Lots to share about the tech behind Ambrosia Sky this Thursday at Houdini HIVE Equinox. How do fungus spawning agents work? How is volumetric data stored and how does it drive animations? What is a "bloxel?"

Our very own @julesfern.gay was part of the keynote presentation this morning for @sidefx.bsky.social's Toronto Equinox event! If you want to read more about some of the tech behind Ambrosia Sky, we've got a devlog for you: tiny.cc/ambrosiasky-...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Ambrosia Sky's creative team pulls back the layers of their ambitious first-person game

Congratulations to Carlos Ruiz, one of our concept artists, for being nominated for the 2025 Concept Art Awards! 🏆 His piece, Maeve's Cocoon, is a finalist in the "Character - Video Games" category. ✨ conceptartassociation.com/caa-2025

We are taking Ambrosia Sky to @officialpax.bsky.social! #PAXWest Visit Booth 738 to meet some of our team, play our demo, and grab a few neat freebies you won't want to miss. See you in Seattle! 👋

in england we call binary data "onesie nonesies" and bugs "bitty flippy oopsie doopsies"

Facebook again creating the most boring dystopia. Where is the chatbot for Football Mascot Stuck In Costume. Which product owner cut Raccoon Who Gained Genius-Level Intelligence Fifteen Minutes Ago. Where is Vampire Twink

What’s that you say

Is there any spec-fi where humanity acts as though the AI singularity happened but is actually just making major decisions by vigorously shaking a magic 8 ball Did we actually concoct a future so stupid that popular fiction failed to predict it

Found the pinnacle gamedev notebook

rube goldberg, machine

When all you have is slop, every problem looks like a slop shortage

Yeah no sorry I can’t make it in today. Yeah I heeded the call to adventure

"And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs" oh ok so no breakthroughs then. Zero breakthroughs is the total. Breakthrough count: nil. None breakthroughs left beef

For many years, foliage in League of Legends was implemented as a special kind of minion with movement and combat disabled

You gotta play Skin Deep. You just gotta. Don't miss out on this absolutely chaotic masterpiece

When folks are kind enough to write about the work, there are the pull quotes you want on your trailer, and then there are the quotes you want to hang on your wall. Thank you @platanoranger.bsky.social

Do you want to feel feelings while cleaning hostile fungus out of space habitats, putting the dead to rest and occasionally getting electrocuted and set on fire? Well that is an extremely specific thing to want but boy howdy do we have a game for you

this is what game programming is like

Anyway the new devblog means I can finally post this footage of me self-soothing by cleaning away mountains of fungus in a gym map

Over at the devblog, we're sharing some info on the design, concept art and technology behind Ambrosia Sky's fungus species! blog.softrains.games/a-sci-fi-cle...

Fun Ambrosia Sky fact: We budget 0.5ms per frame for spawning fungus, which means we are more or less always spawning some fungus, somewhere, ready to spring on you at a moment's notice

Ambrosia Sky is Metroid Prime meets PowerWash Simulator, which still may sell it short

Every game dev is allowed to be an insufferable reposter on announcement day

Announcing our debut title... Ambrosia Sky. 🪐 Amongst the asteroids of Saturn lies your home, and a mystery that demands to be solved. Clean the contamination, lay the dead to rest, and find her. store.steampowered.com/app/3580160

Can't say much about this game other than... It's intensely my shit and you will *really* want to check it out

[!WARNING!] Incoming Transmission... [ERROR] MESSAGE CORRUPTED REBUILDING DATABASE... CORRUPTION LEVEL HIGH, EST. TIME OF COMPLETION: 8.6.25

The Jubilee debate format could be entirely fixed by removing the foot race aspect (wildly toxic; rewards thoughtless aggression) and instead making it a race to eat 25 hotdogs (mentally and spiritually demanding; rewards courage and grit)

Free advice for game developers: the things players will do most often, those should be good. For example if your game is about jumping, you should consider making the jump good

> run enhanceimage.exe 👀🐸

Johnny Mnemonic is short for Jonathan Mnemonathan

Who decided AI buttons should all use a sparkle icon instead of the more obviously correct choice, a cursed monkey paw

browser extension that replaces the text on all the little magic sparkle AI buttons with "idk just make some shit up for me"

Its so funny to me that tesla can suffer a catastrophic fall in profits and the board is still like “please mr musk, if you could find it in your heart, could you please show up sometimes to your $50bn/yr job, if it would be convenient, no offense, uh, your memeness”

We've been pretty quiet about our work since starting up, so it was fun (and scary) to chat a bit about the dynamics and ambitions of our studio at GDC last week. www.gamesradar.com/games/there-...

this, to me, is game design

Skill issue

Ah yes, the three genders

This meeting could have been you firing a red laser beam and me firing a blue laser beam and both beams meeting at a midpoint that shifts based on our relative power output

In hindsight it’s very funny that Cyberpunk 2077 has an entire subplot about how the internet had to be firewalled off due to rampant AI and attempting to go on it will cook your brain

Absolutely not taking “echo chamber” allegations from people who have never worked alongside two women with the same name

If we need to preserve anything from The Other Place it is this amazing meme originally posted by @mjp123.bsky.social

“I’m a heterodox thinker” oh cool man good for you. im annoying too

They’re saying it’s the worst vibe yet

My working schedule today was planned with the assumption that I'd succumb to ticking psychic damage by 4pm

I arrived to find 65,993 people discoursing about whether or not to call them skeets

@ozone.birb.house hello! gamedev here for the tagging. thanks for working on the labels!

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Game Developer: the glass is actually just a simple cylinder primitive with a custom shader used to simulate the liquid inside