ok, i did it: 3500 words on alternatives to big do-it-all engines like unity/unreal/godot/game maker. i busted this out really quick this afternoon in a fit of rage, forgive any typos. coming soon: a comprehensive tutorial series about love2d. blood.church/posts/2022-07-…

actually the linux tool strace is pronounced like the german word straße - /ˈʃtraːsə/

Tfw the bug is almost funny enough to count as an easter egg. #gamedev

Twitter is a f*cking joke. #LDJAM

Rust got scoped threads in the standard library!! blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/11/Rus… No more channels needed for trivial split-and-join stuff! Mutex::new is also const now so like half of my Rust projects don't need once_cell or lazy_static anymore 🎉

Rust 1.63.0 is now available! ✨ Enjoy scoped threads (which can borrow from the spawning scope), I/O Safety (ownership and borrowing for Unix file descriptors and Windows handles), and more! See the announcement and release notes for more details: blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/11/Rus…

Polished up the gamepad viewer program over the rest of the weekend and today, and now it's a nice tool I'll just have around. I should do more small projects like this. Here's the repo with all the binaries in the Releases tab for the interested: git.neon.moe/neon/gamepad-v…

i love the crazy vertex folding solution to fake volumetric glow in doom 3

PSA: Don't deactivate your Twitter account. Park it and lock it. Impersonation *is* on your list of threats - I've had my old account from 2010-2017 be automatically registered by a pro-Trump bot on the *day* the username expired (30 days after deactivation). It causes headaches.

Writing a voxel ray tracing thing, and I gotta say, the first visible voxels came out looking pretty great.

I didn't publicly advertise this link before, but people might find it useful. The friend I made it for certainly does! So here we go. Learn Game Engine Programming: engine-programming.github.io It gets updated from time to time.

Vulkan documentation just got easier! The Vulkan Working Group has gathered all the key documents including the specifications, guides, tutorials and samples into a single website to allow developers to navigate quickly to the information they need. khr.io/11n

Great news for #gamedevs! We’re releasing a new blog post series which takes a deep-dive into mesh shaders 🤿 The first post is available now and details the evolution from vertex shader-based to mesh shader-based pipelines. gpuopen.com/learn/mesh-sha…

Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is now available on Amazon! amazon.com/dp/B0CXY8C72T/…