Imagine your embedded runtime throwing exceptions with real stack traces - and your IDE actually picking them up correctly so you can easily navigate there. 🤯 #kotlin

The journey continues. I’m still aiming for the point where I can take some random Kotlin code and execute it within Kotlin. Recent additions: - Explicit nullability - Safe calls - Extension functions #kotlin

My embeddable Kotlin scripting language just got a new feature: classes. And if you look at the assembly, you can see the function calls getting inlined. #kotlin

Sometimes you get one of those insane ideas you know you’ll regret, but it’s just too intriguing. So… I’m building a compiler for a subset of Kotlin - something I can embed into Kotlin/JVM projects like Lua, but with static typing and better performance. #kotlin

First pass on some basic parks/plazas. #screenshotsaturday

I added a tree cutter for your tree cutting needs. #gamedev | #indiedev

Originally, terrain editing was click based. However, I noticed that clicking like a hundred times to make a hill is rather inconvenient. So now there's continuous terrain editing. #gamedev | #indiedev

Experimenting with clipping based transparency. In contrast to actual alpha it doesn't require special sorting or separate draw calls. However, some GPUs - especially mobile ones - tend to dislike this type of rendering pretty much. It's also quite noticable on lower resolutions.

What’s going on here? Why is everything…chrome? #future | #gamedev | #indiedev

Image building a city here... Generating terrain is such a messed up task. Whenever you touch one single parameter the outcome changes drastically. For now I settle with fewer biomes to keep my sanity. #terraingen | #gamedev | #indiedev

Don't do this at home #gamedev | #indiedev

This terrain provides some interesting building experiences

Made a boomerang. And now I can’t stop throwing it around 💨😅 #Windpunk #GameDev #IndieGame #WIP

Scaling 3D objects is hard. Sure, you can use real measurements, but it feels better in a game context to scale big buildings down drastically. #gamedev | #indiedev

Still Fortress #gamedev

Good morning from Vuntra City! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

Did some experiments with building spawning. This may be the rough side of the city. #gamedev | #indiedev

What a lovely little village! Would be a shame if it was just 0.02% the size of the world, right? 😅 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

I spent the last few years building enik-engine, a lightweight C++ game engine with a custom editor, hot-reload scripting, physics, animation, prefabs, and more. Fast, small, and built for experimentation. Here’s a deep dive into how it works and the lessons I learned: hanion.dev/post/enik-en...

I'm still working on my YouTube video about a cheap erosion filter, but I've been tinkering with improving it as well. I recently had some nice breakthroughs overcoming various limitations of the original filter by Clay John and Felix Westin, and I can't wait to tell you all about it. #ProcGen

It's amazing how a bit of sound can improve the experience #gamedev | #indiedev

Lambo physics Note how there's dust when driving over terrain #gamedev | #indiedev

I'll never own a Lambo so I made one in-game #gamedev | #indiedev

Forget about the GPU: The terminal is the new gaming target!

I feel like I want to be somewhere cool and rainy today. Luckily, I know just the place. #gamedev #indiegame

visual overload noun A state of being overwhelmed by too much visual information, leading to difficulty in processing or focusing. #gamedev | #indiedev

Some debug view for road usage and chunk RCI density. #gamedev | #indiedev

Originally I moved the cars by pinning the front and back to the path. It worked but looked like moving on rails. The solution: Pin the front wheel's center position to the path and use the Kinematic Bicycle Model to update the rear: thomasfermi.github.io/Algorithms-f... #gamedev | #indiedev

Integrated the 2D traffic simulation into the 3D world. Got it working on first try. #gamedev | #indiedev

Added some car state visualization for debugging. There are 10,000 cars in a simulation area of 10km² ≈ 4mi² #gamedev | #indiedev

Added some simple car-to-car interaction and traffic lights #gamedev | #indiedev

All cars spawn randomly but with the same target location. The catch: Each car can only query roads nearby so only partial A* calculations are possible. I do this to simulate a chunked world where chunks can be missing at spawn time. As a result it may produce suboptimal paths #gamedev | #indiedev

Sometimes it's surprisingly useful to work on an aspect of the game isolated from the rest of the world. Here, have some traffic simulation. #gamedev | #indiedev

Yellow ̶s̶u̶b̶m̶a̶r̶i̶n̶e̶ car having a look at the new under water view #gamedev | #indiedev

Wondering where the quest marker in the minimap leads us #gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev

Experimented a bit with outlines. It gives a unique look but in my case I don't think it fits the style of the game.

Implementing Marching Squares to render water in the minimap. Sounds easy. #gamedev #indiedev

Added a minimap which makes driving a lot more fun. On the technical side of things nothing special here: - Figuring out road geometry using existing math code - Matrices to conveniently transform from world to UI space - Stencil buffer to limit rendering to the widget #gamedev #indiedev

I've written a blog post about my recent WebGPU particle life simulation adventures! It presents the formulas used for the model & explains how it works under the hood: lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/p... Below is a gallery of random systems I've found (links to them are in the article) 👇

Got inspired to create these buildings recently. I should probably crank out more small ones - buuut big buildings are way more fun. #gamedev #indiedev

Found a legitimate use case of ai in Clang include files. Excerpt from this great article about inlining everything in C++: sbaziotis.com/compilers/wh...

Chat, is this evil? #gamedev #indiedev

"Implementing Silent Hill's Fog in My (Real) PS1 Game" Out on YouTube now. 🙀 It took me 100+ hours to make it. I hope you enjoy it. ↓ ↓ ↓🔗 #ps1 #psx #playstation1 #silenthill

Chat, is this evil? #gamedev #indiedev

I finally sorted out the car physics. Turns out my wheel-rest suspension length calculations were correct—but redundant, because the engine does them automatically. I’m blaming Bullet Physics’ sparse documentation for this educational excurse into physics. #gamedev #indiedev

For the sake of simplicity, my trains are cars for now. #gamedev #indiedev

I guess we have trains now #gamedev #indiedev

What a typical Monday feels like TIL Store camera rotation angles explicitly for calculations and calculate the matrices when needed. Before I tried to get the angles out of the matrices for rotation calculations which turned out to be very unstable in edge cases. #gamedev #indiedev

How long can we build bridges? Yes. #gamedev #indiedev

I set out to make a city builder, but it turned into BridgeBuilder 3000. #gamedev #indiedev