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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hey look, a bunch of roads for the car!

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Cheez 🖤 comms closed! @ricecakehomie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is immediately going into my vocab

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

An excellent and thoughtful piece on failure in RPGs, which I got to contribute some words to: "I'm putting you through failure in order to give you something that I think you will enjoy. I try to earn that trust from the player."

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know I've said this many times, but I really love LOGH's 3D battle planning graphics, and no matter how many prototypes it takes, I will eventually make the concept work. I think I'm fairly close...

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 14/09/2026

No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does not look like much yet, but slowly been getting into some procgen stuff. Not related to my RTS prototype (burnt out on tweaking the computer opponent to effectively understand great war tactics).

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hard to say if the Frame really is VR's swansong, but if I as a developer can't afford to buy the hardware, I reckon any potential customers are struggling too. The userbase will remain too small to be worth developing for, that is for sure.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cancelled my request for a Steam Frame devkit. It was always a long shot to begin with.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk

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SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing

An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.

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nek(r)o🎃 @neko.moe.observer · 07/09/2026

as we approach the first kirkversary, i have been unable to get this video out of my head for this past year...

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is not actually the opposite, this is closer to a middle ground status quo. Keeping knowledge trapped in its book binding, just to rot in someone's private collection benefits nobody. The book should be scanned and freely distributed to online archives for all to enjoy!

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I would 100% support a policy of data centers having to: 1. Produce or fund renewable energy for its own consumption. 2. Have suitable soundproofing. 3. Use close looped cooling, or air cooling. Plus heat recovery methods to guarantee a max excess.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are exactly 52192 soldiers in this match. All teams have their computer opponent logic turned on. Getting stable 20 fps inside the engine. Not bad.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You know you're doing good if you're actually having fun watching a computer opponent playtest play out.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reached a stage where the AI behaves like its in the eastern front. If I can just make it better handle offensives and multiple team battles (plus maybe better artillery placement), I'll have something very competent in my hands.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Actually screaming "NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT" as I see the AI commander pathfind into the fucking void as the optimal way to keep artillery out of range of incoming enemy scouts. #gamedev

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Been testing basic computer opponents. Slowly been getting them to be slightly more competent and strategic. Fascinating that the LoS code resulted in no man's land being the place of choice for a defensive position tanks to the crater's protection. Here's a big battle: youtu.be/vtQaWr4Nwyg

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think "Bluesky's userbase being toxic" is less of a problem for Bluesky's image than the fact that the admins keep permabanning people for making their friends upset

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I always liked the #CK3 tooltip-in-tooltip system. Now I made it for #VintageStory. Not too shabby if I may say so for just a day's work.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Surely it's not a terrible idea to just try to maintain my own for of the service we self host and rely on for our translations!

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not quite getting animations right yet. #VintageStory

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A genuine unpopular opinion I hold is that C++ is outdated. For example, function and operator names are all abbreviations instead of verbose and clear names, why? Because otherwise you might not be able to fit the source code in your floppy, dummy! It was made to fit needs that no longer exist.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Super excited for this. Such a shame that it's basically impossible to legally watch because Apple makes it as hard as humanly possible for you to give them money. Needing to buy a $1000 device as a prerequisite to being able to sign up to pay for a streaming service is so silly.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Implemented actual trench construction. Figuring out how to make the AI design proper trench networks is sure going to be a headache.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My RTS project is coming along quite well. #gamedev Next up, I want to keep working on more polish features like order queueing. Then afterwards, trench digging. Explosives already have a proper check for penetration, so trench warfare will actually be an effective strategy against shelling.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've kept working on the trench system. It's working quite well. Aftermath of a battle involving some 12000 soldiers.

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The PC-88/PC-98 were a Cambrian Explosion of sorts for a range of gameplay and design innovations that found their way to consoles in the mid-90s. many of these games were either straight-up H or dubiously-SFW (see: Doukyuusei, YU-NO, Princess Maker, later on Shizuku and ToHeart, the list goes on)

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Melee combat. Needs animations but the code is there :)

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Small test of the ranged units. There is no audio or many effects so it's not as epic, but it is pretty cool to see how well it performs considering that every soldier is doing their own line of sight check. #gamedev youtu.be/XGSVO0TQD9g

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Ranged Unit First Pass Testing

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Took me a good few hours, but now I have basic ranged combat too. It's efficient enough that there's no noticeable framerate cost to having ~3000 soldiers shooting at each other, despite doing *real* individual line of site checks PER SOLDIER in a unit. Man, I might be onto something with this...

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Took me a bit of work, but now it has realistic artillery ballistics and highly optimized raycasts for volley fire. Currently, it can handle twice the maximum unit count of any Total War game at 30 fps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAcg... I'm having a lot of fun with my hobby R&D project. #gamedev

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New ballistics system test

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I always liked how units would get tossed in the air by explosions in Total War games... #gamedev, as small R&D project I've been working on.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I've been re-posting fewer content from r/gamedev, that forum is now toxic, there's no discussion outside of shit-flinging about AI. So there's no good or insightful content for me to re-post. I miss having a forum for #gamedev discussions. They should consider banning all AI discussion.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Completely insane that works from the 50s and 60s are still not public domain. Culture is only allowed to advance once every 100 years. Until then, it's just re-make, re-releases, and regurgitation of the same shit by a few corporations.

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Reposting because of the sony news

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I find it mind-blowing that there isn't greater outrage about the Japanese police using torture to extract a false confession out of a child, resulting in her death. Astonishing, really.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Youtube is now slowly becoming Facebook (as all big websites must in due time), so now you can play AI slop games directly from YT.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Unreal Engine 6 was announced with all the pomp and excitement of an aftercomment about changing the water in the dog's bowl while watching TV with your mom.

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Hugo Cortell @cortellhugo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Unreal Engine 4 lasted twice as long as 5. Given that there's no new groundbreaking technology or architectural changes, to me this says that they finally caved under the technical debt of UE5 and decided to make UE5.5 (but we won't fuck up rendering this time pinky promise) edition.

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