Dan Bruington

The second official trailer for my upcoming horror action RPG Withering Realms is up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAxS...
This one shows a few new mechanics, such as the camera, occult hand, blurry ghosts, and more. #wishlistwednesday

I wrote a neat morph system for Keeper and hopefully I can share a bit more about it in the future. This particular morph was an experiment using symmetry that didn't make it into the game in the end.

So excited for people to finally get to experience this! Proud to have been a part of bringing this vision to life.

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

Another stunner.

"Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)"
blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

An old and crumbling Lighthouse stands upright on four strange, tendril-esque legs, its customary beam of light shines into a hazy orange-green sky. It looks alive somehow, walking towards us but arching backwards, as if unsteady. Beneath its legs we see twisted shapes resembling cars and other remnants of a long-forgotten civilization.

How about a little #ScreenshotSaturday? We'll be posting some glimpses of Keeper as we approach launch day! Let us begin, then...with a Beach Walk.

Keeper — An Odyssey of Mystifying Metamorphosis.

Wishlist Now!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/...
Xbox: www.microsoft.com/store/produc...

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

A woman in a red robe standing on a ledge made of ornate green marble. She is looking at a waterfall in front of some spiky coral. Behind her stands a poorly drawn red 'S' with an angry face on it.

Feeling inspired by fancy sea slugs, so gonna make a new enemy today for Timespinner 2! Come watch the magic happen, lol :D
www.twitch.tv/lunarraygames
#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metroidvania #xna #seaslug

From @leepetty.bsky.social‬ and Double Fine Productions, our new game is Keeper - a beautiful and surreal third-person, atmospheric puzzle adventure, and a story told without words.

On October 17 2025 — The Keeper Shall Awaken! Wishlist today, and find out more on www.doublefine.com

World Building Guide | Knowledge base This guide provides per-feature definitions, subjects to master, good practices and pitfalls, limitations, use cases specific to world building with Unr...

The World Building Guide v3 is now available in preparation of Unreal Engine 5.6 upcoming release.

Hope it helps, enjoy the reading and don't hesitate to share!

dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack

An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack

An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack

An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack

Every commercial font we've ever made, all zipped up in one pack. There are handwriting fonts, techno fonts, pixel art - the whole pack has a vast range of genres and vibes to choose from. Use them in game dev, books, album covers, ttrpgs, web comics etc ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

#gamedev #booksky

A bike somehow chained to a tree six feet off the ground. Superimposed on it is a text box from Final Fantasy VII saying “Cloud: Did Sephiroth…do this?”

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

Happy 31st birthday to the best game ever made!

@demofox.bsky.social

It's been far too long since I've had a chance to come see a stream. Next time!

How about an Actraiser-like? :D

Bloodborne and Lies Of P players should check out Withering Realms, an action-RPG with combat dolls and graveyards One of my Xmas selection box games last year was Withering Rooms, a delightfully frightful haunted house action-RPG tha…

Thank you to Rock Paper Shotgun for covering Withering Realms:
www.rockpapershotgun.com/bloodborne-a...

Clover can cast spells at any time, even while The Doll is mid swing. Here she casts a green "flash spell" which speeds up The Doll by 25% for 3 seconds - very effective on weapons with lots of fast individual hits like the Chain Dagger or Machine Gun.
#wishlistwednesday

I'm thrilled to share a new JCGT paper, "GPU Friendly Laplacian Texture Blending." It uses simple image processing and computational photography techniques to smoothly blend/layer textures and materials while preserving local contrast and texture details without ghosting or over-blurring. 1/3

Which reminds me that I really do need to look into Godot this year, when my work load lightens up a bit.

Think about it this way: I always try to learn new software, as even if I don't end up needing to use it directly. You end up seeing things differently in whatever tool you're in due to broader understanding. Highly valuable imo! If you're looking for learning resources, I can recommend! Cheers

A woman in a red robe standing in front of a poorly drawn large red question mark. Behind her is a waterfall splashing down on water in a room made of teal marble.

Creating a new monster for Timespinner 2 during today's Development Livestream! Come say hi :D
www.twitch.tv/lunarraygames

Thank you for the incredible response to Withering Realms! I've posted a Gameplay Details & FAQ article on Steam with a few more details like what gameplay is like, console release, relationship to Withering Rooms and more:
steamcommunity.com/games/344199...

I've cancelled my talk at GDC and my flights

I really hate to put this on the organizers so late in the process, who have been so kind to me, but the trump administration is starting to directly erase and target minority groups I'm in, and I just can't handle the stress of going. I'm sorry

Announcing my second game, WITHERING REALMS.
It's a horror action RPG about the adventures of Clover(a ghost girl), The Doll(wood, metal, bone, flesh) and Althea(a reporter).
Explore the town of Penwyll and the sprawling graveyards and rotting estates that surround it. 🧵

Marionette room from Haunting Ground (Capcom 2005)

Working on some FX for the burning status effect for the next game this morning.

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #survivalhorror 🎮🔥

"Something strange is lurking behind the door. Consider a new route."
is so much better than "Does not open from this side" or "The lock is broken. I can't open the door".
Kuon (2004) From Software

For the next game, trying to make *everything* at least like 25% better than Withering Rooms. Trying to minimize the bad jank while preserving the good jank.
Working on some spell FX today with some 3D noise for the smoke instead of plain old flipbooks like before.