Robin van Ee

My focus on CPU performance in WolfEngine is paying off. A thousand little guys, without any special optimization on the gameplay side of things. Animations are skeletal, and units are simply instantiated from a prefab. Assets and animations: Toony Tiny RTS Set by Polygon Blacksmith.

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The fourth faction, the Awakeners, awakens various animals and trains them in the ways of magic. They can manifest pure geometric creations of immense power onto the battlefield just when they need to. #rts #gamedev #games

Random UX thought - shouldn't a "brush size" slider in a painting tool be logarithmic? If the slider goes up to 1000, I still care about the difference between 5 and 10 but not so much about 605 vs 610.

I started a habit of keeping WolfEngine's bug count very low by clearing every known bug off the list. This process, of course, caused me to know more bugs which are also now fixed. Now it's time to create more bugs 🙂

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Gamers are famously excited by economics. Want to sell a game? Just tell them about all the microtransactions, that always does the trick.

My game is now public so you can try it with your friends and tell me about your experience: foxwarrior.itch.io/arcanoflesh #RTS #games #indiegame

Writing quests is easy. Writing quests that don't need brand new game mechanics or expensive animations on the other hand...

Engine companies aren’t usually upfront about their tools not being production-ready. That’s progress!

This post has no hashtags… if it reaches you, you always pet the dog in games 🐶

For my next game I want to try prototyping in an entirely different engine from what the game will be built in. This should enforce a pure prototyping mindset. No polish- it'll be thrown away anyway.

a thing that makes game engines interesting is that the best engine for a game is one made exactly for it, but the best engine for prototyping and experimenting with a game is one that assumes as little as possible about it.

It's a real shame Nvidia has chosen this direction. Machine learning has proven a fantastic tool for dealing with the artifacts inherent to 3D rendering- aliasing, noise, shimmer, etc. This is a big departure from that, and I hope AMD remains focused on serving as a cleanup pass.

I feel that for journalistic integrity they should have specified that it was a skeleton

Prior 2017, every game on Steam was handpicked either by Valve or the community. Most were made by professional developers, were in traditional genres, with slick graphics and marketing. Today, publishing on Steam is accessible to everyone. Most of those 15,000 are not commercially viable games.

Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'

It's very optimized, but only for spherical rats in a vacuum.

Game exec walks into a curry house. “Make me a pizza?”

Devious pranks 😈

Been working on voxel ray-tracing again lately, this time using a BVH2 TLAS and SVT64 (64tree) BLAS(s). The heat gradient in the video shows the step count from 0 to 128. This scene contains 256 voxel dragons, each model is 256^3 voxels :)

As if GTA’s ever-changing release dates weren’t enough, the industry can now live in fear of Elder Scrolls appearing out of nowhere.

The rocky foothills of the red mountains are teeming with bandits, goblins, and more. #gamedev #indiegames

The new Affinity is free forever, and only genAI features are locked behind a paid Canva subscription! (read: The new Affinity is free forever!) www.affinity.studio This seems like the best possible reasonable outcome here 🥳

Just stumbled upon this ancient PcPersective article on real-time ray tracing.. In 2008. :) pcper.com/2008/06/ray-... It details the story of nine students (Karim, Wussie, Rick, Jan, Rutger, Trevor, Mathijs, Roel, Wilco) who worked in various roles on CPU-ray traced games using the Arauna engine.

The three types of game dev job listings

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

A SECOND LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO AN INDIE ALL-TIMER GETTING A TWO WEEK WARNING BEFORE DROPPING HAS HIT SEPTEMBER

A musical is the only acceptable format for an Oblivion adaption. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZX...

YOU DID THIS arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

Surely they can't take credit for being the first game with incomprehensible screaming.

made a tutorial for u