Documented For-Loops in Niagara because I couldn't find much about them in the web: realtimevfx.com/t/unreal-nia... #realtimevfx

store.steampowered.com/app/4209010/... A friend of mine is launching a game into early access soon! Fly and maintain a plane over a flooded world... check it out!

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free. Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com I could use re-posting :)

Super Jump Magazine gave Keeper one of the top games of 2025! www.superjumpmagazine.com/2025-games-o...

Come check out the demo for the sequel to Withering Rooms! It's excellent, spooky fun :)

I had a wonderful conversation with @ronscompvids.bsky.social. Please check it out. bsky.app/profile/rons...

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

You don't need to have played Withering Rooms to fully enjoy Withering Realms. You can play them in either order and discover new story aspects both directions. That said, if you are a fan of Rooms, I put a few new details about how the games relate here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/200...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Wow. That's a lot of overdraw."

BIG NEWS! You can try out the first-ever demo of Withering Realms during Steam Next Fest running Feb 23rd - Mar 2nd. To celebrate, here's a brand new trailer🎬 4k trailer link: youtu.be/985f76uxiLA Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/... Wishlist today and I'll see you on Feb 23rd!

Good morning! Fuck ice!

Let's dive into what Kiln is. It's a pottery power-fantasy that celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things, and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens! www.doublefine.com/games/kiln

🚨 ATTN: Technical Geeks🚨 Behold, our 105-minute #Unreal5 KEEPER deep dive! @leepetty.social.bsky, Asif, Will, and Zach walk through lighting techniques using #UE5's Lumen system, animating characters with control rigs, VR environment sculpting, and so, so many camera tracks! buff.ly/1RvxgaY

Thanks for the shoutout, @stevesaylor.net! We are so happy you've been able to enjoy Keeper using High Contrast Mode!

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

One of my favorite #indie releases of 2018, and a real sleeper hit, in my humble opinion, was "Timespinner" by @lunarraygames.bsky.social An excellent #Metroidvania, and an absolute love-letter to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night And there's a sequel on the way, too. #indiedev #gaming #gamedev

Keeper update! ▪️Noir mode! ▪️Ultrawide monitor support! ▪️New accessibility features! You would think a colorful game like Keeper would loose a lot going black & white, but this version has been tuned by @leepetty.bsky.social himself so it really highlights the drama. (As well as his love for AC/DC.)

As promised I recorded the creation of a morph (from scratch) using the tech we developed for Keeper. In about an hour I show how we capture the “Essence” of meshes, blend between them, and spice things up with spatial warps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9V_...

woah it's GUMPY watch out!!

If you're feeling the spirit of award season blasting out of your body like an excited chestburster, please consider KEEPER when making your #SteamAwards nominations in these three categories: 👁️ Outstanding Visual Style 🎶 Best Soundtrack 😌 Sit Back and Relax store.steampowered.com

Check it out!

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

The second official trailer for my upcoming horror action RPG Withering Realms is up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAxS... This one shows a few new mechanics, such as the camera, occult hand, blurry ghosts, and more. #wishlistwednesday

I wrote a neat morph system for Keeper and hopefully I can share a bit more about it in the future. This particular morph was an experiment using symmetry that didn't make it into the game in the end.

So excited for people to finally get to experience this! Proud to have been a part of bringing this vision to life.

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use: blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Another stunner. "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

How about a little #ScreenshotSaturday? We'll be posting some glimpses of Keeper as we approach launch day! Let us begin, then...with a Beach Walk. Keeper — An Odyssey of Mystifying Metamorphosis. Wishlist Now! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/... Xbox: www.microsoft.com/store/produc...

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Feeling inspired by fancy sea slugs, so gonna make a new enemy today for Timespinner 2! Come watch the magic happen, lol :D www.twitch.tv/lunarraygames #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metroidvania #xna #seaslug

From @leepetty.bsky.social‬ and Double Fine Productions, our new game is Keeper - a beautiful and surreal third-person, atmospheric puzzle adventure, and a story told without words. On October 17 2025 — The Keeper Shall Awaken! Wishlist today, and find out more on www.doublefine.com

The World Building Guide v3 is now available in preparation of Unreal Engine 5.6 upcoming release. Hope it helps, enjoy the reading and don't hesitate to share! dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Every commercial font we've ever made, all zipped up in one pack. There are handwriting fonts, techno fonts, pixel art - the whole pack has a vast range of genres and vibes to choose from. Use them in game dev, books, album covers, ttrpgs, web comics etc ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack #gamedev #booksky

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

Happy 31st birthday to the best game ever made! @demofox.bsky.social

Thank you to Rock Paper Shotgun for covering Withering Realms: www.rockpapershotgun.com/bloodborne-a...

Clover can cast spells at any time, even while The Doll is mid swing. Here she casts a green "flash spell" which speeds up The Doll by 25% for 3 seconds - very effective on weapons with lots of fast individual hits like the Chain Dagger or Machine Gun. #wishlistwednesday

I'm thrilled to share a new JCGT paper, "GPU Friendly Laplacian Texture Blending." It uses simple image processing and computational photography techniques to smoothly blend/layer textures and materials while preserving local contrast and texture details without ghosting or over-blurring. 1/3

Creating a new monster for Timespinner 2 during today's Development Livestream! Come say hi :D www.twitch.tv/lunarraygames

Thank you for the incredible response to Withering Realms! I've posted a Gameplay Details & FAQ article on Steam with a few more details like what gameplay is like, console release, relationship to Withering Rooms and more: steamcommunity.com/games/344199...

I've cancelled my talk at GDC and my flights I really hate to put this on the organizers so late in the process, who have been so kind to me, but the trump administration is starting to directly erase and target minority groups I'm in, and I just can't handle the stress of going. I'm sorry

Announcing my second game, WITHERING REALMS. It's a horror action RPG about the adventures of Clover(a ghost girl), The Doll(wood, metal, bone, flesh) and Althea(a reporter). Explore the town of Penwyll and the sprawling graveyards and rotting estates that surround it. 🧵

Marionette room from Haunting Ground (Capcom 2005)

Working on some FX for the burning status effect for the next game this morning. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #survivalhorror 🎮🔥

"Something strange is lurking behind the door. Consider a new route." is so much better than "Does not open from this side" or "The lock is broken. I can't open the door". Kuon (2004) From Software

For the next game, trying to make *everything* at least like 25% better than Withering Rooms. Trying to minimize the bad jank while preserving the good jank. Working on some spell FX today with some 3D noise for the smoke instead of plain old flipbooks like before.

hmmmmmmmmff 🍷

Chapter 2 of the Withering Rooms OST is up on YouTube now, featuring tracks from the upper floor, attic and labyrinth. My personal favorite from this batch is the Upper Parlor theme, with Cable Car as a close second. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldAo...