Coming back to my game after spending time on other projects Wow I had forgotten how long 270k lines of C++ takes to compile, this really sucks #gamedev

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

This gives me hope for the steam frame actually I was expecting base price to be like $1800

So, I see a lot of people out there reaching for chromatic aberration when they need a quick and dirty CRT/NTSC/Composite vibe on their games/videos, and I wanted to offer some advice: The color bleed you're looking for isn't CA (left), it's chroma blur (right). 1/6

Oops That's not the video looping, my netcode just still has some issues #gamedev

That doesn't bode well for the Frame at all

Need advice, What’s good for VK frame pacing w/ low input latency? I was seeing bursts of frames I wrote a feedback system that consumes stats from the last frame, then waits for the projected time it would take to run the update +10% to have minimal swap latency Works well, but feels like a hack

Is there a way to stop wlroots compositors from dropping the frame rate of hidden windows (e.g. on other virtual desktops) down to 1? Most/all game developers don't test what their game does under these conditions and often the audio system just loses its mind

I believe this means my game's new rollback networking is working! No stutter in the entity position at all! #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Wondering why every single command is not found in your shell script and then realizing you used PATH as a variable name

a realistically scaled steel mill is absolutely massive lmfao

Does anyone know if "idle gamepad shutdown timeout" is meant to work for a Steam controller sitting on its puck? It remains on for hours without being touched and the status LED is a little blinding so I have to either shut the controller down manually or cover it with a fabric sample

Right now I think this is going pretty well, but I'm sure that's going to change the second I actually run the program 😅

Time to stop avoiding it and dismantle my rollback networking to see if I can to stop it erasing valid actions Fingers crossed...

Finished the text playback feature Game masters can use this to add environmental dialogue for the players to "overhear" #gamedev

crossposting this problem here in case anyone has any advice to give me before I start replacing PC components #unity3d #Linux #VRChat

There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

Added an infinite grid to my engine / editor. It's based on the grid by bgolus (bgolus.medium.com/the-best-dar...). I just added blending between grid levels and the 3rd axis. I think it turned out nice. #onyx #gamedev #gameengine

At long last, unicode support in my game! This was tough, I had to find dozens of places where my code manipulated strings with the assumption 1 byte = 1 character and correct them With this you'll be able to use a huge range of textual expression for character names, dialogue, signage and more*

That’s right… WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN!! Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Wishlist now on Meta Quest & Steam

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...