Jon Ludwig

The crisis of not knowing if you're humming the Kirby theme or the Dragon Quest theme until the fourth note.

"This will either take me two hours or three days" - and other bi-weekly conversations with producers.

That looks SO cool though.

Oh no, a new copypasta 😂

Applies to any timeline, any project, yup.

THIS convinced me to play. Love this. A+

Hyper Light Breaker is incredibly good. Hearing all the classic Drifter sound design and seeing those UI icons gave me some big warm fuzzies right before a tree monster crushed me into flaky salt. Congrats @heartmachine.bsky.social, it's good to be in this world again.

Hope you're doing alright so far over there.

Also happy new year, everyone. We're old.

New years resolutions are to work on a personal project every day that I'm near my PC, and practice archery every week that I'm able to.

I'd definitely stalled out at the tail end of '24. Played with Godot sure, but I definitely wasn't utilizing my free time the way I usually like to. Been able to pick it back up over the last couple weeks though and it's felt very good. Also started weekly target archery back in Nov, which I love.

The best possible outcome.

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Tech Art: The fluid sim isn't in budget. Can we please fake it with a simpler shader? What angles do we see the cup from?

Still have power tonight in Seattle, surprisingly. My UPS says at least 7 power surges in the past few hours. Stay safe out there.

I just got laid off.

Gutted. I loved Heart Machine. They were good to me. My only regret is that I couldn't stay.

Character rigger of 12+ yrs, 2 GDC talks, 1 Gnomon talk, VES nominee, etc. Spider-Man PS4, The Order:1886, Hyper Light Breaker.

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#gamedevjobs

A necessary evil in Unreal, no pitchforks needed. Usually a good chance to get a second coffee in the morning.

Maui, the character from Moana, holds up Unreal Engine's "Compiling Shaders" message while singing "What can I say except you're welcome?"

Your tech artist, the morning after they join the team:

IIRC it was broken for a while, then worked for a bit, and now is broken again, but now I don't trust myself that it ever worked at all in UE5.

Am I missing something or is the Epic Native OpenXR completely nonfunctional, not just some features broken but controller input itself being busted? App won't even function on Quest without Legacy OVR running as the XR API via the MetaXR plugin.

Rat is perfect.

@gamedevlist.bsky.social hi! I'm a senior tech artist working most often in performance optimization for mobile VR

Brilliant shirt, and looking great, man!

Gonna make an effort to stick around here for real this time. This place seems nicer.

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Little Kitty, Big City's map EXPOSED! (from the editor)

#gamedev #behindthescenes #littlekittybigcity

Come to the PAX West expo hall entrance in 10 minutes if you want an ass kicking

Absolutely wild seeing app development for Apple Vision Pro mirroring stuff we did with AR at Toei and NHK in Japan back in '17-'18. Simulcasting a theme park ad on tv synced to an AR diorama on a table, a domo-kun race course, cool to see this stuff get a second chance.

Took half the day to get out of bed and recover from the week but soon I'll be nyoomin' as best I can.

Use a float curve, use a clamped remap, for the love of all that is good use anything but this...

Sadly, most dev tuts fall under the "first year of Spanish class" problem, where getting a beginner to be able to do anything quickly requires teaching them the worst way to do the thing, because the right way is assumed beyond current comprehension.