My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

At havok my colleagues help everyone to violate one of the main dresscode rules of the incredibles: #havok #clothing #clothsimulation

I've had an idea for a short story for a while, where do people post those things? Would it work if I just dumped it on to a blank page somewhere and linked it? Not sure what the "status quo" of these kinds of thing is these days.

I've actually never been to this, but most of the talks Ive seen from it are great! If you are doing anything interesting PCGwise maybe see if you could submit something?

Every so often I hear of indie studios working without version control systems, and I am shocked and appalled. This is seriously dangerous and you should stop immediately and get your shit sorted. Perforce or GitHub are right there, they're free for small teams, go use them NOW.

Luminescent Growth Stateless shader based on Phacelle Noise. Video compression makes it pale; it looks better in the Shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/tXGcWR #ProcGen #Shaders #Shadertoy

The brains are in the grenades: How enemies think in Tactical Breach Wizards youtu.be/gEFfBXQAtYE I'm not going to GDC this year, so here's a little talk for free - on a thing I want to share before I forget how it works.

TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us for Developer_Direct at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK as we go inside Playground Games and Game Freak to see Forza Horizon 6, Beast of Reincarnation, and Fable! news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Is there any accessibility consultant or designer who is willing to work with me on a talk or article about the accessibility of game development tools? No budget, just trying to do the right thing and get it out there. I don't feel like I can talk about it enough on my own. I miss lived experience

Showing again how powerful AI can be to improve lifes. (AI == Austrian Intelligence)

It's possible to set Perforce to use Unreal as the diff tool for .uasset files in P4V. Go to Preferences > Diff. Then add a new file type. Set the Extension to `.uasset`, the Application to point to your local install of `Editor/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor.exe`, and the arguments to be `-diff %1 %2

It's a ways off but thinking about gamescom! Any tips for the trip? First time in Cologne

I've got a long overdue UE5 Gameplay Cameras article, this time on where the camera system runs, how, and how it came to be. I hope it helps! https://ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/01/15/ue5-gameplay-cameras-activations-and-black-boxes/

My brain at the super market: Who called them mirrors and not self-checkout?

Looking to commission someone familiar with using FontForge to work on a font. The work involve creating ~200 glyphs following precise specs. PM (with some refs) for details.

Hell yeah! Technically that one’s a Zoo, I gave a talk about them at GodotFest last year: youtu.be/uNyswn-Oct0?...

#portfolioday, I'm trying my luck again with my very old illustrations ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Retro tech at its essence.

Seriously, is anyone releasing a video game this week? Let me know so I can fill out the releases of the week section for VGIM plz

Can I just get everybody to read this blog post and apply it to their own programs? randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/u...

this data format could've been sqlite

Did a quick video/blog post about how Gears of War 1's train level works, which will surprise few but perhaps interest many www.joewintergreen.com/how-gears-of...

Scrolling the bluesky timeline be like

I just published the notes of the Tool Design Roundtable at Devcom (Gamescom Dev) 2025: rystorm.com/blog/tool-design-roundtable-gamescom-dev-devcom-2025 The topics this year were varied, and overlapped in interesting ways about software architecture, user research, and big green buttons.

And so, I call on the wisdom of BlueSky for advice on whether hearing aids really help for total hearing loss in one ear, and if so what brands or settings or hearing specialists I should investigate. I'm in Vancouver, BC, FWIW. Thoughts? Experiences?

NY+ ... loincloth run?

I couldn't find a list of game directors so I created one. My general rubric is simple: these are the people who are directly responsible for the creative direction of the games they work on. go.bsky.app/6TAQbHE

If you’re a videogame producer get at me so I can follow you (and then alienate you when I say things like “a producer is not a project manager”)

Is there a Bluesky starter pack for game directors? 🤔

Two neat things from the Game Dev Collective survey at this year's end: 1. You can see Unity shrink and Unreal grow over the 3 year period of surveys. 2. Blender is so often used that I wonder if it's usually used 'in combination with' other tools in the pipeline. (Just a survey, so grains of salt)

Dear ImGui now embeds a vector/scalable version of the classic font by default, manually subsetted/optimized so it fits in 18 KB (opt-out possible). Embedding ensures easily and readily usable in all contexts. Should default to new one on most setups. Here's a compare of both. #ChristmasMiracle

Standard-bearer alarm! Thanks again @tommy.aiandgames.com for humoring me and thanks again to everyone involved in organising @conference.aiandgames.com ! See you in 2026!

Hey folks! I've got a new D&D home game coming together that I'm going to homebrew a setting for and I would LOVE to bring in an artist to help build concept type images to bring the world to life I don't have megabucks to throw at this but it would be paid. Please shout if you're open to a chat!

Been on holiday for like, a day, and the discourse on AI in gamedev is very loud. It's important to be angry, and be vocal but equally to be *informed*. Know what to be angry about, what discourse is recycled and how we use AI regularly in games. Shouting 'fuck AI in games' doesn't help.

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

Everything is on sale for the Kitfox Steam Winter sale! ❄Store page: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...

In 1968 they had to draw their navmeshes by hand #gameai

I am so very tired... But I'm proud of everything we've done at @aiandgames.com this year. So let's wrap things up with our annual WRAPPED livestream: - We walk through everything we've done. - What to expect in 2026 - Plus answer your questions. Join us on Friday at 4pm GMT for all the bants!

Right listen, I want a bunch of cool game devs to follow. Tell me people who are you TIP TOP Bluesky highlights. I only want the very best!!! GIVE ME YOUR BEST

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

Converging toward a principal Unreal Engine backend/binding for Dear ImGui? github.com/ocornut/imgu... (Help wanted!)

Day 14: Add ONE global counter to your loop and watch LICM vanish—strlen called every iteration! Why would incrementing an unrelated variable break the optimisation? 🤔 xania.org/202512/14-li... youtu.be/OwFNblEEAXo #AoCO2025

reading this as the game's producer

Luckily the headline got the 350m wrong and it's billions... but as Mike points out the recovery is in mobile... so oof

primarily a user of chrome debugger (windows). does anyone know why linux firefox sometimes won't let you refresh when you have dev tools open? use case: you have a soft lock you are fixing, and are at a break point in your code. you wrote a fix you want to try, and you want to refresh.

Ordered!

This is an excellent long read. I especially like the error categorization attempt. And I do believe that LLMs are actually a helpful resource for fact checkers. But ... The author doesn't just slap their 3000 tokens prompt into the machine. They also vring massive fact checking experience.

It's one my main gripes with Cmake... gah

The Game UI Database is FIVE today! They grow up so fast. A HUGE thank you to everyone for supporting my work, I couldn't have done it without you. BIG things are coming in 2026 - new sites, new features, and one heck of a book from @lostincult.co.uk. Watch this space! Here's to the next 5 years! <3

Well it's my birthday this week and I'm actually taking some time off. In the meantime we've kicked off 50% off annual subs to @aiandgames.com meaning you can support us for like less £3/$4 a month. Help us combat the nonsense AI hype and highlight the good work people do in the sector!