nDreams in the Opening Titles of BBC South News The other week I had to walk up and down the office for 20 minutes so the BBC could get a shot of our studio for the opening titles of the local news.
Weekend Project 2012 - Pokemon Clone I found this old project kicking about, and as best I can tell it is from 2012. I remember building this over a weekend when trying to learn how HTML canvases worked. This
Debug Shipping Builds In Unreal Engine 4.23 Recently I've upgraded a personal project to Unreal 4.23 and found that we had a crash in Shipping-only! So I needed to figure out how to debug this. The error I was
Taking Screenshots In-Game In Unreal Engine 4.23 This is a simple method to take screenshots in-game using Unreal Engine 4.23. Execute this code somewhere in your project and it will generate a PNG screenshot at the same resolution your
I Got Married! I am now husband to my amazing wife. I can't want to continue exploring the world and life together with her forever.
Reverse Engineering AES Keys From Unreal Engine 4 Projects This post is designed for Windows builds of Unreal Engine 4 titles made with 4.21. This will likely work with previous versions, and maybe even future versions of the engine. Your mileage
Lego Roller Coaster Build I recently took a day off work to put this thing together. When I was a kid, I had a plastic model set of a Pirate Ship flat ride. I loved this thing.
Advanced Certificate Bypassing in Android with Frida Last year I published a blog post about bypassing certificate pinning using a tool called Objection. https://blog.jamie.holdings/2018/09/05/bypass-certificate-pinning-on-android/ Since then I have encountered Android research opportunities with
Want to make games? Make games A few months ago I gave a talk at Solent University in Southampton about getting a job in the Games Industry. While I was writing my presentation, I found I was re-treading a
Bypass Certificate Pinning on Android Update: This blog post has gotten a lot more attention than anything else I have written, so I have also written up an advanced guide for more complex SSL pinning bypass techniques: https:
NodeJS Recursive mkdir with Promises This is a simple example using Promises in a reduce call to execute mkdir commands in sequence. I'm using the util.promisify utility to automatically convert the standard fs functions into Promises. Because
nDreams - A Day in the Life of Me I recently was asked to write a blog post about my job at nDreams, where I'm currently a Senior Programmer. I was asked to not go too deep into the nitty gritty and
Add Custom Map Templates to Unreal Engine 4 Often on a project it's handy to have a "template level" which you can use to start building new maps from. Unreal already comes with a few template levels for you to pick
How To Download APK From Phone Using ADB This was something I wanted to figure out recently, as I don't want to be relying on (dodgy?) third-party sites to grab APKs when researching. Here is how you fetch an APK off
Somnai: Immersive Theatre Security Vulnerability Immersive Theatre Meets TechnologyI love immersive theatre and I work in VR Game Development. So when an immersive theatre production using VR arrived in London, I had to go check it out! Somnai
Featured in 100 Rising Stars of the UK Games Industry I'm a rising star! https://www.gamesindustry.biz/top100/2018/i-k (Mirror #1) I was asked a few questions via email, but somebody also appears to have spied on my Twitter and LinkedIn,
Hello World! Again! Previously I've been using Jekyll for my blog (see https://blog.jamie.holdings/2016/10/15/hello-jekyll/) - however I was finding the publishing and maintenance (oh what, the bundle dependencies have changed
California 2017 Last December we went to Los Angeles for a few weeks to escape the freezing cold temperatures of the United Kingdom! We checked out the local sights, and popped into all the local
When Should I Ride Pirates of the Caribbean? I have long had an obsession with data. Just the idea of having to collect vast amounts of data to plot a graph gets me jumping with excitment. Using data I can potentially
New York 2017 I recently went to New York for the week! I had the pleasure of experiencing the phenomenal Sleep No More and also VoidVR's GhostBusters VR experience. During our stay, we also experienced a
Featured in 'The Importance of Lighting in Creating Immersive VR' Paper I was recently asked to give my thoughts on lighting in VR, AR, and how I see the overall VR and AR markets developing over the next few years. This paper was compiled
Hello World Hello Jekyll! I've migrated this site from Hubpress to Jekyll, and it's just wonderful! I now have much more control over how the site looks and behaves, and it's all static and hosted
Sharing Time and Timezone with Docker Containers This is a common issue where a Docker container doesn't share the timezone and time of it's host. Usually operating systems will default to UTC (or something) and you don't want to be
Installing a new trusted SSL root certificate on Android It's very trivial to install a user-trusted certificate on android. Under Settings -> Security you can install new trusted certificates. However, this creates a permanent "Your network could be monitored" warning in
Fixing Open GApps on Nexus 4 Cyanogenmod 13 I installed a fresh copy of Cyanogenmod 13 on my Nexus 4, and attempted to install Open GApps. However, I was repeatedly presented with the errors: "SetupWizard has stopped working" and "Google Play
