iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ah yes, the classic survival game...

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Dreaming of beautiful fields of mac and cheese 🧀

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Every time I go to check out what the front-end world is up to.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

More tests blending painted environments with physical lighting:

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I've been playing using realtime bounced lighting combined with the painted photoshop decals. This way dynamic objects can pick up some of the lighting that Anita paints in photoshop. Curious what people think. It's cool, but not yet sure if it's the right effect. 🤔

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Back to working on wheat physics! This actually uses Unity's hair package 😅 So we're covering the game essentially in a giant head of hair. Very normal.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Starting to get some paint layers into the game! This uses some custom tech I've been working on to let artists paint directly on the scene.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Some experiments for our recipe codex for The Infernal Parade. 👀

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I mean, I knew Rust was fast, but wow does it eat server workloads for breakfast. And only using .01Gb of RAM! What in the world.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I spent hundreds of hours learning to draw so I could make pictures like this

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got auto-generated navmeshes working for different rooms!

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lattice now has the ability to collapse simple nodes into a minimized form that snaps onto the parent node. This is shockingly nice! It makes working with complex scripts much more pleasant, because long chains of casts can be hidden out of the way!

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Some news! We've recently been working on a new project called The Infernal Parade. It's a bit of a spiritual successor to Clockwinder, but for consoles/pc! Build factories out of your own clones to cook food for an endless parade of horrors.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

An initial start on automatic parallelization for Lattice! The color here shows the work unit each node has been assigned to. These will all get split across cores.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I dueted with a man who claims to be 75 but doesn't look a day above 50. He sounded like a Japanese Frank Sinatra!

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ended the night singing jazz in a little bar in Shibuya? Japan continues to deliver.

A man singing with a saxophone player and bassist.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Since the last one went over so well, here's another concept that just came in for the new game project! Spooky warmth. I'll be posting more about this project than some of previous in development stuff! Credit: Glenn Hernandez

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Look at these concept images that just came in for the new project!!! It makes me so excited ahhhhhh. This is going to be so good. 😱 Credit: Glenn Hernandez

A spooky painting of robed figures entering a warmly lit restaurant.

A painting of a robed figured clutching a glowing bowl of soup.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The most damning chart of today is the fact that The Bronx, one of the most liberal boroughs in NYC, voted +12 points Republican compared to the last election. (28% in 2024 vs 15% in 2020). This was not just a turnout problem in the swing states. The democrats are losing real working class votes. 😕

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

My girlfriend wrote a Google Research blog post! She's developed an ML model that understands medical CT scans! And it's built for the public! Anyone can now train a local model on their own PC that can understand chest CT scans! Wild!! research.google/blog/taking-...

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Can't show screenshots of the project I'm working on, but probably fine to just show the depth map right?

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Did you know that you can emit a C# function with 700 local variables? #gamedev

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Good article on how Apple encodes their VR 180 degree video. They encode it into the frame at a 45 degree rotation to take advantage of the diagonal being the longest dimension! blog.mikeswanson.com/post/7477618...

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Working at a cafe today! Cardamom coffee.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Searched for "Golden retriever petting another golden retriever". A+.

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Oh wow, this totally worked with very minor tweaks:

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

I've been playing with Gemini 1.5 (with the 1million token window). It's wild to be able to give it your entire codebase, and have it suggest changes:

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

GDC Vault is truly a fantastic resource, lol

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Photobucket tried to delete all my photos, but on the upside I found screenshots from an unfinished TF2 map I worked on back when I was.. 15? Still have fond memories for this map!

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

In the rocky mountains this weekend!

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John Austin @johnaustin.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Finally at Denny's at a game conference 😂

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