Pedro Bentes

YouTube video by Rendering Engine Architecture Conference REAC 2025 Evolving Global Illumination in Overwatch 2.

Evolving Global Illumination in Overwatch 2

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European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Hot take 🔥
You should own games we sell you.
Owning means you're in control.
And if we do multiplayer, we're going to do it right.

Nobody ever should be able to just brick games you own.

And you should demand better.

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Sometimes I run across a library or tool that ruins my day by fixing a problem I've had for years.

Turns out, Google has a mature serialization library and code generator for C, C++ and more called FlatBuffers. And I'd never seen it.

flatbuffers.dev

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YouTube video by Pedro Bentes Bang: Unlit Glb Scene Test

I've been radio silent for a while working on a Raylib powered ECS game engine with the beef programming language.

For now that I got the ECS, Asset Database and Glb scene imports working. Gouraud lighting is up next.

youtu.be/QbWP5Tum538

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The Switch 2 announcement is the best Steam Deck Ad I've seen so far.

easings.gd GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Using easing functions with your code driven animations is such an easy game-feel win.

Get a gdscript implementation here: gist.github.com/pbentes/dea1...

See them in action here: easings.net

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I really wish modern AAA game Devs would be allowed to experiment more with their games; if they could put out smaller projects that were not so... "Movie-esc", I think the AAA game market would be thriving in a similar vein that the indie scene is right now.

Not everything has to be R.D.R 2.

After a month here is a sneak peek at the art style we settled on for our game.

I hope encoding doesn't mess it up too much!

I also added support for multiple channels in my VoIP implementation. Will update the github repo soon!

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Of course, the docs have the following concise tutorial on how to use the import scripts for scenes
docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tu...

If you're not using import scripts in Godot you're missing out.

Just wrote a script to add collision shapes and navigation areas to some 3d models. Doesn't sound like a lot but when importing dozens of assets it saves you the carpal tunnel.

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Started adapting CBerry22's procedural animation system for my game today! Up next, adding second-order dynamics and integrating it into my state machine locomotion.
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Finished setting up third person animations by adding IK for the "look" direction
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The first test of animation syncing is looking promising
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Playtest early, playtest often. #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Was no one planning on telling me about using second order dynamics for animating code defined values?

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Got the inventory syncing across players, I can finally bully my mates with the test cube. 🎮😂
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My gamedev projects nowadays are state machines, interaction systems and singletons stacked like pancakes 🥞. A delicious wobbly tower of pancakes.
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In this case I'm running two debug instances, but supporting multiple windows on a split screen multiplayer game sounds interesting.

Houston, we have multiplayer!
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Compiling over 9000 shaders on an empty project is wild
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The more I see of AAA game Dev, the less I want to work in it.

In pursuit of profits they lost the art.
Without the art they lost the passion.
Without the passion they lost their audience.

To all the indie developers out there: keep creating! Labors of love pay off.

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Get out of my head

Cautious optimism is an underrated state of mind

What we need now is an app that is to youtube what bluesky is to X.

#bluesky #bsky

Oh man, don't get me started. I feel like the average zoomer and gen alpha can barely use a web browser. Its all about the apps nowadays.

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We should go back to gopher net.

Hey, I just added both coyote time and jump buffering to my FPS controller yesterday. Great explanation!

Well, I was split between OCaml and Gleam. I'm taking this as a sign! 🙋‍♂️