The boiling heat of battle finally fades. Appreciate the quiet stillness of the coastline, once a place of struggle and violence, death and destruction. All washed away by the gentle waves.

A new post up on the blog: thoughts on how small teams make big games - and a fresh entry from the Hermitorium archives for your reading rituals.

www.theastronauts.com/2025/06/how-...

Bullet time - because some shots deserve your full attention.

Striga - deboning enemies since MDCCXCII.

Harder than the song tho? :D

Ghost - Satanized (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Ghost

It has been wayy to long w/o a new Ghost album, hyped for Skeleta!

Fantastic as always! Looking forward to what you all are cooking! <3

In our next Tiny Glade update we'll bump the light limit from 32 to 32k while keeping the cost more or less the same.

The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.

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.

Really digging those short snippets! Such a cool vibe 😍

Images from movies like Avengers: Infinity War, Dune, Black Widow, and Top Gun: Maverick, compared to output from AI service Midjourney showing how closely it can replicate them.

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵

spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...