Alex Ene 🦀
@alexene.dev
I write rust every day 🦀. Fan of cats. Making https://store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ Wishlist it! Preciously engine guy at Ubisoft, EA, Killhouse games https://alexene.dev
I have added an elf invasion! They come and steal everything: your gold, food, iron. Nothing is safe from these little pests! Wishlist Dwarf Things here (or try to defend against these thieves): store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday
I got a lot (>6) comments online about how I should consider exploring the topic of elves settlement. Bit strange as my game is called Dwarf Things Anyway, here's a WIP of elves Thieves that come in winter and just steal stuff Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiegames
While everything becomes more shit, don’t forget about the things that remain important in your life.
This weekend I've added mills to my game. You'll be able to make flower there that is then used for bread later on. Bread, as we all know, is the main ingredient for dwarven cake! Wishlist and join the playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiegames #colonysim
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Alpha 0.1.6 is out. I added perks: Sun blessed, Moon blessed, Big belly, Sleepy head, Iron Skin, Allergic to water. - Added a new game screen where you can roll different dwarves (with random perks). Wishlist and join playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiedev #gamedev
Dwarf Things on Steam
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin att...
store.steampowered.com
Alpha 0.1.5! - Dwarves can get perks now. For now all for now "Allergic to water". They get damaged by rain and don't need to drink water. - Dwarves who die in their sleep would keep snoring forever. Try it here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
Today is a big day! We're shipping two major and highly requested updates to Superluminal: support for agentic profiling and the Linux open beta. Heck, there's even a new website! Read on... 👇
Alpha 0.1.4 is out! - Added winter variants for terrain cells - Brick walls now modify terrain cells so you can built things on top of them. - Destroying walls them will turn them back to Stone / Clay Checkout the playtest on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames
At 19:30 BST I'll stream some work on Dwarf Things. You can follow along on: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/alex0x11 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AlexStreams... Or you can just try the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/...
Dwarf Things on Steam
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin att...
store.steampowered.com
Proud of this evolution from where I started years ago. You can join the alpha playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
New blog post! In "Zigzag decoding with AVX-512", we look at two different ways to possibly (caveat emptor) speed up various forms of zigzag decoding with AVX-512 functionality that isn't just "wider registers"! zeux.io/2026/06/17/z...
Zigzag decoding with AVX-512
I’ve been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to writ...
zeux.io
Alpha 0.0.10 was just published. This introduces a bunch of new items (sawmill, walls), UI cleanup, bugfixes (such as dead dwarves resurecting after loading a saved game). You can join the playtest, wishlist or see the patch notes: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiegames #indie #gamedev
store.steampowered.com/news/app/468... A small update for the playtest (including time controls and some extra descriptions for rocks, etc.). It should also rain from time to time #indiedev #indiegame
Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.9 - Steam News
* Added time controls * Added log level command line option. * Rocks and piles of dirt now have descriptions.
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A bunch of fixes and QoL improvements, included but not limited to: * Fixing cows not giving milk due to missing body parts. * Fixed dwarves refusing to equip weapons * Lots of descriptions added to items. store.steampowered.com/news/app/468...
Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.8 - Steam News
Release notes Moved tasks into the regular SelectedEntityInfo panel (need to rename that one at some point). Fixed a bug with dwarves refusing to equip weapons due to missing body parts. Fixed a bug ...
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Has a WIP blog post for a while on this theme. Instead of finishing it, I’m linking to this post where another Alex has expressed things in a much nicer way.
Alex Tardif@longbool.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html
I am published a new build: Alpha 0.0.7. If you can crash the game when saving/loading you're getting your portrait in the hall of fame. You just need to send me the bugged save. Details below: store.steampowered.com/news/app/468...
Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.7 - Steam News
If you can break the game while saving and loading you're getting your portrait in the hall of fame!
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What are these? NEW Trees! Where can you see them? In my game! An early alpha is available on steam (free ofc!) and you can experience all the hand crafted glitches, bugs and dwarves and things!!! Alpha 0.0.6 is out. Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames
I love to help people learn #RustLang and get better at Rust programming! I have well over a decade of experience with Rust (including extensive work on Rust from before 1.0, core team membership, and other leadership work), and have helped numerous people learn it and teams successfully adopt it.
After work, I put all my spare time in making a game. If you want to keep up with progress, give early feedback, break it, there's a playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... It's nowhere near done. I'll keep improving it. It's more fun to do this together. #indiegames #gamedev
Dwarf Things on Steam
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin att...
store.steampowered.com
Slow Sunday vibes ☕️ You enter a quiet dungeon room… torches flicker, something stirs in the shadows. We’ve been heads-down working on the Steam version of Roguecraft DX, and it’s starting to feel special. Can’t wait to share more!✨ Wishlist: thalamus.link/roguecraft #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike
New article! A user is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit. But we also dove into the kernel...again, this time fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it: rovarma.com/articles/a-t...
A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.
rovarma.com
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
![The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed.
His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods".
Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a cmpany that says it will do no evil.
Brilliant work as always Kojima!
[picture of kojima, watermark of @mediocre_mason on tiktok]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6j56qexq7l7e7q65nonywav6/bafkreiaittv7ft67swewle5ugn5endzc32gj3fdxq44jjpr6o3ja5pimei)
