Graham Pentheny 🔜 Boston Games Week & Godot Con & PAX East

Wooooo congratulations!!! 🙌👏📗

Holding up my book "Mastering Community Management: Chaos, Compassion, and Connection in Games".

Picture of me in between shelves of books, holding up my book.

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨

"Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭

Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces!

Shares appreciated. AHH!!

Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Maybe we'd have flying cars and world peace if Windows had switched to LF and case-sensitive file systems like everyone else... 🤔

YouTube video by Spry Fox Spirit Crossing - 14.2 Trailer

Hi everyone! We're Spry Fox. 🦊

As some of you may have heard, we've been working on our newest project: Spirit Crossing, a cooperative life-sim focused on friendship & community.

Let's take a look at the world we've been crafting:
🌲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEKb...

☀️ playspiritcrossing.com

4000 more hours and you’ll be an expert in video games!

the thing about "move fast and break things" is that not breaking things is often quite a lot faster

My neighborhood is rife with them. They come out as early as 8:30am. Fun fact: they resonate at the same frequency as a low A string on a guitar and are about 100db. 🫠

Could be worse. Could be leaf blowers

Dumpster fire fighter 🗑️🧑‍🚒

just ship it. shut up, theseus.

A big group photo of the BBQ attendees.

People sitting on the grass and gathering under tents in the park.

People chatting under tents in the park.

The tops of trees against a blue sky.

There's a reason the summer community BBQ is one of our favorite events of the year! So great to see our amazing community come out and make an already sunny and beautiful day even better.

#gamedev #indiedev

Please, Windows, just be an operating system for me. That's all I want.

Imagine not being able to open your game engine editor today because it can't phone home. status.unity.com

drawing of the artist full body walking in profile holding a bag and bouquet of flowers, her head and hand is in a neon color fire, her head/hand reduced to skeletal form

hypernormalisation

Join us today at the very first Thinky Direct, filled with trailers and announcements from all the games that scratch your brain.

Tune in to see #CipherZero news!

6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT!

www.youtube.com/live/iXyyhQd...

#PlayCipherZero #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #ThinkyDirect

Yo!

I’ve been working on my game, a tower defense called Spires of Morosith: Gossamer Sundered, and I've just published a Demo! Please give it a try, you can get it on steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3094970/...

If you dig the game, tell a friend!

#indiegames #steamdemo #towerdefense

GameLoop 2025 GameLoop 2025

Boston GameLoop tickets went up the other day!

GameLoop is one of our fav local events, "like a day full of all the best hallway conversations you’d have at GDC" as they say. Tell your game makin' friends and coworkers!

August 16th @ MIT

Tickets here -> www.bostonfig.com/gameloop-2025/

A picture showing two diagrams of rounded corners, one using a circular equation and the other using a parabolic equation.

Some of y'all are gonna think I've gone completely nuts, but I'm gonna talk about rounded corners and why circles suck.

Most devs take it for granted that rounded corners are circles. Spoiler: They don't have to be!

There is a much more aesthetically pleasing and cheaper alternative. 🧵👇
#gamedev

YouTube video by Mark Mayers DESOLUS Announcement Trailer

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus!

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game.

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

I really struggle with this when I talk about my interests and career. I always have to say “game AI, not LLM ChatGPT stuff”

Whenever I ask colleagues about bizarre Unreal things the response is often "Oh right yeah that's a thing. Yeah you'll get used to it."

Unreal is the C++ of game engines.

So you either can create an FRotator from Euler angles xyz by calling

FRotator::MakeFromEuler(FVector{x, y, z})

or construct it directly with

FRotator{y, z, x}

.....wat

There is FRotator::MakeFromEuler that takes an FVector of axis rotations and correctly generates an FRotator.

However for some bizarre reason, FRotator stores values internally in the order: Pitch (Y), Yaw (Z), Roll (X). It also has a public constructor that takes three floats in that order.

Today's fun Unreal-ism:
Unreal is right-handed Z-up, so Euler angles in Unreal are:
Yaw = Z, Pitch = Y, Roll = X

Rotations are often defined by FRotator.

There is the FRotator::Euler() method that gives you an FVector with the correct axis rotations in the correct places.

A PAX '25 special guest pass and a blue pin. It features a yellow bird wearing a cap with "BGW 2025" Written below. There's a very tiny "#1" next to the letters.

Five years ago I went to my first PAX not knowing anyone and with no clue how to start connecting with people in the industry. This year could not have felt like more of a full circle moment.

Y’all figure out that bug you were telling me about?

Unity just is not stable enough as a business or a company to rely on it for developing multi-year projects.

Are you already in Boston for PAX East? Boston Gamedev Week organized by @bostongamedev.bsky.social is happening through Friday!

There's a demo night and wonderful social meetup (Make Games, Make Friends) tonight and I'll be at both. Come hang out?!

Details here:
gamedev.boston

We’ll miss you! Take care, there will be a next time ❤️

My favorite part about parking at South Station is this 26 year old Mapquest printout in the elevator. #boston