Stefan Reinalter

Someone ran a poll on X, asking players if they would prefer "all games on Steam made by humans" or "all games on Epic made by AI". 139,568 people voted, with just 1.6% voting for AI and Epic. Faith in humanity restored!

Live++ 2.11.5 out now! liveplusplus.tech/releases.html Added support for /libpath, fixed "main-file-name" for Clang and fixed a nasty bug that could result in the dreaded "Patch was loaded outside 2GB range" error. Thanks to everybody for reporting these issues. Enjoy! #cpp

Radical Pie handles equations brilliantly but still needs Word for a document's main text. That comes with annoying problems that will never be fixed. For years, I've dreamt of writing the whole word processor with the same level of craftmanship, and now that is going to happen.

Had one more yak to shave. I don't believe it can be made any faster than that. The first loading screen of the game comes up in less than 8ms now. It feels truly instant when starting the game from Windows Explorer. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev

It's happening, Enshrouded 1.0 just released on PC and PlayStation 5! 🎉 We can't wait to see how much you all enjoy it! And we've got the perfect thing to tide you over while it downloads. Check out the update highlights below! 👇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McX...

Absolutely jawdropping to see Epic, once renowned for their engine prowess, literally opening a PR announcement with "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" Especially given the dearth of features in the EGS compared to Steam.

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

So, this happened last week - I received the GCAP Legacy Award! I love the Aussie/NZ Gamedev industry and to be recognised for helping in my own small way was glorious. Thanks IGEA/GCAP for continuing to organise my favourite conference and to my peers for having beers and cheers with me after.

Great rendition of a great song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJIE...

the 2020s are full of grief eh. from genocide to climate emergency to entire professions imploding / at best transforming; and on and on! yet were also in the least empathetic culture i can remember. 'you so cooked bro'. sure, yes, we probably are, can you just, not be such a dick about it?

AI has become the Roy Kent of technology. "It's here, it's there, it's everyfuckingwhere - AAAIII, AAIIII". Difference being that I like Roy Kent.

ive said it before, i'll say it again: make your game/app/thing/toy boot up into *exactly* the state it was in when you last quit, by default. feel free to layer fun features like snapshots/replays on top of this, but start there. you can thank me later.

What a perfect drawing. (PHOTO BY BRUCE MACKINNON /THE CHRONICLE HERALD)

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

Absolutely not a good look, OpenAI. Imagine you're a trillion dollar valued company and can't afford to pay for NYTimes. Instead, it's "ah nice" when you're getting behind their paywall. Also great to read about the "fair use" argument.

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

It seems that Visual Assist X has never met our lord and saviour, COM:

I rewrote the PVS computation. It now works in quadrants, making use of the fact that all occluders are the same size and on a grid. Angles are now sorted using the wedge product, so there's no floating-point math or radix sort anywhere. This is much faster and bit exact now!

This is what I'm talking about: Shows the PVS of a cell on hover in the map editor.

Revisited radix sort today for computing exact region-to-region visibility for a PVS. The PVS stores occluded cells, so an empty PVS simply does not cull anything. When computing the PVS in the background, you can "see" it working by draw calls going down and perf. going up :).

GTFO! Update your gosh darn crap UI instead of adding another layer of crap to your platform! I want to tear this all to pieces.

Imagine sitting on Ultima and WC. Great IPs.

Coupa is still an incredibly shitty platform. It's unbelievably bad, yet several major companies use it and force you to use it. Sigh.

There's a pattern that keeps coming up and I don't know if it has a name, but I wanted to share: Nothing fancy really, just a way of shoving arbitrary funcs (including capturing lambdas) into ordinary func pointers without needing any inheritance or allocation. E.g. ThreadPool:

it does! thankyou for taking the time to walk me through it. it sounds like a sequence of steps id probably cock up, but it hilights how you sort of look at code differently once you can incrementally live modify it. i remember having imgui finally click as 'not just cute' when i saw omar add a ...

introspection of complex state. imgui + hot reload just blew my mind iow :) so yeah... mindset changes once you have these hot reload tools, as you know. cheers!

sad_panda_face :(. But it's my own fault really.

Sometimes you have to profile debug builds, and as always @superluminal.eu is perfect for that. My matrix multiplication was using variables on the stack, which caused a lot of stack checks. Rewrote the code, debug performance went from 23ms to 6ms.

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!

Of course I missed an edge case in the previous 2.11.3 update. It's really hard not to, there are so many variables to the equation.

If you don't have an anxiety disorder yet, just watching The Bear might give you one. (Started Season 5...)