Simon Reid

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Illustrator, author, adventure game enthusiast
My illustrationshttp://simonheathreid.co.uk/
My adventure gameshttp://pilchard.itch.io/
Simon ReidSep 26, 2024

I watched a bit of someone streaming Broken Sword Reforged...

I knew the 4K artwork upgrade would be impressive, but seeing it in motion, the dynamic lighting and shadows they've added knocked my socks off.

Charles Cecil quite humbly says this is all stuff people would expect of a 2024 adventure game, but I've never seen a 2D point and click go to such lengths.

#BrokenSword #BrokenSwordReforged

Simon ReidSep 25, 2024

Seems like this could be useful for my #gamedev friends: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Volcanic rumbles, footsteps in mud, creaking doors, bickering seagulls...you name it they've got it (within reason).

BBC Sound Effects

BBC Sound Effects

Simon ReidNov 19, 2023

My review of Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Philip Reeve.
https://simonreid.wordpress.com/2023/11/16/utterly-dark-and-the-tides-of-time/

#reading #readin2023 #bookreview #books #booktoot #UtterlyDark #PhilipReeve

Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time

Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Philip Reeve Mysteriously washed ashore on Wildsea as a young child, Utterly has grown up under the guardianship of the Watchers – those who live at Sund…

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Simon ReidNov 11, 2023

Visited Wistman's Wood and marvelled at its twisted, stunted oaks, their branches draped with rare, otherworldly lichen.

#Dartmoor

Show threadSimon ReidNov 10, 2023
I jumped straight to the tracks off A Hard Day's Night, my favourite album, and it seems Giles has done a fine job. Great energy in the title track, too. That middle eight cowbell is placed perfectly.
Show threadSimon ReidNov 10, 2023
Deservedly added to the expanded Red tracklisting. Just about every song they wrote in early 1964 was a breakthrough...but I think, alongside Can't Buy Me Love, this sort of set the standard for their first album of all original material. A major song, even though it eventually got tucked away on side B of A Hard Day's Night.
Simon ReidNov 10, 2023
This new stereo mix of You Can't Do That is fab. I've always loved John's wild solo (and the yelp that heralds it) - one of his best guitar moments ever.
https://youtu.be/2nyeoNDjJAY?si=8uij1SV8Mlr3ULgx
You Can't Do That (2023 Mix)

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Simon ReidNov 2, 2023
Listened to Craig Charles premiering The Beatles' Now and Then on 6music (then playing it again). It really feels like them. A beautiful song in its own right, but also a neat full stop at the end of that body of work, which was clearly important to Paul after all these years.
Simon ReidNov 2, 2023
Waiting out Storm Ciarán, which is hitting Devon hard, by watching some of the masses of classic Doctor Who now added to iPlayer.
Show threadSimon ReidOct 19, 2023
Based on the true story of a group of St Kilda boys who are sent to a remote sea stac in 1727 to harvest gannets, but then find themselves mysteriously stranded there. Extraordinary historical fiction, for which McCaughrean deservedly won the Carnegie a second time.