Amini Allight

Pinned post/introduction time! Hi, I'm Amini Allight, I'm making a multiplayer sandbox game inspired by tabletop roleplaying (with optional VR support), a custom FPGA-based VR headset, a variety of desktop software, dozens of game dev tutorials and much more!

Volumetric path tracing adventure continues: added single-scattering by approximating the shadow ray transmittance using ratio tracking. Took a while to get all the coefficients right. Left: raymarched, right: path-traced #graphics

OpenXR gets a cross-platform Spatial Windowing API #VirtualReality #VR #Misc #OpenXR #AR #XR

The long awaited Deadlock Major Update "City Never Sleeps" is out! Check it all out in the latest blog post below!

Friends, I am absolutely ludicrous, and here is a gravity sim that doesn't use velocity or calculate any force. In a usual sim, you track position and velocity, and update the position every frame by adding the velocity. Mine just tracks the current position and last position. [...]

Upgraded my game's line autobuilder so it can now build mixtures of arcs and straight lines, such as this half cylinder! #gamedev

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

That is a bad sign... I feel conflicted because I want this game to succeed yet I haven't played it much past season 1, which feels a bit hypocritical I think it's the anti-cheat, the game is good enough that I'd hop on for a round or two if it was easy, but I'm not consistently rebooting for it

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

Both cheaper than I expected and still awkwardly expensive

Is there a name for this web page style? Absolutely everything looks like this now: dark bluish background, faintly tinted text, rounded features, thin borders, lots of accent colors used on the borders I'm guessing AI is involved somehow

New chamfered and rounded cylinder primitives for game masters to decorate environments with! I think I'm going to do a few more batches of primitives and then force myself to fix up the netcode no matter how much I'm dreading it #gamedev

I thought the "they're going to force cloud gaming" takes were probably wrong, because RAM is just worth less (to the people selling the RAM) running games than running AI regardless of whether it's in your house or in a server And now Game Pass Ultimate only gets you 15 hours of streaming a month

Anybody ever replaced this PCB in an index controller before? my main interest is trying to replace the stick without soldering

💥 Gunman Contracts Stand Alone Launches September 10 💥 ☣️ Half-Life: Alyx mod turned separate game 🌄 Arriving in Early Access with first set of missions 🕹️ Playable in VR, non-VR and on Steam Deck Full launch trailer: youtu.be/9CjNGhgPjpY

I realized it wasn't really possible for game masters to depict a candle in my game so I added the new droplet shape to create the flame! #gamedev

Finally got around to finishing some new customizable shape primitives These can be used to make architectural pillars or repeating industrial shapes like whatever those cylindrical insulators(?) on substations are called #gamedev

hooray! eric (audio toy) has achieved triple-mixed-metaphor bliss! the outer language transpiles to C and lets me write arbitrary DSP-ish stuff (think, new synths, algorithms); it can embed strudel style patterns via inline mininotation, AND submodules with guis, including... trackers, that now...

Oh cool! Maybe I should wait for this instead of returning to my now-ancient flat playthrough...

One of my most requested articles is something on inverse kinematics and foot sliding. I finally found the time to write up the little recipes that have served me well through the years, including an offline method I used recently that works surprisingly nicely. theorangeduck.com/page/inverse...

This explains how bloom works in optics. Check it out! youtu.be/QWqb5Gewbx8

"We have Steam Frame at home" Steam Frame at home:

Endless Legend 2 - 1.0 announcement date trailer #gaming #TurnTheTide

The talk I presented at #SIGGRAPH2026 is now available on YouTube, for anyone who couldn’t attend or would like to revisit it :) youtu.be/OFJYBUArVPc?...

got some Steam Controller v2 Swift bindings up and running for ALVR, though I won't be able to actually integrate them properly for another week

I wish when recording staticy radio dialogue that cuts out more devs would record the entire line and then cut it afterwards I can usually hear in the voice that they've finished speaking, the final word sounds different somehow

When I'm blocking out 3D environments I always have a human character in the scene for scale reference so I can eyeball things as I go.

Harder than you'd think to write an algorithm to find and close these holes where two procedurally-constructed edge lines meet, my brain is exhausted 😩 #gamedev

I left EA yesterday and am now officially on summer vacation, woo! After a few weeks ill be joining Bolt Graphics, a startup GPU company, aiming to put the graphics back into graphics processing unit. It's a small company with a bold but respectable plan. Wish me / us luck! youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?...

Mutant Livin'. Reupload for some minor changes. #CavesofQud

2000 commits! 🥳 #gamedev

"Why are VR games so hard to make?" Exhibit A: trigger shapes for an ivy plant.👇

Added a few new chamfered cuboid primitives to help spice up game masters' sci-fi environments! #gamedev

Catching the last few bugs with editing the new prism grid primitive #gamedev #screenshotsaturday