Game | Design | Tech | Art | Prod.
Solves problems (usually through code) and likes to jump over obstacles (preferably in real life);
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When people claim AI is "like magic" I have to think of Wheel of Time, where (male) magic users have to be executed because they usually go mad
Interesting video on the coop @igalia. If you're interested in coops, this might be up your alley!
These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.
In case you haven't noticed yet, the open source idTech4-based game Skin Deep has been released and it's fucking excellent:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/Skin_Deep/
It's a sneaky ImSim FPS where you play Nina Pasadena, some kind of Space-MacGyver rescuing cats from Space Pirates, using whatever you can find on the space ships to eliminate those pirates.
While it works very well with Proton (and presumably Wine), I maintain an unofficial Linux port at https://github.com/DanielGibson/SkinDeep
@pythno I still use a minimal Makefile but sometimes I'm tempted to go the nob.h route: https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h
But I'm not a perfectionist :D
Blender sets such a powerful example for the tech industry to strive for. This is the kind of thing we should be trying to build.
This demo reel is awesome.
In case you weren't aware of this site: https://www.goeuropean.org/
(comic) Adding more people to a project https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-adding-more-people-to-a-project-8eb
Congratulations to Gints Zilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!
Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.
Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d
All is explained.
In other inconsequential news, Blender 4.4 no longer uses Boost. Majority of cases why Boost was needed came from other libraries (USD, OpenEXR, OpenVDB et al used to use Boost, not anymore), and the one place that Blender itself used Boost for ("locale" library for UI translation) got replaced by several hundred lines of just simple code.
Nature is healing!
I wrote a blog post about the journey to get GPU texture compression working everywhere, with some historical bits about how I got into this field. Check it out!
https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2025/02/gpu-texture-compression-everywhere/
Why my heart sinks a little bit every time a leader says "we're data-driven and data should determine all of our decisions": https://blog.s-schoener.com/2025-02-20-data/
the origin shift maze generator. it's a tree graph edge shuffler with brownian motion. https://youtu.be/zbXKcDVV4G0
C IS LEGAL AGAIN
From a local gamedev friend:
"Anyone here use Gamemaker 2 and ported their game to Linux? Im having some real issues with the Linux port and ..."
Anyone know a good person to ask?
SDL3 is officially released! https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.2.0
