The vibes out here are pretty rancid, please send better ones
Spencer Melnick
@spoincer.bsky.social
29 year old computer engineer, game developer, and all-around nerd. Gameplay Programmer on Fortnite. Opinions are my own! (He/him)
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Had a friend help me set up an aquarium for the first time. Really happy with how it turned out so far! Just got some little shrimps in too 🙂
this is an illuminating article about how AI targeting actually works www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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It's increasingly depressing how many people are okay with gen AI replacing _other_ people's jobs
Every once in a while I think about @freya.bsky.social's magic 480 Hz at 60 Hz video: xcancel.com/FreyaHolmer/... I'd love to try an experiment to render and combine subframes in realtime to simulate a higher refresh rate in an actual game and see how it looks one day
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Daisy was with me for almost 17 years, but she passed away earlier tonight. I'm really gonna miss you buddy 😢
Our #GMTK2025 submission "Circe" is a gallery shooter about banishing demons by drawing circles with your wand! Jump, dodge, and banish demons for free: sleepysunset.itch.io/circe #gamedev #GMTK2025 #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025
Just saw Mickey 17! Loved Robert Pattinson as multiple weird little guys!
Completely unrelated to anything going on, I find the claim that any group protesting Elon Musk is funded by a secret cabal laughable and wouldn't believe a word out of his mouth Unrelated to anything of course
Crafting from village chests is now in LEGO Fortnite! www.reddit.com/r/LEGOfortni... It took lots of great work from a lot of folks (design, QA, UI, UX) to bring this life and I'm glad to see that players like it! (I really wanted this one as a player myself so I worked extra hard on it 😄)
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Just finished #1000xRESIST last night and it was excellent! Probably some of my favorite writing in games of last year (or even all time)!
Off work for the next two weeks! Which means I am about to make a ton of plans and follow through on none of them - wish me luck!
Happy to report that I played some role in bringing this abomination to life! (I worked on shoes)
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2y agoThe Godzilla skin in Fortnite. (via: @HYPEX)
Anyone have good recommendations for 3D libraries for games? I've seen Ogre3D and raylib, but I'm wondering if there's anything else Or is the strategy to roll your own using OpenGL/Vulkan?
How is my day going? There's a Slack emoji at work for :hidethepainspencer:
FF7: Rebirth won the Golden Joystick for Best Soundtrack but they didn't include this song in the reel youtu.be/RKNqDbqIbRU Smdh 😞
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth OST - Bow Wow Wow (Doggo Theme) 🐶
YouTube video by AntLion95
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Fighting the game programmer urge to run off into the woods and work on my own engine for 5 years (it will never be finished)
Spent 2 hours trying to repro a bug while dealing with single digit framerates only to realize that I you accidentally left the -RunLikeGarbage* flag on 😅 *It was actually the memstomp detector
10pm on a friday trying to figure out why this thing won't render 😶
I actually wrote a few minor UX improvements that made it into this release! If you are one of the five people who care about the anim notify window not displaying property categories, then I have a release for you 🙂