Wrote up how Unity's "Freeform Stretching" and "Rotate With Stretch" features work so that the next person who wants to run them on GPU doesn't end up pulling their hair out: gist.github.com/pcwalton/ff7...

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

I mostly avoided the physically based rendering stuff once it started growing in popularity, because I was always drawn to stylized art styles but now that I've done a freelance gig with some PBR/HDR stuff, I am both 1. intrigued 2. horrified/amazed that classic/LDR rendering even works

If like me, you've been watching the Ruby Central debacle unfold from the sidelines, this is a very helpful and clear summary of the events that unfolded. I don't have any particular reason to trust the author though, so do exercise judgement.

👋 FEEDBACK WANTED ..on this preliminary #rustlang reflection MVP design by oli: github.com/rust-lang/ru... (the PR works, you can compile it and play with it, see rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org)

🎮 The Impatient Programmer's Guide to Bevy and Rust: Chapter 1 - Let There Be a Player > will be going in-depth into bevy and game development in this series, also cover NPCs powered by AI Agents aibodh.com/posts/bevy-r... #rustlang #bevy #game

I just released bevy_immediate! The first immediate mode UI library for Bevy! Check it out: github.com/PPakalns/bev... Write UI in Bevy using a simple, egui-inspired immediate mode API, while Bevy's ECS logic handles the heavy lifting. Compatible with Bevy UI! #bevy #bevyengine #rustlang #gamedev

this is also true in engineering

This is such an incredibly cool page for #rustlang to have rust-lang.github.io/rust-project... One day we will have this but for #julialang ✊

Well, that was certainly a bug. Problem: Hanabi particles are too fast. I store direction and magnitude separately, but direction wasn't being normalized. Hmm. Bug in my normalization code? No, it looks right... 1/

Introducing Rust into the core of Git? 🤔 lore.kernel.org/git/20250904... #rustlang

exciting new work from jasmine exploring dynamic global illumination in @bevy.org 0.17

I'm playing Fellowship's (store.steampowered.com/app/2352620/...) open beta this weekend, and while I'm just getting started my first impressions are extremely positive: this is the game I've wanted for a decade. WoW without the nonsense: just good-old-fashioned dungeons!

Wow, I missed the new "Optimizing Build Performance" section in the Cargo book github.com/rust-lang/ca...

I had always thought surely this is an exaggeration until I was a creative lead sitting in a game leadership meeting listening to a VP unironically say as he did every week “but what IS a horror game anyway? I saw this show on Netflix and—”

At first glance for the Ruby Central thing, you know how previously, we said "Benevolent Dictator For Life" is an okay model for open source development? That was not correct.

Bevy just keeps showing up where you least expect it. Today's entry: an adorable 3.5 inch 320x240 monitor showcasing the Bevy examples! Truly the ideal device for doing Rust game dev on.

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, gaming platform Steam, Twitch, and Reddit testify on October 8th about online radicalization.

So much of the non-self-published short fiction world is wild because so many places are like "5000-7000 words. No reprints or multiple submissions. Your story must never have been seen by other eyes before. We will take global first publishing rights for a year. You will get paid $5."

love too get an email from github saying i am exceeding cache limits without any indicator of which repository i should look at bro I have hundreds of repos across multiple organizations I have absolutely no idea where to start, and you don't have a central panel for this

I made my temporary fork of Bevy Hanabi more concrete. It's now called Hanabi-Batched: github.com/pcwalton/bev... This is a temporary fork that provides much better performance in real-life scenarios, making the difference between a shippable game and not in most cases.

Was asked about external Bevy component support in applications like Blender through glTF files, and while its a bit earlier than being "ready to propose" as a bevy glTF extension here's where I'm at from using Skein as a testing ground www.christopherbiscardi.com/bevy-compone...

yeah ! it’s been workable for ages sans text rendering which is the last missing bit i’ve been slacking on rewriting 🥲 we also are very much viewing it as *with* bevy and have some examples of using as such github.com/nannou-org/n...

Some Bevy Birthday thoughts www.christopherbiscardi.com/bevy-5th-bir...

FYI, I got an obvious phishing attempt in my inbox from `[email protected]` that was masquerading as a security breach notification. It made it past gmail's spam filters. The link goes to the `github.rustfoundation.dev` domain.

Godot has become a viable game engine Blender has become a viable 3D modelling AND animation tool SteamDeck is now a fantastic "mobile" Desktop platform AAA is shrinking / abandoning territory, ceding more genres to indie Basically, (funding sitch aside) indie gamedev is seriously looking up!

The problem with the patent office *rubber stamping* video game patents is an extension of a much bigger problem with global regulatory bodies: They don't understand video games or the games market. It won't be solved overnight.

"The GM is a neutral referee and not a player" is a holdover from wargaming, and still visible in language like "NPC" - not a player character. And, look, I think there's value in that paradigm, but I also think many games have inherited the rhetorical clutter, not the value.

Is there a better free alternative to GitHub actions? GH actions are extremely annoying to set up, impossible to test without making a mess in production repository, and quite slow (especially for my gentoo-related actions). Does an alternative that fixes all of this exist?

How do you test software, if you want to be *really* thorough about it? To answer that question this week we're going as far back as the 8-Bit Nintendo, as far down as the CPU, and nearly as far up and away as Mars. Will Wilson joins me to explore how far you can push testing… youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU

Here's how you can speed up your game releases without using AI: - make task lists - learn to prioritise - descope - build discipline habits - remove distractions - take breaks - sleep better for more brainpower - improve your health - take medication (if applicable) - get a faster PC + more

With the GPU-driven rendering work I did earlier this year and the Hanabi VFX work I'm doing now, Bevy is consistently hitting 120 FPS for me. Looks really nice on a high refresh rate display. Building a GPU-driven renderer is a ton of work, but the results *really* pay off.

The real difficulty learning #Rust as a first #programming language boils down to the fact: Nobody expected me to. - There are no complete beginner level resource. - The (awesome) community has forgotten what it is to start learning programming. - Recruiters expect beginners to know #JS not Rust

A huge thanks to Michael for the staggering amount of high quality work you did in the compiler. I'm sad we couldn't keep you working on Rust, but I know you'll be great at the next thing.

One key distinction is that the Bevy Foundation is controlled 100% by the maintainers (by nature of being them). The board can depose me or you at any time. Which is good. The community at large has less direct levers to pull:

Yeah I'd say we're pretty pirate-ey. Community-driven, consensus focused development. Equal (and modest) pay of Bevy Foundation employees. The less fun "keep things running/moving" work falls on Foundation employees if nobody else does it. The Foundation board is every maintainer and nobody else.

You know, I'm not sure if that's an inaccurate description of the governance of @bevy.org

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

thinking of terry pratchett (a man who wrote 2 books a year) who once phoned a friend fuming that he was being taken for granted by his publisher and never having any time off writing. I'm taking a sabbatical, he said. six months! afterwards, friend asked him how was it sir terry: i wrote 2 books

What execs are going to take away from Silksong: More layoffs! Smaller teams! Make Metroidvanias!! What they should take away instead: Devs working on a game they're passionate about with no interference from execs and the time they need to get it done without shareholder pressure

AaAaaAA!!! John Romero played BERSERKER'S DOMAIN and said it's really fun! I'm freaking out! 😁 You can all play it too this Friday, Sep 12. #gamedev #indiegame #godot

you should be stoned for abusing git like this, WHAT

talking to gamedevs about PL design is always so funny because it's constant whiplash between "the language should support incredible magic for these extremely specific idioms" and "the language having any magic at all is the most offensive thing in the world to me, why am i not in control of this"

I added a replay system and camera controls to my game and I'm having too much fun now #bevyengine

I urge companies to take funding contributors seriously, in ways that aren’t tied to projects and goals. Being a generalist in the compiler meant that often I wasn’t working towards a roadmap, but my contributions *always* paid off in the long term extensibility of the language.

Today’s my last day at AWS working on the Rust compiler. Unfortunately, back in July I received notice that I had to choose between moving to Boston from NYC, or leaving the company due to RTO policy. I unfortunately couldn’t abandon the city I plan on being my long term home.

Ever since I started seriously making a game, I can't play any game without noticing a bunch of minor things that could be fixed for QOL

I've been busy coding some new stuff up in Rust for @roomy.chat in the last week and a half and, man, I am so happy to be writing Rust again. I don't know that I'm going to write any more TypeScript for server-side stuff, unless it's just a microservice with a few hundred lines or something.