Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 409 - September 21st, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

started making a #FallingBlockJam game but I've run out of time and energy, so please enjoy this little window into what could have been!

All 27 boroughs of Credell will be explorable in a new open world continuation of my ongoing superhero game, Spryward. Spryward & Slushy issue 1 will begin on Steam this December! #superhero #godot #screenshotsaturday

Our standalone encore feed of A Year of UFO 50 has begun! A weekly re-airing from the start, the best way to experience the book club. Tell a pal! It should be searchable within a few days but links for now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... feeds.libsyn.com/593495/rss

You can’t call it a delivery game without a procedural container stack system. #gamedev #indiedev

This is the cover that spurred trying this game out earlier this evening and then scrambling to playthrough and write about it. It's GLORIOUS. One of Terada Katsuya's finest.

I had one briefly move into my basement ADU...

Friends and colleagues, I was impacted by the Xbox layoffs back in July. I'm am starting my job search in earnest now. Feel free to contact me with any opportunities in game design leadership and creative direction. (Or any other game design opportunities. Can't be too picky these days.)

My game, Beyond Sunset, is made on the GZDoom game engine, a modern port of the classic Doom engine. Our enemy AI is probably second only to @selaco.bsky.social. Let's explore some of the things we did! 1/🧵

The three types of game dev job listings

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

Some numbers, one week after launch #gamedev #indiegames

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 408 - September 14th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

MIDDLE AGED AMERICANS: I need to know exactly what the situation was with after-school kids' TV in the 80s & 90s. Don't name shows, I know you were watching He-Man and whatever, that's not what I need to know. HOW was it shown? Were there presenters between shows? Continuity announcers?

We are closing in on funding! Please help spread the word because we can't wait to bring you these games. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Falling Block Jam is starting! The (optional) inspirational vibe is "Analog Memory." Let's go!! #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...

No, there's a video of the demo from E3. The top-down part is the underground section, inside the pipe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hua4...

⬆️Perhaps the best part of this directory is the screenshots for "Mario Smash", the cancelled Mario game for Virtual Boy. These are VERY high quality and high resolution. The pixels are clean enough, someone could accurately recreate them all in pixel art with some patience.

~Thread of misc. Discmaster finds~ Sonic the Hedgehog wallpapers for Windows 3.1, from 1993. discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10781...

IT'S OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY 🎉 So we're launching a brand new channel - dedicated to discovering new games that push our industry forward, previews of exciting new titles and reporting on the issues that face gaming today. welcome to noclip_2 TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lf...

Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics announced for Switch/Switch 2. Requires Virtual Boy accessory. Out Feb 17th. Accessory sold for NSO members in the future. Cardboard model also available

Do you have any favourite / least favourite advice or tips people tell new programmers? Eg: "as you learn more languages, you'll discover that syntax doesn't really matter as much as the semantics" I'm curious to see how I (and others) feel about it.

Happy first day writing only 10% of the code for those who celebrate. www.reddit.com/r/singularit...

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This game is crazy because it's got *two* of the best covers ever and most games don't even manage one good one

For everyone saying "poor communities," yes absolutely, consistently but Black is not always synonymous with poor. This community BEEN had a six-figure median income. Sometimes environmental racism is about devaluation and straight up poisoning people.

Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day? Then good news because we're announcing a new game! wirm is coming SOON! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🍎 Wishlist it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

been a couple years since I wrote a dumb pathtracer-in-a-shader; felt that itch again and decided to brush off the cobwebs by 'covering'/'blatantly ripping off' noby's brilliant 10yo 4k www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8p...

Made a nice page for all my demoscene favorites. mrdoob.com/demoscene/

Introducing: Spree, an alt control co-op game where you play using a real-life shopping cart. Work together with a friend to race through "Hoodmart" against other shoppers. Spree is a 2025 Summer Accelerator Program project. The goal is to release it at alt.CTRL at GDC2026. youtu.be/4hrXlGriq44

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

Gigi v1.0.4 Released github.com/electronicar... * MSAA Support in Viewer * Unreal Engine Code Gen (Limited functionality. Compute + Raster Basics)

Gen X American game critics set up this myth of the history of the medium that basically only considers upper middle class white kids from the US who got a Nintendo for Christmas. We can't seem to shake it from the English language gaming community

I feel like 32X was a harbinger for Pro consoles

Yeah it's 3DO, it's the best one. The hell is a PlayStation

There are 112 people listed in the credits, it's hard to tell who had major contributions but it looks like the core team is probably close to 10 people. Most of the credits are VA, localization and what looks like a full orchestra www.mobygames.com/game/246839/...

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

📣 Submissions are NOW OPEN for the 2026 Independent Games Festival! 🎮 Submit your indie game by Oct. 8 to compete for awards in multiple categories. Make history at #GDC2026's premier indie event! #IGF2026 #IndieGames bit.ly/4geQ3ub

Join us tomorrow for Getting Started with Slang: Modularization! We’ll explore: Modules & Visibility Control, Compilation Pipeline Magic, and Specialization Without Preprocessor Pain. Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0... #shader #slang #workflow

hell yeah

The lesson is hit the lottery and take all the time you need to make cool thing.

This video is great for teaching the basics of GJK. However, the approach is flawed for computing distance and only works for determining separation true/false. Unfortunately the author has disabled comments and people keep using this and ending up with broken code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qupq...

sfxr Next ...has been submitted for review ...TestFlight soon! 🕹️🔊 Create retro game sounds: multiple sounds per file, use sliders or edit values directly, accurate preview, full undo/redo, lock faves. Export as digital or archival, copy as Swift code! #gamedev #indiedev #sfxr

Btw, since I'm planning to use fixed-point, I've made a generic implementation some time ago that supports any bitness, and is for the most part a drop-in replacement for floats. It's just a single C++ header, maybe it'll be useful for others: bitbucket.org/lisyarus/pse...

Yes, Hollow Knight and Team Cherry should be an inspiration to indies. But you should not be naive—using their situation to say you can do the same thing is like saying, "Someone's gotta win!" while playing the lottery. Anyway. Please keep making games, indies. I don't want to discourage that.

Meanwhile, on Reddit 🤣

Out of interest, does anyone know what the costs are for the glossy Saturday morning cartoon 'animated intro' that so many indies seem to use in trailers now? Where are you all getting those done, and how much for? They must take ages, they can't be cheap.

yes… hahaha… YES! aftermath.site/skull-and-bo...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....