#gamedev #cpp debugging fun time with backtracking algo and optimisation Or how to lose 3 weeks to a copy paste bug while debugging another bug :facepalm:

For the past year Godot has been funded by Khronos to add support for the latest OpenXR APIs to the engine. With the Godot Integration Project now rounded off, read all about these changes:

Check out Godot's new update on their OpenXR integration project announcing major OpenXR features that are now production ready! www.khronos.org/blog/godot-o... #openxr #godot #game #engine #spatial #anchors #android

I'm splitting my time atm to assign 20% to PlayStation engine work. The sigh of relief moving from low level Android/PC code to console.... its just so fucking nice. Why can't all development just be on dedicated hardware with nicely designed api/libs. 😭

Glad that @mmalex.bsky.social chatted more about functional game state model of Dreams. Been spending years thinking about it and the direction Tim is taking UE and I think it is the right way to build Metaverse / Digital world large scaling stuff. youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

Urgh another Meta shuffle going to shake up a wobbly but growing #xr market. TLDR: I agree with Boz long term but Meta refuses to be honest about timelines. Adoption is slow and most the audience is gaming and very young. Also building gaming first gives you all the things you need for not gaming

I watched the NEO 1X Home Robot and have some thoughts especially with the intersection of telerobotics and XR. TLDR: Excited but more worried about wealth inequality and economics claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2025/10...

#gamdev update as we have fixed the trademark issue mostly and are making progress but a code issue is blocking us. #godot #xr

Had our Halloween party last night and we hung up a cheap painters drop canvas and put out some acrylics. Creative play is such a joy.

Being able to say to my emo wife I run a games studio with, "Hey got us tickets to an indie game launch party for an emo music narrative game made by two queer creatives" is peak. Also check out store.steampowered.com/app/3396670/...

#Gamedev friend asked me for some advice for a student about engine coding. Wrote out the advice. Realised its basically a blog post so cleaned it up and wrote this. #godot #engine #advice claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2025/10...

I love artists and creatives regardless of execution, all about passion <3 Talent is just time given to those who feel safe to play

Did a rapid fire intro version of my intro to Wavelets via Haar Transform talk from this weeks @gaemz.bsky.social #gamedev #math youtube.com/shorts/rp4Gc...

#gamedev #godot long time over due update. Been doing 7 day week and skipping office. Godot showreel

I run a weekly Cyberpunk game and its getting really hard to think of a fictional dystopian story that is not outdone by reality. It wasn't an instructional manual you idiots!

I really wish more sites (YT/Bsky ect...) had filter by region. Like I would prefer verified by region but a loose declare would help so much. For technical topics I often want a global view but for SO many things I want location specific vibes or discovery. By Country or TZ either would be huge

No such thing as perfect politics I have fundamental disagreements on nuclear, energy and science but overall under @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party is looking more aligned to my economic and social interests than Labour now 1. Wealth inequality 2. Being decent humans 3. Domestic/Foreign

Reading OIT pdf from COD team got me thinking about wavelets and fun ops you can use them for Hate how some math stuff is hidden behind artificial complexity Wavelets are not a complicated topic but most the literature is indecipherable at first pass. #math #gamedev

PDF for Adaptive Voxel Based Order Independent Transparency from #SIGGRAPH Advances 25 advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/conten... Via @[email protected] #voxel #gamedev

Paused launch crunch for a few days to work on EA trailer so I could submit to #godot showreel last night. Feeling really good about the edit not ready to punish yet but submitted to the showreel. Taking the day.

Lunch Rush is out now: sireel.itch.io/lunch-rush Make burgers, as fast as you can! Free to play, in your browser. PC, and mobile browsers are both supported

If I've been quiet it's because my schedule is insane ATM with code. I see 4am code more often than 8am for last few weeks... Not sustainable but hey hehe I am going to die someday.

Agent... have you heard? 🕵️‍♀️ Unseen Diplomacy 2 is out in Early Access. Grab it now on Steam VR and Meta Quest before the guards notice. 🔗https://unseendiplomacy2.com🔗 #spygame #vrgame #earlyaccess #indiegamedev #gamerelease

Been sharing this with a lot of friends lately. Prepare for winter folks get those good habits in before the darkness sets in. #winter #sad

#UnseenDiplomacy2 is out now! Taken ~10yrs from concept to now 2015 Game Jam 2017 started seriously pitching 2018 tech prototype with grant support 2021 @ukgamesfund.bsky.social gameplay prototype 2023 UKGF Content Fund Jan 2024 fully funded Sep 2025 Early Access! www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

And... out now! Super happy to get this into Early Access where people can actually play it after being under wraps for so long.

Some of my friends at @ndreams.bsky.social put out a new #quest #vr game today about causing chaos as a racoon in a dinner called Wreckin Raccoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgF...

Was speaking to a younger dev and they didn't know we use i in looks because iterate What is your fav old school single letter dirty short names you think people might not know abc,sd - temp e - error i - iterate ck - check xyzw - coords #gamedev #cpp

I use code AI to find typos and help debug all the time, still not great at writing code past boilerplate, or simple really well explained stuff. Today though it taught me a cool new c++ thing Helps with some compile time checks and optimisations, looking at the disassembly it really helped

#gamedev update on #cronch trying to ship #godot #xr

Petition: Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Today 🇬🇧, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺 recognized Palestine! Following 🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇳🇴, 🇸🇮, 🇲🇽 (2020-2025) First Big Western 🇸🇪 in 2014 🇿🇦 in 1995 Woooo! Initial 1988 Recognition: 🇨🇳, 🇷🇺, and 85 other allied nations.

Wrote a small piece on the new @khronos.org OpenXR generic controller profile I'm excited for and an old story how I once wrote sexist motion controls. #xr #openxr claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2025/09...

OpenXR has a new sensible generic controller profile Digital buttons (menu, primary, secondary), analogue trigger & grip, joystick axes & touch, plus grip/aim pose tracking. Great #xr #vr news registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs...

Super excited for Unseen Diplomacy 2 coming out next week. Check the trailer out and if it gives give it a wishlist #vr #xr store.steampowered.com/app/3634690/...

This has easily been the longest project I've been working on - I am properly excited to actually get it out into the wild and onto player's faces. :)

My lovely wife @5ftkaiju.bsky.social is flying to Finland to do @flammablepenguins.com reading on Lockhart Mansion series by invitation of HelloCon this weekend. <3

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

For #godot #xr folks I would say the nicest qol feature in 4.5 is the "run current scene in regular mode" Replaced my testbed project with a few small scenes in a subfolder that can test data processing and non-xr stuff quickly. Total game changer small features like this really matter.

#gamedev update missed deadline before Meta Connect time to regroup this week. The main lesson is as a tiny indie you have less you can squeeze because the team is smaller. So your regular productive week and your push hard week aren't much different in output. #godot #xr

This is super dumb but I hate the screen recorder options so I made one that works on windows 10 using ffmpeg and a bit of powershell. Warning this is dumb but it works to snip a section of your desktop for a quick video. gist.github.com/Kimau/e5ff62...

Between Dreams dead, Modeller paused? Other players in the space dropping VR ball. GPU getting faster and AI pushing non polygonal methods forward. I feel like there is a real gap for a single purpose VR Art Modelling tool built on modelling principles but I will be damned if I try a 3rd time.

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

Also for anyone curious on how to optimise an approx Fibonacci lattice with sin/cos ops. This is my solution in #gdscript. Handy way to put even points on a sphere.

#gamedev #godot update #gpu compute balls fixes and Fibonacci lattice optimization

Make an XR game in Godot this week! Sadly I'm busy shipping a #godot #xr game so too busy to take part but excited to see what gets made

#gamedev #godot new person joined, also funny bits you forget to finalise

Really happy that Taynor has join on our crazy VR Studio Adventure. He is a long time friend and having a steady hand with true passion for VR really helps! #gamedev

Morning commuters from Glasgow to Edinburgh will see their fares drop by 48% today. Scottish Greens, trade unions and commuters worked together to demand the removal of peak rail fares. Today, peak rail fares are scrapped for good!

#gamedev #godot #xr shared the fast text on my website. claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2025/08...