🚀 From chaotic Vulkan allocations to sleek, optimized pipelines. GPU memory management is an art form. Render graphs + VMA = less allocations, stable frames, higher VRAM efficiency. dev.to/p3ngu1nzz/ad... #GameDev #Vulkan #GraphicsProgramming #GPU #RenderGraph #VMA #IndieDev #TechArt #devlog #ai

On-Device Generative Agents for Lifelike NPCs by Piero Molino (Studio Atelico) explores how GARP powers emergent NPCs with small LLMs, memory systems & zero inference cost. 🎟️ Nov 3–4, London: www.tickettailor.com/events/gamea... #AIandGames #GameDev #AI #NPCs #GenerativeAI

www.youtube.com/shorts/naIMH... @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social remember i told you about that company some months ago doing this.

It's just an #indiegame, no need to overdo the background music. Game jam partner: www.youtube.com/shorts/elNc8... #gamedev #indiedev #meme #funny #games

Cool little pixel art ghost town explorer game i found today... Loving the art and colors on this, very FF6 nostalgic #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #games #devlogh

🚀 Just dropped a deep dive into our custom Vulkan engine’s M4 milestone: render graphs, VMA, bindless descriptors, and full asset pipeline. If you're building serious graphics tech, this one's for you. 🔗 dev.to/p3ngu1nzz/bu... #gamedev #vulkan #rendering #devlog #indiedev #gameengine #graphics

M3 Renderer + Entity milestone shipped! 🚀 • Triangle pipeline live • DOO API over EnTT (12-byte wrappers) • VulkanDevice logic ✅ • ECS systems + POD components • 1025 assertions, CI mocks, cross-platform builds #gamedev #cpp #vulkan #ecs #indiedev #shaders #CMake #devlog #badcatgame

some really nice bright pixel art! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #pixels #art

example of nice original avatar / character modeling and art texturing.

🚀 Game build is smooth, engine footprint just 53MB! (14 files) Not demoscene-tiny, but packs full C++ assemblies, Steam API, Vulkan for AMD+NVIDIA. Minimal deps, max punch. #gamedev #indiedev #vulkan #cpp #techart #buildsystem #devlog ** Linux is a fraction of that size!

Dope Retro Font website 🔥🔥🔥 #gamedev #indiedev #fonts #ui #retro #retrogaming #gaming #ux #graphics #gfx

PixelArt practice — I’d love tips to improve. Made with beep8’s low resolution and color limits. #PixelArt #beep8 #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #MinimalArt

very cool NES vibes. hazaah. great work. love the font

Now this is very interesting to me. 👀 🎃 #lelu 🕹️ #game 👻 #live 🖥️ #retro 💀 #love 📺 #art 💙📚 #gamedev 💻 #IndieGame 💙☁️ #promosky 🎮 #demo

#ai #meme

Want agentic automation that actually works? Write prompts like code: scoped actions, file refs, clear sequencing. Modular, reproducible, testable. Agents love it. EXAMPLE-> gist.githubusercontent.com/p3nGu1nZz/ad... #gamedev #aiworkflow #promptengineering #copilot #indiedev #buildinpublic

@anthropic.com Claude 4.5 (Preview) + Copilot = 🧑‍🍳💋🍰

Switched my C/C++/H++ setup to Kamekazi Dark on VSCode and I’m obsessed 🔥 Sleek syntax, moody vibes, stylized folders (Material Icons FTW). Theme that slaps harder? Drop it below 👇 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #vscode #codinglife #gamedev #indiegamedev #devsetup #cpp #ideflow

well said ozzito2020, well said. #games #silenthillf #hades2 #meme

Rendering refactor complete! 🎮 • Clearer component names • ECS-aware RenderSystem • Shader build streamlined via CMake • Game loop + entity setup cleaned up • Camera + render tests solid ✅ #gamedev #cpp #vulkan #ecs #indiedev #shaders #CMake #devlog #gameengine #badcatgame

Triangle rendering ✅ Now wiring up ECS: Transform + Renderable + Camera components, EnTT-powered systems, and entity factories. Next: test coverage, hot-reload prep, and VPak asset pipeline. Modular, minimal, reproducible. #gamedev #indiedev #cpp #vulkan #ecs #badcatgame #devlog #voidengine

Working on the Vulkan Swap chain... #gamedev #agents #vulkan #cpp #indiedev #gaming #ai #artificalintelligence

Mocking a Vulkan device for unit tests isn’t glamorous, but it’s foundational. Every extra line of test scaffolding gets us closer to reproducible, agent-driven progress. No shortcuts, just solid ground. #gamedev #vulkan #indiedev #techart #devlog #buildinpublic #gameengine #customengine

great watch, Great research for how to implement our job system and message system within our bad cat void engine www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2n... #cpp #gamedev #optimizations #queues

Massive planetary battle underway in Dyson Sphere Program! ⚔️ Clash with Dark Fog, level 24, walkers, drones, and orbital strikes. Cosmic level war. 🌍💥 #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame #Strategy #SciFi #BaseBuilding #dysonsphereprogram #screenshot #dsp #spacegame #games #game

Aerial war just broke out on our home world in Dyson Sphere Program! ⚔️ Fighter swarms, orbital lasers, and total chaos. Logistics meet resistance, time to rebuild and retaliate. 🌍🚀 #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame #Strategy #SciFi #BaseBuilding

Just started harvesting hydrogen & fire ice from our green gas giant in *Dyson Sphere Program*! 💚 Deuterium production online for anti-matter fuel. Orbital siphons engaged—stellar power incoming. ⚛️🚀 #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame #BaseBuilding #Automation #SciFiGame #DSP #GamersOfBluesky #SpaceGame

🚀 LIVE: Dyson Sphere Program @ 16x Difficulty! Max chaos, max logistics, max fun. Watch P3N tame the stars with pure automation ⚙️ 📺 youtube.com/live/9VaNnSO... #Gaming #LiveStream #DSP #StrategyGames #IndieGames #PCGaming #YouTubeGaming #TechSim #DysonSphereProgram

Today is not only Star Trek's anniversary (TOS, 1966), but also the one of The Animated Series, which is now 52 years old! What an old meme.

gimme ya cups. @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/vM7P1...

Vulkan is an open, royalty-free graphics and compute API designed for high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs. It is widely adopted in leading game engines, cutting-edge games, and high-performance applications. Vulkan is supported across a diverse range of devices. #gamedev #graphics

Overpriced, their market share is far too small for that valuation. Making money in the browser market is a game dominated by giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Never ends well, unless your non-profit foundation like Mozilla. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/a... #ai #artificialintelligence #news

🐱 Bad Cat engine now picks the right GPU—RTX 3080 over integrated, just like Unity/Unreal! No more mystery slowdowns. Next: graphics pipeline & first pixels on screen 🖼️ C++ from scratch = every win feels epic. #GameDev #Vulkan #CppDev #IndieDev #GPU #GraphicsProgramming #BadCatEngine

🚧 Live dev stream: Building the Bad Cat: Void Frontier engine from scratch using Vulkan, C++20, and WSL! 🐱⚡ Modular, ECS, hot-reload, GPU vendor support & more. Come hang out and build with us! youtube.com/live/bCp3kbD... #GameDev #Vulkan #CPlusPlus #WSL #IndieDev #LiveCoding #BadCatVoidFrontier

Bad Cat: Void Frontier M3 in progress! 🐱 Modular Vulkan renderer w/ ECS, hot-reload, GPU vendor support (DLSS/FSR/XeSS), multi-threaded jobs, and future-ready backends (DX12, Metal, consoles). Next stop: triangle rendering! #gamedev #vulkan #ecs #indiegame #rendering

This is Bunny. He steals things.

Just wrapped a major engine upgrade for Bad Cat: Void Frontier! ✅ Unified systems under BaseSystem/ISystem ✅ SystemManager now handles all init ✅ Full test coverage intact Next: Vulkan triangle rendering + M3 renderer milestone! #GameDev #Vulkan #CPlusPlus #ECS #CleanCode #IndieDev #TDD

Just finished the last adjustments on the new build system. The engine can now rebuild itself, its resources, or any mod on demand. Windows and Linux friendly. Modular automation is definitely the future. #gamedev #buildsystems #VoidFrontier #automation #ECS #voidengine #catgame #gameengine #indie

Bringing all game systems together under `ISystem` + `BaseSystem` ensures predictable lifecycles, modularity, and agent-friendly automation. It’s more than just clean code—it’s a consistent framework for effective collaboration. #gamedev #ecs #systemsdesign #VoidFrontier #voidengine #cpp #vulkan

Working on different models/animations for item chests in ABYSS X ZERO, to better suit the context of what you'll find inside and the level they are in. (yes, even the last one is an item chest, technically) Now we just need a proper item collect jingle... #gamedev #lowpoly #madewithunity #axz

got some more work done on the combat system including a weapon bar, fast fall attack, and a second weapon class...shields! shields have a less mobility than melee weapons, but let the player block damage whilst in use #pixelart #platformer #unity2d #indiedev #gamedev

www.youtube.com/shorts/OHBtC... @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social lol ever seen something like this?

10x tourist. LOL. love this guy's channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsB8...

Still wrapping up milestone 2—need to add a build config file, base system class, and refactor existing systems to use it. Render system's next before we hit M3. Modular, reproducible, and agent-friendly as always 💥 #gamedev #indiedev #vulkan #cplusplus #systemsarchitecture #devlog #simulation

🐱 Bad Cat: Void Frontier 🚀 Major Vulkan engine refactor done! ✅ Decoupled systems ✅ Factory-based config loading ✅ 277 passing TDD assertions ✅ Event-driven future Next: M3 renderer w/ ray tracing! 🌟 #GameDev #VulkanAPI #ECS #TDD #CleanCode #BadCatVoidFrontier

Game engine dev is 90% rabbit holes, 10% naming conventions that save your sanity. Specs, structure, and consistent docs are the only way to stay agent-readable and reproducible. Modular or bust. #gamedev #vulkan #specdriven #agentworkflow #VoidFrontier #BadCat #devlife

✨ Our first game Vulkan Game window display! That moment when Bad Cat runs flawlessly on *both* Linux and Windows! 🐱🔥 One command: `./build.sh all all` Five seconds of pure magic. Now onto Vulkan! #GameDev #IndieDev #CrossPlatform #VulkanEngine #catgame #gameengine #badcatgame

🐱 Major milestone! Bad Cat: Void Frontier now runs on a shared library engine with centralized Engine class, 26 test cases, 218 assertions, and clean M2 Platform Layer integration. Next: M3 Vulkan Renderer! 🚀 #gamedev #vulkan #cpp #indiegame #catgame #TDD

🐱 Refactored Bad Cat: Void Frontier’s platform layer—clean config, TOML support, Steam DRM now engine-side, and test reorg done! M2 nearly wrapped, M3 Vulkan renderer up next! 🎮 #gamedev #cpp #vulkan #indiegame #enginedev #catgame

High-level overview of the architectural design principles guiding the new game engine. #gamedev #badcatgame #catgame #softwarearchitecture