The best way to learn orbital mechanics is to crash a few (dozen) rockets in Kerbal Space Program. The second best is this interactive article.

When you launch #ArmaReforger Game Master, you'll play on... 14 August. Happy #Everon default day! ☀️

Want to create massive environments, but your early 2000s game engine can't handle tens of thousands of trees to fill them? No problem, just build forests from 50×50 m meshes. Still one of my favorite #OperationFlashpoint dev tricks.

My wife was painting a bookshelf for the kids' room, but all I see is a video game level.

Did you know that on #Arma3 Tanoa, you can set a date and time when the sun is directly overhead, making shadows disappear? It's called the subsolar point and happens twice a year within the tropics. Try it out!

✨ TIL that China uses its own constellations, and even has a unique system of star designations. For example, Alpha Centauri is 南門二, meaning Southern Gate 2. This system predates the Western one by hundreds of years.

On this day 20 years ago, I released Nightmare, my third mission for #OperationFlashpoint. It was my first work I promoted using movie-like posters, in an era when everyone else used low-res screenshots. Might've even started a trend back then.

Finally had time to play Rookie, a short scenario by Václav 'Sarge' Kerber. It's a remake of his #Arma3 mission of the same name, but even though I knew what was coming, the tense atmosphere still spooked me. Give it a try!

🌌 This is how the authentic night sky is configured in #Arma3. Look closely and you can spot the Milky Way band.

Become Zeus! ⚡️ Create a new Eden! 🌸 Correct the bad design decisions I made a decade ago! 🩹 careers.bohemia.net/position/tec...

If you're at #GDC, don't miss today's talk on modding in #ArmaReforger by Natalia Agafonova, the game's Executive Producer (and an alum of our Amsterdam studio)! schedule.gdconf.com/session/from...

Happy MAR-10, #Arma3 community!

The child in me still can't believe I live in a country served by TGV trains.

I grew up with C&C games, so I love seeing them receive Steam Workshop support and have their source code published for free. I'm not surprised that it took a modder—Luke Feenan—to spearhead this project. Game dev, as always, is about people sharing their passion ❤️

Of 13k+ games released on Steam in 2024, only 13% used a proprietary engine, yet they made up 42% of the revenue! But the tide is shifting, as more and more big studios abandon their well-established engines in favor of Unreal. As for us, #EnfusionEngine is here to stay!

Arma 3 players: Vanilla artillery computer is not fun, let's mod in realistic artillery tables. Arma Reforger players: Vanilla mortar tables are not fun, let's create online artillery calculators.

Weekend plans sorted. Congrats on the release, @jumpovertheage.com!

Sometimes, I just open Deep Space Network's real-time preview and stare in awe as it talks to faraway spacecraft 📡 eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

Knee popping when crouching would be the true pinnacle of realistic game audio design! 🦵

I've seen several people not making the connection until recently, so here's a reminder: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis is the first Arma game. The series was renamed due to publisher disputes, but still builds on the milsim grandfather you so fondly remember.

1) Start the game to see if a bug is fixed. 2) Keep playing and lose track of time for an hour. 3) Forget to check the fix (or what the bug was in the first place).

Because each Bohemian receives a profit-sharing bonus twice a year, devs will feel the impact of these outstanding results. Just in case you needed another reason to join us ;)

Never underestimate modding!

My toddler son saw me reading a "nice book about a cat." I told him the cat wouldn't find it nice. We are both right.

The best gifts for kids are the ones dads can enjoy too.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Ever wondered how NATO unit symbols are made without a computer?

The Netherlands just went a month without clear skies. Given how common cloudy weather is here, it's surprising Christian Huygens, the discoverer of Saturn's moon Titan, managed to observe the night sky at all those centuries ago. nltimes.nl/2024/12/16/r...

Did you notice how #ArmaReforger on #PS5 uses DualSense’s adaptive triggers to simulate real weapon mechanisms? Pull the trigger and it resists a bit, but becomes loose once no round is chambered. Engage weapon safety, and it stiffens completely. Every detail matters!

Really enjoyed the new #ArmaReforger tutorial. 10% shooting, 90% logistics—classic Arma 💚

Welcome #PlayStation players to the battlefield! Thanks to cross-platform play, they can fight, die, and get arma'd together with fellow soldiers from #Xbox and #PC.

Do you also feel nostalgic for "real is brown" games? I used to loathe how sepia hues dominated late 00s shooters, but now, looking back, I see it as a unique artistic expression of that era.

#Arma3 modders when they discover the attachTo scripting command 🛠

Just a normal world…

Imagine if, overnight, the Earth was wrapped in a time-dilation bubble. For every hour here, the universe would age by thousands of years. What would it mean for technology, society, and our will to live? That’s the premise of Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. (1/2)

#Stratis in #Civ6 is so cute! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Marines, meet Marines!

#Arma3 Creator DLC: Expeditionary Forces is truly expeditionary: Led by an 🇮🇹Italian developer, made for a 🇨🇿Czech game, portraying 🇺🇸US Marines, and released 🌍globally right NOW!

Absolutely agree that #modding deserves its own category at #TheGameAwards, #GoldenJoysticks, and other game awards! Which mods would you nominate this year?

Many of you are exploring the Zone in the new S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and some of you even played the first game. But who here remembers Conspiracies, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-inspired mod for #OperationFlashpoint?

The geothermal power plant is a major landmark on DayZ's #Sakhal. But how does it work? What’s the building with the big fans for? Where do all the pipes lead? Follow this thread, so you can impress your friends with engineering facts the next time you visit. 🧵 (1/10)

Mitchell, the deployment engineer for #Arma3, has a cool build status indicator on his table. It better stay green all the time! 🟩

We're here! 🫡

Welcome @armaplatform.com! #splendid

While environmental designers build #Kolguyev, you can recreate it yourself—in #CitiesSkylines. Bring the abandoned island back to life (just don’t forget the luxury residence for General Guba)! #modding steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Lou, Arma's Technical Writer and code rebel, conducted an in-game land area survey. The result? #Everon has 51.65 km², #Arland 6.38 km², and both are now littered with green debug shapes! 🟢

🌅 #Sakhal #timelapse in one image, from 6 AM to 6 PM on February 10th. Survive the cold, and the island rewards you with breathtaking views. Credit: www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comme...

In the Netherlands, many small businesses proudly display "est. 1960" or "since 1975." I'm still not used to that; in Czechia, companies were either founded before WW2 or after communism fell in 1989, leaving an entrepreneurial desert in between.

🇨🇿 Today marks 35 years since the Velvet Revolution, a turning point in Czechoslovak history. I’m too young to remember it, but I've felt its spirit through movies, TV, and now a game—Velvet 89 by @charlesgames.bsky.social. It’s free, short, and moving. Play it! store.steampowered.com/app/3133340/...

I just realized that #Sakhal is DayZ’s first truly exclusive setting. Free from Arma’s milsim worldbuilding that defined #Chernarus and #Livonia, the dev team gave the new island a unique character of its own 🤍