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Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

Fractured Sense of Self

this 1's cute

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

If you aren’t supporting trans people then it’s only a matter of time before nobody’s supporting *you,* no matter what happens to us.

Its been a few years since I did any keyframe creature animation, so my most recent personal project has been exactly that :) I referenced Daniel Fotheringham’s quadruped blog quite a bit while learning his workflow, it was a lot of fun :) Rig by Yang Xiao and Agora Community

Talking about applications of GPUs to 3D graphics. youtu.be/VP-q4jFdU8c

I made a directional noise type I call Phacelle Noise which is pretty fast! Is it new or does something functionally identical already exist? I'm not sure! But I didn't come across one like this yet anyway, so here's my findings: blog.runevision.com/2026/01/phac... #Graphics #Shaders #Shadertoy

The Cave

started a lil side thing that will hopefully finally let me build out my own library of tools and help me make the shallow water sim project ive been letting sit idle for now, just a distance field capture as heightfield to get things going

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

quick engine test

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

雪の絵

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

saw a really cool puddle the other day

L'interdiction des évènements du Lyon Antifafest (moment majeure dans la région) par la préfecture du Rhône est une nouvelle preuve de la fascisation en marche. Soutenez les militant.e.s, bénévoles et intervenant.e.s, ce n'est pas possible de se soumettre.

Here's a cleaned up version with a little breakdown at the end. All made and animated with Substance Designer ✨

"Together, workers can transform their jobs, their careers, and their lives for the better." Our statement of solidarity with 5 other game workers unions in Europe including @stjv.fr, @csvi-cgt.bsky.social & @gwuireland.bsky.social www.gameworkers.co.uk/one-industry...

📢 Avec 5 autres syndicats du jeu vidéo en Europe de l'ouest, nous affirmons aujourd'hui notre volonté d'augmenter notre coopération. Communiqué commun avec @csvi-cgt.bsky.social, FIOM-CGIL Milan, GDRT @social.verdi.de, @gwuireland.bsky.social et @gameworkers.co.uk ⤵️

If you are curious how the morphs were made in Keeper, then you can watch me create this "monkey-bunny" from scratch utilizing the tech I developed for the game. Enjoy and let me know what you think. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9V_...

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very quick doodle

Bonus post to end the week: If you are a graphics programmer do yourself a favor and get a MIDI board. It makes the work way more tactile and fun. Full props to Matt and @aaronmjacobs.com for getting me on the MIDI train. :)

Keeper's morphs are authored as scene-graph or more specifically as a scene-tree, which is evaluated bottom-up. I wrote a “compiler” which turns the tree into a command list which can be executed on the GPU. The compiler does a fair amount of optimization (e.g. dead branch pruning) to minimize cost.

Cats are liquid Especially on Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃

Are you an investor, journalist, showcase curator, interested in small-scopes and unique indie game titles? Let's get in touch! Been working for 1.5 years as a solo game dev on Dungeon Tourists. I am so happy with how far I've got. There are still many things I want to do, but I am having a blast!

youtu.be/dVkGXoW4MLE This week I've been working on an improved Starter Content pack for UE5 - better content and all organised the way I recommend! Available to buy on Gumroad: tharlevfx.gumroad.com/l/starterpro... #ue5 #vfxfriday #tutorials #gamedev #unreal #screenshotsaturday

match stick cats

Hell yeah. Whole system now 100% functional. The capture rate UI needs final art, and later I'd like to make MODs have a rarity value, but yeah, you can knock an enemy down and take their limbs! I'm gonna go finally play some Silk Song. #CherubDev #UE5 #GameDev

Finally got around to updating my #UnrealEngine reel! So here it is my 2025 Unreal Engine Showreel, The full length in 4k is avaliable here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5o... #UE5 #GameDev #Cinematic #TechArt #FX #VFX #EnvironmentArt #Lighting #LookDev

Dungeon Tourists now has a Steam page! I'm working super hard on that game. Please please please please go wishlist it here : s.team/a/3930480 #dungeontourists #indiegame #sologamedev #gamedev

didn't realize i was already playing around with the razer hydra that far back, but yea the timelines align beautiful piece of hardware a shame i sold it long ago

On that note, let's also *dive* in another favorite subject of mine: 💧 Water shaders 💧 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 on the tech-art behind our water visuals in HERDLING:

I've been doing a giant refresh of my home server and Nextcloud install over the weekend replacing a basic Ubuntu desktop with a proper Proxmox environment was a daunting task but it all feels sooooo much cleaner already

Been working on an FFT-influenced clock buffer in OBS for music visuals and it's been super fun! Added a spinning cube to test those clock values with rotation since it's a good & fun indicator of smoothness & responsiveness for the buffer. Everything here is rendered/composited in realtime in OBS.

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...

Suite aux affiches en IA générative par la Mairie de Montpellier, nous publions une tribune, signée par plus de 150 artistes et travailleur•euses de l'art de la région. @michaeldelafosse.bsky.social En intégralité ici : framaforms.org/non-a-lutili... 1/4

Artfight revenge for @imalouart.bsky.social 's OC : Xolo. Please hold on. The god is sniffing your vibe. Made in a somewhat ENA's BBQ dream art style because Imalou loves it :)

I can’t begin to tell you how incredible localization teams are. They don’t “just” translate - they rewrite jokes and idioms to recreate the same emotional (or funny) in a different culture and language style, and give invaluable advice on character, regional dialects, and cultural norms

9000 incomes gone. 9000 folks looking for jobs in the most competitive market. This is devastating.

Working with Florian on Banishers was an absolute blast, and this is such a good showcase of the breadth and quality of his work Go take a look at his reel! I can't stop thinking about those little critters in Bloom and Rage

Texture sampling can be less expensive than you think it is because of the fact GPUs are able to hide a lot of the cost of sampling via parallel operations. Most will sample multiple textures at the same time for no additional performance cost too.

Decided to check out how water is rendered in Counter-Strike 2. Given how interactive water in CS2 is, I expected to see some cellular fluid simulation, but turns out they just use a low-resolution off-screen buffer with flat 2D decals used for various aspects of water. Reminds me of HL2 water :)

My testament to the fact that I need to stop spending 🍊💸