Kingsley Hopking

Post from: Andrew Kelly on the post https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131 “Microsoft are free to change the Native API at will, and you will be left holding both pieces when things break.” “In addition to what @The-King-of-Toasters said, the worst case scenario is really mild: A new version of windows comes out, breaking ntdll compatibility. Zig project adds a fix to the std lib. Application developer recompiles their zig project from source, and ships an update to their users.”

Snarky blogpost aside.

The real problem is the clear fundamental difference between ecosystems of Windows & Linux development.

I get the “perf at all costs” but I really value that any .exe released is going to maintain backwards compatibility for a significant amount of time. (No app patches req)

Vulkan Descriptor Heap extension

In this blog, Vulkan Strategy Officer, Tobias Hector, explains how the new extension fundamentally changes how Vulkan applications interact with descriptors. The working group is looking for feedback before making it part of the core specification.

Learn more: khr.io/1n5
#vulkan #gpu #programming

YouTube video by Elias Daler I made a real PS1 game in 1.5 months

It took me 1 month to make this video.

It's 43 minutes and it's jam packed with cool information about how I make PS1 games and how I made Yume Nikki PS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA2...

#gamedev #indiedev #psx #ps1 #yumenikki

I’m suspicious of professionals / techfluencers praising LLMs.

I do worry about the learned helplessness feedback loop for students / folk learning new things.

LLMs make you feel like you are learning but you are actually just outsourcing your thought process to a for profit company.

Very cringe

I don’t use LLM for any home work or any code, but I do investigate it’s utility every 6-12 months

- It’s detrimental to code quality / architecture.

- it seriously stifles the process of learning & making connections between ideas.

- Fine as a first pass for reviews (catch stupid logic bugs)

there's basically two ways to create shareholder value

1 - make good stuff people want

2 - fire everyone who knows what they're doing even if the doors fly off your airplanes and make up some wild shit about how autocorrect is going to make it all better eventually

we are unfortunately in era 2

This is it, this is the coolest little guy!

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures jcgt.org/published/00...

A structure testing out an evolution of the trimsheet, with both stone and plaster walls available. The blue roof gives me distant childhood memories of Warcraft... II I think? Also, cylinders of any kind really eat up the poly budget!

#256fes #b3d

YouTube video by Jorrit Rouwe A strand based hair simulation running on GPU

A sneak peak of what I've been working on: A strand based hair system for Jolt Physics (WIP): youtu.be/Rl19G0c003o

What an impeccable vibe!

💵 MONEY for GAME? In 2026??? 💵

There have been more and more successful-game-devs-turned-game-funders popping up, so here's a lil' thread of some of the more recent ones I've seen.

Hopefully this helps you get some $$$! 🔽

Honestly the bare minimum that discord could do to solve this is to allow for a forum mode/section that is able to be indexed & just be explicit that the post is public.

If anyone wants to give me investor money, I would love to make a competitor hehe.

I’ve long hated that communities are non indexable by search engines. Getting information about graphics things requires a trawl through “general conversation”

We had a working system and it was called forums….

I’m sure this will only be a net negative.

But I do often think about how if things become significantly worse for folk they will just leave to the next best competitor, I’ve changed my “games” communication platform 3 times over the last 15 years, folk will just do it again when the time comes.

Oh my, this is an unbelievable library of cc0 game assets.

Thank you for posting this.

Highly recommend the edge chronicles, starting from the twig series. The age rating is a bit older 9-14 but the illustrations are fantastic.

Reflection:

I’ve been slow & steady in regards engine development this year.

I’ve been porting of my engine to C and kicked off a significant rewrite of my renderer & core, along with the removal of many external libs.

I’ve loved the process of removing external libs & implementing them myself.

Very much looking forward to seeing the teaser!! (big up more studios in Manchester)

You Will Never Know Enough Make peace (and progress) with incomplete knowledge

New on the blog: You Will Never Know Enough — Make peace (and progress) with incomplete knowledge
kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

Save 20% on Metal Garden on Steam Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.

hiiiii, Metal Garden is on sale right now both on Steam and Itch dot io! if you ever wanted to buy it, now's a really good time!

store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...

tinerasoft.itch.io/metal-garden

Today I spotted a wild environment map in its natural habitat. It had texture compression artifacts and everything!

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Had a great time playing this, I’d never heard about the original, rated it by going into desktop mode :3

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".

CANYON !!!!
#adventuretime #canyon