Dan Bruington

Super Jump Magazine gave Keeper one of the top games of 2025! www.superjumpmagazine.com/2025-games-o...

Come check out the demo for the sequel to Withering Rooms! It's excellent, spooky fun :)

I had a wonderful conversation with @ronscompvids.bsky.social. Please check it out. bsky.app/profile/rons...

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

This is a style I absolutely LOVE.

Withering Rooms - Withering Realms: The Sequel to Withering Rooms - Steam News Withering Rooms is getting a sequel, and you can try the demo on Feb 23!

You don't need to have played Withering Rooms to fully enjoy Withering Realms. You can play them in either order and discover new story aspects both directions. That said, if you are a fan of Rooms, I put a few new details about how the games relate here:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/200...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Wow. That's a lot of overdraw."

BIG NEWS! You can try out the first-ever demo of Withering Realms during Steam Next Fest running Feb 23rd - Mar 2nd. To celebrate, here's a brand new trailer🎬
4k trailer link: youtu.be/985f76uxiLA
Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/...
Wishlist today and I'll see you on Feb 23rd!

Good morning! Fuck ice!

Let's dive into what Kiln is. It's a pottery power-fantasy that celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things, and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens!

www.doublefine.com/games/kiln

In-Engine · Double Fine's Keeper - Unreal 5 Exploration Join project lead Lee Petty, along with animation lead Zach Baharov, senior environment artist Will Koehler, and designer Asif Siddiky as they explore the technical side of Double Fine's new game…

🚨 ATTN: Technical Geeks🚨

Behold, our 105-minute #Unreal5 KEEPER deep dive!

@leepetty.social.bsky, Asif, Will, and Zach walk through lighting techniques using #UE5's Lumen system, animating characters with control rigs, VR environment sculpting, and so, so many camera tracks!

buff.ly/1RvxgaY

Keeper might be able to be completed in 3 hours? Maybe 4.

Thanks for the shoutout, @stevesaylor.net! We are so happy you've been able to enjoy Keeper using High Contrast Mode!

Very cool! We also stylized our clouds in Keeper, but not to this degree. Love your results!

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

One of my favorite #indie releases of 2018, and a real sleeper hit, in my humble opinion, was "Timespinner"
by @lunarraygames.bsky.social

An excellent #Metroidvania, and an absolute love-letter to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

And there's a sequel on the way, too.

#indiedev #gaming #gamedev

Key art for Keeper "Noir" Mode The "Back in Black & White" Update.

Keeper update!
▪️Noir mode!
▪️Ultrawide monitor support!
▪️New accessibility features!

You would think a colorful game like Keeper would loose a lot going black & white, but this version has been tuned by @leepetty.bsky.social himself so it really highlights the drama. (As well as his love for AC/DC.)

Making a morph from scratch using Keeper's Essence system YouTube video by p1xelcoder - Oliver Franzke

As promised I recorded the creation of a morph (from scratch) using the tech we developed for Keeper. In about an hour I show how we capture the “Essence” of meshes, blend between them, and spice things up with spatial warps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9V_...

gumpy (the cat) grabbing at a stick, standing on two legs

gumpy in a weird intermediate pose right after landing on a nightstand

woah it's GUMPY watch out!!

If you're feeling the spirit of award season blasting out of your body like an excited chestburster, please consider KEEPER when making your #SteamAwards nominations in these three categories:

👁️ Outstanding Visual Style
🎶 Best Soundtrack
😌 Sit Back and Relax

store.steampowered.com

Check it out!

Immediate follow.

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

The second official trailer for my upcoming horror action RPG Withering Realms is up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAxS...
This one shows a few new mechanics, such as the camera, occult hand, blurry ghosts, and more. #wishlistwednesday

I wrote a neat morph system for Keeper and hopefully I can share a bit more about it in the future. This particular morph was an experiment using symmetry that didn't make it into the game in the end.

So excited for people to finally get to experience this! Proud to have been a part of bringing this vision to life.

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

Another stunner.

"Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)"
blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

An old and crumbling Lighthouse stands upright on four strange, tendril-esque legs, its customary beam of light shines into a hazy orange-green sky. It looks alive somehow, walking towards us but arching backwards, as if unsteady. Beneath its legs we see twisted shapes resembling cars and other remnants of a long-forgotten civilization.

How about a little #ScreenshotSaturday? We'll be posting some glimpses of Keeper as we approach launch day! Let us begin, then...with a Beach Walk.

Keeper — An Odyssey of Mystifying Metamorphosis.

Wishlist Now!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/...
Xbox: www.microsoft.com/store/produc...

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...