Over the years, I've been getting a ton of mileage from this rectangle packing algorithm: blackpawn.com/texts/lightm... #gamedev

you wanna get nuts? let's get nuts! ... rendering line 3 of 200 (22hrs remaining)

Using my new SDL3 font powers I've got a nice 9px pixel font and used some fake bold to mock up a fake menu bar. It's just a huge text string, nothing interactive yet ! I need to optimise it because it should be caching these strings into an atlas, not drawing every character every frame.

The mini update is now available! Eight new THINGS plus glow textures for the screens. shallowthinking.itch.io/brutalbasepa...

Got a first version of waterfalls working! Really fun to see the water react and new little ponds and waterfalls form as you edit the terrain. Next I’ll look at some better shading, VFX and solving lots and lots and lots of edge cases. #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

Ported my font rendering / toolchain over to work with SDL3. Had to remember to pad the glyphs on the texture page to fix some fun errors with bilinear filtering :D #gamedev

New video of Golden Axe work in progress for #Atari8bit computers #atari #retrogames

I've been using DirectX9 for so long I'd just accepted that beloved PIX was gone and I'd just have to guess or something. Wait, I'm using SDL3 and it supports DX11 🥳 using RenderDoc for the first time and we're so back! First discovery was the difference in shader between IDX8 and RGBA32 texture 😱

Hit a minor sales milestone on itch. I'm celebrating with a little update to the free Brutal Base texture pack which will be uploaded later. You can follow for updates in the meantime: shallowthinking.itch.io/brutalbasepack #TextureTuesday #pixelart #lowpoly #gameassets #gamedev #indiedev

Deluxe Poly - 0.38 is now available for Patreon supporters! www.patreon.com/posts/deluxe... Here's a video explaining what's new! youtu.be/BIhvzHkzOhA #pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev #illustration #noai

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So I did setup my Linux PC as a git server. This is great but even with a guide, it was ... a major learning experience 😁 Main error was I messed up permissions for the repo. Thankful for the many stackoverflow answers that helped me learn (ls -l 👍). O/S equivalent of a Sierra adventure game :)

My PC has been chugging away lately processing more ASTER satellite data into ocean-land masks at a higher detail / smaller area. Mostly they've been quite simple shapes but I spotted these two incredibly detailed ones.

Bushido Blade (PS1) (1997) 1/4

I've been getting all my follows from bots lately. I'm guessing this site is entering some next terrible phase. So I turned off follow notifications. But I'm still seeing non-stop cool and interesting stuff on my timeline so that's good, lots of great humans on here too 👍

So? In high school we made windows fuckin look like this

The time Tim Follin sent one of his Spectrum tunes into a magazine as a listing - Your Spectrum Issue 20 ( August 1987 )

Deluxe Poly 0.38 is now on the Discord (Patreon access only) -- I'll be making a video for it tomorrow to show the features in action. Sign up here to get it: www.patreon.com/c/davidwdev

I'm working on a stylized shader for flowing water. Here are some results combining phasor noise with advection along the flow direction. Some more details in 🧵. The code is on shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/N3sGD2 #gamedev #procedural #indiegamedev #techart

Deluxe Poly #wip - Object snapping now too, including center snaps.

Deluxe Poly #wip - Vertex snapping is mostly done now. Should be uploading a new update for Patreon backers shortly. #lowpoly #pixelart #gamedev

COMPART/PANTHEON.GIF

Developing a new game! We back to #shmup, now on #picotron. New caravan - Faster, Louder and Harder Taking all the lessons from ExTerra and Steel Surge, and pushing it even further this time. Thanks to Zep's LXO, we will even have live high-scores! #gamedev Feels good to be back

Asset Forge is getting a new update soon! Use over 900+ blocks to kitbash models, export them directly to your game engine or render sprites. It's available here: kenney.itch.io/assetforge

I dislike the Blender/Autodesk duopoly. The 3D tool landscape feels so limited when elsewhere there's many good affordable choices for music DAWs, text editors, paint/pixel art, etc. - even with feature parity, new tools offer UI/workflow options that might better suit some artists. Where are they?

Greek Bay (Choro Q Marine, PS1, Access, 1998)

cat isn't real, it can't hurt you. cat:

An update to SDL will improve its support for the #SteamController outside of Steam, opening up compatibility with new games and applications, like Xbox Game Pass:

This device could predict incoming phone calls (2000s)

Deluxe Poly #wip - now 160% better at making strange geometric art ! #lowpoly #pixelart #gamedev #noai

Deluxe Poly #wip - Experiments with grid snapping.

Sailing Ship

Deluxe Poly #wip - I've added some more long-press popups to the toolbox for quicker access to options. Here's the snapping options at the moment -- I've yet to implement these and plan to add more options in future updates once the groundwork is done. #pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev

Get an authentic retro feeling in your environments with Rivets n Rust. 300+ gritty textures including a commercial use license. shallowthinking.itch.io/rivets-n-rus... #gamedev #indiedev #assetpack #quake3 #lightmaps

Vector-tracing my pigeon photo with Deluxe Poly by @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social :)

Using USB to copy files between Linux / Win10 is awkward so I was thinking I could run a git server on Linux and sync that way. Found a guide: www.baeldung.com/linux/git-se... - but I feel with Linux there's an implied "just don't step on the rakes!" and I'm scared I'll make a giant security hole :(

HMRC has decided that they messed up and overpaid on a refund they gave for the tax 24/25 year so it's a great time to remind remind everyone that I have some texture packs for sale! shallowthinking.itch.io #gameart #pixelart #gamedev #indiedevelopers #gamedev

It's been a long time since I played with FreeType and last night I discovered that it supports sub-pixel rendering. #gamedev

computer graphics (1990) archive.org/details/theg...

It might seem shocking but it's true, you can make environments in various colours with this set. Not just brown.

Bit more work on my map project - rendered a tile of the land around Milwaukee at higher detail. Guess I need to think about adding some civilisation to it next.

What if the Acorn Archimedes had its own Star Fox? Wing Star is a 90s 3D demo that pushed the system in impressive ways, blending ideas from Star Fox and Afterburner. You can try it yourself too at Games That Weren't.

AutoCAD 2.18 Autodesk 1985

You can use this convenient rhyme to help you remember.

Bit of a late #screenshotsaturday, but experimented with showing off some audio updates for #HAFO . Every stage pop-up will have its own music now. I'm not sure if I should restart the song each time or just let it loop. We'll see. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame hafo.horse

Tie Fighter

Deluxe Poly #wip - Shift+<R> to cycle through the available shapes. Closing in on Adobe & Canva feature set like an unstoppable freight train ! #pixelart #lowpoly

Snapped from a 1997 Eidos promo cd: The building blocks of a Tomb Raider II stage in construction down to the wireframe core.