Trent Polack

YouTube video by XHolyPuffX NIER - Opening [HD]

still one of the strongest openings in video games youtu.be/P8XTbluLDyE?...

Kirby Air Riders and Donkey Kong Bananza being in my top five games of 2025 was unexpected

i was really good with my side-project for a very specific slice of time

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

is the speedtree store down, like, indefinitely? it's been a few days

similarly, for working on a C# project my time ends up being broken up peculiarly

modern rendering involves way more bulk material setup than is probably healthy; thankfully: toolbag

i like that my github contribution memorial has two warring sides

(gh-skyline.pages.dev)

GitHub - trentpolack/GaeaSandbox: Library of terrain datasets (mostly Gaea files). Library of terrain datasets (mostly Gaea files). Contribute to trentpolack/GaeaSandbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've also been maintaining a repo with Gaea 2.0 graphs that yielded some solid datasets: github.com/trentpolack/...

And then the follow-up work to detail out the landscapes in World Creator here (there's not as much meat here yet): github.com/trentpolack/...

GitHub - trentpolack/CALVINBALL: All sorts of random publicly-available information, assets, scripts, and more. All sorts of random publicly-available information, assets, scripts, and more. - trentpolack/CALVINBALL

I've been slowly resurrecting an old GitHub grab-bag repository at github.com/trentpolack/.... The plan is to more actively work on systems and content that can be easily placed as standalone work in this repo for wider use.

Trent Polack I’m Trent, I’ve been making games for over 18 years from designing deep, immersive systems to visceral combat to programming educational games. I am passionate for the stories they tell and allow us t...

it feels hauntingly familiar trentpolack.life

Trent Polack on about.me I am a Game Developer, project manager, and director in Boston, Massachusetts. Read my blog.

yet another page that's basically just a landing page for me trentpolack.me

Everything being an application to find files anywhere on your computer at impossible speeds

i realize this was important context to provide

i don't know how i've gotten this far in life without Everything

this is voxel. she really likes bad religion

[sad honking]

The Structure of a WebGPU Renderer The blog and portfolio of Ryosuke Hana

As I’ve been building a 3D renderer with #WebGPU, once you get past the fundamentals, it becomes harder to find guidance.

So I wrote a blog breaking down the minimal architecture I created, as well as covering basic #3D terminology like Geometry and Materials.

whoisryosuke.com/blog/2025/st...

my favorite part of game development is the part where things just serendipitously work all at once

lol

I think the resulting software library I have ends up around the monthly price of Maya but consists of, like, 10 separate programs and daisy-chaining functionality together like a madman.

I'm continuously disappointed that Maya LT was abandoned; it was a perfect and affordable software package that provided so much day-to-day necessary functionality at a fraction of Maya's $250/month price point.

I love Houdini and all, but there's just SOMEWHAT of a knowledge chasm there.

Physically-based rendering from first principles: imadr.me/pbr/?ref=dai...

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.

i like this bleuje.com/physarum-exp...

i want this but as a web page i can muck with

i need MORE DATA to always stare at

this is lovely, thank you

There's a few starter packs! bsky.app/starter-pack... and bsky.app/starter-pack...

My Solo GameDev Toolkit Workflow-Critical Software

I published an article on the software that's critical to my development process across code, content, basic OS operations, and more; My Solo GameDev Toolkit: peerlist.io/trentpolack/...

Or if orange is more your thing trentpolack.com/blog/my-solo...

are there any good lists/recommendations/groups collating gamedevs on bluesky? i'm growing to like it but my feed is anemic.

I got tired of Unreal's debug drawing performance, so I made my own system today.

Drawing +50M points just works now :)

If you want to use it: github.com/VoxelPlugin/...

but it's okay i got this treasure out of it

i don't like when i work on things and they get worse over time