It's 2026. Time to put developer commentaries back in our games.

"gemini needs to feel safe and loved to generate quality output" we used to beat the shit out of office printers

what's the best way to capture normal maps with minimal equipment? like, ideally just with a camera, the way you'd go out and get photo textures i know things like crazybump work fairly well (and now people are using genai editing to do it), but say i want the real deal

nobody else is claiming their voucher so 2026 will be my year

just found out the person who made the fancam i stole for 0:02-0:16 blocked me for making this this is the kind of persecution you face when challenging the form

every day you log on and learn what one guy said to the other guy

the first time in history this shit has happened. first time and it's on camera. what a privilege

THIS IS THE SHIT I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT

hey thats me in there likely because i worked on. the game

big jim

i need some 2010s mid with a Unique Element to play. splinter cell conviction tier. games that make you say shit like "i love the thing they were trying to do"

Glad the performance discourse is happening but it does make me feel a little crazy because like. "Let's target 1080p30 on Deck" isn't a new idea, Steam Deck hardware has been the same since it came out. Maybe it's prompting people to consider performance upfront in a way we've been trained not to?

What's the best place to read about techniques for rendering transparent geometry in the middle of a raymarched fog volume? From the scattered sources I'm reading, there's a lot of fascinatingly weird ways people try to hack around it.

okay fess up, which one of you did the audio integration on ROUTINE

i cannot overstate how important it is for you to watch this sudoku let's play video www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9...

Absolutely hilarious update I love it so much

important

did i delete my post from a while back about how ai-driven compute shortages might fuck the market incentives preventing the dummy terminal cloud-only future i should stop doing that

transform your cursor into any picture - tutorial (WORKING 2020)

these days you must grasp the concept

so valve never did any talks about the rendering of half life alyx, eh?

idiot beginners following project organization rules vs. the guy who did the original Stranger Things intro revealing his layer names are seven hundred duplicates of fucking "Adjustment Layer 7" and all the shots are just in different skyscraper stories of one comp

hey what the hell is that thing called, when you're achieving your goals operating under some mental model of the world - not because you're actually correct, but because your Wrong mental model happens to accidentally incentivize behavior that maps onto reality in a backwards way

cool cat. ultimate focus brown noise

i helped make this a little :)

holy shit

your cat might be the best contender so far

wishlist un beatable

that second paw shape is adorable

hey i need some photos of your stupid baby cats' paws from a top down angle please take a picture pictures like this and then tell me your stupid baby cat's name thanks love you (angle example)

i am the most vindicated human who's ever lived

Here is @samperson.bsky.social again being bang on about this.

I trailer'd this very normal game.

Half-baked take: The price, power, and availability of computer parts played a major role in preventing cloud streaming from ransacking consumer games. The trade-offs weren't worth it. Dunno if this pressure will continue long enough to change that before this is all irrelevant, but I'm not a fan

ten thousand jobs every month forever

actually there is a stretch of the opening where i'm saying what i believe

the more expensive hardware gets, the more game optimization becomes an economics issue

godspeed sexy cg mermaid woman the economy is in your hands

thinking about that time i accidentally left the ratatoullie theme song 'le festin' looping for 2 hours while working, but didn't consciously register it until after i closed the window, and felt its absence more deeply than i ever noticed its presence

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

take notes!

level design book update: little cleanup of the tools page (book.leveldesignbook.com/appendix/tools) and trenchbroom page (book.leveldesignbook.com/appendix/too...)

a during-hiatus final v3 episode? some are saying it's true

show me what you're making NOW (again)

also- if there's any good reading about implementing dynamic, good-feeling brushes like CSP or Photoshop (potentially factoring in pen pressure, and stroke curves or velocity), I'm always down to collect reference material i have ideas about how to handle this already, but i'm super curious

hey artist people, what're your favorite public domain (redistributable) brush textures i'm working on a doodle tool for a thing

the endpoint of this is artists surfacing their process and craft more heavily than ever before, and people supporting artists for those reasons if i wanted to know what grok thought a renaissance painting looked like, i would just ask it to generate one for me

are there any great drum-heavy shooter soundtracks? feels like we avoid it, given that they live in the same sound space as gunshot SFX