Jack Knobel

Incredibly honoured to have my song ‘Breathe’ in Control Resonant AND to see people talking about it online !!! 😭😭 Someone even made a lyric video 🥹 Music has always been an enormous part of my life and it means SO much to see strangers connecting with a song I made ❤️

BioWare closing rings the same hollow bell in my soul as WB and Paramount becoming “Skydance.” Across movies, TV, publishing, games, we’re watching decades of legacy and history being hijacked and fed to the furnace of an abyssal engine with no desire beyond the abstract concept of “More.”

horror media as grand designs screenshots - a thread

Box2D v3.2 released! New features include large world support, recording and replay, snapshots, and a dynamic character mover. Performance improvement of 3x across many benchmarks versus v3.1. Blog: box2d.org/posts/2026/1...

CONTROL Resonant is out on disc today! Nothing stays contained forever. Get the physical edition on PlayStation 5 or XBOX Series X. Available at all major retailers. Make sure to update your game to the latest version before jumping into Altered Manhattan. #CONTROLResonant

Thank you for the support ❤️ For playing, sharing, and being a part of the community. #CONTROLResonant

Contact Recycling - making contact generation almost free. box2d.org/posts/2026/1...

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering A new rendering algo that lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline. New longer technical details video: youtu.be/SA2cXydaq1A

Introducing Iris-AVIF, a better AVIF encoder & the best image encoder in the world: halide.cx/blog/introdu... Iris-AVIF offers up to >21% better compression than libaom, the reference AV1 encoder with image-specific tuning. #av1 #avif #jxl

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

The Double Headed Stack Allocator New blog post! blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/t...

The RAD Debugger now has preliminary support for Linux x64 debugging, among other new things, like minidump loading support, and selected-thread-filtered breakpoints. github.com/EpicGames/ra...

🛠️ CONTROL Resonant Game Update 1.40 is out. And it's a big one. ✅ New Game ++ ✅ Many, many, many ████ bug fixes ✅ UI updates, quality of life additions... and ██! These are probably our longest and most ██████ update notes to date. Please read carefully: https://ow.ly/3nLw50ZTolU #CONTROLResonant

PIX timing capture functionality has been extracted into a separate library to offer recording of a large number of events including, among others, GPU top/end of pipe timestamps, object lifetime and memory residency/eviction in-game. devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/intr...

AMD has released an optional driver update that should address crashes and FPS drops some CONTROL Resonant players have been experiencing. Find the release notes and download link here: www.amd.com/en/resources... #CONTROLResonant

We're aware of some players on AMD GPUs experiencing crashes and FPS drops in CONTROL Resonant. To our knowledge, AMD is working on a driver update that should address this problems - it will be coming out very soon! #CONTROLResonant

We did a LOT here to improve the performance Here’s where we were a year ago on base PS5 at performance target ( 60hz )

Nothing stays contained forever. CONTROL Resonant is out now. Wield the Aberrant. Find your sister. Fight for control. We will see you in altered Manhattan. 🖼️ Art by Sampo Rask #CONTROLResonant

The Federal Bureau of Control needs all capable hands to help with the unfolding crisis in Manhattan. Please find a standardised leave of absence request form enclosed. Present it to your place of education or employment upon filling it out, and no later than September 23rd EOD. #CONTROLResonant

Quoting myself from a day ago - "The problem is thinking that the product of a programmer is code. It isn't, really, the code is just the final stage. The actual valuable thing the programmer produces is the underlying mental model. Without that, the code is just tech debt"

6 days until CONTROL Resonant launches. What are you most excited about? #CONTROLResonant

The countdown has begun! Only 7 days left until the launch of CONTROL Resonant. CONTROL Resonant arrives September 24th 2026 to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. Pre-order now! https://controlgame.com/ #CONTROLResonant

Hey folks, I made the launch trailer for CONTROL Resonant, please check it out I think it's good. And then also buy the videogame because I think that's good too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvA...

Manhattan has never faced a crisis like this. Reality has been twisted and bent by an invading cosmic force. Only Dylan Faden can stop this paranatural geophysical nightmare. CONTROL Resonant arrives September 24th. Pre-order now! https://youtu.be/SqvAvOAd1VA #CONTROLResonant

My latest PlayDate game is out! I think it's pretty fun to find a good combo and absolutely demolish.

Join Sean Durrie and Courtney Hope as they talk about their experiences working on CONTROL Resonant. Check out the latest CONTROL Resonant Development Diary episode now on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/N8wJs9Q9PVI #CONTROLResonant

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In CONTROL Resonant, enter altered Manhattan as Dylan Faden. Take back the city. Take back control. Save your sister, regain your humanity. < BUCKLE UP > CONTROL Resonant arrives September 24th. Pre-order now! youtu.be/VwOJuJRCLGk #CONTROLResonant #GamescomOpeningNightLive

Most people in the game industry do not know what OpenUSD is. They hear about it, but then look it up, and find hour long technical presentations which are very hard to understand. So instead: I have made a video that explains what USD is in 10 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhJ...

Thrilled and honoured to be doing a keynote at GCAP 2026 🇦🇺 It means the world to share my learnings back in Australia as an Aussie, and I can’t wait for it. See you soon, Melbourne! #GCAP2026 #GameDev

In other news, Linux support is coming along nicely and the Closed Beta will most likely start in Q3 2026. Reach out if you are interested!

Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.