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Jakob Raith

@doingitraith.net

751 followers 759 following 100 posts

Developing games in 🇦🇹. I’m also a boyfriend, brother, son, friend, movie buff, (comic) book reader and handsome. he/him

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 10/10/2026

I am showcasing Back To Work at the #gamedevdaysgraz today. I am very excited to get my prototype in front of people! #solodev #gamedev

Small both with the prototype of Back To Work running

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 19/02/2026

Literally the first two points in my design notes 😎

Game Design notes saying:
Principles
- Intentionality
- Embrace weirdness

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 08/12/2025

I think I broke the story for my game today on a gondola ride while skiing in the Dolomites 🚡⛷️🏔️ Crazy how snowy mountains got me thinking about my puzzle game set in a cubicle office #solodev #gamedev

Jagged and snowy peaks in the Dolomite mountaina

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 29/11/2025

#DEP2025

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 04/11/2025

The vibe doesn't stop on the edge of the screen ofc 🧑‍💻

Screenshot of a desk in a dimly lit room. Lots of old tech and computers are set up.

A wider shot of the single room apartment. It's shoddy and a bit run-down.

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 04/11/2025

I created a shader for the in-game OS to look like an old CRT screen. With slight curvature, chromatic aberration and scan lines. But since this will be a big part of gameplay, I didn't want to sacrifice all the readability and really toned it down. UI text and colors are all WiP #solodev #indiedev

Screenshot showcasing the CRT-monitor-like shader of in-game UI on a Y2K era desktop.

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 04/10/2025

Great talk by @akjarosz.bsky.social about the journey of a solo developer at @gamedevgraz.bsky.social Always encouraging to hear similar stories from the local game dev community ❤️

Presentation slide with pros and cons of being a solo game dev

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 15/04/2025

Mitte macht mittlere Dinge

Captioned image from a scene from Joker saying "You think rising authoritarianism is funny?" - "I do and I'm tired of pretending it's not"

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 06/04/2025

Some nice refactoring and code robustness added to the in-game file manager today #UnrealEngine5 #solodev #gamedev

Screenshot from Unreal Engine, showing a desktop UI with a file management window and an opened OS menu

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 24/03/2025

Current game project is still to raw to show 🤫 But I build my own DM screen on the weekend with magnetic whiteboard plates for full control and a nice fake leather outside 🤌 Made some velcro hinges so I can do a four and three-side layout

Player facing side of a DM screen with a dark blue fake leather cover

Inside of a DM screen with magnetic whiteboard and some lookup tables pinned on

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 12/03/2025

Show me four GAMES that influenced YOUR current games project!

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 09/03/2025

So I'm creating this in-game desktop environment and I've been scratching my head about how I can create many different types of "files" in a semi dynamic way, but at least in a way that can be easily edited and extended. Instanced Structs really have saved me here! #SoloDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

A screenshot of the unreal engine of a data table entry making use of instanced structs to easily create custom objects

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 03/03/2025

After the Oscars is of course before working on data structures for a file management system. #UnrealEngine #solodev #gamedev

C++ file with code for a Unreal struct defining a file structure

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 09/02/2025

On some days, I kinda appreciate the built-in sanity check in #UnrealEngine of prototyping in blueprint and then rebuilding the behaviour in C++ #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

A screenshot of an Unreal Engine blueprint graph.

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 03/02/2025

Dressing for the job you want, not the job you have intensifies.

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 03/01/2025

#Koalitionsverhandlungen #neospk

Alexander Van der Bellen mit dem Körper von Minerva McGonagall, der sich wundert: "Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?"

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 15/12/2024

It's so good to be back at working on games again. Even if there is not much time next to the day job and... having a life :') #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Screenshot from Unreal Engine showing a blueprint that triggers a camera transition.

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Jakob Raith @doingitraith.net · 08/11/2024

Ich möchte festhalten, dass hier herrliche Komik am Entstehen sein tut.

A screenshot of a twitter conversation about non-oral fever medicine followed by a web cartoon about a dog seeing cursed things on a laptop.

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