@treversmith.bsky.social
He/Him | Game dev and meme poster | Co-Creator and Lead Programmer on Ringfall at @cottonhammer.com
A randomly generated meme
06.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 50 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
Screenshot from article linked below.
“Human biology is attuned with Earth’s diurnal cycle; arbitrarily offsetting that cycle by one hour can increase obesity, cardiovascular disease, and depression.” #DitchDST
05.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 685 🔁 198 💬 51 📌 13
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Animated this in Adobe Animate, rendered it out in Blender. Music by Xtrullor. I am braver for it, the next test will be more ambitious.
tie between JavaScript and Haskell. JavaScript having so many different ways it let's you do things like defining a function gave way to some of the worst syntactical habits and patterns I've ever seen. And some things read worse than old C code with excessive abbreviation. Haskell is just hell lmao
04.10.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Actually insanely cool dude, amazing work ❤️
03.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dunno if I'll keep it but I was feeling froggy and added an "FPS Mode" for the map that displays it from your current perspective/FOV if you hold the button down. Kinda nice for orienting yourself on maps with lots of verticality!
#gamedev
02.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 1166 🔁 303 💬 8 📌 3
A quick confirmation that we'll be using team colors for RINGFALL!
The colors themselves will change a little bit, but you can safely expect us to deliver the classic Red vs Blue FPS experience.
Well, plus the other colors in multi-team... More on that later!
#FPS #IndieFPS #IndieDev
A randomly generated meme
01.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 85 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0Watching the deal go through with EA going private - as a forewarning to any current EA studio employee, dust your portfolios and resumés off and get out asap!
Similar stuff happened to me and others with layoffs from Embracer buying up companies and expecting unreasonable margins.
Stay safe yall!
Rise again. Finish the fight!
CULTIC: Chapter Two is now out on Steam!
It's been a long, long road, and I am so excited to finally share what Nick and I have worked on!
Thanks to everyone for their support and patience. Hope you enjoy!
14.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 1697 🔁 472 💬 9 📌 5
If anyone is looking for good common sense level design and prototyping tools for unreal, this is actually unmatched. Much better than unreal's extremely outdated BSP brushes without the fuss of importing from blender to test changes!
08.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5!
New features below! 🧵(1/6)
In Donkey Kong Bananza, DK follows objects of interest with his eyes. However, he has an incredibly short attention span. Whenever a new object enters his vision, his attention is drawn to it instead. If many objects are moving, he will be distracted by each new one.
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A randomly generated meme
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I hope that Arbalist gave up and went home after I flexed on him
#gamedev
Delusions of grandeur
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Godstone is heckin on sale right now! Help me afford bread and play an awesome game at the same time! Win-win! ❤️
#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #godstone
The final map of CULTIC Chapter Two is complete! With that, all maps are finished, and Ch.2 is playable front to back!
Now begins the gargantuan task of testing/QA, and a huge optimization pass over the whole thing!
Still some road left, but closer than ever!
#gamedev #unity
People who work on AI because they like it, or are considered AI tech bros are all just Huey Emmerich
26.05.2025 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At a very quick glance I thought they were zombie knights in wheelchairs LOL
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dont worry, scope is totally under control
#gamedev #unity3d
The prospective real time GI techniques from last gen
— SVOGI for example, or better light bake tecniques like Valve uses for Half Life Alyx and Deadlock covers the bulk of what lumen does, but without the crutch of temporal algorithms resulting in wayyyy better clarity and performance to boot.
The problem is that it is actually bad, but people don't articulate other than "it runs worse".
Seeing it misused for baked lighting for example is bad.
Not to mention the almost forced deprecation of baked lighting and other Real Time GI techniques within the big engine are the real problems
Little preview of a new gun that's work-in-progress for Ringfall I've worked on this week 👀
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiefps
I'm going to call this another Dave the Diver situation where this game absolutely should not be called indie.
If you have a publisher that puts you into 2 seperate major Xbox Games Showcases with how much that costs, that is no longer indie.
It should instead be referred to as Double A at best.
