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LambdaGeneration @lambdageneration.com · 29/09/2026

The long awaited Deadlock Major Update "City Never Sleeps" is out! Check it all out in the latest blog post below!

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friends, I am absolutely ludicrous, and here is a gravity sim that doesn't use velocity or calculate any force. In a usual sim, you track position and velocity, and update the position every frame by adding the velocity. Mine just tracks the current position and last position. [...]

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 18/09/2026

Upgraded my game's line autobuilder so it can now build mixtures of arcs and straight lines, such as this half cylinder! #gamedev

A half cylinder in a 3D editor, black with white outlines.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 15/09/2026

All absolutely valid points, in the end it's just super unfortunate what happened re: a certain industry eating all the hardware

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 14/09/2026

And unfortunately I think a lot of people aren't comparing headset A vs. headset B but headset A vs. no VR at all, there's definitely a perception (not entirely untrue) that the medium is stagnant and high-end experiences aren't coming

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 14/09/2026

I think people are conditioned to expect a big uplift in experience 7 years on from the Index at a higher price point Obviously there's been a revolution in convenience: wireless streaming, standalone, inside-out tracking, but the actual in-headset experience is still LCD, similar FoV, similar PPD

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 14/09/2026

That is a bad sign... I feel conflicted because I want this game to succeed yet I haven't played it much past season 1, which feels a bit hypocritical I think it's the anti-cheat, the game is good enough that I'd hop on for a round or two if it was easy, but I'm not consistently rebooting for it

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Valve @valvesoftware.com · 14/09/2026

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 14/09/2026

Both cheaper than I expected and still awkwardly expensive

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 13/09/2026

Somebody on Mastodon sent the Tailwind styles page and it looks very similar but I can't quite see any 1:1 matches

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 12/09/2026

Is there a name for this web page style? Absolutely everything looks like this now: dark bluish background, faintly tinted text, rounded features, thin borders, lots of accent colors used on the borders I'm guessing AI is involved somehow

A page from a website that picks a random person who ever lived and tells you about their estimated life.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 04/09/2026

New chamfered and rounded cylinder primitives for game masters to decorate environments with! I think I'm going to do a few more batches of primitives and then force myself to fix up the netcode no matter how much I'm dreading it #gamedev

A selection of cylinders with chamfered or rounded edges in a 3D editor.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 03/09/2026

I thought the "they're going to force cloud gaming" takes were probably wrong, because RAM is just worth less (to the people selling the RAM) running games than running AI regardless of whether it's in your house or in a server And now Game Pass Ultimate only gets you 15 hours of streaming a month

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Ariel Emerald @archangel.film · 02/09/2026

Anybody ever replaced this PCB in an index controller before? my main interest is trying to replace the stick without soldering

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VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

💥 Gunman Contracts Stand Alone Launches September 10 💥 ☣️ Half-Life: Alyx mod turned separate game 🌄 Arriving in Early Access with first set of missions 🕹️ Playable in VR, non-VR and on Steam Deck Full launch trailer: youtu.be/9CjNGhgPjpY

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 28/08/2026

That's reassuring to hear, I just need to push through it I think

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 28/08/2026

I realized it wasn't really possible for game masters to depict a candle in my game so I added the new droplet shape to create the flame! #gamedev

A candle made of black shapes with outlines in a 3D editor.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 28/08/2026

But then writing renderers and audio engines for your games by hand has been at least a little inefficient since whenever Unity became viable, I probably just have to accept it's now a little more inefficient than it already was

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 28/08/2026

Yup, I have quite a backlog of tutorial ideas but I'm held back by wondering what's the point when you can (probably, I haven't extensively checked) get the same instructions from a model or even just ask it for the final code directly

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 17/08/2026

Finally got around to finishing some new customizable shape primitives These can be used to make architectural pillars or repeating industrial shapes like whatever those cylindrical insulators(?) on substations are called #gamedev

Two shapes in a 3D editor, a stack of rectangular cuboids and a stack of cylinders.

A long cuboid ridged on two opposing sides in a 3D editor.

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

hooray! eric (audio toy) has achieved triple-mixed-metaphor bliss! the outer language transpiles to C and lets me write arbitrary DSP-ish stuff (think, new synths, algorithms); it can embed strudel style patterns via inline mininotation, AND submodules with guis, including... trackers, that now...

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 13/08/2026

Oh cool! Maybe I should wait for this instead of returning to my now-ancient flat playthrough...

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Daniel Holden @theorangeduck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of my most requested articles is something on inverse kinematics and foot sliding. I finally found the time to write up the little recipes that have served me well through the years, including an offline method I used recently that works surprisingly nicely. theorangeduck.com/page/inverse...

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This explains how bloom works in optics. Check it out! youtu.be/QWqb5Gewbx8

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What is bloom? (And how is it simulated?)

YouTube video by AngeTheGreat

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Shiny Quagsire @shinyquagsire.bowser.gay · 08/08/2026

"We have Steam Frame at home" Steam Frame at home:

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 06/08/2026

Huh, those machine-rental prices are much lower than I would have thought Perhaps the pricing does line up with the costs after all

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 06/08/2026

The hourly cost of a machine that large doesn't seem to line up with the current token costs for that model, although if each machine were serving a very large number of sessions perhaps that would close the gap?

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 06/08/2026

Training is certainly worse and ChatGPT-style question-answer inference is pretty cheap, I know that much But is agentic inference really that cheap? There was a blog post a week or two ago when Kimi K3 launched that said to run it locally you need 8× B300

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 06/08/2026

Becoming dependent on a tool seems different when that tool must be rented from a small handful of companies at prices that are currently both high yet far below cost If they can't get the cost of training and running the models way down they're going to have to get that money out of users

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Shacknews @shacknews.com · 05/08/2026

Endless Legend 2 - 1.0 announcement date trailer #gaming #TurnTheTide

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Xiana Carrera @xianacarrera.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The talk I presented at #SIGGRAPH2026 is now available on YouTube, for anyone who couldn’t attend or would like to revisit it :) youtu.be/OFJYBUArVPc?...

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Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data - SIGGRAPH 2026 [Technical paper presentation]

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Shiny Quagsire @shinyquagsire.bowser.gay · 01/08/2026

got some Steam Controller v2 Swift bindings up and running for ALVR, though I won't be able to actually integrate them properly for another week

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 31/07/2026

I wish when recording staticy radio dialogue that cuts out more devs would record the entire line and then cut it afterwards I can usually hear in the voice that they've finished speaking, the final word sounds different somehow

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When I'm blocking out 3D environments I always have a human character in the scene for scale reference so I can eyeball things as I go.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 29/07/2026

Harder than you'd think to write an algorithm to find and close these holes where two procedurally-constructed edge lines meet, my brain is exhausted 😩 #gamedev

A junction between four lines at the corner of an object in a 3D editor. A small black hole is visible in the joint.

Two red wireframe rhombi floating in a 3D editor.

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I left EA yesterday and am now officially on summer vacation, woo! After a few weeks ill be joining Bolt Graphics, a startup GPU company, aiming to put the graphics back into graphics processing unit. It's a small company with a bold but respectable plan. Wish me / us luck! youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?...

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A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA

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It's Melody!!!! @melodica.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Mutant Livin'. Reupload for some minor changes. #CavesofQud

Caves of Qud fan art. A marsh taur casts Frost Ray.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 25/07/2026

And a Linux build. I want a Linux build.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 25/07/2026

Vault Breaker is a much improved version of Marathon for me, still tense and difficult without being miserable, I thought it might be boring having only one map but actually it reminds me of Prey: Mooncrash, which I love Just wish it was going last longer than two weeks

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 23/07/2026

And the offending number prints as 1, of course

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 23/07/2026

Trying to keep NaNs out of your project is so tough if you weren't fanatical about it from day one Apparently rotations can cause your unit vectors to lengthen so dot(p, q) returns a number slightly larger than 1, which causes acos(dot(p, q)) to return NaN I've been doing that for years 😭 #gamedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Why are VR games so hard to make?" Exhibit A: trigger shapes for an ivy plant.👇

A comparison between the the trigger zones on the same ivy plant if it were a flat game, vs if it were in a VR game. The flat version has one single sphere encompassing the entire plant. The VR version has dozens of detailed capsules and cylinders that closely match the visuals.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 22/07/2026

Added a few new chamfered cuboid primitives to help spice up game masters' sci-fi environments! #gamedev

A black chamfered cuboid outlined in white in a 3D editor.

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 19/07/2026

Compression is going to eat this I just know it

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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 19/07/2026

From my vibration-based audio synthesis experiments It shouldn't be doing that at all, but it's cool that it is 😅

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