Ed Lu

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

Remarkable account of the people who can't wait to join the American Gestapo and inflict pain ... and travel the world deporting poor people.
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese now also names Microsoft among 48 corps aiding the genocide. Based on the reporting from earlier this year but perhaps lends credence beyond BDS's (and my own) claim that Microsoft is complicit.

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Celeste Piano Collections Something to do while you're snowed in.  Materia Collective presents the official piano arrangements of Lena Raine's Celeste soundtrack! This big softcover collection includes art by David René Christ...

Unsure if you perform, but I bought the sheets for celeste's a long time ago and found it perfect for my middling level of skill. www.fangamer.com/products/cel...

Also very nice to listen to!

Yoooo @nathangrayson.bsky.social

Damn, means a lot to me that Man with a Hammer was that memorable to you. I only wish it weren't still so relevant today.

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD

MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Can confirm: 5calls.org makes this very quick and easy!

The most immediate thing we cis folks in the U.S. can do to help our trans siblings right now is call our representatives, and this site makes that process extremely simple.

5calls.org/issue/medica...

at the very least it's a nepo baby choosing to facilitate the arts instead of inventing yet another torment nexus. like i imagine this is Bleak™ if you're an indie hoping this team had simply synthesized a philosopher's stone, but it would seem equivalent exchange still applies.

These folks seem pretty cool.
Developers from around the world are eligible.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Tenderfoot Tactics team has decided to remove our game from sale on Xbox in solidarity with the Palestinian-lead Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which added Xbox to their priority boycott list earlier this month. We hope that Microsoft will listen to the voices of their workers and customers and stop all business with the criminal Israeli military, which we have all watched conduct an open genocide in Gaza over the last 18 months. We hope that the broader community will join in the pressure campaign and fight for an end to occupation and apartheid in Palestine and across the world.

We have removed Tenderfoot Tactics from sale on @xbox.com in solidarity with @bdsmovement.bsky.social . We call on others in our community to do whatever they can to fight this historic injustice. Free Palestine 🍉

I'm not gonna hammer anyone over the head about this, but I will occasionally reshare this due to our both long- and short-term institutional memory loss. Take care in your work today!

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account. Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.” There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Fundamentally, no one believes the Dem base will truly get violent, and if they do, the cops will put them down, whereas everyone believes the GOP base will get violent, and when they do the cops won’t stand in their way.

Foucault: “Politics is war by other means.”

another stylized aesthetic explosion experiment.

still challenging myself to only use default sphere mesh + vtx warp + fragment fx, no particles.

stylized discard instead of alphablend in fragment shader for a sharp contrast + glitchy pixel look.

#gamedev #godotengine #wip #vfx #rtvfx #procgen

Moon Crash //

Here's a version of solving inverse kinematics using CCD (Cylic Coordinate Descent). The prevoius methods were analytical methods, this one is iterative, and starts moving into solving for an N number of bones.

The p5js sketch:
editor.p5js.org/admiralra/sk...

I wrote this post about the illusion that indie is a 'superior development style' about a week ago and waffled on whether or not it was still relevant enough to post. Aftermath putting up a podcast on the same topic today convinced me to finally shove it out the door.

auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

The first gameplay trailer for Slay the Spire 2 has been revealed at #TheGameAwards!

Step into the newly evolved Spire with a new and returning cast of characters, as well as an arsenal of brand new cards, relics, and potions ⚔️✨

What new strategies and challenges await...?

@chaosed0.bsky.social's pick: Beyond All Reason 🤖

"Free to play RTS where the standard format is 8v8 and thousands of units is normal. Very unusual to see an RTS where teamwork is so heavily emphasized. Their moderation team is very active and bans toxic people. Cool game."

yeah to non-shitpost for a second, I have close friends that this has happened to and it's extremely tragic. mid-20s mental onset illness in young men is A Thing, and it's really fucking scary and sad. people who loved him are probably agonizing over if only they had done something.

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching

Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

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

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy?
#gamedesign

New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

Pentiment key art showing a dark background w/ Totentanz. In front of it is a man seated at an angled work desk painting an illustration for a book of hours. His head has been replaced with a graphic illustration of orange flames rising up.

Happy 2-year anniversary to Pentiment.

Breakpoint Replays - Technical Deep Dive In which I delve into the implementation of Breakpoint's in-game replay system.

I wrote up this post on Breakpoint's replay system simply to share the knowledge with the world, but it got me a game dev job not once, but twice. Weird how a lot of the interview process is just proving that you know what you're talking about.

straypixels.net/breakpoint-r...

Engineering Wizard with a Gun - State Divergences How we solved bugs in deterministic lockstep with three engineers.

This game dev post on Wizard with a Gun's use of deterministic lockstep is super niche, but I hope it helps someone someday. And it's weird that I'm using quite a bit of the knowledge in the new gig.

straypixels.net/wwag-diverge...

Tech Art of Wizard with a Gun - Mixing 2D/3D Every single visual trick we used to create a hybrid 2D and 3D environment.

I wrote this technical art post some time ago on mixing 3D and 2D for Wizard with a Gun. Seeing a lot of games come out with this art style lately, probably inspired by Octopath Traveler and similar games.

straypixels.net/wwag-charact...