Jamie Holding

Last year my resolution was to complete something every month. I liked the sound of this resolution because I have a heap of random projects I wanted to get done, and hopefully this

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.

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

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

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 am now husband to my amazing wife. I can't want to continue exploring the world and life together with her forever.

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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