Just had a flash of a bug that fell on my lap one time... "When I pause and unpause the game, the clouds change positions" Pausing a game is one of those "surely it's easy everyone does it" kinda thing

Well I didn't have "Sleeping in Morocco" on my bingo card this morning

Moves of the Diamond Hand - out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

It's insane how annoying it is to play a simple video but it does highlight how something so ubiquitous is actually some pretty complicated tech

People are saying stuff and I'm lolling at the idea of nutella of all things needing marketing

Moves Of The Diamond Hand. One week. store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

Imma use my vacations to write something about input context... I'm not sure the exact direction I wanna take with it but there's something fundamental where statefulness makes things infinitely more complicated, and I'm continuously annoyed that Unreal is sooooo stateful with its API

Preview version 1.2 of my #UE5 SDF plugin is in github now. This release mostly adds 73 material functions for manipulating 2D SDFs and generating those good procedural SDF shapes that we all love Prebuilt releases should be available tomorrowish github.com/rtm223/RTMSD... #gamedev #unrealengine

11 years ago, I tried to lead by example about how to do April Fools' properly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnT...

When designing a DoX function, always provide a CanDoX independent from it (and a IsDoingX if you wanna go the extra mile), future you (or your UI engineer) is gonna be thankful

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

I could write a book on the idea of "Input Context" and why building abstractions on top of it (looking at you enhanced input) is often wrong and detrimental to the quality of a program

Normalize seizing the means of productions

Our team may be small, but they are mighty! And they have another update in the works... The Equinox Update releases this Thursday, March 19th! Join us today at 4pm EST for a sneak preview with one of the artists! We'll be showing off some of the new weapons she made 👀

Hot damn, Eric Lengyel is releasing the patent on the Slug algorithm to the public domain, and providing an implementation. This is very exciting ! terathon.com/blog/decade-...

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I made this stupid ForEach function that takes a Functor and stops the iteration if the functor returns true. Don't do that kids. Make an IterationBehavior enum with some real Stop and Continue values.

that other event may be over but we still have the rest of the month💃🎺

"See THAT's how you make a successful game" - guy who played a game he likes

#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone! This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf. Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open! For more info: notgdc.io

It's funny that this is "surprising" because having implemented settings menu in 3 different tech across 5 projects. It's fucking hard

200,000 wishlists. 🤯 We’re beyond grateful for the incredible reception during Steam Next Fest. ✨ Top 50 Demo of the festival ✨ Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam ✨ And now… 200K wishlists Thank you for your support! #SteamNextFest #gaming #VoidlingBound

@hankgreen.bsky.social would you be up for having a convo about AI and its impact within art? your latest video was great!! I would love to chat if you're up for it c: there's a perspective from my field of game dev you might appreciate (wish we met at thinkercon! I only met the other hank)

I wish Americans stopped talking about a "distraction", y'all gotta realize there's no distraction and nothing to be distracted from, and it's a really weird reading lense

There's actually only two types of games, the games where you have to pick between three things, and games where you have to put the square into the square hole.

Do you use Blender for Unreal, Unity, or Godot? You know all the annoying things about exporting for games? I made this free add-on to make it not-annoying and instead awesome: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/prot... #blender3d #b3d #gamedev

belated Voxel Fridays Twitch stream in 30 minutes.

A bit in a depressed mood... I still like making games and tools around games but god damn it feels like gamers just HATE game developers sometimes. Lots of great people still but sometimes it makes me feel a "ah that's who I'm working for" kinda way

This was long overdue and took wayyyyy too long to produce, but here it is. There are still a few knowledge gaps I was hoping to fill, but I ran out of time. 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxIa...

Lmao that's hilarious

13 years later I finally got the Ending A of Volgarr the Viking, that was a lot of fun to rediscover

My little mutated family

The annual Quebec Games Celebration from @indieasylum.bsky.social is back with a big Steam sale & special showcase on Thursday. 🇨🇦 🎮 Love this! Lots of great deals, but special shoutout to Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, one of my favourite games last year that deserves more love.

Laura (landelare) has a great blog. https://landelare.github.io/ #UnrealEngine

New twitch programming stream starting at 8:30 AM PST, 16:30 UTC. twitch.tv/nothings2 introducing Voxel Fridays (on Thursday). Programming a new voxel engine, plus discussion about importance of sticking to one project and not haring off into whatever random idea catches your fancy in the moment.

For anyone who missed it and wants to see it, Twitch didn't save a VOD since that toggle got switched off somehow. Here's a YouTube upload, an unedited 5-hour stream where I talk about plans, debug some code, and demo some stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Je...

MEWGENICS TOMORROW www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruL...

THIS WEEK!! 📣

Had a sudden flash of remembrance about Void Stranger, what a fever dream of a game

Been enjoying Bento Blocks which is cozy and has some elegant puzzles (tho I'd encourage you to always aim for the minimum number of chops, otherwise it is too easy) store.steampowered.com/app/3311670/Bento_Blocks/

Lerp is used everywhere in games. It’s simple, but combined with a few small tricks it becomes incredibly powerful. This thread is full of visual examples.

Very good article, and I can't emphasize enough how important it is to develop your tools and runtime in a way that _helps_ you keep your Gyms relevant

Maybe when I finish Fable Anniversary I'm starting Black&White2...

Testing reality-bending visual effects for my game! #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine

I've updated my AnimatableClipper widget to provide more clipping modes, the default one scissor clips, but the other actually interacts with the geometry. Useful tool to build smooth reveal animations. github.com/Sharundaar/U... github.com/Sharundaar/U... #Unreal #UnrealUI #UE5 #UnrealUMG

If, like me, you're sad that the #UnrealEngine Data Validation plugin no longer clears the message log before reporting errors, good news! This details a simple fix with no need for engine changes: www.richardmeredith.net/blog/clear-m...

I just really like the costumes in the fallout show

The Children don't know the feeling of wiping the electrons from the surface of the CRT with your hand after turning it on. (besides the point of the thread, i just find the idea funny)