I'm done for the day. 😮‍💨
Tomorrow’s CyberVGA plan:
Fog, sky rendering, floor/ceiling texturing, transparency, sprite scaling, billboard sprites, particles, fluids, decals.

Also wiring entity mesh/sound loading in main module and doing full end-to-end entity tests.
#indiedev #gamedev #dos #retro

CVGA In Action -- DOS 3D Engine + CyberEdit World Editor YouTube video by Novus Idea

New CyberVGA video is up.

This one shows both the runtime and CyberEdit, the built-in world editor for my custom 32-bit DOS 3D engine.
youtu.be/hvacxAT9kfw

If you want to try it there's a live demo on my project page:
expfunction.itch.io/cybervga

#gamedev #indiedev #dos

​​Spring 2026 Engine Update Since the last devlog, CyberVGA has moved beyond being a renderer prototype and is starting to resemble a complete engine. The largest addition is a built-in editor for cell-and-portal worlds, but a s...

Hello all! After almost a month, I have an update. Here's what I've been working on:

expfunction.itch.io/cybervga/dev...

If you have real hardware (486/early Pentium), curious about performance numbers.
Ideas or feedback appreciated.
#CyberVGA #DOS #RetroDev #gamedev #indiedev #VGA #SoloDev

I've finally completed my fast fixed point 6 DOF 3D pipeline. Now it's time to update the rasterizer and portal renderer for my quads. 😮‍💨
#gamedev #indie #retro #msdos

Steam, Epic face 90% access restrictions under Turkish platform regulations - Türkiye Today Türkiye proposes legislation requiring gaming platforms like Steam and Epic Games to establish local offices or face 90% bandwidth throttling

It's really great to hear these kind of news where govs honor developers. Meanwhile in Turkiye:
www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/steam...

I think I won’t leave C from now on.
#cprogramming #gamedev #indie

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that y...

What do you think about this:
#gamedev #indie #gameengine
deepmind.google/blog/genie-3...

Why did you spoil this for me. 😔

I’ve been on vacation last couple of weeks so, sorry for really late reply. Thank you for your feedbacks. I’m working on a huge update addressing the issues you mentioned. About testing on 386, it should work somehow because I’m not using floating points at all but I can’t be sure about performance.

Fixing The Fixed Point Maths After submitting my RPG project Harmony Tree as CyberVGA raycaster test, I have been refactoring engine's rendering pipeline to replace the temporary raycaster with my own texture sampled wall and flo...

Spent the night chasing down an instability in renderer's projection stage. Turned out my new saturating divider had a flawed overflow check. Every perspective divide was “overflowing,” so vertices were flying out! Details in devlog:
expfunction.itch.io/cybervga/dev...
#gamedev #retro #engine #dos

I'm still working on renderer, wrestling with correct vertex clipping for the latest Harmony Tree update.
The build we uploaded earlier as the #CyberVGA engine test for the #DOSember jam exposed several edge-case failures in the current wall/vertex pipeline.
#MSDOS #GAMEDEV #RETRO #ENGINE

Submissions to DOSember Game Jam

THIRTY NINE ENTRIES. 😐

Go play 'em! Leave a lovely comment! Follow the devs! Get inspired!

Did My Abstraction Slow Everything Down? - Week 5 of Back to the Pascal

Last week I overengineered things, this week I paid for it… in frames per second

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

#gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

Thank you, I’d like to hear any kind of feedback! Even though currently I present just my raycaster this will change in a couple of days.

Harmony Tree by Novus Idea A handmade DOS engine meets a shaman's path into the dark.

Current camera drift and wall sliding are intentional artifacts of ongoing projection work; no narrative or interaction systems are present yet.
#dosember #retro #indie #gamedev #cybervga
expfunction.itch.io/harmony-tree

An early research build of Harmony Tree is now available on itch.io. This release presents CyberVGA, an original MS-DOS rendering engine built from the ground up, demonstrating classical raycasting with textured walls.

#dosember #retro #indie #gamedev #cybervga

Trying to Finish the Game I Started 35 Years Ago

No clue what I'm talking about? Watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeAz...

Wow! I’m surprised to see what 16-bit bus can do.

Off-topic: Is a degree what makes a mind curious? Does walking away from school mean walking away from science? Or is it possible that some of us just learn better when we’re free to explore the unknown? I just wonder…
#science #engineering

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Been quiet for 2+ weeks—went deep into 32‑bit x86 ASM mines. Back with big wins: faster Mode X page flips, RAM→VRAM blits, sprite pipeline + 256‑color palette, a lean fixed‑point renderer and strong assembly knowledge. Old‑school DOS, new speed. Demos next.

#DOSEMBER #MSDOS #GAMEDEV #RETRO #ENGINE

Trying to Finish the Game I Started 35 Years Ago

I'm starting a new project: Rebuilding a game I wanted to make as a kid, back when I had no idea what I was doing.

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

#gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos

While Aciran the Soldier deals with enemies like Endala, Brace the Medic is at hand to tend to any injuries that Aciran might sustain. Brace has various combat skills, but all are secondary to Medicine skill which determines the chance of success of each attempt at healing.

Medics are an essential part of any successful Star Cadre: Combat Class mission. A medic will carry a medikit to help heal injured comrades. You can download the Star Cadre: Combat Class at cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-c... #starcadre #ibmpc #msdos #cga

Yeah me too. Honestly I was thinking ModeX is cheating for peformance, so silly right :).
BTW what language are you in?

So box made of raw pixels didn't filcker or misplaced and I've finally been able to blit raw pixels at desired page in ModeX. Old font renderer seems like need a bit more work regarding page selection though but at this point, that's ok. 😮‍💨
Next: Sprites...

#DOSEMBER #MSDOS #GAMEDEV #RETRO #ENGINE

Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus used book by Ken Allen: 9780672305078 Buy a used copy of Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus book by Ken Allen. This book explains the concepts and ideas behind the development of a flight simulator, a 3-dimensional walk-through game, an...

This may be a good entry-point if you’re familiar with a coding language like C.

www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

Oh man! You won’t be disappointed. 😄 Jokes aside I’m open for communication to share the practical knowledge.

Struggling with ModeX... 😩
This is driving me crazy, beacuse it took more than a week to implement and I'm still having problems with v-retrace flickering and page offsets (I think).

#DOESEMBER #MSDOS #ENGINE #GAMEDEV #RETRO

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I feel like Deus-Ex remastered should have been developed by Night Dive. Hmm… 🤔
#RETRO #CYBERPUNK

Deus Ex Remastered Announced With February 2026 Release Date Deus Ex Remastered is on the way, and it’s already has a February 2026 release date.

Deus Ex Remastered is on the way, and it’s already has a February 2026 release date.

Sun today-RN is 172. There are 12 groups on Sun’s disc…