The syntax are awkward due to being designed for faster parsing, the standard library design is quite good, I’m a big fan of allocators being passed into things.
The major problem I have is for windows they use nt.dll which is not guaranteed to have a stable API and in theory can break at any time.
i've been fiddling with an old-school Steam skin for Dear ImGui: seidt.quest/s/dampf/. i open it several times a day to click and drag stuff around therapeutically because it's… grounding? :D imgui gallery thread post with source and references coming.
Developer/Publisher home pages are already super valuable, especially for building an audience over time.This morning we launched a huge update to customization.
If you haven't already made a home page for your game studio, now is a good time to start!
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Happy Zine Quest month! Hoping to highlight more than a few neat projects over on Wargamer this Feb. First up, the deliciously pun-filled Food and Evil by @goosepoopgames.com www.wargamer.com/food-and-evi...
Similar to the scene serialisation work I was doing last month the script instance memory is trivially serialisable and stores stable indices across loads.
But I’ve yet to decide if the full scripts inst memory should be saved or if I should provide some other way to save a subset of the obj state
This code is in my prototype architecture project, I tend work on it for ~20 minutes a day on the tram, but I’m increasingly finding there are a few patterns I would like to bring over to my home engine but to do so would require a decent amount of refactoring.
I spent some time writing a .dll script hotreload system, with C as a scripting lang
It required some code shuffling into a new common static lib
I provide the scripting system with engine/core PFNs on dynamic lib attach
Scr allocs are owned by engine, so script mem is persistent between reloads.
fake windows 95 dialog superimposed on a smaller win95 desktop: Scheduled Horse_ Moment.Exe Please stand by for a scheduled Horse Moment. You will now contemplate and reflect. This is a time of seriousness. You currently have scheduled Horse Moments turned on. You can not change this in settings.
a technology we can all be excited about
Today I woke up increasingly fucking angry about this. I'm sure 10+ billion hours of children scrolling an endless dopamine hit of slop games is 100% fine for their development, right?
I don't look at this as market opportunity. I look at this with genuine fear for the next generation.
What?! That's amazing for rapid prototyping PCBs!
I’ve been experimenting with this in a blank project.
For it to work in my home engine I would need to change my scene representation & re consider my asset pools next free slot approach ( currently parallel bit-array )
Ive been re-tinkering with serialisation these last few weeks.
I’ve landed on a binary format that serialises in/out each asset pool separately & provides an upgrade description to convert old versions to new ones
“up to date” pools are file mappable &
Bindless data is patched to the db pkg order
Post from: Andrew Kelly on the post https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131 “Microsoft are free to change the Native API at will, and you will be left holding both pieces when things break.” “In addition to what @The-King-of-Toasters said, the worst case scenario is really mild: A new version of windows comes out, breaking ntdll compatibility. Zig project adds a fix to the std lib. Application developer recompiles their zig project from source, and ships an update to their users.”
Snarky blogpost aside.
The real problem is the clear fundamental difference between ecosystems of Windows & Linux development.
I get the “perf at all costs” but I really value that any .exe released is going to maintain backwards compatibility for a significant amount of time. (No app patches req)
Vulkan Descriptor Heap extension
In this blog, Vulkan Strategy Officer, Tobias Hector, explains how the new extension fundamentally changes how Vulkan applications interact with descriptors. The working group is looking for feedback before making it part of the core specification.
Learn more: khr.io/1n5
#vulkan #gpu #programming
It took me 1 month to make this video.
It's 43 minutes and it's jam packed with cool information about how I make PS1 games and how I made Yume Nikki PS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA2...
#gamedev #indiedev #psx #ps1 #yumenikki
I’m suspicious of professionals / techfluencers praising LLMs.
I do worry about the learned helplessness feedback loop for students / folk learning new things.
LLMs make you feel like you are learning but you are actually just outsourcing your thought process to a for profit company.
Very cringe
I don’t use LLM for any home work or any code, but I do investigate it’s utility every 6-12 months
- It’s detrimental to code quality / architecture.
- it seriously stifles the process of learning & making connections between ideas.
- Fine as a first pass for reviews (catch stupid logic bugs)
there's basically two ways to create shareholder value
1 - make good stuff people want
2 - fire everyone who knows what they're doing even if the doors fly off your airplanes and make up some wild shit about how autocorrect is going to make it all better eventually
we are unfortunately in era 2
This is it, this is the coolest little guy!
This is quite a post
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures jcgt.org/published/00...
A structure testing out an evolution of the trimsheet, with both stone and plaster walls available. The blue roof gives me distant childhood memories of Warcraft... II I think? Also, cylinders of any kind really eat up the poly budget!
#256fes #b3d
A sneak peak of what I've been working on: A strand based hair system for Jolt Physics (WIP): youtu.be/Rl19G0c003o
What an impeccable vibe!
💵 MONEY for GAME? In 2026??? 💵
There have been more and more successful-game-devs-turned-game-funders popping up, so here's a lil' thread of some of the more recent ones I've seen.
Hopefully this helps you get some $$$! 🔽
Honestly the bare minimum that discord could do to solve this is to allow for a forum mode/section that is able to be indexed & just be explicit that the post is public.
If anyone wants to give me investor money, I would love to make a competitor hehe.
I’ve long hated that communities are non indexable by search engines. Getting information about graphics things requires a trawl through “general conversation”
We had a working system and it was called forums….
