Giuseppe "Juice" Modarelli 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG

I had a great time doing this interview, and I am really grateful for the opportunity given to me by @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social, whose graphics programming books sit on my shelf 😊 Thank you!

ChatGPT is woke now, didn't you know?

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…

My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p...
#gamedev
#Trackmania

Great article, you deverse an AT medal for it!

I'm gonna bin them all, don't worry!

Thank you Kenny <3

Lol, some good spice over at the #Ziglang github

You can hear Stanley's voice from that GIF :D

Graphics programmers and their precious triangles!

Reposts appreciated!
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame

go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK

Ahahah, anche le mie!

Congratulations mon ami! 🎉

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Hah, this wasn't really intentional but the generator spawned out a nice village on the side of a mountain. I wonder who lives there, I'm hoping for goat people!

#procgen

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Nice! That's split fiction, isn't it?

Where do I sign?

4 cascade view_projection matrices where the first 2 rows are all NANs

I've been writing shadow cascades code for 30 minutes straights... Time for a break

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

I wrote a blog post about my approach to GPU resource binding for the renderer of Tides of Revival. It's my first graphics programming blog post and I hope to write many more in the future! gmodarelli.com/blog/tides-d...

This is how I feel about "AI" and I find myself having to repeat these words almost every week. Initially to random folks on the internet, then to colleagues. And now, even to childhood friends 😢 it is tiring as fuck!

"The Dark Watchtower" #noAI #conceptart #digitalart #fantasyart

I can't join but this sounds like a lot of fun! Enjoy it!

Subscribed :)

Love the studio name! Best of luck with the announcement!

This renderer is written on top of DirectX 11, cause we wanted to get something up and running relatively quickly. But the tool is maturing and we'll port it to DirectX 12 to take full advantage of more advanced HLSL features like Wave Intrinsics and Work Graphs (that I don't know how to use 😅)

It's really cool to see what @srekel.net can do with the simple compute shaders I'm adding to world generator we're writing for Tides of Revival! We'll soon(TM) gonna add Hydraulic Erosion and SDF compute shaders!

Damn 😅

This was a great talk, thank you!