you can use emissive decals for very cheap fake lights

Everyone who is into sick VR games should tune into this! *Wink wink nudge nudge cough*

Realized that rather than searching through my in-world UIs for the widgets I want to test I can just embed them anywhere in the editor UI, like the audio settings page The result is an ugly style clash, but it works!

Every time I try to use my game's tools I get frustrated by how unpolished they are so I've been touching up the UI, here's the old vs. new node editor style It's amazing what a difference a few borders, different bezier control points and thinner lines makes!

Avoiding the nightmare of my broken netcode by adding a new shape primitive, here's some in-development screenshots of "packet", useful for depicting packaged food, sacks of grain, packaged medical supplies, shrink-wrapped items, etc.

If I could have anything from Stardew in real life it'd have to be the box outside my house that sells anything I put in it for a fair price

Gig v1.01.9 Released! Big items: * GLTF loading * Lights/materials loading from scenes * Drag/Drop models onto viewer to view PBR IBL raster or path traced. * /*$(Embed:filename)*/ tag allows shared shader headers that use gigi tags to read variables, read textures, etc. github.com/electronicar...

Oh you're kidding me, an inverted Vulkan viewport also inverts the triangle winding?? It makes sense, but how did it take me this long to notice 😅

All fixed now!

Does anyone recognize this artifact? I'm storing the texture in multiple images to avoid exceeding max image dimensions and I'm getting this weird glitch at the tile boundaries Even stranger, it isn't reflected in the UVs (second picture) and the sampler is set to nearest + clamp-to-edge

Wrote up an article about how I ended up tackling this problem from January (spoiler: I gave up on barriers), might be useful to somebody out there learning Vulkan for compute amini-allight.org/post/dispatc...

Surprised by how much better Marathon feels in full release vs. the playtest Unsure if it's just placebo but I'm seeing much more PvP, more loot variety and more cooperation in filled squads (though misaligned objectives for randomly filled players is still A Problem)

Long time no see but I've finally written a new article! This time I'm laying out my thoughts about the new Marathon playtest and its struggles with motivating and incentivizing players amini-allight.org/post/maratho...

Adding more primitives to the editor game masters will use, this time it's the "rounded rectangle prism"

Marathon thoughts: Art & soundscape are top-notch, gameplay feels really good but player motivation is iffy? "Break glass across Tau Ceti" is not an objective I get excited about, it feels like a daily, and I can feel the writing straining to justify objectives the gameplay can support

If you like adding non-Steam games to your Steam Deck I have something for you! An update to my tool for batch configuration of non-Steam games from a config directory you can back up It now supports both customizing images on official Steam games and setting "wide" images

Built a toy example to make sure my understanding of rollback logic is sound You can see how the client initially goes past the blue barrier, which only exists on the server, before rollback kicks in and corrects the position

It's pretty cool to be able to script objects in my game with my own text editor and my own language, from inside the game itself

Something for anyone working on multiplayer networking for their game: while trying to fix my own game's netcode I updated my tool Rollback Diagnostic The tool lets you create dumps from your game of multi-timeline world state and use a graphical viewer to explore them gitlab.com/amini-alligh...

Debug aesthetics remain undefeated

WIP. Inspired by old motherboards.

Deadlock has the strangest rank system I've ever seen I have a persistent ~25% winrate this year but my rank has gone UP over the same timespan; it often takes several losses to downrank but only one win to rank up Hoping they fix it, losing this much just isn't fun

Well, how did that get past me when I made this feature

Hey All, I made a header only C++ library (MIT) where line of code inits, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen. I call it thirteen.h, inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days. Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game. github.com/Atrix256/Thi...

Implemented the infinite* water plane - the world map now looks cohesive instead of floating in space 🥰 I'll probably want to add something more interesting on the water-horizon boundary (like some clouds, idk), but this will do for now. *10000km #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Found this horrible mess buried in my codebase, ruining my ambient occlusion, and I have no one to blame but myself (from 2023) Points for anyone who can guess what it was supposed to do (it does not do what it's supposed to do)

Today is one of those days when I add documentation, command-line flags and graphical polish to a project that doesn't work So it can not work in a well-explained, customizable and visually appealing manner

Nobody warns you that once you learn what blue noise dithering looks like you're doomed to see it everywhere forever after

Didn't play Deadlock for a month because I had a 25% win rate, I come back for the update and the game decides to move me UP an entire rank tier I'm so gonna get stomped

Wondering if std::variant can be empty and discovering the answer is "no, unless [lengthy edge case about assignment] then yes" is the most C++ thing imaginable

Do any GPGPU people happen to know why this sort of compute shader freezes my desktop until it completes (Vulkan + Mesa + AMD)? The call to memoryBarrierBuffer is load bearing, without it the freeze doesn't occur Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to structure operations like this?

MPRIS is the name of the protocol that you're looking for it'll look for the most recent player in its list of players, but you can specify specific ones to look for

On Linux if I have media keys on my keyboard and a media player inside of a browser (say Firefox + Jellyfin) is there any way to pass those key events to that specific browser tab, regardless of window/tab focus? Some sort of media control API I can use to bypass Wayland's input isolation?

My game has a custom flag tool that lets game masters design flags for their real or fictional factions I realized it had some gaps so it's now newly extended with three extra primitives: diagonal slash, half circle and half ring

First time seeing helical stairs There is Something Wrong (but better than expected!)

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

Fixed the line builder, here's the "bed" shape primitive with its proper edge lines (actually cylindrical meshes)! Turns out this was broken because I calculated line facing directions in a way that assumed there would never be a "concave" corner (like those found on the inside of this shape)

ok does anyone know what game this is? Because it looks amazing

First look at the volumetric clouds! I pushed this out for quite some time but am happy to see that they are finally on the horizon. #bevy #gamedev

I have the scaffolding part of my tunnel-branch-generator working. I'm going to reply-in-thread with some observations... #indiegamedev 🎵 Starfox (control menu theme, SNES) 🎵

Oh it's Steam replay time? Cool! My quest to clear my backlog didn't go as well this year, only 20 games & DLC completed vs. 36 last year and 30ish the year before But I did read 10 books (vs. last year's 2) so I guess that's where the time went!

Based on the new video I might be back on board for Marathon Between the better natural environments, stronger/moodier lighting and increased grime/visual noise it seems like they're delivering on that blocky colorful-but-dark 3D-printed aesthetic I fell in love with from the pre-rendered trailers

Does anyone know if there's any hope for getting support for Vulkan shader objects + multiview in the near future? They're both great features but the inability to use them together is a real pain point for some of my projects

Thanks Wikipedia, now I don't know what I should call my new stairs primitive 😵‍💫

Did everything I can think of to accelerate terrain generation (except offloading to the GPU), fixed up some editing bugs and now I can do this! Next step will be moving it to a background thread to eliminate the remaining negative effect on frame rate