The only thing that could make this decade worse is like, robot centaurs with chainsaws. Haha! Sure am glad that's a thing that will never hap.... ( www.reddit.com/r/interestin... )
Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG
@srekel.net
Hi! 18 years pro game dev, second-time indie studio founder, 20+ hobby games, TTRPGs, Swedish, father of three. ⚔️ DiscoGarage Games 📅 JC2/APB/GTA5/Vermintide/Hammerting/Helldivers2 🏹 Tides of Revival: Grand RPG 🌍 Open World Gamedev
New video: Supercharging my procedural mountain forest Two years of landscape progress in one devlog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjl... #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen
Sometimes plans don't go according to plans! We wanted to take the Tides in one direction but due to other life factors we put it on pause for a bit and now that I've returned I decided to do some (other) core stuff first: Large world support ✅ and now camera improvements (needed for streaming).
I'm on suprsketch as an artist. It's a great new platform we're building for artists to have a home without AI. It's like twitch, patreon, artstation etc combined. You can follow my journey and stream my art to your desktop. www.suprsketch.com/s/soma
Soma - SuprSketch
I'm a artist living in Switzerland. I make digital and traditional art.
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Confirmed: Tides of Revival will be the first open world RPG with *at least* 1806 physically simulated braziers.
Updated my header-only C #voronoi library (v0.10.0) with many performance and robustness fixes. github.com/JCash/vorono... #gamedev
My latest RPG character, a friar named Jappser, heading into Dolmenwood #ttrpg #dolmenwood #ttrpgart
I just published the notes of the Tool Design Roundtables & OpenUSD Roundtables from GDC 2026: Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de... OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd... These roundtables are always a great way to learn what the industry is doing, what is going well, and what is not going well
Notes of the Tool Design Roundtables at GDC 2026 — Robin-Yann Storm, Workflow Consultant
What topics were brought up, and what was discussed, at the Tool Design Roundtables of GDC 2026?
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The Roottrees are Dead has some terrific writing here and there :)
Oh this lighting is nice. Crisp banding combined with a pretty dithering pattern. The Darkest Files.
There were hunter-gatherer societies for 1 million years according to wikipedia, before a single one of them I guess decided to try to take one of the plants producing tasty things, storing it, and putting it into the ground to see if it would grow again. Galaxy brain move if there ever was one.
Great article/interview :)
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美@halfrobot.com · last mo.Almost absurdly reasonable and nuanced take from Doctorow that still boils down to "AI centaurs basically fine, limited; AI reverse centaurs unwanted capitalist orgy of self-destruction" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
In gamedev, we're used to sound coming from single points in space, but how do we handle sound coming from an irregular shape? In this article (with plenty code snippets), I go into details with the Point Cloud Sound technique I'm using for water and foliage: blog.runevision.com/2026/06/poin...
Point Cloud Sound for irregular shaped audio sources
In video game development, we're used to sound coming from single positions in space, but how do we handle sound coming from an irregular sh...
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My new little game has finally been revealed to the world! AND YOU CAN PLAYTEST IT NOW (eep!)
Wholesome Games | Celebration August 6-13@wholesomegames.com · 2mo agoWORLD PREMIERE: Create beautiful, lively spaces inhabited by adorable characters in Hokko Spaces. Unlock cute residents and watch them hang out together, do some gardening, and enjoy the spaces that you build for them. #WholesomeDirect2026
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
Here's a real proper pro #gamedev tip. Emojis and all! If you are: - adding a thing to a list in a file (C-includes, list of abilities or enemies, functions...) - and the order isn't important ⭐Add the thing alphabetically! 💩NOT AT THE END. Why? There are three very good reasons!
Sharing these technical documentations freely, my gift to gamedevs everywhere 🥰
This is amazing. First page of how to build worlds. "Games don't need REALISM with unnecessary details! That's just excessive. No, something simpler will suffice. Here we model air currents as they flow around a planet at various degrees from the equator..." 🥰 #worldbuilding #procgen
This is amazing. First page of how to build worlds. "Games don't need REALISM with unnecessary details! That's just excessive. No, something simpler will suffice. Here we model air currents as they flow around a planet at various degrees from the equator..." 🥰 #worldbuilding #procgen
How on earth is it that libreoffice can be THIS bad at showing a powerpoint doc? Is powerpoint obfuscating stuff in the pptx format? Otherwise... like if you just don't have a specific font... use arial.. and like... don't randomize kerning between 0 and 1200% ???? @jeremy.laumon.name pdfs pls
I left this running in the menu screen, came back an hour later to a pretty dry/warm room... It was using 75+% of the GPU according to task manager :( ...indies pls check yo power usage
Fuck it, we're building a moddable FPS open world RPG game with Tides, we're not making a skyrim-like but at this point if someone hands me a bunch of money in a few years I may just go and spin up a separate team and build a proper skyrim-like out of frustration and sell a few dozen million copies!
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3mo agoOdd gaming thought of the evening: it strikes me that one of the definition components of what I'd call 'BethesdaGame' as a genre distinct from first-person-action-RPGs generally, is non-sequential world areas. It's a lot of what divides Avowed-likes from true Bethesda-games.
When I thought about the design for Hammerting, our Dwarven mining colony sim, I thought about it in terms of a kind of ternary plot: game, sim, and toy. Anyway the original thread is about Bethesda-style RPGs and it's baffling to me there are still barely any contenders.
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 3mo agoone is a sim, the other a game
Holy fucking shit I found a new song I need to listen to repeat to. An hour down so far. youtu.be/0uqUrZZnQd4?...
Rewind - Clay Aiken (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Clay Aiken
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I made a new emoji for tracking progress in our Discord, this is for when a task reaches a "this works" point so you can move on to other things but you know it's not really done and you need to get back to it in a bit. Very important.
Another one in favor: www.gingerbill.org/article/2026...
Signed By Default Camp
As with many discussions in the programming space, there are "wars" between different ways of doing things. These are typically about minor aesthetic preferences, such as:Tabs vs Spaces for indentatio...
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Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG@srekel.net · 3mo agoFor our new Tides codebase, I decided that all ints should be signed, expect if you *really* need to save the signed bit (basically only for u8), or if the int is actually not really a number but a sequence of bits - like a hash/handle. And for those it should be typed. c3-lang.org/blog/unsigne...
