I can never understate how automated tests - not unit tests - using my custom framework have improved my productivity. Tests are focused on tricky code, unobvious behaviors or when combinatorial explosion would make manual testing redhibitory. (capture is in slowed down mode)

One of the rare challenges in developing the game AI for The Killing Stone is that the enemy has access to all the same cards the player does. A lot of deckbuilders have enemy characters that run scripts. We needed an AI that could play something like M:tG. store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

Really enjoyed Cairn - reached the summit some time ago. What a video game!

- Quelques chose se trame à l'horizon. Rendez-vous le 7 Mai pour découvrir ma nouvelle BD : Pourpre-sang ! 🩸

Here's a write-up of my investigations into a technique called "Inertial Easing" - an interesting idea on how to use easing functions for spring-damper-like applications. theorangeduck.com/page/inertia...

Game Creators Conference 2026, Osaka, March 28th. See you there? Whether you're solving a specific production challenge, addressing a feature gap, or just want to say hello, we'd love to connect. #GameCreatorsConference #Havok #GameDev #Unreal

niche post but if you are upgrading unreal horde build pipeline, don't just stop at uninstall/reinstall because some made-public UDN post said so. compare every single one of your json configs with the new defaults/samples to find all the new shit you are missing lol. spent most of today on this 😑

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

The Game From Ireland Steam Event is now live!! Go to the Steam Page and join us for the Games From Ireland Showcase which starts at 5.15pm!! store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr... #GamesFromIreland #IrishGames #Imirt #SteamEvent

Had all the rulebooks as well and was usually the "dungeon master"

DXR 2.0 specs were now made public 🎉 microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Spec...

Happy Hitman 2016 day to everyone who celebrates! Can't believe it has been 10 years! @ioi.dk it was an honor to play a tiny part in it with my colleagues from @mipumi.com . #10yearsoftheworldofassination #igotthetie

Happy Hitman 2016 day to everyone who celebrates! Can't believe it has been 10 years! @ioi.dk it was an honor to play a tiny part in it with my colleagues from @mipumi.com . #10yearsoftheworldofassination #igotthetie

Anyone know of any funding opportunities going for game prototypes/Microbusinesses etc in the UK?

Nursing a good case of FOMO here - have fun everyone at GDC! #gdcfomo

Today at #gdc Festival Of Gaming(tm), I’m moderating the first of three roundtables on test automation. I’ll see you at 308 South, 4.30pm! Find all the roundtables and other talks on test automation (including my panel!) here atig.dev/gdc/

Building character navigation for large, complex games? This #GDC2026 catch Havok Principal Engineer Ben Sunshine-Hill's session on proven AAA methods for parkour, swarms, dynamic worlds, and AI movement. schedule.gdconf.com/session/best...

Come catch one of my 5 roundtables! I’m hosting one every single day of the week! schedule.gdconf.com/speaker/stor...

Mandatory :

For any game developer or designer type folks out there - do you have any rules-of-thumb that you use in development that you would describe as "counter-intuitive"?

wrote a post about developing geometry libraries in this new reality where a robot can generate working code for damn near anything. www.rms80.com/blog/2026-03...

A week until the first automated testing roundtables at #gdc2026! If you’re interested in automation, we’ve curated a few relevant talks here at the Automated Testing In Games community’s website: atig.dev/gdc You can also join our discord there, even if you’re not heading to San Francisco

At the stage with the next thing where it might be time to start making some of my own editor tools / automation stuff. Any good sources out there on best practices in custom editor stuff in Godot?

COTA is a CS-inspired demo built in Unreal Engine. Dual-layer AI, macro strategy, real-time decisions in under 100ms. No human player data. @tommy.aiandgames.com breaks it all down. We went hands-on. Honest take incoming. 🎮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXl... #GameAI #LLMS #GameBot #COTA #FPS #Bots

Having some fun with a quick Houdini building generator and PCG in Unreal, Long Lenses + Cities, love the vibes. #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #Cinematic #PCG #TechArt

2025's top 5 games on PlayStation ranked by total US players were: 1 - Fortnite 2 - Call of Duty 3 - Grand Theft Auto V 4 - Roblox 5 - Minecraft The 2024 list: 1 - Fortnite 2 - Call of Duty 3 - Grand Theft Auto V 4 - Roblox 5 - Minecraft Source: Circana Player Engagement Tracker

Editor Tooling Moment: made a ScriptableTool class in unreal that lets you choose any actor or component class and makes transform gizmos for all of them at once so you can move/rotate/scale everything without having to click-to-select anything... at least one click saved every time

Dear ImGui 1.92.6 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... ~80 fixes/improvements/additions (incl. new default scalable vector font matching classic font, color markers on multi-components widgets, many fixes for fonts, tables, tree nodes, text input, navigation, viewports, backends...)

Exciting news! Power Play has been picked by @waterstones.bsky.social as part of its February pre-order sale. Use the code FEB26 at checkout to get a 25% discount, scoring you a copy of the book for just £16.50. #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/book/power-p...

I'm also letting you know that I'll be banging on about this all week because getting pre-orders in is Very Important For A First Time Author waaaaaaaaaa

Sid Meier's definition of what games are: "sequence of interesting choices" - and by that definition Cairn is very much a game. A very good one at that. As someone who sometims trad-climbs - It's the closest a game ever came to the feeling that maybe the choices just became a bit too interesting

Caves of Qud is out now for Nintendo Switch! 🍄 Buy on the eShop: www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/...

Who called it software when "bug hotel" is a word and already there

So #shipshaper is off too a flying start. Wishlists : thousands (not hundreds) , all organic... Virality is never my thing, but steady growth here we come. Top 3 requests : 1. Airships 2.Bottles to put the ships in 3.Paddle wheels Personal favorite : Studding Sails.. Tomorrow we #gamedev

One of our studios, Dreamloop out of Tampere, Finland is looking for a Senior Producer www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... Check it, son.

Hello Internet Hivement.. Game design question! Can anyone name some good examples of how games avoid player kiting? This isnt a case where one class is meant to kite, its a situation where you can kind of cheese enemies by using ranged attacks and running away. Turn based solutions if poss.

New blog post: "interest sources", contextual NPC interactions, as deployed by me in @sleightofhand.game and other things. Here is one way that you, too, can keep your code from ballooning while actively encouraging your design aspirations to balloon www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...

Reposting this for the European crowd. Please repost and share among friends, peers, coworkers - I'm trying to gauge if this has merit to be continued or not.

Releasing today: 'ProggyForever': a new MIT-licensed scalable font designed to closely match ProggyClean which happily served as Dear ImGui default font for 10+ years: github.com/ocornut/prog... The new font is now embedded by default in Dear ImGui (compressed down to ~14 KB).

from the people that brought you all of this the star wars jedi team at respawn is now hiring for 12 roles www.respawn.com/careers-list...

I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans: Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sd... Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!

Well that's nearly the whole of the thing isn't it. Big announcements incoming tomorrow.. (If you're into boats allocate some spare time this weekend...) ShipShaper is enroute..

Ouch - my wallet!

I am researching some workflows and would love help if possible. If you are making a non-NDA'd game in Unreal, Unity, or Godot, would you mind making a fullscreen timelapse recording of yourself working for 3 hours, at 3 frames per second? That'll be about ~18 minutes of footage. Any game is fine!

You can't use a Thermometer to measure Fahrenheit. You need a Thermomile.

Love hz

Nowadays I'm writing a lot about overhyped AI tools that will bring nothing of value to the games industry. So it was a real breath of fresh air to talk with the Snowcap team. *This* is the sort of smart, well-intentioned, and carefully designed AI tooling that helps developers make better games.

why they call it easing when it so hard to get right