Richard Kogelnig

My face, saying I’m a speaker at Devcom

I will be speaking at Devcom next week! #ddc2025 @devcom.bsky.social

I am hosting the Tool Design Roundtable on Monday morning, so if you want to improve the usability of your pipelines & workflows, come on over and let's talk about the user experience of game development tools!

this is why I keep PowerTools locksmith around, most times it's the classic "file still in use by explorer" and this does the trick

Unreal 5: What's the most practical way to test (locally) how long a build takes to build shaders on first run?

I guess I could force my Intel integrated chip to run all games... XD

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Any caveas using symlinks on Windows?

Context: In the Skribidi project, I have a set of assets that the example needs (fonts, etc). Currently they are copied to the bin folder in windows, and symlink on other systems. I wonder if there's something with Windows symlinks that will say meh?

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Now for every start of (in my example of calc.exe) a window will open and ask you if you want to debug it in a new VS instance or a running one. and you get all loader information.

Bit confusing: when entering the name of the executable in "image" you need to press the Tab-key to load current info

I like the ability to automatically attach a debugger.

Specify "vsjitdebugger.exe" in Debugger.
This is broken on Win11 and you need to create a registry string key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Auto and set it's value to "1" to make it work

There is some documentation about it here
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
minimal (and not really useful) about the loader snaps: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Das geht sich aus

Using gflags I'm trying to set "Show Loader Snaps" system wide in order to see verbose logs when dll's are loaded by Visual Studio, but I don't see any additional logs in the Output Console. 'WindowsProject1.exe' ...

Depending on how much priority getting it to run has for you - you could try enabling "show loader snaps" with gflags. It can show what the image loader is doing and which DLLs it's trying to load. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...

Here's a fly-by with the new trees. The fact that they cast/receive shadows even in the distance makes a huge difference compared to the old Unity billboard ones, which destroyed the sense of depth in the distance.
#ProcGen #GameDev

(Video of old trees here: mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/...)

Hey nerds, does anyone know people who are good at Microsoft PowerBI tooling, especially their copilot integration?

AIIDE 2025 - Call for Case Studies We invite AI practitioners and researchers from across disciplines (including but not limited to art, game development, robotics, teaching, and research) to share their experiences in applying AI prin...

Get your demos, prototypes or case studies ready because the #AIIDE25 case studies deadline is coming up in a week (EOD July 9th)!

sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Game AI/NPC behaviour/Navigation people! Share your insights and techniques. Call for talks open until August 1st!
See you in November in London?

Got ya covered mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

I'm frequently asked "how much does @compiler-explorer.com cost to run". I've done some digging and posted xania.org/202506/compi... which is a high-level breakdown of the costs (and revenue); and links to a more in depth report if you want all the gory details.

One of my favourite dev stories is from about eight years and two jobs ago, when our Xbox tests would just fail randomly and without any useful error messages. Turned out the issue was the Xbox dev kits were in a stack under someone’s desk and every so often he’d kick them by mistake

It’s only been a day since the announcement, and we’re genuinely blown away by the incredible response! Thank you all for the support! 🙏
We can’t wait to see you in November, so don’t miss out and grab those early bird tickets now!
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Very excited that Havok is sponsoring the 2025 AI and Games conference!
It's hands down the best event in Europe for people in Game AI/NPC behavior/navigation.

Looking forward to see everyone there in November!

How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025 — Matt Godbolt’s blog How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire

It's been a while since I've written about the innards of @compiler-explorer.com. xania.org/202506/how-c... has the details, some statistics and some fun war stories.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

YouTube video by Shorts of Shows Fry, Where is Your Brain Slug

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6C1...

i can't believe they faked it

An example gym in Unreal, showing a kind of obstacle course in various colors

You know those internal debug levels used for testing character controllers in games? I have always heard those referred to as 'Gym'.

Has anyone else heard any other name for those, or is it always Gym?

FBC: Firebreak Closed Technical Test promotional image. At the top the text reads "VOLUNTEERS! SIGN UP! CLOSED TECH TEST" and at the bottom the text reads "May 15th 6AM PDT / 9AM EDT / 2PM BST / 4PM EEST". In the background you can see some Hiss enemies approaching.

Remedy needs your help! We're testing the matchmaking and balancing of FBC: Firebreak in our CLOSED Technical Test, running from May 15th until May 19th. PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players are all needed so sign up now:

firebreak.firstlook.gg/signup/tech-...

Crossplay will be available!

Live++ 2.9.1 out now:
liveplusplus.tech/releases.html

Fixes for newly reported bugs and a regression that snuck into the 2.9.0 release.
Thanks to all the people reporting issues and providing feedback!

#cpp #gamedev

Ein Freund von mir ist vor 13 Jahren aus Österreich ins Silicone Valley gezogen und hat dort als Product Manager gearbeitet.

Er möchte mit seiner kleinen Familie nach Österreich zurück, aus offensichtlichen Gründen.

Kennt wer Tech-Firma in Wien die einen Product Manager braucht? CV auf Anfrage.

anyone got any good talks on roguelike/ccg architecture? basically anything super open ended, where you need to support a ton of different systems all poking each other?