Same boat as you!

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

making an echolocation game for ludum dare

#ldjam #gamedev #pico8

Still inexcusable in normal mode: you see this popup, grab a controller like it tells you to, then get punished...

Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change YouTube video by Nuno Afonso

Ark VCS has finally reached 1.0! 🎉
youtu.be/XSnIw4siQ6U
get it from ark-vcs.com

Raytracing Voxels in Teardown and Beyond YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

At long last, the Teardown talk from the 2025 Graphics Programming Conference has been posted 🎉

youtube.com/watch?v=IM1D...

(as well as another drop of some other great-looking stuff, check the channel)

fragcoord.xyz/s/hlawmk7w

Agreed. As a game programmer and as a researcher.

Intuitively I would go for shift-drag for marquee select, and normal drag for reparent. I think because shift is commonly use to "range-select". But I guess you want to avoid requiring a hand on the keyboard for this

It's supposed to be compatible with switch 1 games so I bet it does

Congrats! I was intrigued by your posts during the jam, will check the game out :)

So I think in my case I should do my own filtering using stm_now() or something else, in a way that prevents drift.
Another option is fixed simulation rate + interpolation, of course, but I don't always want to use it for other reasons.

In this game, the player has 1 minute to move around the map to "investigate" a scene. Since the movement speed depends on delta-time, "fixing" the timer drift by using wall time (e.g. stm_now) could be unfair since the player would have travelled less distance if there was delta time drift.

Ok, good to know. I like that sapp_frame_duration() is smooth by default, jittery delta times are not super useful since they are "off by one", measuring the time of the last frame.

While making that particular game I had a realisation though:

Great idea to add a visualization!
I'm curious to try the new filter too: I noticed recently that the sapp_frame_duration() had quite a bit of "drift" on the web. E.g. accumulating sapp_frame_duration() values resulted in a significantly larger value than measuring wall time. Maybe that's fixed!

Didn't watch it in years, but I bet "What a time to be alive" rings different in the age of AI slop

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I don't known if it would work with your animation frames idea, but I found that animating sokoban-like movement with a visual_pos = lerp(visual_pos, target_pos, factor) feels pretty good. Works if you play fast too

tagging @zet23t.bsky.social, he's making a cool programming game

experimenting with a new enemy in City of None with @liamberry.ca

(haven't done the creature art yet, not sure what it's gonna look like)

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

Speaking of hard bugs, reminded me of this gem randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/f...

My todo list feeling empty is not a problem I ever had 😅

Another annoying situation to handle is when the disk is full. Couldn't get myself to implement a error message -> retry loop yet

What does that mean? Do you write two identical save files?

Metal Shader Debugging and Profiling - WWDC18 – Vídeos – Apple Developer Metal provides powerful tools for analyzing shader behavior and optimizing performance. Dive into troubleshooting vertex-stage problems...

(screenshots from that presentation developer.apple.com/br/videos/pl... )

Thank you! I was already reading through ;)
Thanks for sharing

Well... I guess since I'm developing on mac, I could use xcode which has absolutely _savage_ shader debugging tooling.
But still, something cross platform and integrated to the engine would be nice.

Now I kind of want to make something similar that would work with sokol and the sokol shader compiler, so it can be used from C and other languages. Would be a neat feature to have in a custom engine

That seems incredibly useful!

Always thought it was cumbersome to debug shaders by "returning" intermediary values. But a shader graph is not ideal either, I prefer code. This might be the best of both worlds!

This is fucking cazy, I love it!
Also the fact the wheels are made many small rigidbodies