Oliver Franzke

YouTube video by Double Fine Double Fine Adventure! EP14: "I Think This is a Winner"

Happy 12th birthday, Broken Age Part 1! Look how adorable we all were! youtu.be/ssUFuZyu5bw?...

Happy 12th birthday, Broken Age, Part 1 ! Here's a clip from a very early previz we did while the engine was still being stood up, all done in After Effects using concept art. @doublefine.com

The RAM-price induced GPU shortage has led some folks to switch to alternatives…

Rocaille 2

vec2 p=(FC.xy*2.-r)/r.y/.3,v;for(float i,f;i++<1e1;o+=(cos(i+vec4(0,1,2,3))+1.)/6./length(v))for(v=p,f=0.;f++<9.;v+=sin(v.yx*f+i+t)/f);o=tanh(o*o);

Oh wow. It's been 11 years already? Working on Grim was a lot of fun indeed. If you wanna know more check out the mini documentary made by @2playerproductions.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-6...
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An online multiplayer, pottery party brawler! Launching 2026 Kiln Announce Trailer - YouTube

🚨🏺Introducing our newest game: KILN!🏺🚨

An online multiplayer, pottery party brawler! Teams of colorful spirits sculpt ceramic battle armor on a pottery wheel, and the size and shape of your pots determine your play-style and abilities. Coming 2026 (yep, THIS year)!

youtu.be/mi0iRV0U3VY

Ah ja das wohlbekannte kleine Indie-Spiel Halo. Ich glaube das haben nur zwei oder drei Leute gemacht... in ihrer Freizeit!

BEHOLD, EARLY LIGHTHOUSE VISUALS FROM KEEPER. 😍

Gamedev is so cool and weird and awesome sometimes!

Gotta keep 'em at bay you know!

YouTube video by The Action Lab We Just Discovered Why Light Does This

a fantastic video on the relatively recently described emergent property 'branched flow'. the connection to caustic patterns on a swimming pool was a great connection to something i was familiar with. youtu.be/6aZ45RNHa6U?...

YouTube video by Double Fine In-Engine · Double Fine's Keeper - Unreal 5 Exploration

Must watch:
In-Engine · Double Fine's Keeper - Unreal 5 Exploration
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@leepetty.bsky.social
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Haha. Indeed. :)

It's a lense... maybe?!

We have multiple Double Fine devs speaking at GDC this year, and if you love locomotion, James Collins is going to talk about about his gameplay programming and his work on KEEPER!

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos Let's Chat with Aric Wilmunder - Habitat co-creator and LucasArts historian!

It was great chatting with @aricwilmunder.bsky.social about what it takes to build a game engine! #maniacmansion #lucasarts #scumm

youtu.be/628d6-pTRzI

What a fun— and long— conversation!

Flying through a bit of the first level of Keeper, directly in UE Editor. It's really important that editor view match the game as much as possible for faster iteration.

Some very early character concepts I did for Keeper that we didn't use. These little sundial folks gradually forked into the Rocklings and more mechanical clockwork beings.

Some early KEEPER creature concepts

YouTube video by Mike Turitzin I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)

The video:

youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

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/...

Keeper is nominated for an Annie Award for Best Character Animation - Video Game!

Graphics Programming Conference The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.

All the presentations slides of the Graphics Programming Conference 2025 are up #GPC2025
graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025/

Haha

The normal maps look sharp tonight.

Beautiful!

Yes, thank you. :)

One of the best interactive resources for understanding light and shadows. Unique visual explanations you won’t find anywhere else.
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#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #godot #unrealengine

YouTube video by Matt Godbolt [AoCO 0/25] The Advent of Compiler Optimisations

Advent of optimisations! Start now and you'll be ready for the fastest Christmas Day ever.
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