Sean B.

Just had a dream where I moved into a house constructed with stock, modular assets chaotically rescaled and arranged like one of my game levels. I was shocked by the shoddy workmanship. Does moving into your own gameworld count as a nightmare? #indiedev

Gyumon Japanese BBQ

Once again I partook in the grand American tradition of fine asian dining on christmas day.

Just had a dream where I was coerced into attending the grand opening of a North Korean theme park. One of the "attractions" was the dear leader himself blasting visitors with a water cannon. "Kim Jong blasted me!"

I will say that Linux is pretty nice once it's configured. My main desktop will always be Windows (supporting an ever-shifting mix of creative software), but Linux works for my always-on 2nd PC with its narrower use cases. The gaming is impressive too... It mostly just works!?

I've been watching some zombie movies lately so the apocalypse was on my mind (Train to Busan, 28 Years Later)

Had a dream where I was a cat whose sole owner perished in their house. I was stuck there, fated to die in a house with a decaying corpse. It was a viscerally depressing dream.

Installed Linux on a couple computers for the first time. My main desktop will have to remain Windows though (creative software, games). Though the lack of bloat & adware in Linux is nice, its jankiness makes me appreciate the just-works-ness of Windows.

I had a dream where I was playing a pauseable-realtime colony sim like RimWorld in a JRPG setting with story, characters, dungeons and quests. I was managing two parties dungeon-crawling in different places. Someone should make that game.

If the Total Recall machine existed, it should be used to forcibly implant a memory of a traumatic car crash into every driver so that they drive more defensively. While we're at it, implant a memory of losing months of work to failed storage so that people learn to make backups.

Salmon bowl (with udon and salad) at Kurumaya in Elk Grove.

Found a local Japanese restaurant of the sort that has actual Japanese people dining in it so you know it's legit. I haven't had a (raw) salmon bowl since I was in actual Japan last year; it wasn't as heavenly as *that* one but still damn good.

Cat, possibly Maine Coon breed.

At a friend's house; I was lying on the couch when this floofy cat climbed on top of me for pettings. Highlight of the night.

YouTube video by Sean Bires The Graphics of Wuthering Waves – PC, Mobile & Raytracing Compared In-Depth!

So I made a little (ok, 35 min.) examination of some g**ner gacha game. It's an Unreal Engine, blockbuster-style, open world, exploration/action game that scales up to PC with raytracing, and down to the humble smartphone. Seeing it run at 60 FPS on a phone really something. youtu.be/OjRKMTu-k8A

Miso soup with tofu and leftover greens (escarole), and rice balls with salmon filling

Comfort food (and a use for leftover salmon)

I remember someone arguing that media for children should contain "moral content" (as opposed to e.g. brainrot). I think that's a useful lens for media in general; whether it contains moral content or not, and whether it's sincere, or uses it cynically for genre flavoring.

it's the most straightforward way of programming, yeah, where everything happens in a sequence rather than on background threads that need to have their prerequisites, inputs and outputs obsessively managed. If human effort was free, then...

Trying it for kicks but man, async/multithreading is hard. There are so many considerations involved.

A diagram detailing the themed layers of a generative dungeon system

The labyrinthine dreamworld towers over a dark ocean. I came up with a new concept for my generative dungeons consisting of themed height layers - not as conventional roguelike "floors", but as a contiguous level of dizzying verticality.

I stream #gamedev on twitch @ seannyb

An illustrated 3D map of the very first "Chalice Dungeon" level of Bloodborne

Played a little Bloodborne (via emulation) to investigate how the procedural "Chalice Dungeon" room layout system works. To that end, I drew a full map of the first area.

Had a bonkers dream where I took a *private jet* to Japan with my relatives. We landed at night in the middle of urban nowhere, and walked to a mostly-empty shopping mall where colorful, tropical birds were hanging out at an indoor fountain. My sister then hugged a scarlet macaw that was sopping wet

Damn, just had a dream with a half dozen false awakenings.

Dreamt that I entered an elevator that was actually a product demo for a hotel suite on a moving platform. While impressive, I kept falling over as the suite moved laterally, and its control panel had a lot of "dark pattern" UI design that prevented me from exiting.

Dreamt that I was trying to find where I parked my car while an enormous tornado loomed in the distance. No one else seemed terribly concerned.

I wonder if this will be the year of the Chicago tornado.

The Great Hitch Hunt has begun! We recruited a whole room of Hitch Hunters at #UnrealFest Orlando 💪
"Kill the hitch!"

A magic wand in the style of a "magical girl" anime

I crafted an exciting new weapon for the game (but it's for debug)

I stream #gamedev at twitch.tv/seannyb

Sure, I turned my DMs on

Thunderbolt Fantasy TV production puppets on display at Anime Central 2025

#ACen2025 the Thunderbolt Fantasy puppets were there — the real ones used in the TV show. They're big.

Robin & Sunday at Anime Central 2025

#ACen2025 Honkai: Star Rail is popular this year...

the award winning pope

Happens all the time in movies... When there are no advance screenings for critics, it means it's bad.

Work on the game continues. With a new AI system and a rejiggering of other aspects (new stamina system, etc.) the combat is deeper, more varied and more surprising than it used to be. My spirits are pretty high.

As always, I stream #gamedev #indiedev on twitch.tv/seannyb