I used the best kept secret of professional game development again today... duct tape! Yep. Taping down a controller button is a great way to spam a feature for "soak testing".

A Keeper preview article is up and features a video interview with Asif (level designer extraordinaire), Camden (sound designer extraordinaire), and me (ancient being with half a soul). news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

It's _that_ part of the project.

One month to release. Oh my! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjC...

Happy Birthday, Hack 'n' Slash! You're 11 years old today, and to celebrate, the game is 85% off on Steam, Humble, and Itch.io! You buy it, you break it!🎂 🥳 store.steampowered.com/app/246070/H... www.humblebundle.com/store/hack-n... doublefine.itch.io/hack-n-slash youtu.be/IDSMUISSwpQ

It’s like opening a grocery store selling pure puke. Cans of throw up and bags of barf and cartons of hurl. “Why does no one want to buy my regurgitate? Are you Luddites? I’m just flooding the zone! Look at all this food I have carefully prepared! Feed, you foolish doubters! Do you hate nutrition?”

There are so many aspects of making a game that nobody notices or thinks about, like functionality that one would expect to happen automatically but that - in fact - requires someone to implement it. The road to fun is paved with boring stuff. :)

🎙️ My conversation with Oliver Franzke (@p1xelcoder.bsky.social‬) from ‪@doublefine.com‬ is now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! creators.spotify.com... 🎥 You can also watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/zyPEmx4OJ4U

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

MegaLights slides were just posted online. There's a bunch of details in slide notes if you're curious how our new Stochastic Direct Lighting solution works, why we made it and want to learn a bit about the problem space.

realistic Star Trek

"Keeper is quintessential Double Fine..." www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...

The AppData folder in Windows is where developers go to cause Problems because it's slightly more convenient for them than asking the user what's a directory on their local file system where they have write permissions

🗣️ the 🗣️ bird 🗣️ has 🗣️ a 🗣️ name Everyone, this is Twig 💚 www.doublefine.com/games/keeper #keeper #gamescom #ONL2025

Installed Battlefield 6 Open Beta. Tried to launch. Told me to change values in the BIOS. Uninstalled the Open Beta.

You'll never guess what sort of GPU the majority of dev team is using. Even the combined force of the compat lab and the GPU vendor internal test labs can't tip the scale. By the way I love compat testing, it's so helpful to get all that juice raw data!

It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games. Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.... and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!

It was super fun to talk with @ashleyesqueda.com about MMoJ!! A game and team truly near and dear to my heart. I really appreciate everyone that's worked on the game, and everyone that has played it! For folks I manage, I promise I won't draw brocollis on your next performance review.

New at #SIGGRAPH2025: Can we make Perlin Noise stretch along some underlying vector field? Well it turns out it's possible with two simple additions to the original method! No need for advection or convolutions. Find the paper and implementations here: github.com/jakericedesi...

You said it Berlin, you said it.

🚨 Premiering Sunday @ Noon (PT) 🚨 Legendary Sierra composer and producer Mark Seibert joins me for an in-depth chat about the golden age of adventure games and the iconic soundtracks that defined them! From Phantasmagoria to singing ants! 📺 youtu.be/cTO9l2AlzjI

Just putting here this supercut I made… 🤪

For that weird, narrow segment of technically-minded programmers who want to know how we programmed 3D graphics in the 90s and also want to know about 80% of the stuff I programmed before RAD, I sat down for a 5 hour interview on the Wookash Podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...

Today in Mojo History—16 years ago today: The oh so special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island launched.

If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

📅 Happy 15th anniversary to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge - Special Edition! 💾 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge - Special Edition was released on July 7th, 2010!

All REAC 2025 content is LIVE! Enjoy enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

It's a bummer to say it, but I too have been impacted by these layoffs at Cyan. I’m absolutely holding out hope that this is a temporary setback—we were working on WAY too many cool things to leave them on the shelf. Cyan took such good care of us, and zero regrets at the end of the day. 💙

Nine years ago today we released the gameplay trailer for Headlander. Such a fun project and Adult Swim was great to work with! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flgj...

Our talk from REAC 25 is now available online! You can download the slides here: enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm#4 The recording will be published in the coming days—stay tuned! Direct Links: - PDF: enginearchitecture.org/downloads/RE... - PPT: enginearchitecture.org/downloads/RE...

Happy 32th birthday to one of the best games ever; Day of the Tentacle! @doublefine.com @timoflegend.bsky.social @thatdave.bsky.social @petermcconnell.bsky.social #DayoftheTentacle

just learned about biplanar UV projection!! the tyranny of triplanar shaders is finally over! can't wait to go bi iquilezles.org/articles/bip...

My conversation with @danielalbu.bsky.social about my career and how Monkey Island and the other LucasArts adventure games were remastered airs in about 90 minutes. I'll try to jump into the chat at some point. Hope to see you there! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyPE...

🎙️ Join me for my conversation with @p1xelcoder.bsky.social‬ from ‪@doublefine.com‬! 🎧 We talk Monkey Island remasters, his lead programming on Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle, and how he brought Broken Age to life. 📆 Tomorrow @ Noon (PT) youtu.be/zyPEmx4OJ4U...

Pedro Pascal in Turbo Pascal

Finally, the location of the Berlin House of Games has been revealed and yay it´s close to Warschauer Straße. 💯 Sometime in 2026 the first people might move in - let´s see how this works out. I am excited as we are talking about 10.000 square meters + for the local games industry 🥳

If you are a fan of old-school adventure games, then you probably already know about @danielalbu.bsky.social conversations with many of the original developers. I feel honored that I had a chance to talk about my career and the remasters. This premiers June 15 @ noon (PST) youtu.be/zyPEmx4OJ4U?...

Have I mentioned recently that I love my job?! :) youtu.be/cTjCk55-Dg4?...

From @leepetty.bsky.social‬ and Double Fine Productions, our new game is Keeper - a beautiful and surreal third-person, atmospheric puzzle adventure, and a story told without words. On October 17 2025 — The Keeper Shall Awaken! Wishlist today, and find out more on www.doublefine.com

Hey you! Yeah, you scrolling by! I’m just TWO people short of 1,800 subscribers on YouTube. If you’ve ever enjoyed my content, now’s the perfect time to hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 👉 youtube.com/@daniela...

my NGJ2025 talk about Quaternions is up! 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvI...

Happy Anniversary to MASSIVE CHALICE which came out 10 YEARS AGO in 2015! Join us in celebration by filling your most MASSIVE of CHALICES with a bubbly drink, raising it to the sky, and reading the celebratory blog post/toast on our website. Cheers! www.doublefine.com/news/10-mass...

🎙️ Want to hear about the canceled Full Throttle 2 game from the art director himself? I sat down with veteran artist Chris Miles to discuss his journey from animating The Mask animated series to his iconic work at LucasArts. 📅 Premiering in 30 minutes! youtube.com/watch?v=...

🎬 I’ve completed editing the first two hours of my conversation with Oliver Franzke (@p1xelcoder.bsky.social‬)! 🕒 There’s about 1.5 hours of conversation left to edit, so it seems we’re good for the June 15th premiere date. 🔔 Subscribe for more updates! youtube.com/@daniela...

It’s really cool to see my talk freely available for everyone. I’m proud of the work our team accomplished, and it means a lot that it’s now accessible to a wider audience. Huge thanks to the GDC team for putting it out there! #AssassinsCreedShadows #GameDevelopment #GDC2025

It's always a good day when switching from heap to stack allocation yields in a 10x speed-up. On these days I'm usually also very grateful for Superluminal. :)

Just finished editing my conversation with LucasArts artist and animator Chris Miles, which will premiere on June 1. Now diving into the edit for my conversation with LucasArts / Double Fine programmer @p1xelcoder.bsky.social‬, also coming in June. Don't miss out! youtube.com/@daniela...

📆 Happy 30th anniversary to @timoflegend.bsky.social's Full Throttle! 🔥💀🔥 🔥💀🔥 🔥💀🔥 💿 The original version of Full Throttle was (actually) released on May 19th, 1995!