Donated as promised and requested an employer match to 2x the impact. Get your card before they sell out! #RDC26 You can help provide life-saving services by funding The Trevor Project’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ+ youth. give.thetrevorproject.org/boatbomber

Zack Williams@boatbomber.com · 3mo ago

This #RDC, DynaDex is selling boatbomber trading cards signed by yours truly! The proceeds of all 17 signed boatbomber holos go to The Trevor Project, and I'm matching that. $50 card = $100 donated. I slipped some extra goodies in the bags too🤫

This #RDC, DynaDex is selling boatbomber trading cards signed by yours truly! The proceeds of all 17 signed boatbomber holos go to The Trevor Project, and I'm matching that. $50 card = $100 donated. I slipped some extra goodies in the bags too🤫

My #Roblox liquid glass effect is open sourced on my blog! www.boatbomber.com/blog/liquid-... I break down how it works, the decisions I made, plus there's cool visualizations that make it easy to understand. No math/code, I swear. Pretty demos and fun problem solving. Give it a read!

This #RDC, DynaDex is selling boatbomber trading cards signed by yours truly! The proceeds of all 17 signed boatbomber holos go to The Trevor Project, and I'm matching that. $50 card = $100 donated. I slipped some extra goodies in the bags too🤫

I found some great resources that helped me make my liquid glass even better and look closer to Apple's style :)

Liquid glass in #Roblox! Frosted glass is just so 2007. Total control over the material. (Shape, chromatic aberration, displacement, specular, lighting, etc.) Should I release this? It's a neat tech demo (ran at ~190 FPS in this video) but isn't viable for real games.

Zack Williams@boatbomber.com · 3mo ago

I revived my old GlassmorphicUI to use the latest EditableImage APIs and make it a lot more performant. #RobloxDev github.com/boatbeaker/G...

I revived my old GlassmorphicUI to use the latest EditableImage APIs and make it a lot more performant. #RobloxDev github.com/boatbeaker/G...

Occlusion culling in CullThrottle! #RobloxDev In this stress test, everything is throttled since our update budget can't update thousands of visible blocks. By skipping occluded objects, we spend our update budget more wisely, leading to much higher refresh rates!

I made a dataset with thousands of questions about Roblox/Luau for evaluating LLMs, but it's surprisingly fun to evaluate your own knowledge instead! Take the quiz and show off your scores in the replies 👀 www.boatbomber.com/roblox-quiz

Zack Williams · boatbomber

Portfolio and blog of Zack Williams (boatbomber): games, plugins, open source modules, and websites.

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I built a leaderboard that tracks LLM knowledge of Roblox concepts and APIs! huggingface.co/spaces/boatb...

Roblox LLM Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by boatbomber

Evaluating Roblox gamedev knowledge

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I've become a daily Claude Extended user. I write quick+messy code until I've proven my idea, then I have Claude turn it into neat classes and unit tests. This allows me to focus on the real logic and ideas, instead of focusing on writing clean+performant code. Huge velocity boost.

I'm building a synthetic reasoning dataset using the open Luau corpus from Roblox! I want to fine tune reasoning models to generate Luau code. I will open source this dataset, the code used to build it, and the model weights if I get a good fine tune model.

It's so fun to watch old scifi and realize we literally have so much scifi tech irl now A fun example is this great joke from Star Trek will land totally differently for the next generation of kids who grow up with AI assistants youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE

Star Trek - Hello Computer

YouTube video by Phil Jahner

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@lualearning.org turns 7 years old today!

a happy birthday card with fireworks behind it

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Benchmarker v7.3.0 is out! #RobloxDev - Adds BeforeAll, AfterAll, BeforeEach, and AfterEach functions - Profiler usage inside of iterations will now display meaningfully in the flamegraph

The first release candidate for CullThrottle is now available to try! #RobloxDev Please send me any feedback or bug reports! Github: github.com/boatbomber/C... Wally: wally.run/package/boat...

The first release candidate for CullThrottle is now available to try! #RobloxDev Please send me any feedback or bug reports! Github: github.com/boatbomber/C... Wally: wally.run/package/boat...

CullThrottle now has dynamic render distance! #RobloxDev (Can be disabled if you want specific control) It will adjust the distance to ensure you're staying within the allocated time budget and desired refresh rates!

CullThrottle will find the optimal balance of visuals/perf in the current scene for your hardware. Give it a budget (ms) + a minimum & target refresh rate, and it determines what to update each frame for the best visuals in the budget. It'll even go above your target if it's in budget.

You work your hardest when trying to prove someone wrong- so I made Roastjo, a Rojo fork that roasts your changes as you sync them. #RobloxDev #Roblox 🔊

CoD BO6: Pick up cash you find on missions to upgrade The Rook base CoD BO6: On this mission you'll rob a vault full of cash but none of it can be picked up. On this mission you'll break into a palace full of priceless art and gold but none of it can be picked up. O

🚲delete from elected select uid from partisans where party = "R"@db-user.bsky.social · 2y ago

It should be ILLEGAL to put gold on the ground in a video game that includes gold as a currency and doesn't let you pick it up IT'S A PILE OF GOLD ON THE GROUND LET ME PICK IT UP

@ozone.birb.house May I have the Game Dev badge? Thanks!

@ozone.roblox.social May I have the Roblox Dev label? Thanks!

I hit my video upload limit on bsky for today 💀So I guess that's all the tweets I'll be reposting here. That should be plenty, anyway. My profile doesn't look so dead anymore!

Decided to attempt a dynamic fluid simulation! It's far from perfect (or even correct, tbh) but I still enjoyed making and playing with it. Fun weekend project! #RobloxDev #Roblox (Arrows are flow, color is pressure, black arrow is obstacle) (Originally posted Apr 9, 2023)

I love open source. I needed AWS header signing in Lua so I looked around to see if someone else made it- they did, and credited me. Something I open sourced years ago enabled others to build things that came full circle to help me now. What a beautiful ecosystem. #RobloxDev

Fun fact: @lualearning.org is in the 0th percentile for monetization. You're damn right we are. (Source: new Roblox analytics dashboard)

I waited a few days to post my #RDC24 photos so that they can lift you from the post-convention-depression ❤️

RDC Red Carpet photos are the best thing they've added to RDC 😍

I'm working on CullThrottle, a system for efficiently handling updates to thousands of objects. #RobloxDev Built on the tech that makes WindShake possible, it makes it easy to run your effects at high FPS by managing which objects you should update each frame. (Originally posted Jul 28, 2024)