who are so energized about RTS!
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Grant Davies
4 years
Pretty awesome to see someone speedrunning Fractured Soul so many years later!
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@GrantTheAnt
Grant Davies
5 years
Niah 1.0.0.25 released and is a lot more colorful! Visual Studio debug output can now be filtered with colors using Niah. https://t.co/BF5mB7YEsD #VisualStudio #CPP
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Grant Davies
5 years
Interesting! https://t.co/TJTdXsl1qk I know I have some ex-SCR QA & dev folks on my Twitter, so I'd be remiss if I didn't ask: "can someone test this 1.16?" (Ducks for cover).
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Grant Davies
5 years
Ugh, this is very sad. Tastosis casting SC = the gold standard for esports. I loved watching every minute of their SCR casts.
@CallMeTasteless
Nick Plott
5 years
Welp I guess the news is out. ASL english casting is canceled. To be clear, this was not an issue over payment negotiations. @afreecatv has decided to no longer support an english production. It's a very, very sad for Starcraft.
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Grant Davies
5 years
Belated announcement, but I left Blizzard late last year. Thanks so much to all of you in the SC community for embracing me and supporting the StarCraft: Remastered dev team over the last (almost) 5 years. BW/SCR will always have a special place in my heart.
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