For me the baffling thing is not the use of ai, but the audacity to not even check the image, brush it up and correct it to your vision. Especially if you are a company who can PAY an artist and ENSURE the survival of a life that can help you in the future too. With art, taxes and so on.

It's a bit funny when using a dynamic texture instead of a static, feels like a big achievement :D It works, the framework holds - another feature I had on my mind and theoretic backburner for a long time until now.

Starting with the builders of those vast underground structures, a cult around St. Barbara developed. Some pilots are devoted to her and look for salvation in her arms.

I had a blast showing SerpenTiles at ViennaComicCon - no matter the age, people liked it - except the kids that were on a search for fortnite (as always 😂)

For this #RandomGameSaturday I'm going to bring one of my favorites from the PS3/360 generation. Faith's story across the rooftops of The City. Mirror's Edge. It's impossible not to play it without being overcome with the urge to run and jump, find fences to grab onto, and walls to do wall rides on.

Too stubborn to do anything else. I did (shitty) games in highschool IT and my teacher allowed it instead of whatever SQL else to learn. Dropped out of Uni bc of not learning anything about gamedesign/dev, but the programming was interesting. Still hacking away on my own until I showed a very (1/2)

Bc I got asked, I am doing this in @phaser.io with a little magical sprinkle of old version and a lot of elbow grease :)

You can either give in to the computer- or the more conventional gods. These are your last months on earth, so why not both maybe?

It's shiny :) or is it better in pars de course pixelation?

Does youtube also recommend year old already watched videos to you again lately?

There is this phase in development when you love your game and just play it. Observe, change and so on. That's a great one, because you just made your own toy to play with and you see if it gets boring or not. Currently I am weirdly compelled to just watch it - because autopilot just does its thing.

Trying and failing makes way better memories than never trying at all.

Remember everyone, when you look back at your life you'll remember the cool shit you tried, even if you failed, way more than you remember the boring safe choices. For indie game devs specifically, maybe your game fails, but you'll remember making a game more than working a safe desk job.

Nyum! Nyum!

Works flawlessly as you can see^

Formula Zero is the fictional racing leage of "Resistance Racing 2k97". Rushing through abandoned Hyperloops and other underground structures human built to escape the changing climate on earths surface.

When the AI near miss event has control of your cameras FOV 👀

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When you are within the tunnel, it is actually super hard to realise the geometry of the track.

The enemy AI is not the brightest yet, but 20 crafts on the same track checks out. It searches for the most curvature to gain speed and has basic obstacle avoidance. 50 really started to bring the performance down with all the collision checks :D

The enemy AI is not the brightest yet, but 20 crafts on the same track checks out. It searches for the most curvature to gain speed and has basic obstacle avoidance. 50 really started to bring the performance down with all the collision checks :D

In the end it's a lot of handy work.

Resistance Racing School 101: The more rake your craft has, the faster you will go. Pitch too much and you will grind your nose on the track or detach from it. The rake also influences your heat. Balance is key to keep the most speed through all corners without overheating.

Tried to model a F1 style craft instead of the wipEout style one. I am not too happy with it, but might explore further, how the track actually would shape the vehicles design. The tripod of a spaceship like triangle doesnt connect to the walls as much, as a flatter floorsucker I feel like.

What do you think looks better? Pixelart or lowres photo characers?

No time is lost doing weird different prototypes if you design them in a way that they can work together. On one hand you feel like you stagnated for years and did not finish your dearest projects, but on the other it's just a process of creating systems that later can interlock and work as a game!

Phew, billboarding sprites for 8way models are back in. This is crucial to see where a character is going to or looking at, while still essentially being flat. :)

Not me realising that I made the Tunnel quads twice as big as the one for the FPS sections...😅

The whiplash of sitting at home for a week to program and then going outside again (breakfasting) is hard. There is no peace outside 😂

It's good to be back. Updating my old models to make paths wider and seeing them perform way better. Also I snuck in the former Café Hegelhof as the drivers lounge and it's a better fit than the old white and cold venue. This will be a fun place to hang around, talk and trade with other drivers.

Matrixboxing is a bit more eyestraining then greyboxing...

A little less fast. What kind of obstacles could you encounter in radioactive sewers?

☢️ the atomic sewer was the tileset I liked the most in the first prototype. The 3d version looks quit good now I think, but maybe needs a bit more glow and clutter ☢️

How fast ist too fast? Fast fast.

How fast ist too fast? Fast fast.

Of course they'll play SerpenTiles in the future - how else to pass the time? *you* can play it here btw while waiting for this game to get finished ancientpixel.itch.io/serpentiles

It's not all rails, but all hyperloops - a buzzword that died down since...

An advert for the ingame leage you race in: Formula 0 - because it's faster than F1 and you race in Tunnels shaped like a ring - makes sense I think 😅 Also my coffeetable book was very helpful doing the design for the ad. If you know, you know 😉

The pitbox, you will eventually emerge out of to enter the track.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

A major limit in my old "engine" was that I could only look forward into the 2.5d track, now I support different camera angles and am still free to mix in 2d elements if I want to :)

It runs well on mobile! Of course it will sweat a little more when there will be more on screen, but whoop whoop! You look around with the phones orientation as a little VR window in hands and touch to control the ship.

Previously everything used euler angles, from the camera to rotating a model or determining how billboards look at the camera. Rebuilding all that to use vectors and not break everything is an operation on an open heart, but very worthwhile for the freedom it provides!

As details get very fuzzy in the distance of a more open environment, I may need a lot more tricks with my textures, to keep it readable. And no, I don't want to add even more math like anisotropic filtering to my game - and I say game, because I try my best not to build an engine 🫣

Checking checking. I came very far in my pseudo 3D engine with minimal vector use, as most stuff was rendered from a first person Perspective, which means up is up and negligible. But movement gets so complex now, that I actually have to build a transform system with proper vector math 😔😅

oh yeah, this works better already

I don't think we are quite back, but I am testing stuff...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How did this article release in the future? 15th, January 2026

my boss feared I might slip into a rabbit hole, making a simulation game of spiderwebs, when a drawn animation could be easier and sufficient. Let's say it didnt leave my mind and some hours later I was finished before we even had a call with our artist. Sry that this sounds like a linkedin post^^