The binary patcher tool is a Unity game itself. See. Unity IS using their own engine to make something! 😂🫠

If YOU have a Unity game out there you should probably not sit this out. I guess it's not that urgent, all things considered. But you bet that once the evil-doers reverse engineer what that vulnerability is, they go on a hunt for stragglers. Don't be a straggler. #gamedev

It's Unity Day in Germany. Really it's Tag der deutschen Einheit. But either way. It's funny that today of all days, Unity publishes patches for some security vulnerability that apparently needs somewhat immediate attention. Because ... Unity? Get it? Unity Day? ... heh 🫠

Still here! Fear not. In case you were afraid Busy doing paperwork things. I shall sprinkle you with more random gamedev stuff and funky gameplay again, when all the papers have been worked.

Kinda makes sense now that they went on ahead and tried to make new projects cloud projects by default the other time. That in combination with default-enabled diagnostics services sure would bump the user numbers right up

So, #unity folks. Mind this here new default setting. Unity Diagnostics are not compliant with the GDPR by default. You have to take action on your own (at least provide opt-out option) or manually disable the usage. #gamedev

I was today years old when I learned there is a FixedString API in Unity. With which one can do allocation free string manipulations. Can combine that with an extention to TMP_Text to accept these. Nice, nice docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com... #gamedev #unity

Someone wasn't paying attention 🫠

So Unitys Autotile Tile generates default colliders for sprites that have no custom shape. Making it effectively useless when painting a tileset that has walls and floors at the same time. Because the floors will become solid. Sometimes I just can't with this engine 🥲

IN SEARCH OF.... 📣 A better quality cover image of the German cheat book: "Die Mogel Spiele Power '95" from Markt & Technik

Did the right thing and dumped another day into my codegen project to generate serializing and deserializing code. Bit like MemoryPack or similar. Only this works with patching data into existing objects and is Unity compatible... And is no doubt many orders of magnitude slower than MemoryPack.

Faintly remembered hot-reload from my minecraft modding days. Took the chance in the last sale to purchase the hot reload plugin for Unity. And it's like they say in the reviews. As if you're surfacing from the dark depths of the ocean and breathing air for the first time in a long time

Ink is pretty amazing, isn't it?

Last deed for the day. Took a while to figure that one out. But there it is. Some fake depth fog for the spooky nights and cold mornings. Maybe. Exaggerated settings to make it more visible #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

What do you think? I may or may not have an idea for this. Bit of a spooky season story kinda deal in charming pixel art? #gamedev #indiedev

Unity learning from the grown ups, I see. Looks familiar, #godot people? :D

✨AHHHH✨ The Kickstarter for my creature-collecting roguelite Soulblaze is now live. Please share it, tell your friends and pets, donate if you are able to, and help me make this dream reality. You're wonderful! AHHHHHH www.kickstarter.com/projects/zei... #gamedev #indiedev #kickstarter #godot

Roughly 4 hours to build code that lets me feed my nav graph a pre-assembled node network. And also some more code to actually generate this network from static level geometry. That's the result of this train ride. Well, not too shabby.

On my way to cologne. Be too late to have a gander at Gamescom when I arrive. As usual. Always too late. Well. Tomorrow is another day. But I'll see what I can see with some Liha programming for 4 hours on the train. Meant to dabble in Godot but forgot to download it and train WiFi is baaaaad 🫠😂

Made a bunch of new assets. Recognize the old rib arch? Surely. Those will go into the cave level now. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

I mean ... this was 10 minutes of work at this point. Hotspotting is amazing

See what I'm saying? It ain't perfect but look. I can have a simple square edge mask and a simple square base texture and get this sheet in seconds... am I doing it wrong or something? Seems fine to me 🤔 #gamedev

Has anyone ever attempted to make a tool in Unity that can generate a simple trimsheet for hotspotting from a base texture? And, lets imagine, a sliced edge mask...? Because I am and I'm getting there but it feels like this should be a solved problem 🤔

Hat ein bisschen gedauert aber da ist es nun. Das Gamestar Sonderheft 4/2002. Sogar mit CD. Was für ein throwback. Ab in den memorabilia Schrank damit!

Most sexy freight containers you will see today. Telling it like it is #gamedev

And this is what I did with my art from earlier. Improved my room-detection. It handles sticking-out geometry so much better now, almost no artifacts left. D idn't want to but I had to improve on it because of the way I'm building rooms now

I'm making art today.

It's the middle of the night which is why I'm pondering about projecting poisson disk sample points onto a sphere. Because why would you not want to do such things?

Personally, not a fan of their questioning though. I'd go out on a limb and suggest, if you haven't been there, it's a) too far away and b) it's impossible to fathom what the terror and pain actually is for all involved. Videogames cannot possibly put a dent in the perception in either direction.

The amount of fancy stuff I did the past couple days to crack down on GC allocations and rendering performance... And all it is in the changelogs is "improved performance". Doesn't really do the work justice but it is what it is. Most people are really not interested in technical deep dives

So everything works and nothing broke and I got my fancy render feature to work. Which, as a side effect, allows me to give a custom cockpit FOV option. But also since I can use the Forward+ render path now, I get resident drawers and GPU culling and stuff. Performances!

Well. I did the right thing, caved, and upgraded anyway. Surprisingly - nothing actually broke. Which sounds cynical. Especially because I'm angry at the tech right now. But it's actually really really cool.

Can't create custom culling data because of the milk. I would like to know. WHY would anyone decide to remove API that was exposed before? Even if you did build a new system. Especially if it's there, it's in use. You just don't give it to users? Ridiculous.

Well ... I done went and gone ahead and did something ... but unsure what exactly it is 😂

Trying to do a clear-depth-and-draw render thing with Unitys RenderGraph API. So I can draw cockpit and world with one camera without the cockpit clipping into world geometry... And the documentation is just absolute fucking ass. Need to sift through their source to find out how it's gone.

Well, overall, I got rid of some nasty heap allocations and gained a lot of frame time. Cool, now I can use that to do more stupid things 😂

Finished refactoring the bullet handling system. It's job based now. Didn't even break anything, honestly. But I also didn't fix anything, either. Maybe performance. Lets see then.

Please enjoy the latest UX addition to Liha. The infamous ... QUESTMARKER! No more searching around where you need to go. It'll just tell you. What a groundbreaking innovation, innit? It brings all the synergies to the product strategy. Better than any AI! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames

Trying to fix a bug in a class that doesn't even have that aforementioned bug. I'm a professional. I swear

Need to make a new trailer but keep coming up with cool new things that I want in the trailer lol. Stuff taht solves some long standing UX issues too. Aaargh I'm torn

Middle of the night again. Juiced up some parts of the game. Improved drastically on pathfinding performance. AND! I made the crosshair sticky for autoaim. Complete with an intensity slider that goes from straight up aimbotting to soft nudges towards your enemy. Controllers are fun to use again

Murderers! Look at them acting all sassy and fluffy as if they didn't devour something on the balcony. Judging by the way that things are out there, that was enough to feed them both through the night 😂

Started a playsession with the cats on the balcony earlier. Turned into examination session. Found a big old blood stains on their playground. They are both fine. It appears that there was some unfortunate critter yesterday night, that had the displeasure of meeting my furry murdermachines 😬

21:9 Ingame Menu, everyone. SOMETHING's fishy here. Can't put my finger on it

Exactly my kinda jam 🙃

Uh, got the 10th Demo review for Liha and landed at Positive! Awesome :D Thanks everyone who left me a review. It means a lot!

Well, I guess, it'll need an update anyway. Along with everything else but one problem after the next

Building some material for print. As per usual at the dead of night. Way too late. But I'm rendering so many props for that, after this, the presskit will need an update lol

Well, I think what I learned, among a lot of other things, is, that world-space UI is the superior option

Do you also catch yourself doing `Random.Range(0f, 1f)` in Unity sometimes? Instead of `Random.value`? I know I do 🫠