here's a pic of me talkin' business (haha no) with @sosowski.bsky.social and @zylinski.se at @amazefest.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/12601...

www.flickr.com/photos/amaze... Pixtute of my workshop at A MAZE 🙃

~ Today in Karl2D! ~ Mouse locking (mouse capturing) has been merged: github.com/karl-zylinsk... See the mouse_locking example to see how to use it: github.com/karl-zylinsk...

Feel like you must learn AI coding without wanting to? My 2 cents: - The hard part is reviewing the code the AI outputs - You'll continue honing that skill by not using AI - Learning to use AI takes just a few days So: Ignore AI until you actually need it, you'll be better off

Merged bitmap fonts into Karl2D, or "static fonts" as I call it: github.com/karl-zylinsk... I now refer to the fontstash fonts as "dynamic fonts". I'll probably reimplement the fontstash path and static path into a single path that just differs in configuration (bake once, or on-demand).

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

Working on adding "bitmap fonts" to Karl2D: github.com/karl-zylinsk... Previously I've only supported fontstash. But perhaps fontstash isn't a good for shipping games. Generating atlases of unknown sizes feels flaky. My plan is instead bitmap + slug (two separate modes).

A MAZE Berlin was great. It's an art house video game festival. It's more design and art heavy than programming. But they managed to squeeze in my Odin workshop despite that! Thanks :) Personally I like the art focus, as I find game design harder than programming. Got lots of inspiration!

Crafted some on brand cat stamps at @amazefest.bsky.social with @zylinski.se today!

Ha! @zylinski.se at his workshop at @amazefest.bsky.social , where they learn about making games from scratch using Odin and Karl2D as an example :)

A MAZE time! 🙃

Drawing cover art for @zylinski.se is one of my favorite things to do. I can go full crazy and silly :D

Showcase video of the top 10 games from the Karl2D Jam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArE...

A short story about how Tom tries Odin and struggles a bit with namespaces zylinski.se/posts/toms-n...

Super Open Sound System is back at @amazefest.bsky.social this year for it's 10th anniversary! Everyone can be a DJ! 14 May, Thursday, 22:00-XX:00! Sign ups will be live during the festival! If you make your own music and want to secure a spot, contact Sos on AMAZE Discord! discord.gg/Tfhxtmz53

The winner of the Karl2D Jam is "A book about puzzles". Such a satisfying little game. Play it in the browser: lars-kristian.itch.io/book-of-puzz...

Live now: Karl2D Jam Awards - I play the top 10 games! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ru...

"EN TILL, TACK!" One of the most useful phrases to learn in Swedish imo. My first use of it was at a bar hehe. Much confidence after one beer, to order the next. I felt cool while saying it.

Explaining the two new features in Odin 2026-05: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzGP...

Next week, I am hosting a workshop at A MAZE in Berlin. Want to make games where you start from the `main` function of a plain program and then just write the code? I'll show you how to get started with that, but also how the library we use works, all the way down to the OS and rendering APIs.

Ready to plan your days for #amaze2026? 🦩 Our program is now live! We've got four days of full programm planned. 🌴 Featuring, workshops, talks and of course games! 💃🕺 Let's dance, game and party together! 🦩🎉 Link to full program: https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/schedule/ #playfulmedia #amazeberlin

hosting a writing workshop at A MAZE with @daisyfern.bsky.social next week !! i sure hope that the expectations are clear from the description lol

Last 6 hours of karl2d jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCog...

Back with second day of Karl2D Jam stream! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB4... You can still join the jam!

Karl2D Jam Intro livestream starts very soon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNF...

74 people registered for Karl2D Jam so far!! My jams usually have a high submission/registration rate, so it's looking good! 💖 It's a jam where you use Odin and my Karl2D library to make a game in 48 hours :) itch.io/jam/karl2d-jam

Had fun learning and playing with pixel art for this library demo! 😻

Am going to be at Leoparden's art market (in Uppsala) on 9 May, 12-4pm! Will be selling a zine, "Working Class Cat"🐈, as well as some prints and stickers. Kinda feels a little "for real" now... I guess that's good for all that imposter syndrome... 😅👀

New Karl2D example. Short zelda-ish demo with movement, collision, shooting and minimap. Play in browser or check out source code: karl2d.com/examples/spa...

Just merged my highDPI scaling PR. It's such a hard thing to get correct. Whichever solution you do, it will always feels wrong for some people. Pictured is my final rant on my thinking. Read the discussion here: github.com/karl-zylinsk...

Trying to come up with some final design for how to handle "DPI scaling": github.com/karl-zylinsk... The main issue is that different OSes do the initial scale differently. For example, on Wayland and Web it is hard to disable the "initial scale".

I am hosting a Karl2D jam. It's an online event where you spend 48 hours making a video game using my Karl2D library (and probably Odin). Sign up here: itch.io/jam/karl2d-jam

Node Body is out now on PC! Built with the sleek power combo of Raylib+ Karl2D + Odin. Big thanks to @raysan5.bsky.social and the creators of Odin @gingerbill.org and @zylinski.se for making this possible. #indiegames #madewithraylib #raylib store.steampowered.com/app/4592800

I'm very excited to announce `raylib 6.0`! 😄 With +2000 commits and +200 contributors, this is the biggest release ever!💯 - Release details: github.com/raysan5/rayl... - Discord: discord.gg/raylib - Webpage: raylib.com **code once, play everywhere!**

Today in Karl2D: Had a little oopsie in the GL backend that made draw calls very expensive due to the GPU stalling when copying vertex buffers: github.com/karl-zylinsk...

I need to address this very soon github.com/karl-zylinsk... -- Currently the same window size passed to init will result in different sizes on different OSes because some don't support "disabling" DPI scaling and letting the game handle it.

Alrighty... This is my current design for the Karl2D `draw_texture` refactor. It's fairly similar to raylib. The main differences are: - origin/rotation always available, with zeroed default params - I prefer these proc names to DrawTexture, DrawTextureRec, DrawTexturePro

Live: Looking at some drawing procedure API design ideas www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG9Q...

Today I've been looking at making use of Odin features to change the texture drawing procs to just being `draw_texture` and `draw_texture_fit`: github.com/karl-zylinsk... -- This will make the API deviate more from my original raylib inspiration, while making use of Odin features.

New ⁠karl2D example: Dual grid tilemap. Live web version: zylinski.se/karl2d/dual_...

"ADVISE: Be kind. Always." I've found this to be the most important thing when building a community. Many people don't do this, because it is hard! It's much easier to be grumpy. Being kind is good for your own mental health and also great marketing. It is hard work!

Pontus, digitized. Pontus, immortalized.

Karl2D beta 3 is here! The audio support is now official! Here's a video about what audio features are available and a bit about the audio mixer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwE...

com os cumprimentos do chef

New Odin release! Let's look at some of my favorite changes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ty5...

Spent the evening thinking about a redesign of my "Sound Instance" concept (similar to SoundAlias in raylib). When I used raylib I found that I always wanted an Alias per played sound. I'm trying to optimize for that case. Please read and give feedback: github.com/karl-zylinsk...

Regardless of the game genre, if there’s only a small number of cases just hard code them. Please stop being clever when it’s small and able to be manually done.