I wont be able to send messages from the venue most likely, but Combo Breaker kicks off today at 10am on twitch.tv/teamsp00ky with KI top 24, followed immediately by KI top 8. See you there!!

Good morning Combo Breaker! Ill be on twitch.tv/teamsp00ky at 10am Central to kick off the weekend with some Killer Instinct, and then I'll be on again at 2pm Central. I hope you'll join us!

Clean slate coding is always a struggle because you at first think that you can finally do that thing you were thinking about the whole time working on your last project, but you forgot about all the other structures you need to build on that feels like a distraction.

"Q&A: Hagure on the craft of TOing, grassroots community cultivation, and getting into Vampire Savior in 2026" I caught up with @hagu.re to chat fighting game origins, learning to TO, FGC gentrification, and, of course, Vampire Savior. www.patreon.com/posts/q-hagu...

Reposting for more visibility. A lot of these ideas are things @keits.bsky.social as well several of our former colleagues have have been talking about to each other for years, so glad it's in a form so well articulated now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPQ...

I’ve been tuning competitive games for 15 years, and I’ve come to one inevitable conclusion. Want to know why people loved our patches on Killer Instinct and Rumbleverse so much? My hour long deep dive premieres tonight at 10pm EST on Game Design Direct! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPQ...

Partner Shoutout: Thanks to our community partner Run Jump Dev for making LexPlay possible! Join us on May 9th from Noon-7PM at The Hill in Lexington, KY! www.LexPlay.games #LexPlay #lexingtonky #gamedevelopers #gamedev #indiegames #videogames #tabletopgames #videogameartwork

Really would love to talk about the retreading of well treaded ground in gamedev that nobody knows goes on.

Most code you write is just pipes. The hard part is reducing the amount of pipes you need to replace later.

Perfect landing. Congrats to Kaji!! #ヴァンパイア #Darkstalkers #LilithAensland #EvoJapan2026 #EvoJapan2026

Handing the winners of VSav hitboxes after the show they put on was one of the most not reading the room moments I've ever seen. They clowned on it and rightfully so.

VSav is something special. If you missed Evo top 8 www.youtube.com/live/YsAqJyD...

Having to walk a mile from the Evo venue to get food and back because all the restaurants are already closed at 4.

"Loving tough and scrambling hearts with indie dev M. Paul Weeks" Chatted with @mpaulweeks.com about Scramble Heart City and the trials and tribulations of indie FG development. Check out the next playtest this weekend! www.patreon.com/posts/loving...

In case you missed the announcement and amazing trailer, Makai World Cup 2026 will be joining @sq.ncfgc.org in Durham, North Carolina on October 3rd-4th! We'll be there to bring you some of the best VSAV action in North America! Registration goes live on May 8th!

Iron Galaxy Studios: "A number of teammates and friends are losing their jobs as we adjust to a new company structure" www.gamedeveloper.com/business/iro...

Come work with me and my very nice Australian friends

Just gonna reach out again to see if anyone needs an extra hand for Unreal support/Netcode/lobby/character action and controls/fighting games. My cost of living is pretty low and so my rates are reasonable.

It's been two months since the layoff and I have been writing up a storm! But social channels are unreliable, and I don't do algorithm bait, so please make sure you can keep up on my work by signing up as a Patreon member (free tier is fine) and you'll get it in your email. patreon.com/pattheflip

Big KI Exhibition + Fundraiser going on starting in 5 minutes! www.twitch.tv/devilmaycare4

Ignoring all other issue with root-motion driven movement (such as walking), anyone find it never quick feels *right* compared to just programming the dang thing? I have some theories on why, but wonder if anyone else has this experience.

writing code faster just means you arrive at "oh fuck" sooner. andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

Here's my simple workflow for blocking in actions.

Honestly after 10+ years of Unreal it's fatiguing to see how little tools customization support has improved considering how much money has been thrown into other things. Whatever happened to text based assets?

This feels kinda similar, but not exactly the same. I used to have so many conversations with "drive by designers" who did not play fighting games trying to tell me what fighting games need. bsky.app/profile/patt...

"The C stands for Consumer" On the new(ish) wave of consumerism in fighting games, how the tone of the conversation has changed, and tips on avoiding tourist traps. Another reminder that talking about fighting games and playing them are two separate hobbies. www.patreon.com/posts/c-stan...

Hi hi, Dear ImGui 1.92.7 is released! 50+ changes (e.g. tables reworked columns freezing with hidden columns, reorder from context menu, webgpu for emscripten 5 & wgvk native, nav keyboard/gamepad to open context menus, & many fixes/improvements) github.com/ocornut/imgu...

Freeze works again. Guess I need to work on supporting material parameters so you can visually tell.

Another one. Cuts (swords, knives, etc) feel MUCH more like cuts if the hitstop occurs after the weapon has passed through the opponent, with some kind of slash VFX / smear on top. Hitstop while the weapon is overlapping with the opponent can feel more like a blunt strike. bsky.app/profile/cata...

If you're building a Character action / melee system, do one transition per game tick/frame, with maybe one extra chance to override it (for cases you need to check the character's state after a transition). You want to avoid invisible transitions as much as possible. bsky.app/profile/cata...

FIGHTING GAME JAM HIT 300 ENTRANTS LFG

Slowly but surely he's coming back. Need to find the funds to get his own blocking mesh though. I'm just going through and blocking in single frame animations and adapting all the hold move properties to the new code. Just been using control rig for now.

Thought about joining this because I've wanted an excuse to try some experimental stuff, but having a full time job + multiple side projects made me a bit hesitant. But if anyone is looking for someone to lend a hand and wants to join lmk. itch.io/jam/fighting...

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

Fighting game events going on in or around Tokyo that I know about. Complete list at fugutabetai.com/tokyo_fgc.html

"Inside the Fighting Game April Jam with Andrea Demetrio" Interviewed @andreadprojects.bsky.social about the Fighting Game April Jam 2026! We talk about making indie FGs, why they're hard for game jams, and how to get started if you've never done it before. www.patreon.com/posts/inside...

Great day for some 花見

The bug hit me so making some progress. Finally broke out this guy in our Unreal version just because I want to do his combos again. Will hopefully be able to show stuff in the near future. Source @chuunioniika.bsky.social

Thanks to AI, Google has become perhaps the largest source of misinformation in the world. This one is just completely made up!

Some of my favorite recent vtuber illustrations!!

Might be looking for some additional contract work in the near future if anyone needs someone experienced with online/lobbies/character controls/animation programming etc

I feel like programming is so much more like laying pipe or running wires than writing. I don't say this disparage coding. My point is that it is a trade that requires much more to construct it than the text itself can capture. It makes me feel like LLMs can never truly do the job.

Toxic influences keep hollowing out important gaming spaces. Listen to Into The Skybox to hear @brianbarnett.bsky.social and @edgarallanbro.bsky.social discuss the Saudi acquisition of EVO. Read more about it on Skybox: skyboxcritics.com/2026/02/24/s... skyboxcritics.com/2025/05/16/i...

Hi exciting update for those who follow me for CSP on linux. I finally finished putting together an install script that brings a bunch of fixes for Clip Studio Paint Linux users. Currently looking for people to test across different distros, thank you! github.com/parka6060/CS...

Dear bosses. All your nerds are gone. They have ascended to another realm. For maybe like two or three weeks or so. Apologies. Please keep paying them. They will return renewed. store.steampowered.com/app/3107410/...

Gonna talk a bit about one aspect of fighting game technical design that mostly people who've worked on these games have thought much about. If you've spent any time try to make one yourself, you're probably aware that treating character's action / moves as a state machine is pretty natural.

I'm hosting this jam next month! The theme will drop in less than two weeks😈 we already got a jury panel to score the games in the end😈 The only downside is that I won't be allowed to take part in it🫩

I hope to see something really new out of Strive 2.0. The 5 years this game has been out is way too long for just a balance patch.

"On Saudi boycotts in fighting games, and building alternative FGCs" I wrote about the increased Saudi investment in Capcom, the differences between personal and organized boycotts, and how we might be able to learn from other entertainment-based communities. www.patreon.com/posts/153198...