Dean Hall
@deanhall.bsky.social
i made a game called dayz and now apparently everything is worse. my tweets are law.
been a fantastic journey for us to far. absolute career highlight for me to with the team making this
Ahwoo@ahwoo-official.bsky.social · last mo.Our first look at Kitten Space Agency is here. Captured from real-time in-game footage from our May 2026 pre-alpha build, this early development teaser gives a first look at the game in motion. No pre-rendered cinematics. Learn more: ahwoo.com/news/7350020...
Is this the Kitten Space Agency equivalent of the Kraken in KSP? @deanhall.bsky.social @ahwoo-official.bsky.social
Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦@mnotme.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe extremely rare catcopus.
Some screenshots of the new rocket plumes in Kitten Space Agency. I think we are the first/only to do volumetric plumes in this way. download free ksa.ahwoo.com
Artemis II's real-time orbit in @ahwoo-official.bsky.social @deanhall.bsky.social's Kitten Space Agency
If anyone is running a space company or org. Just a reminder kitten space agency is free, and you can use it for graphical rendering of your mission/launches
Any senior folks from epic layoffs who want to move to NZ and make games, visit careers.rocketwerkz.com. If you want to help build a client email me dean.hall@ahwoo.com
Rocketwerkz
RocketWerkz is an ambitious video games studio based on Auckland’s waterfront in beautiful New Zealand.
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I arrived four years late to @deanhall.bsky.social's Icarus, and I'm so glad I found it. This is my perfect survival sim. kotaku.com/icarus-survi...
Icarus Is The Perfect Survival Sim No One's Talking About
Dean 'Rocket' Hall's Icarus is my platonic ideal of a survival sim
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Not photos. Screenshot from Kitten Space Agency and our volumetric + Instanced mesh planetary rings for saturn.
Gimballed Vernier and turbine exhaust nozzles added by the incredible Gravhoek into Kitten Space Agency.
We added a native Linux deployment for Kitten Space Agency, which is free. Linux users have responded with thousands of dollars of contributions, including one of USD 1000. I think this will be the new way to make games like this. Unheard of lifetime customer values for us.
Latest version of Kitten Space Agency just deployed with new shadow system, fully working with ground clutter. Download for free at ksa.ahwoo.com
The death of the middle of the market in PC gaming has now spread to the highest tier of success. The situation is now irreversible. We will see consolidation of the middle with only small islands of success. This is new territory for video games, where the mid-market was the nursery for AAA success
I am 44 years old. I have accepted with grace that I will never spell separately right the first time.
User on r/kittenspaceagency posted this comparison of the actual Apollo Landing site matched in Kitten Space Agency. Wider shot is ingame, inset is the apollo photo. Best thing, you can try the pre-alpha now for free, ksa.ahwoo.com (credit: u/u/Longjumping-Box-8145)
Over the steam winter sale, ICARUS sold just under a million new base game units during the sale (984k). We also did quarter of a million DLC units (243k).
Kitten Space Agency just crossed the USD 100K mark, including quite a few subscriptions! Cya later steam!
We just pushed new version of Kitten Space Agency (its free) running on .net 10. I believe first game in the world to do so. Only possible because of BRUTAL. You're only as indie as the tools you use. Unreal + Unity and their licensing & tech are a blight on the industry ksa.ahwoo.com
New from me! Talked to @deanhall.bsky.social about Brutal, coding with LLM assistance, and why open source frameworks could be the future of game dev. Maybe the best chat I've had about what genAI can do for game development (caveat: my other worries about the technology still stand).
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 9mo agoRocketwerkz CEO says frameworks, not engines, are the future of game development
Vulkan is really the “Karen” of programming. It’s like “You said you were going to do this in subpass 0 but you did it in subpass 1. I’ve rendered the frame but I’m going to crash out and I want to speak to the manager.”
Unity and unreal are the past. Here’s another shot of a dust storm on mars in Kitten Space Agency. Coming free powered by contributions.
Second angle. Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework. Volumetric with atmos scattering including atmospheric layers such as ozone etc. full solar system scale.
Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework.
my average chatgpt experience summed up in a single screenshot
Added the new extra solar object 3I/ATLAS to Kitten Space Agency. Trying to get a burn to intercept. I think I need a real rocket scientist 😂
Fun fact. Smartphones were invented so people had something to do in lifts.
My votes saved Iceland!! They aren’t last! I loved their performance
If any media want the raw emails from unity and our invoices, email me at dean.hall@rocketwerkz.com. I can’t post them unredacted here as they contain the names of employees of another company. But once you see the names, it becomes obvious how easy it is to google search