Finally worked through all of the math! We can now move between analytical (ellipse, anomaly) and numeric (pos, vel) as required. Still need to figure out a good arch, but I've at least got all the equations working! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · 6d ago

Further work on the orbital sim - Variable step size for improved stability - Support for multiple gravity wells - Variable simulation speed for FF and slow-mo Next steps are to improve the scheduling, it's still kinda locked to the wall time... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Finally worked through all of the math! We can now move between analytical (ellipse, anomaly) and numeric (pos, vel) as required. Still need to figure out a good arch, but I've at least got all the equations working! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · 6d ago

Further work on the orbital sim - Variable step size for improved stability - Support for multiple gravity wells - Variable simulation speed for FF and slow-mo Next steps are to improve the scheduling, it's still kinda locked to the wall time... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...

The point of the famous "drunk driving" dril tweet is still true without the word "drunk", but you guys aren't ready for this conversation.

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU jcgt.org/published/00... New published paper! The premise is that you can offload polynomial evaluation to the texture sampling unit, which can be useful for improving execution times if you are compute bound.

Further work on the orbital sim - Variable step size for improved stability - Support for multiple gravity wells - Variable simulation speed for FF and slow-mo Next steps are to improve the scheduling, it's still kinda locked to the wall time... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · last wk.

Be not afraid

monster hunter 1 really fuckin nailed it immediately huh...

Further work on the orbital sim - Variable step size for improved stability - Support for multiple gravity wells - Variable simulation speed for FF and slow-mo Next steps are to improve the scheduling, it's still kinda locked to the wall time... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · last wk.

Be not afraid

extinction is forever

Color Capsules is available for purchase!! store.steampowered.com/app/4073780/...

arclyn is cool and you should buy their games ok thanks

ArcLyn@arclyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Color Capsules is available for purchase!! store.steampowered.com/app/4073780/...

Came across a poem by Mervyn Peake entitled "To Live at all is Miracle Enough". Check out this stanza: Let every painter paint and poet sing And all the sons of music ply their trade; Machines are weaker than a beetle’s wing.

Noticed some error with highly eccentric orbits; the acceleration vector changes a lot between each step. Taking multiple steps when close to the gravity well keeps the orbits much more stable! It's a good thing I was already using Verlet integration, Euler integrators were acting weird

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · last wk.

Doing some math for fun Visualizing different quantities over the course of an orbit to see what I can use. Probably should just learn this stuff for real, but I like to "see how the things behaves" first, you know? #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Noticed some error with highly eccentric orbits; the acceleration vector changes a lot between each step. Taking multiple steps when close to the gravity well keeps the orbits much more stable! It's a good thing I was already using Verlet integration, Euler integrators were acting weird

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · last wk.

Doing some math for fun Visualizing different quantities over the course of an orbit to see what I can use. Probably should just learn this stuff for real, but I like to "see how the things behaves" first, you know? #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Be not afraid

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · last wk.

Doing some math for fun Visualizing different quantities over the course of an orbit to see what I can use. Probably should just learn this stuff for real, but I like to "see how the things behaves" first, you know? #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Doing some math for fun Visualizing different quantities over the course of an orbit to see what I can use. Probably should just learn this stuff for real, but I like to "see how the things behaves" first, you know? #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Taconite@taconite.bsky.social · 2w ago

More physics experiments; orbital debris simulated via compute shader. Each object knows it's closest neighbor, in support of collision detection. Will probably need some chunking in the future, but this runs smoothly up to 16k so far! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Spent close to an hour chasing down a bug, only to find that I wrote float instead of float3

this was super fun to make and honestly turned out surprisingly good? using mouse gestures to “conduct” feels kinda solid #gmtk2026 #indiegamedev

Bora@borademirbilek.bsky.social · last wk.

Made a rhythm game for #GMTKJam with @tapes.club @stefanevrard.bsky.social You conduct an unruly animal orchestra with your mouse while buying upgrades with your keyboard. If you miss a beat, they will get angry... Play 3 tracks and drop your high score: baybora.itch.io/meowstro #gamedev #gmtk

Ipek Yavuz has passed away - one of the married duo behind the Mount & Blade games. One of the indie OGs, for sure. I'll always remember their photos posted on TW forums, of her husband in pyjamas with his feet on the desk and her smiling. I thought it was so cool two people could just make a game.

More physics experiments; orbital debris simulated via compute shader. Each object knows it's closest neighbor, in support of collision detection. Will probably need some chunking in the future, but this runs smoothly up to 16k so far! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

It’s best practise to end every work email with “Consider this my formal resignation”

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

More physics experiments; orbital debris simulated via compute shader. Each object knows it's closest neighbor, in support of collision detection. Will probably need some chunking in the future, but this runs smoothly up to 16k so far! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

Caves of Qud

just learned ethiopia had Nausicaä ass castles

Drank a tarragon soda and watched carnosaur (1993) with friends

Do it for them.

Hey, did you enjoy Evil Dead Burn? Screaming for more demon possession? Watch the 2023 Argentinian horror movie When Evil Lurks, it remains one of my favourite movies of recent years, relentlessly bleak, shockingly gory, and fascinating mythology of its own. Look up nothing about it, trust me.

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if anyone still needs music for a game in 2027, I would love to keep doing this. I love narrative games, scifi, horror, comedy, puzzles. FMOD for implementation. I have a decade of experience, I love collaborating with writers and artists and programmers. (I refuse all work that involves AI use)