Well that was a pain, but my engine now supports variable pitch fonts correctly. #gamedev #gamedevelopment

There are some really weird accounts on GitHub that just seem to follow and unfollow over and over? I wish GitHub had a block feature.

I'm really not even sure where to start on this as to why it's so... Wrong...

I don't know if I'm just not interesting enough for people to want to chat with or what, but whenever I try my best to reach out to people, it's always just a one-sided conversation, and they never make any effort to reach out in return.

A new Rayman 3 press kit just got dumped and it has some really nice high quality Rayman 3 GBA art! I'll post a few of them here. Press kit link: archive.org/details/R3_U... #rayman

Hi @ledbydonkeys.org, love your activism work. I've emailed and messaged you guys about it over and over, but why are you still actively contributing to Elon's Twitter and Zuck's Threads? Your Bluesky account almost has more followers than Threads, and yet you've stopped updating it.

If your placeholder assets aren't clearly placeholders, you'll forget to replace them Back in ~1999, the art director for some dollhouse game made a temporary diamond-shaped model for their character UI. By the time he realized they hadn't replaced it, it was too late and it shipped as-is. Oops!

Today I've published a rather extensive look at Haven: Call of the King, for the PlayStation 2. Not quite as extensive as I was hoping but probably long enough I'm rather doubtful many are going to manage reading the entire thing. talonbrave.info/2025/09/10/h... Do let me know what you think!

Today I've published a rather extensive look at Haven: Call of the King, for the PlayStation 2. Not quite as extensive as I was hoping but probably long enough I'm rather doubtful many are going to manage reading the entire thing. talonbrave.info/2025/09/10/h... Do let me know what you think!

Having fun with the camera on my new phone.

I've uploaded the source code for Quantic Dream's engine (from 2006) to GitHub and archive.org per the links below. Be sure to mirror, as you never know how long things like this might last online :) github.com/data-dungeon... archive.org/details/qd-s...

Ended up buying little joystick caps for all our PS5 controllers due to how much shit seems to gradually stick to the rubber and it's always a pain to clean them off.

I've uploaded the source code for Quantic Dream's engine (from 2006) to GitHub and archive.org per the links below. Be sure to mirror, as you never know how long things like this might last online :) github.com/data-dungeon... archive.org/details/qd-s...

Uhm, am I missing something here? Why is Cisco blocking Ukrainian users? They're a US based company. Why is this not raising red flags? It looks like it's been going on for a few months now. github.com/cisco/openh2...

Really enjoyed the Rayman Alive showcase. A bit bummed out I couldn't participate this time, but it was wonderful seeing so many other great projects out there. The Ubisoft feature at the end got me a bit emotional.

So a while back I'd uploaded the source code for a pre-release version of The Darkness and the Starbreeze Engine, from a leak a few years back. The upload was taken down though. I finally got off my fat ass and mirrored them onto The Data Dungeon site. archive.thedatadungeon.com/the_darkness...

TOMORROW 8: 00 CEST RAYMAN ALIVE Don't miss the presentation of tons of Rayman fan games and other fun surprises for the 30th anniversary ❤️❤️❤️

I fucking hate this country. And this is about as much of a mess as I expected it to be; Hatred isn't blocked. Postal 2 isn't blocked. But some game called TurretGirls, which, as far as I'm aware doesn't have NSFW content, is blocked.

I almost wonder if someone is doing this intentionally now. I mean, how could you not know?

Freespace in 1996!

Was able to recover data from almost all of the Pinnacle Micro disks, minus one marked bad from the developers due to a missing part of the spindle. Some great Freespace stuff on them.

Finally got off my fat ass and updated the camera system to support a first-person mode (which is what my game is primarily going to be using anyway). #gamedev

#SaveSpeech Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points. Tell em to say NO to: SCREEN ACT KOSA IODA www.congress.gov/members/find... CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.

What... ? So I had it on pre-order. Game is out today. I'm apparently getting it on Thursday. But if I bought it *now*, I could get it tomorrow!? 🤨

Every time the press talks about VPNs in relation to OSA, the question always seems to be, "will they ban VPNs?" That's not practical, so of course the answer is no. The question should be whether or not the government has any plans to impose *restrictions* on the usage of VPNs in the future.

Another newly discovered portfolio from a Rayman level designer reveals an entire unused level for the Grumbling Grottos part of the Desert of Dijiridoos. Interestingly this level is shown to have 4 cage sub-areas, and the photographer waiting at the end! adildadda.wixsite.com/works/ro #rayman

Jeep Barnett, developer on Portal 1 and Portal 2, dug up a lost presentation on the development of Portal 2 Coop he did at Animex 2012 and re-performed the presentation for the sake of preservation!! If you've got an hour, give it a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1E...

At least they haven't resorted to suggesting we ban video-games because of people using Norman Reedus to bypass age verification, though give it time I guess.

Well that didn't take long. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today we are releasing a lost and unreleased #PC build of X'Treme Roller by Neko. The game was released on #PS1, and was also cancelled for the #N64 too. We take a look at this very early build, which you too can now play: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/08/xtre...

The source code of the SlaveDriver Engine, powering the 1996 game PowerSlave for the Sega Saturn, is now published under the GPLv3. github.com/Lobotomy-Sof... archive.org/details/slav...

github.com/Lobotomy-Sof... 👀

Really nice video talking about Anvil's rendering architecture here. youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU Wasn't expecting it to be followed up with a quick video of the Perforce history though. Seems to start off in April 2004, which I think makes sense, following Sands of Time. Just wish it wasn't so low res :(

Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act

Went for a lovely walk yesterday.

It wasn't fun to write and there's a lot more I'd want to add, but I've laid out some of my thoughts on the Online Safety Act here. www.hogsy.me/2025-08-06.htm #osa #OnlineSafetyAct

Went to Arundel castle today.

A little bit of progress on decals. Nothing particularly fancy, just clipping them relative to the face boundary. #gamedev

"Do you have any plans for dinner?" "Nothing concrete." "Damn, you know how much I love eating concrete."

The momentum for the OSA petition seems to have slowed down a little since the government response. I wonder if people are just going to give up and assume the government won't do anything about it? We need to continue pushing against this thing and informing MPs why it's a terrible idea.

We rolled out a fairly good update for archive.thedatadungeon.com today. Let us know if you encounter any issues! Two most helpful features are probably the last updated column and an initial pass on the timeline view (see Final Fantasy XV for a decent example). #digipres #digitalpreservation

reminder that if you're British, you should sign the petition to stop the privacy violation that is the Online Safety Act petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Gradually working on the new timeline view for thedatadungeon.com - not quite what I had in mind for it, but it's gradually getting there. This will automatically provide a timeline of all publications and distributions, and eventually more. #digipres #digitalpreservation #gamepreservation

Added a new page on a rather unusual and obscure game called Auryn Quest, which was originally intended to be a rather interesting adventure game based on The Neverending Story - but ended up as a first-person platformer after the studio collapsed. archive.thedatadungeon.com/auryn_quest_...

My adventure exploring the Haven prototype continues, with some more discoveries at the end of the video (see description for timestamp). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFoS...

So it just dawned on me, but console platforms are now obligated to introduce measures to meet the requirements of the OSA in the UK. I wonder if we might see the Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 have their online functionality limited or disabled entirely over here as a result of that...

I couldn't actually find the Contact Us page using my phone. So here it is: igea.net/about/contact/

My adventure exploring the Haven prototype continues, with some more discoveries at the end of the video (see description for timestamp). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFoS...

Just finished watching The Bad Guys 2, and it was pretty good!