Jack Knobel

A glittery black star sits on a sparkling background that blends from orange to purple. Streaks of yellow, purple and blue stream out below the star, and the text at the centre of the star reads “Neon Supernova”. The orange silhouette of a pair of drumsticks sits in the top left corner, a blue flying V guitar sits in the top right, and a yellow lightning bolt sits beside the subtitle “A Glam Rock One-Shot for the Cypher System” below the star. In the top right corner, a white logo reads “Compatible with the Cypher System”.

I wrote a TTRPG adventure and it’s out now!! ✨

‘Neon Supernova’ is a glam rock sci-fi one-shot for the Cypher System 👩‍🎤🎸💫💅

Had an absolute blast writing this and GMing my first games. Huge shoutout to @storytellingco.bsky.social for their ‘Write Your First Adventure’ course!

Links below 🔗

THE DUNGEON EXPERIENCE DEMO is now on #SteamNextFest !!!

Unlock Financial Freedom* with a low level Mudcrab turned business entrepreneur. 🦀

Reposting this for the European crowd.
Please repost and share among friends, peers, coworkers - I'm trying to gauge if this has merit to be continued or not.

YouTube video by Remedy Entertainment CONTROL Resonant – Official Gameplay Reveal | State of Play

Creative Director Mikael Kasurinen gives you a first look at Dylan Faden's supernatural abilities, the shapeshifting Aberrant weapon and Manhattan warped beyond the laws of physics.

CONTROL Resonant is out on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Mac in 2026. youtu.be/RJTBoQhWaC0

#CONTROLResonant

YouTube video by Molecular Matters "Project Echo" early pre-alpha footage

I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans:
Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sd...

Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!

YouTube video by Remedy Entertainment CONTROL Resonant – Official Gameplay Reveal | State of Play

Check out these slick moves
youtu.be/RJTBoQhWaC0

Toyota has just announced a proprietary game engine, but that doesn't mean it's targeting PC and consoles Toyota has worked on a game engine for 3D displays of its own called Fluorite, and it'll be open-source and console-ready.

Toyota announces world’s first fully electric game engine
www.eurogamer.net/toyota-fluor...

Feels like I’m signing a god damn petition!

Was the first to sign a card once so I wrote a message and they all said I made them look bad. This is the correct way damnit!

There’s many things I like, nay adore about Finnish culture. But something I refuse to get around is when signing birthday, get well cards etc they just write their name.

No message, just their name.
Truly mind boggling stuff

Announcement: The Crabmeat Steam Demo is Out Now!

An early segment of the game is available for those willing to brave the ice ❄️



Explore the full depths when the game launches March 10th
store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/... 



Please Wishlist and Share!🦀🦀
#gamedev #indiedev

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

Spinning around: Please don't! - siliceum Embark on a journey about why you should sometimes trust your OS more than yourself.

Ever wrote spin-locks or had to debug them?
I have, and I got tired of seeing (and writing) crappy ones, so I did a real investigation this time.

Spoiler: trust your OS.

siliceum.com/en/blog/post...

Segway boom could falter without wider adoption, inventor Dean Kamen warns

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Slides are now available for my GPC 2025 talk with @phammer.bsky.social on Variable Rate Compute Shaders in Doom The Dark Ages static.graphicsprogrammingconference.com/public/2025/...

My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @vulkan.org #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at www.howtovulkan.com

I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.

Great collection of C/C++ compiler optimisations: xania.org/AoCO2025-arc...

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

a couple 3D aabb tricks:

gpfault.net/posts/aabb-t...

One of my favourite games of the year and a stellar first release for the studio

Highly recommend picking it up

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and survival… CONTROL Resonant – Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in CONTROL Resonant, a thrilling action-adventure RPG.

Watch the announcement trailer: youtu.be/WhQm-ExRz60

CONTROL Resonant is out in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac.

#CONTROLResonant

Add CONTROL Resonant to your wishlist now!

PlayStation 5: store.playstation.com/concept/1001...
Xbox Series X|S: www.microsoft.com/store/produc...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3669870/...
Epic Games Store: store.epicgames.com/p/control-re...

#CONTROLResonant

Yes!! I hope you enjoy it 🙏

YouTube video by Remedy Entertainment CONTROL Resonant – Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

Hyped to have this out in the wild, extremely proud of everything the teams done!

Love that I get to work on this everyday

youtu.be/WhQm-ExRz60?...

Ever wondered how to store millions of call stacks efficiently? So did we. Many times.

Check out this new article by Jelle about designing a data structure to efficiently compress and store large amounts of call stack data!

superluminal.eu/compressing-...

Your blogs were really great reads early on in my career. I think beyond just Live++ you’ve seen a lot of shit, and I’d love to see that blogged again!

✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨

Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past?

Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!

Creative Assembly is looking for Mid/Senior Engine Programmer. Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria. We craft deep and detailed games that matter...

Come join our engine team!

I released a new game today for the Playdate! This one was a fun little project that really came together nicely!