A scene with multiple skies. It's not revolutionary, but it's pleasant to look at.

After the water shader, I'm returning to the glass rendering and shattering 💥. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine #vfx #physics

I've changed my mind I will finally add entities in my poolroom exploration game. Here's a preview of the first one. It's better with sound. 🔊 #gamedev #indiedev

My global illumination is good enough (for now), so I reworked my water shader and what better place to test it than poolrooms? #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

After months of testing and tweaking, I've finally versionned my GI using spherical harmonics. Now that it's done, I can move on and experiment other stuff like specular occlusion. For this, I recreate a test scene from @passivestar.bsky.social #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

Over the past few days, I've continued working on the first-person controller and object manipulation. I thought the system was ready until I discovered one last problem. #screenshotsaturaday #gamedev #indiedev #fps

Reworked the First Person controller with Jolt Physics. ⚡ To test it out, I upgraded the spline system and built a train. 🚂 Now, let's see if the train can carry objects! 📦 Spoiler: Yes! ✅ #gamedev #indiedev #fps #joltphysics #gameengine

Back to gameplay stuff. 🎮 Implemented object manipulation in first-person. It was easier than expected! It's nice when things just work. Now I can dive into gameplay mechanics, like puzzles. 🧩 #gamedev #indiedev #fps #physics #gameplay

Still polishing the editor UX.🛠️ I reworked the toolbar to make it cleaner. ✨ What do you think of the new layout ? ⬆️ Before /⬇️ After #gamedev #uiux #indiedev #tooldev

Building big features can be draining. 🧠 So to take a break, I switch to small QoL improvements on my code. Lately, I polished the editor UX: - Reworked the hotkey system⌨️ - Added "Random Color per Object" debug view (inspired by Blender) 🎨 #gamedev #indiedev #cpp #tooldev

Attempting to recreate the shattering of glass, first step: dividing the polygons #indiedev #gamedev

A brief summary of the evolution of my game engine in 2025 #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine #recap

I finally managed to launch my engine and my latest level (and my engine) on my Steam Deck with a stable 40 FPS. 🎉 #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

After replaying a famous FPS, I wondered if my engine could deliver rendering quality similar to other commercial game engine. So I tried recreating a level, and after two days, here's the result. What do you think ? #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

On my engine, SSAO was a post-process on the entire screen. Now it's an separate pass performed right after the Z-Prepass, allowing me to use AO directly in lighting. Bye-bye AO on selfillum surfaces. I've also replaced my SSAO shader with XeGTAO. #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

Playing with face tracking via my webcam to animate a simple 3D model in my game engine. #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

Half-Life 4 is confirmed #halflife #gamedev

A month has passed since my last post, but I was on vacation (full disconnection) and then I worked on game systems, and more specifically on NPC (Non Player Characters). Now they can follow a target with their eyes in a more natural way. #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine #npc

I realized that my cubemap filtering and my IBL (the specular with roughness part) were incorrect, so I recreated the famous PBR spheres with Pisa HDRI to check if everything was OK. It's seems Ok now. #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine #pbr

A new room with a computer and... a twisted corridor ? What is this room ? #indiedev #gamedev #liminalspace

First step to developing on #SteamDeck : launch a simple rendering demo of my render layer. Next step : the custom engine. #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

Running the "Digital Emily" model from the @matmadnessart.bsky.social's HumanShaders Godot plugin in my engine. It looks pretty good to me. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

I'm trying a create a new environnement inspired by Control of @remedygames.com #indiedev #gamedev #ControlRemedy #liminal

Don't blindly trust the #Microsoft Win32 documentation, it automatically switches to the local language. And sometimes, the translation is the opposite of the English version. So don't forget to switch the documentation to English.

Since the beginning of my gizmos in my engine, something visual was missing and it was not the priority to add it. But I took the time to add these little things and it's cooler. #indiedev #gamedev

I added sounds and interactive objects to my cave test scene. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

By chance, I may have created the first piece of a survival game by assembling Polyhaven meshes. #indiedev #gamedev #customengine #polyhaven

I'm playing with the particle system and create an alien/portal smoke effect and colorful sparks. #indiedev #gamedev #customengine

I'm creating a simple level to test my GI (global illumination) in my engine and it comes out with a #HalfLife vibe, but that's a coincidence 🙄 #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev #graphicsprogramming

Hyped to be a part of this BANGER compilation of custom #3D game engines, made from scratch, WITHOUT the use of #Unity #Unreal or #Godot. Take a look at what's *actually* possible for #IndieGameDev with own technology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qK...

GP-Direct 2025 (Graphics Programming Showcase) is online with my engine in it🥳 #indiedev #gamedev #graphicsprogramming

I'm thrilled to announce that GP-Direct, the Internet's most exciting graphics showcase, is back and has received all clips for 2025! We will soon be releasing our final video just as soon as we finish editing. Here's last years video! #indiegamedev #graphics www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07I...

First truly functional weapons system to my engine. Next (big) step : adding ennemies and more weapons #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #fps

I get good results in my engine with old school global illumination (offline computing of SH probes) . I still have light leaks, but I'll try to reduce them. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #GlobalIllumination

I fulfilled a dream, I implemented my own facial animation system in my engine. A dream I had since the release of #HalfLife 2 in 2004. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #facialanimation

For the second time this week, I reworked my PBR integration in my engine and added some subsurface scattering. Now I'm happy with the result. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #notunreal

Just for fun, I reopened a previous level prototype and added my new glass shader. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #horror #scifi

First step for old school global illumination : Cubemap rendering. #indiegame #gamedev #globalillumination

Finally, I can play videos (old school MPEG-1) in my engine, thanks to @phoboslab for pl_mpeg, an easy to use library. Now I just need to find a game use case for video playing :) #indiegame #gamedev #gameengine

I'm working on the main menu for my Backrooms game, what do you think ? #indiegame #gamedev #uidesign #liminalspace

This week I reached the 3000th commit to my engine git repository. 🥳 Here is the commit comment : Rework Node/Scene manager #GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #Engine

Hum, I think it's time to commit some changes :D

Over the past two weeks, I've been working hard to optimize my engine. Particularly with occlusion culling to reduce draw calls. And I'm quite happy with the results. Here are some before/after shots with stats. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #Engine

I'm trying to fill an occlusion culling buffer by simply projecting the corners of the boxes, but it's not enough. I have to rasterize my occlusion boxes on the CPU. Optimization is hard. #gamedev #solodev

The pools leaked into the backrooms. What happened ? #ScreenshotSaturday #liminalspace #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

If, like me you are looking for a fast BC6H texture encoder on CPU. I've just adapted @knarkowicz.bsky.social awesome GPURealTimeBC6H to run on CPU in C++. It only took 0.4 seconds (compared to 5s for Compressonator) to compress a 4096 x 2048 texture on my AMD 3900X. github.com/thennequin/U...

Two weeks ago, I released the first teaser/concept for my liminal spaces/backrooms based puzzle game. The game uses my own engine; it's not perfect but the project is evolving quickly. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev #liminalspace #puzzles #game

Still having fun with the Polyhaven models and this gave me an idea for another mini puzzle for my game. Stay tuned. #indiedev #gamedev #liminalspace #puzzles #game

I'm amazed by the quality of @polyhaven.com's models and how well these models render in my engine. The download window allows for quick integration, two clicks, a drag and drop, and you're done.

Some screenshots from my teaser released yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEI7... #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #backrooms