Booked tickets and hotel for A MAZE Berlin 2026!! Who's going? @sosowski.bsky.social @kissakolme.bsky.social ?

Silly thing made from packaging paper. One could say it's fan art of @zylinski.se's Legend of Tuna! zylinski.itch.io/the-legend-o...

Check out the "Steam Animal Fest" sale! It's a sale where all games have an animal as main character. My game Cat & Onion is part of the sale (67% discount). Click the banner on the Steam page to see all the other games that are part of the sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2781210/...

if you release an analog stick it actually has quite a lot of bounce in the other direction on the way back. beyond a reasonable deadzone. I'm not sure if I'm expected to compensate for this at the game level or not... (video at 1/8th speed slowmo)

Is it just me, or is AT protocol and bsky being distributed just a marketing gimmick? What people want is the big community of people. So even if it's distributed in theory, this is just a single community that lives and dies with bsky servers.

I've released odin-c-bindgen 2.0. It's rewritten from scratch! See the change log here: github.com/karl-zylinsk... I rewrote it because the old code became a bit too messy. The new version has less bugs, more features and is easier to maintain.

Did you know you can play Pit of Goblin on the Steam Deck? 🎮 Grab your friends and jump in — it’s 90% off right now (and we still don’t know how to turn it off 😅). 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3253530?... #Steamdeck #PitofGoblin

#pixelart #artpost

This is especially true when doing "refactoring". To avoid bugs, your code needs to compile as often as possible. See any initial work as R&D to find the refactor path that lets you recompile and run as often as possible. When you found it, just start over from there.

A common thing people don't know about C is that this function is variadic: `int some_func();` You can throw in any number of parameters (including none)! You say "accepts 0 parameters" you have to do this: `int some_func(void);`

There's nothing quite like being able to just copy-paste procedures between two projects and the code just working. In general, code is easier to reuse in code-bases that just use structs and procedures, compared to any kind of class hierarchy.

People who try languages with a 'defer' keyword tend to overuse it. It has a cost: The code is harder to read because it is no longer linear. My rule: Only use defer when there are multiple ways to exit a scope, and you need some code to run regardless of which exit it takes.

#pixelart #artpost

An underrated skill in programming is learning to start over with the current problem. I often see people trying to fix their current problem solution. Almost in denial of the solution's basic flaws. Often its faster and better to just take some notes and start over.

Last 2 hours to get my well-received eBook at 25% discount! Good for learning Odin, but also if you want to learn the general concepts of manual memory management. store.zylinski.se/b/tnwvO

I'm very happy about reviews like this one: "Karl makes a great job at explaining Odin. I had a good experience with garbage collected language like Golang and the book really helped me to transition to a non garbage collected language like Odin." 25% off until October 9: odinbook.com

📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year! Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D s.team/a/3014860 More in thread 👇🧵

Newsletter time! About rewriting parts of the Strings chapter in my book, and some updates on my 2D library + more! news.zylinski.se/p/odin-book-...

If you didn't play #HollowFloor, Go check it out on #steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2815150/... or @itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hollow-floor #indiegames #IndieGameDev #metroidvania #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #trailertuesday #wishlistwednesday #pico8 #platformer #challenging

Updated CAT & ONION's Steam page with new descriptions that are more "me" and less dry.

Understanding the Odin Programming Language 1.8 is out! The biggest change is an overhauled strings chapter. It explains UTF-8 and runes in a much clearer way. Release notes are here: odinbook.com#release_notes Also, see this thread for some free goodies related to the update.

@zylinski.se Hey, thanks for a fantastic video series on Odin + Raylib! I'm learning Raylib with C, but your videos were very helpful regardless of programming language (also, "we have cat at home" ↓)

store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/... Played this for 3.5 hours with 4 friends. So much fun! FTL, Freelancer and a shooter, all at once! One friend flies the ship, and you run around in the ship at the same time, repairing stuff etc. Amazing coop 💖

Do I know anyone who's good at Unity/Android stuff? I've got a game that's hitting a bunch of ANRs and I don't have the bandwidth to deal with it right now, would be happy to pay someone to tell me what to do!

Need help improving your in-house game engine or your game engine tools? I'm available for contract work. I'm an expert game engine and tools programmer proficient in C / C++ / C# / Odin. More information and contact e-mail here: zylinski.se/portfolio

Newsletter time! Today I'm talking about "karl2d", which I hope might become something similar to raylib, but written in Odin: news.zylinski.se/p/a-raylib-a...

It’s a cat silently judging you in the nighttime

A lot of people hate on Object-Oriented Programming. But some junior programmers seem to mostly echo what they've heard experienced programmers say. In this blog post I try make people be less extreme about these things, and think for themselves: zylinski.se/posts/know-w...

I'm currently looking for contract work. I can help with game/engine/tools programming in Odin/C/C++. Drop me a line on [email protected] if it sounds interesting. See zylinski.se/portfolio/ for examples of my work.

New blog post: Mentally connecting the concept of a temporary allocator to the concept of an arena allocator: zylinski.se/posts/tempor...

This main problem with the Steam Deck is that it is too heavy. The marketing images look like this. But believe me, even a fairly fit person will not be able to comfortably hold it up like that for long. I often sit in sofa with 2 pillows in a pile under it. Then it rests at a perfect height.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Ron Gilbert's new game. Fun to see him do a top-down action game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIG...

David Bull, a woodblock printmaker in the traditional Japanese style, just posted part 3 of his "Adventures in Washi" series. In it he explores the traditional paper making that supplies his craft, trying to rescue it from going extinct at the same time. Go watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIF...

Trying Jai (the programming language) for the first time in a few minutes, on stream! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2-...

Bought a new toy

GAMES MADE IN SWEDEN SALE: My game is 67% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2781210/...

Philosophizing a bit about an approach to making a general purpose game engine in Odin. news.zylinski.se/p/vacation-t...

gf bought camping chairs turns out one of them was kids size good thing I have kids size bbq too

I wish D3D12 didn't use all those D3D12X etc helpers in C++. It just makes the code harder to understand and harder to port to any other language.

Game design is my 𝔭𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫

My friends have good taste

My main workstation can't have windows 11 (hardware requirement not met). It's a 10 core i7! But it's lacking the required TPM module. So unless Microsoft changes their mind about win10 end-of-life (sometime in fall), then I might actually go Linux after summer.

They are bad!!!!

Snacko's Mines & Magicks update is now live✨ Celebrate the launch of 1.0 with a 25% discount on Steam this week! store.steampowered.com/app/1125510/... #indiegame 📌 Over 200 quests to enjoy 🪴 Flexible build system & tons of furniture 🌨️ Explore the new mines utilizing spells and your hovering Kart

I like videos and blogs that show positive things about technology and programming. I don't need to hear about everything that's bad. Show me the good stuff! Be positive and excite me.