The best way to learn orbital mechanics is to crash a few (dozen) rockets in Kerbal Space Program.
The second best is this interactive article.
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The best way to learn orbital mechanics is to crash a few (dozen) rockets in Kerbal Space Program.
The second best is this interactive article.
When you launch #ArmaReforger Game Master, you'll play on... 14 August. Happy #Everon default day! ☀️
For comparison, #EnfusionEngine easily manages over half a million trees in #ArmaReforger.
Want to create massive environments, but your early 2000s game engine can't handle tens of thousands of trees to fill them? No problem, just build forests from 50×50 m meshes.
Still one of my favorite #OperationFlashpoint dev tricks.
My wife was painting a bookshelf for the kids' room, but all I see is a video game level.
Or you can just disable shadows in the settings.
Did you know that on #Arma3 Tanoa, you can set a date and time when the sun is directly overhead, making shadows disappear? It's called the subsolar point and happens twice a year within the tropics. Try it out!
I don't know, I haven't seen it either. It's not available in my country (or even hemisphere).
✨ TIL that China uses its own constellations, and even has a unique system of star designations. For example, Alpha Centauri is 南門二, meaning Southern Gate 2. This system predates the Western one by hundreds of years.
"This was a VERY enjoyable mission, with good use of the addons."
Read the review at OFPEC, one of the biggest modding sites back then. You can also download the mission, but good luck finding all required mods!
www.ofpec.com/missions_dep...
On this day 20 years ago, I released Nightmare, my third mission for #OperationFlashpoint. It was my first work I promoted using movie-like posters, in an era when everyone else used low-res screenshots. Might've even started a trend back then.
It's worth noting that Sarge is a #MakeArmaNotWar 2015 winner and a Senior Designer on @armaplatform.com. The single-player knowledge is not lost!
The original Rookie for #Arma3 still retains its charm.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...
Download it from #ArmaReforger workshop.
reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/609...
Finally had time to play Rookie, a short scenario by Václav 'Sarge' Kerber. It's a remake of his #Arma3 mission of the same name, but even though I knew what was coming, the tense atmosphere still spooked me. Give it a try!
🌌 This is how the authentic night sky is configured in #Arma3. Look closely and you can spot the Milky Way band.
Become Zeus! ⚡️
Create a new Eden! 🌸
Correct the bad design decisions I made a decade ago! 🩹
careers.bohemia.net/position/tec...
If you can't make it to #GDC2025, I suggest watching my earlier talk on the same topic, but focused more on #Arma3:
gdcvault.com/play/1027301...
If you're at #GDC, don't miss today's talk on modding in #ArmaReforger by Natalia Agafonova, the game's Executive Producer (and an alum of our Amsterdam studio)!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/from...
Happy MAR-10, #Arma3 community!
The child in me still can't believe I live in a country served by TGV trains.
I grew up with C&C games, so I love seeing them receive Steam Workshop support and have their source code published for free.
I'm not surprised that it took a modder—Luke Feenan—to spearhead this project.
Game dev, as always, is about people sharing their passion ❤️
More in "The Big Game Engines Report of 2025", a detailed analysis by VG Insights:
vginsights.com/insights/art...
Of 13k+ games released on Steam in 2024, only 13% used a proprietary engine, yet they made up 42% of the revenue!
But the tide is shifting, as more and more big studios abandon their well-established engines in favor of Unreal.
As for us, #EnfusionEngine is here to stay!
Arma 3 players: Vanilla artillery computer is not fun, let's mod in realistic artillery tables.
Arma Reforger players: Vanilla mortar tables are not fun, let's create online artillery calculators.
Weekend plans sorted. Congrats on the release, @jumpovertheage.com!
Sometimes, I just open Deep Space Network's real-time preview and stare in awe as it talks to faraway spacecraft 📡
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...
Imagine a stealth game where you can't change your stance near enemies without risking being spotted❗
