On November 29, I’ll be at Zig Day Stockholm. I look forward to meeting other Zig enthusiasts there. zig.day/europe/stock...

a warning from India for countries thinking of adopting a Digital ID model like Aadhar rethinkaadhaar.in/campaign2025

Due to overwhelming popular demand I taught myself how to make and edit video! Here is how I made my procedural pixel art tentacle, keen to hear feedback as this is all very new for me. Cheers :) youtu.be/-h2dkiKy_4I #GameDev #Godot #PixelArt

I went on a Netflix/Grisham spree and watched The Firm, Runaway Jury, and The Client and wow, The Firm has not aged well. It felt extremely stiff. The plot was probably good but it was overshadowed by allround terrible direction, music, and acting. With such a cast, it's a crazy waste!

After the second year of trick or treating in the neighborhood I'm really liking Halloween becoming a thing in Sweden, for these reasons. Huge difference living in a house compared to an apartment for sure!

Is there anyone out there that actually is trying to build a gamer and consumer friendly Linux version for PC? I bet there is or will soon be a huge market willing to pay for a better OS than Windows the way it's heading.

I've tried telling Giuseppe that these white lines aren't a good fit for Tides's art style but he insists on putting them in. What are they even supposed to be, some kind of snow that only falls in straight lines? It's like he thinks this is how clouds work and that wind isn't a thing.

@gmodarelli.com added support for the moon to have a proper texture! I tried throwing one together. It's not great (not even very good), but it's ours!

We've just finished another iteration on Tides! This one took three months to do. @gmodarelli.com's renderer is more GPU driven and I have gotten a long way on the release's gameplay goals! We have a more stuff we wanna do and then release something playable in December! bsky.app/profile/srek...

I told my kid if he were to help with Tides development it would go a lot faster and so I wanted to see if there were any good tutorials... I don't know what I expected.

Giuseppe has done an amazing job with this update! So happy it's in! It's one of the big parts of the release we're hoping to do this year.

While implementing fast travel and having it take the right amount of time (per distance), I noticed that the duration doesn't match when you walk manually... So I've now eliminated some cases and am using my chunky metal D20 to manually walk a long distance to see if the error holds.

I've always thought the "implants pushes away your soul" mechanic of Shadowrun was boring, like, it's a very gamey way of balancing that play style. Mostly because I don't believe in the soul. But this apparently first solution was much more interesting and believable, and nowadays, relevant..

I made a torch for #shadowdark #drawtober :)

Game like @kenney.nl's Make Room but you're a renegade/drunk cop/FBI agent from a 90's thriller and you gotta tear it up and find the evidence, there or not. With lines like "WHERE THE FUCK IS IT!?", "THIS GUN IS MY WARRANT!" and "SHE'S DEAD IN TWO HOURS!" store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/...

I finished Steamworld Dig yesterday. A good game but the last third isn't great. They kinda didn't know what to do to increase the difficulty, and so added enemies and especially level concepts that were more annoying than interesting. It's clear it was a learning experience for the sequel 👌 .

Before / After #gamedev #sexyshadows

Small but important progress

Tell me you're programming c++ without telling me you're programming c++

According to bsky I got 20 followers overnight. Given that the last time I posted was 5 days ago I doubt it was that, unless it got posted to a game devs & butt jokes discord or something. Anyone want to enlighten me? The least you can do is send an invite to that discord!

When you miss a "but" and the sentence comes out meaning something completely different :D

Giant slime finding its way to a village and sliming it down

My first 5 activations/purchases. Via steam/account/View licenses and product key activations

A thought I had: Typically vampires who have lived for a long time are powerful and rich, right? They make connections and invest or whatever. But like, all they have is time, and us humans *do* have time, say some 40 years of working. But a lot of us aren't getting rich or richer. Why?

Scrollbars are terrible in modern UIs but monochrome stylized simplistic icons have to be the worst change that has happened to UIs. Yes, UX designer, I *would* like to be able to figure out what an icon does without using a tooltip.

Damn. Not trying to quote this out of context or anything, and I'm not sure it's as bad as it sounds, but I've at least stumbled onto this specific issue myself. I wonder if it also translates to worse error messages and code completion etc. too. #ziglang github.com/ziglang/zig/...

Watch this interview with Giuseppe @gmodarelli.com who's working with me on Tides of Revival to see how it's going with the game and why we're using The-Forge @theforge.dev !

I had a great time doing this interview, and I am really grateful for the opportunity given to me by @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social, whose graphics programming books sit on my shelf 😊 Thank you!

Damn, sorry to hear. I was offered a position there last year but didn't take it for various reasons. I have quite a few ex-colleagues working there so hopefully they are OK.

Hey it's my first ever #WishlistWednesday 😊 Please consider wishlisting Chronicles IV: Ebonheim on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/... #gamedev #chron4 #indiegames #ultima #roguelike #crpg

I've said it before but this book is great, to the point, explains grammar effortlessly, and is just hilarious. :) It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences. By @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Slime prototype! Coming to a village near you soon.

This is extremely on point.

Villages in Tides of Revival will now expand their road network outwards over time, placing road markers and lanterns along the roads. (currently the road markers have lights added to them to show the effect, lanterns to come soonish) #gamedev #ziglang #procgen

Here is the next iteration of plans for Tides!

I am excited to share this new single-header C library I have been working on for a while now: vecmath.h, a comprehensive vector/matrix math library for graphics/games/3d. It allows you to write vector math code in C that looks like this:

Lol, some good spice over at the #Ziglang github

We do our "short term" planning for Tides as a post in our Discord that I just keep up to date with where we are. It works quite nicely, very flexible and handy. We just finished our latest iteration! It took a bit longer than I thought, but for good reasons :) #gamedev #planning

We have a first version of a day night cycle in Tides!

So this post doesn't really explain how it works. Actually losing unvested shares isn't too weird. You start with 100% unvested shares and "vest" them over time. You can choose to buy the vested shares cheap. But you're kinda hoping for an automatic buyout, acquisition or IPO. However ...

Human Artists! Use only one piece to convince people to follow you! (I don't draw much but it happens..) This is Saint Terragnis, one of the deities of #Shadowdark!

Now we're cooking! #procgen

Hate it when the contractor shows up drunk to palisade building day

I appreciate the idea behind Stop Killing Games and I think it's very sad when games become unavailable... But I'm concerned that if this turns into law it'll be constructed by people who don't understand the ramifications and that it'll be a giant monkey's paw.

Hah, this wasn't really intentional but the generator spawned out a nice village on the side of a mountain. I wonder who lives there, I'm hoping for goat people! #procgen

Notes on atmospheric perspective and distant mountains blog.runevision.com/2025/06/note... On my recent vacation in Japan, I had ample opportunities to study views with distant mountains. And something about the shades at different distances clicked for me that’s now obvious in retrospect.

Caaaaaan you see the griiiiiid tonight It is randomly rotated It's good enough for this wide-eyed procedural generator

First shot of a village in Tides, generated via the new world generation Simulator program we've been writing! It's not much yet, but it's a start! Will be posting more as it evolves (but I'll also not spend too much time on it because it's time to work on the ingame world sim). #procgen #ziglang

As I write in the post, a mystical stairway up through a cedar forest gave me a weirdly strong sense of three-dimensional depth. I got a question about that on Mastodon, which made me reflect more on the reasons. 🧵