Niklas Lundberg

@datgame.bsky.social

Engine Net/MP code at @MediaMolecule TBA project. prev: Dreams, Intel Net, Avalanche engine, Mad Max, Just Cause 3+4, Rage 2, Contraband, Hunter CoTW, Hiber3d. https://x.com/datgame https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@datgame

🐸GIVEAWAY🐸 To celebrate the launch of BIG HOPS TOGETHER, the new update that lets you play Big Hops with up to 8 frog friends, I'm gifting three Steam codes! ☘️Follow ☘️Repost Winners will be announced Monday, Aug. 10! Good luck 🐸

The Key Art of Big Hops Together.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

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...

Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

box2d.org

We're finally bringing our powerful and user friendly CPU profiler to Linux! The beta version is now publically available, and it's free for 60 days during the open beta, so there's really no excuse not to try it out! Just download, extract, optimize. superluminal.eu/applications...

Superluminal For Linux | Fast Profiling Without The Challenges

No pages of installation guides. No Gigabytes to download and install. Just unzip, run and focus on performance issues. It Just Works™.

superluminal.eu

Companies that were stressing about GPL contamination for a couple decades are now happily using generative AI tools that were trained on GPL code.

Where are the police raids of AI companies in the same way they did for ThePirateBay? The difference is the AI companies actually downloaded all the warez, TPB merely provided meta-links.

Updated my Acer Swift 5 laptop to Windows 11 some time ago, then noticed there's no support for the hdmi-ouput anymore... Today when booting, it has no audio device anymore to drive the internal speakers. Is this standard practice by @Acer ? Do I have to install Win10 again?

Quite often when using tools you don't really get enough information about what system resources it is using. This is something that specially bugs me when using resource heavy apps, so from the next version of Ark VCS it tracks all its resources in real time. #gamedev

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YESSS! This is the baseline latency we should expect from a CI pipeline. Nice to see what can be done when you're in control and not github actions or whatever. (The time it takes for the little package icon to turn white or red is the duration my VPS takes to compile and run a trivial c file)

Sébastien de Graffenried@sebdegraff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

looked a bit more into how Ark VCS has evolved, and there are really cool features! For example you can have your CI system annotate changelists (commits) with "build flags" (really build status). That will show a little icon next to the commit that can be clicked to open the corresponding build.

Another interesting small optimization to SDF brick rendering: I'm already tightly fitting bricks to the surface and doing occlusion culling, but this is another small win on top. If the camera ray intersects the brick at an "inside" point, discard the fragment to avoid ... 1/