Graphics APIs – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - a new article on my blog (in English and Polish version) asawicki.info/articles/gra...

Reduce it to N and N+1 and, suddenly, determinism is just induction.

Over the holidays I’ve been busy refining #helios to enable player interactions with game objects: Controlling, spawning and – the holy grail of every game - Collisions💥 I ended up with this draft for a deterministic game loop: garagecraft.games/devlog/2026-... #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #cpp

It’s been quite the ride this year! 🕹️ 💻 📖

Bringing in the component system over the past few days has been a real architectural eye-opener. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part in my writing journey this year! I feel richer for knowing you!🤗❤️ I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS & a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May we all meet again in 2026, feeling well-rested & refreshed! www.patreon.com/posts/146610455 #merrychristmas #happyholidays

2025 has been an unbelievable year for my writing. I'd like to thank everyone who's given my dark & twisted fantasy & sci-fi stories a chance with a #Winter #Bookfest! 🟦25% off on all my eBooks & 🟩50% off on all eBook bundles, until 11 Jan. 2026 on www.louiseblackwick.com/books Happy Holidays! 💙📚

Milestone 2 for the C++ game framework #helios just landed 🚀 ✅ Scene graph camera refactor ✅ GameObject + command buffer input flow ✅ ImGui dev widgets (FPS, gamepad, logs, camera) ✅ Gamepad-driven spaceship demo 🎮 👉 garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Nothing beats the feeling of seeing a custom #engine turn code into living, breathing gameplay. #helios #gameengine #enginedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegames

Don't mind me, just passing through 🐌

New devlog: #ImGui integration, frame pacing, and some breaking changes in #helios 🎮 Debug overlays are in! FPS widget, #gamepad visualization, log console. Also refactored the rendering setup with RenderPrototype for better resource sharing. #tooling #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

This December, for every day of the #AdventCalendar you'll be able to read for FREE a micro-story set in @vivianamberville.com the Vivian Amberville epic #darkfantasy universe! 💙📚 3 such micro-stories are already up on my Patreon. Go check'em out!🥰 Enjoy reading! ❤️ www.patreon.com/posts/vivian...

My IDE: "What if SPACESHIP isn't the answer?" Me: "It literally is" My IDE: "But what about SPACESHOP? SPACEHIP? SPACEHOP?" Me: *stares into the void* Sometimes the real #game dev is the autocomplete we encountered along the way. 🎮 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #helios #autocomplete

Comprehension over Convenience. Principles for maintaining quality and mastery in the age of AI. #AICraftsmanship #SoftwareDevelopment #Craftsmanship #ResponsibleAI #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #ai ai-manifesto.software-craftsmanship.dev

#Manifesto for #AI -Augmented #Software #Craftsmanship - a 🧵 (1/5) With tools like #GitHub #Copilot, #Claude Code and #Gemini CLI, our work has changed massively. The models keep getting better - but with that, the question grows louder:

I'm using #helios as the #framework for a #university project . I've published an accompanying technical report that outlines the key architectural decisions behind the #prototype and discusses its further #development. 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

The #renderingpipeline is a surprisingly cozy #rabbithole!

Someone on #StackOverflow nailed the essence of #defensive #programming: "When writing industrial-strength code, you should always assume that your coworkers are psychopaths trying to get you any way they can (especially since it's often yourself in the future)"

I can hear this picture. #ik+ #international #karate #commodore #amiga500 #retrogaming

From #Camera- to #Clip-Space, to #NDCs and z-Fighting - the latest article in my series examining the mathematical underpinnings of the #OpenGL rendering pipeline focuses on projection matrices. thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article... #LinearAlgebra #Math #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Trading garbage collector for existential dread and stable frame times! In the spirit of yesterday's refactoring efforts, the 1st tick() has found its way into #helios: garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #gamedev #indiedev #programming #tickable #devlog

Refactoring #helios: Clearer module responsibilities, better #abstractions, and neatly wrapped 3rd #party libs for flexible #architecture. Pointer/ref management still tricky, but it’s why #C++ leads in #gamedev ❤️ - more #control! #indiedev #indiegames 👉 garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/...

It's never too late to build an empire! The source #code for #Microsoft #BASIC, #MIT licensed and publicly made available via #Github: github.com/microsoft/BA.... Initial commit: 48 years ago. You can almost hear your 256GB 32core machine chuckle as it inhales the entire #source for breakfast.

M*R local-space vs. R*M world-space - I'm breaking down #matrix composition for rotating objects around external/local origins, using active and passive transformation. thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article... #gamedev #computergraphics #linearalgebra #indiedev #indiegame #3dgraphics #math

Finalized the transformation system for #helios this weekend. A key decision was standardizing on post-multiplication to apply operations in local space for intuitive chaining of transformations. #indiedev #gamedev #cpp #enginedev #3dmath #solodev garagecraft.games/devlog/estab...

Continuing development on the #helios #game engine today, implementing transformation matrices for the rendering pipeline and working through the mathematical foundations. #GameDev #ComputerGraphics #backseatcoding #indiedev www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Exploring a New Approach to Realistic Lighting: Radiance Cascades #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Shader programming: 99% cursing at the compiler, 1% accidentally creating the most gorgeous lighting effect you've ever seen while trying to render a simple cube, then apply proper mathematics and it looks boring as hell again. #gamedev #accidentalart #shader #indiedev

In my latest article, I examine model matrices through the lens of change-of-coordinates transformations, and why (R×M)×v ≡ R×(M× v). thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article... #GameDev #OpenGL #Math #rendering #linearalgebra #computergraphics

Also showed how model matrices can be expressed as active and passive transformations.

... oh, and of course I did not mention that I'm on @intellijidea.com #CLion now <3

Beautiful! Loving it! #blender #orthographicprojection #thatsnomoon

Sunday grind on the C++ engine! Spent the day deep in the foundations: wrestling C++20 modules to lay the foundation for a small math library. Hey... It's the little bricks that build the castle. garagecraft.games/devlog/helio... #indidev #gamedev #cpp #programming

Doing a bit of backseat coding today. Mostly housekeeping: moving prototypes into proper namespaces and tidying up unit tests. www.youtube.com/live/IWssyOi... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

From puzzles to pixels: This little warehouserobot from #AdventofCode 2024, Day 15 kicked off my #gamedev journey. Thrilled to start my hobby and share my progress and connect with fellow creators. Join the adventure! garagecraft.games/devlog/Hello... #IndieDev #indiegame #devlog

Senior #gamedevs, assemble! Shipping tonight: vibes. Patch notes: blew in the cartridge. #gamedev #indiedev #adulting

Jay Powell will be at gamescom in Cologne, Aug 17–23, taking MeetToMatch meetings Aug 18–21. Let’s talk publishing, funding, and partnerships. #IndieGameDev #GameDev #Gamescom

Nothing beats the mental whiplash when running on cognitive overload. If brain fog wins, fall back to tests or transpose() when conventions flip on you. Whatever you do, stay away from identity matrices when debugging... they’ll lie to you every time. ;) #matrix #linearalgebra #columnmajor #gamedev

Of shared weights, feature maps and handwritten ZIP codes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Em... @yann-lecun.bsky.social #DeepLearning #ComputerVision #NeuralNetworks #YannLeCun #LeNet #MachineLearning

SIGGRAPH 2025 papers www.realtimerendering.com/kesen/sig202... #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #Siggraph #gameart

Deriving lookAt from core linear algebra principles, starting with orthonormal bases and change-of-coordinates matrices, showing how these concepts form a 4×4 matrix that encodes rotation and translation. #GameDev #OpenGL #Math #rendering 🔗 thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article...

Rotations are key affine transformations in games, simulations & real-time systems. I show how 2D vector rotation generalizes to Rodrigues’ formula in 3D, with applications in hierarchical scene graphs. 🔗 thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article... #ComputerGraphics #RealTimeRendering #GameDev #Math

My article "Geometry of the Dot Product - Applications to Visibility Modeling" explores the geometric interpretation of the dot product and its role in simplifying visibility modeling in 2D and 3D spaces. thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/article... #math #computergraphics

🎄 I solved day 14 of #AdventOfCode with lots of string parsing - in hindsight, creating ranges and using bit shifting while rotating the table might be quicker! Part two uses a 🐢 and 🐰 algorithm for cycle detection: (setlength - cyclestart) % cyclelength provides the solution

🎄I might be #lttp but optimizing the runtime of my solution for part two of #puzzle 5 down to 9ms was really fun! 🎅 https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/5 #AdventOfCode

Here's a #python #Rosenblatt #Perceptron with a plotter that allows for animating all learning steps: https://github.com/ThorstenSuckow/pylabs

A #Perceptron implemented in #python and visualized with @matplotlib 's #pyplot 🤖

well. #chatgpt obviously not so good with math?

I'm taking a closer look at Accessor Automation in #PHP 🐘 utilizing Attributes and Constructor Property Promotion, considering performance impacts and extending @phpstan for static code analysis: https://medium.com/@thorstensuckow/accessor-automation-with-php-643c629c10ea

Abstraction in Software Development has finally peaked when we prepare our Date-objects to consider n-day-weeks instead of that lousy 7-days every library is so damn good at.