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Jake S. Del Mastro

@jakedelmastro.com
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Game Developer/Programmer/Composer. Making Pirate RPG, A Short Odyssey (He/Him) 🇨🇦 I make games with my own engine store.steampowered.com/app/2818690/… Dev streams on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@jakedelmastro

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 01/10/2026
Can't draw? Don't know any artists? Don't be a bitch and turn to AI! There's nothing stopping you from making an FMV game. Any idiot can hold a camera. You don't even have to hold it well. Sometimes it's better if you can't!
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 01/10/2026
Going live now with my #indiegamedev stream! tune in below! Come see me working on my open world zeldalike pirate game! #gamedev youtube.com/live/Y1fV4v3...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Animal Control - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 27/09/2026
So I did that 9 games thing I've seen people posting, here's mine. It was actually a struggle to come up with 9, the only ones I'm really sure about are the first 4. 😅 Most games I don't think had nearly as big of an impact on me
The Secret of Monkey Island, Age of Empires II, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Portal, Battletoads/Double Dragon, Fallout: New Vegas, Psychonauts, Kerbal Space Program, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 27/09/2026
One problem is that "influential" programmers often have a financial incentive to be pro-AI. The problem is most of them are necessarily employed by an industry that has decided to go hog wild on LLMs
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 27/09/2026
Update on my #netbsd sidequest. I tried installing it on a newer machine and I can't get the gpu drivers to work (AMD iGPU) 😔. This does kinda feel like linux 10 years ago. But I don't know if that's all bad? Yeah not being able to get your gpu working is bad. But tech didn't feel as bad then...
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 26/09/2026
My #indiegamedev stream is coming up in ~15 minutes (2PM EST). Tune in below to watch me #gamedev on my pirate zeldalike www.youtube.com/live/4_FIB-Q...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Island Exploration - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 25/09/2026
Decided to investigate NetBSD today. Since Linus has decided to slopify the Linux kernel, I figured I might mess around to see if netbsd, which explicitly does not allow AI generated code is a viable alternative. After installing it and playing around, the answer is ... maybe?
Neofetch running on netbsd with an xfce desktop environment
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 24/09/2026
Going live now for my #indiegamedev stream, tune in below! #gamedev youtube.com/live/eLmTcXv...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Open World RPG with Zeldalike elements - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 21/09/2026
100% It's been really disappointing to see some people who I used to look up to basically buy into AI completely uncritically
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 19/09/2026
My #gamedev stream is coming up in ~15 minutes (2PM EST) Tune in below, making a pirate zeldalike, and working on interactive grass #indiegamedev www.youtube.com/live/p7dg-TA...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - The snake is seven miles long - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/09/2026
Going live now for my #gamedev stream making a pirate themed Zeldalike game #indiegamedev youtube.com/live/B4Q6q6z...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - A game about pirates - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 16/09/2026
RTX ON
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 12/09/2026
Going live now with my #indiegamedev stream. Come tune in while I work on my Open World-Pirate-Zeldalike game. #gamedev youtube.com/live/-F50e1Q...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Open World Pirate Game - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yeah, this tracks: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... The point of a mathematical proof isn't pooping out a yes/no, it's about understanding the process by which you came to the solution and what it means for work you do on top of it.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 10/09/2026
I'm from Toronto, and *NO* I don't have the accent you are thinking of. In fact most people with the "Toronto" accent are actually from just outside Toronto. But we all have accents, some (like mine) just draw less attention than others. 🙂
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 10/09/2026
Kinda wonder how many people they are watching, wonder if I already got a black mark for making that "I F**KING hate AI, OK?" video 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pW...
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 10/09/2026
Come check out my #gamedev stream live now! I'm making a zeldalike. #indiegamedev youtube.com/live/rjrpZlJ...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Guybrush No Densetsu - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This image does yell "Nintendo discovers crazy bump"
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 05/09/2026
My #gamedev livestream is starting! come check it out on YouTube #indiegamedev youtube.com/live/VDLgB0S...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - CastleBrainia - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 03/09/2026
Going live for my #indiegamedev stream come check it out below! Probably working on more puzzles today #gamedev youtube.com/live/Gg7krcV...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Water Hazard - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 29/08/2026
I'm starting to think I might be switching to FreeBSD eventually 💀
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 29/08/2026
Going live now with my #indiegamedev stream, working on some zelda style dungeons #gamedev #zeldalike youtube.com/live/_7A657n...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Zelda Dungeon? - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 27/08/2026
Come check out my #gamedev livestream now! #indiegamedev youtube.com/live/68BNNu5...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Unreal Killer? - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna see me model, rig & animate something very quickly? Not exactly a speedrun, but I was still impressed with myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVF... #blender3d #indiegamedev #gamdev
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Modelling, Rigging, Animating & into a game very fast
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 24/08/2026
I've gotta get out more, too much yellow on this map
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 24/08/2026
I use Arch btw, do we escape getting roasted? (probably not)
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 24/08/2026
Check out my friend Sarah's cool game about the ancient city of Ur! #gamedev #indiegamedev
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 23/08/2026
Vanilla is underrated ngl. It's literally a weird exotic bean, how did that become associated with blandness?
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 22/08/2026
Going live again now for my #indiegamedev / engine dev stream! #gamedev youtube.com/live/osnA2Lo...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Pirate Game - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 21/08/2026
While making this octopus I used a geometry node setup to duplicate each tentacle. Because they all share the same UV space, I only need unique texture for half of a single tentacle! Hopefully this saves some GPU memory in these troubled times 🥲 #blender3d #indiegamedev #gamedev
The UV layout for an octopus in blenderA cool 3D model of an octopus
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 20/08/2026
I mean it could also just be that godot is actually just faster in terms of performance. It isn't weighed down by all the Unreal engine sludge. Its amazing how much time you actually waste with half a second here or there waiting for the GUI to respond
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 20/08/2026
New enemy in the works in my pirate game, A Short Odyssey #gamedev #indiegamedev
Being attacked by an octopus aboard a ship
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 20/08/2026
Going live now for my #indiegamedev stream, tune in below! #gamedev youtube.com/live/rpqwppV...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - I dunno what to call this one - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 19/08/2026
My pirate game, A Short Odyssey, features realistic tides. Some areas are only accessible at high tide. #gamedev #indiegamedev
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 18/08/2026
Honestly it feels very reddit coded to tell people not to mention the cool stuff they made. The best communities celebrate when people in them make art.
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 18/08/2026
I think maybe leaving reddit would have been a good idea even before the slop.
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/08/2026
Are you doing any kind of texture compression? That reload looked really fast!
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/08/2026
Just having some fun with cannons in my pirate game A Short Odyssey. #indiegamedev #gamedev
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/08/2026
I fucking love it
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/08/2026
Also what I picture a "value extraction pod" looking like
A picture of the agony booth from star trek TOS
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 17/08/2026
The more I learn the more I doubt that "ethical AI" is even possible...
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 16/08/2026
Really glad to see the correct shadow mask pattern! I have a really vivid memory of when I was a kid pressing my face up to the TV during a hockey game and seeing the white ice turn into RGB. Ever since that this pattern is burned into my brain 😅
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 15/08/2026
Going live on YouTube for my #indiegamedev stream, come check it out! #gamedev youtube.com/live/MR56BdS...
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OpenGL/C++ Engine - Cannon Puzzle - A Short Odyssey LIVE
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 15/08/2026
Oof that sucks. I take it your memory is from Crucial then?
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 15/08/2026
Thank you for the feedback 🙏. Unfortunately I suppose I need to work harder to avoid being seen as a survival game, because it isn't one 😅
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 15/08/2026
I haven't released it standalone yet. But I just put out one days ago as part of a group showcase, my trailer is at the linked timestamp (3:55) youtu.be/EB7XXOZTJ2Q?...
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GP-Direct 2026 - Graphics Programming Showcase
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 15/08/2026
Check your warranty, I had a stick of ram go bad a few months ago in a PC I put together years ago. I was shocked to find out that the ram manufacturer (TeamGroup) had a lifetime warranty. I was even more shocked when I sent off the dead stick and I actually got one back! Even in this economy...
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 13/08/2026
I constantly fuck this part up 😅, and I've been doing this for years. wondering why everything looks fucked up and its because I need to flip my divisor around
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 13/08/2026
"Gen AI can't assign copyright; it can't transfer copyright,"
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Jake S. Del Mastro @jakedelmastro.com · 13/08/2026
Damn this is super, interesting. As someone who doesn't use genAI in my game I'm glad it means I legally own my stuff, where if you had used AI, that may not be the case.
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