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Dom Camus

@bateleur.bsky.social

Independent game designer, programmer and artist. Moose herder without portfolio.

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Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh no, this is a disaster! I had long since concluded that physics in 3D games was so bad it should be used only as a special effect. But this... this one might be usable and then I'll be tempted! :-O

Erin Catto@erincatto.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · last mo.

Re: Capitalisation of PascalCase names. The standard is to alternate capitalisation at random according to the degree of uncertainly. So, for example: * Use VideoKeyFrame 70% of the time. * Use VideoKeyframe 30% of the time. The time you save on thinking about this is worth the compile errors.

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Explain your @ Mine's a tarot card. In particular, it's the first of the major arcana. It literally means "juggler", but is sometimes a magician - a different kind of performer - and sometimes an actual wizard. Computation is just another kind of magic ("computer wizard"), so it's a play on that.

Ozzy@karohemd.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Explain your @ Karohemd is German for checked shirt. Anyone who's met me IRL when it's below 20 degrees will know why. :) I chose the nick when I set up my first yahoo email address. I didn't want to be Ozzy3920 so I was looking for something unique to me. Managed to use it everywhere but steam.

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Powerful new way to waste ten minutes using Unity: * Zoom in the game view to inspect some pixels. * Exit play mode. * Do some more dev work. * Enter play mode again, forgetting about the zoom thing. * Wonder where the actual f*** your in-game UI has gone. #protip #gamedev

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Me: Meh, there's been a lot of games like... Also me: OK, that trailer actually looks super fun! <instant wishlist>

Martin ➡️ gamescom@sharkbombs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm proud, excited (and a little bit nervous) to announce that CROWNBREAKERS will launch on Kickstarter May 12, 2026 - 4:00 PM CEST (Central Europe Summer Time). www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... #gamedev #kickstarter #indiedev #deckbuilder #turnbasedthursday (a day late, I know...)

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I really should come up with a better naming convention for my methods. Currently I use -Async to mean both c# Task/await style threaded async and also things which do work and then call a callback. This gets confusing, since the two don't play nicely together. :-/

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ran into mention of this new www.indiepass.com thing today... ...can someone explain to me why this isn't a horrible idea? From my perspective the whole idea of indie development is to move further away from a winner-takes-all, race-to-the-bottom market, not towards one.

Indie Pass | PC Subscription Service for Indie Games

Indie Pass is a PC subscription service for indie games. Discover and play a curated catalog of titles from independent developers, for one monthly price.

indiepass.com

Mike Kasprzak❓🦈🍁@distraction.engineer · 4mo ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: I will stop running "scheduled" Ludum Dare events in 3 years! "Scheduled" is the key word though. My hope is that leaders within the community can build something better, more welcoming, that honors our legacy. They've got 3 years to figure it out. You even get to study me. 😋 #LDJam

Dom Camus@bateleur.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Unsurprisingly everyone's all grumpy about the Bluesky AI nonsense, but consider this: What kind of enshittification would you like to see here? Don't answer "none", because of course, but that doesn't fund the system.

Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

MISSING! HELP! I am looking for the playing card deck from GDC 2020! It was printed but the show was cancelled. I have heard rumors that they gave them away but I've never seen one and no one on GDC staff has a set. I'm in it and want to complete my set! Let's bring my card home! To me!

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