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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 16m

Now You're Cooking! is a roguelike deckbuilder about running your own restaurant. Cook delicious meals, build an extravagant menu, and keep your patrons happy. Did I mention that rent doubles every month? Boosts much appreciated!! :) #gamedev #indiedev

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Matthew Knight @mattnite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2 part PSA for SYCL 2026: - If you're like me and you book things last second, it's time to get your tickets. I need to finalize numbers for food, and will leave only a little buffer space. - There will be a board game night after the Systems Talks day: softwareyoucanlove.ca/agenda/monday/

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Monday, October 5th

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation” -mlugg mlugg.co.uk/posts/increm...

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Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation | mlugg.co.uk

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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 12/06/2026

PIGCON alumn 😍😍😍 Congrats Beastro team!!

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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 29/05/2026

happy pigcon eve 😊

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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 14/04/2026

You can now preview tickets for the Portland Indie Game Convention & sign up for a notification to pick yours up when they go live this Thursday, April 16th at 9am PT! Take a look at ti.to/pigsquad/pig... Here we go! 🤩

A screenshot of the PIGCON website. Two featured guests shown on the site include Mike Bennett & Mike Lorenzo working on a Mystery Project and Olivia Haines with her game Surf Club.

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ggadwa.bsky.social @ggadwa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

As some of you know, I left my job a week ago to become a full time game developer. I did stand ups from the room where I stored all my halloween blow molds so they all knew how much I liked Halloween. Today, I got this unexpected present in the mail. Thank you very much, old work!

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Matthew Knight @mattnite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Tickets are up for the next Software You Can Love conference in Vancouver! mattnite.net/blog/sycl-20...

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Software You Can Love 2026 tickets are on sale

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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 03/03/2026

ANNOUNCING: PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR pigcon.pigsquad.com See you this spring 😉🌟

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 02/03/2026

We'll be at GDC! (Some of us, and probably some of you?) Come hang out, say hi, and chat about roguelikes & procedural generation. # In Yerba Buena Gardens (North corner). > At 12:30 PM, Thursday, March 12. % With coffee, various hot teas, bagels & spreads.

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ggadwa.bsky.social @ggadwa.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Have we reached a game singularity? If somebody born today wants to play 3D shooters, they have enough great, AAA or award winning shooters to play for decades. Like Zelda? We have years and years of that. With so much to choose from, new games have diminishing returns. Unique still matters.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🔗 Neat Shader Tricks, The Future of Graphics APIs, and Other Links It’s been a while since I did a links round up–here’s the cool stuff I read/watched over the past few months! #gamedev #indiedev gamesbymason.com/devlog/2026/...

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2026 Devlog

The games by Mason devlog from 2026.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Many programmers consider Vulkan to be overly complex–maybe not even worth engaging with as an #indiedev. It’s easy to see why people feel this way. If this is how you Vulkan, or modern graphics APIs in general, the goal of this talk is to change your mind. gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/vu...

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👀 It's Not About the API - Fast, Flexible, and Simple Rendering in Vulkan

What if Vulkan isn't as complex as you thought? This talk walks you through a fast, flexible, and simple appraoch to writing efficient graphics engines in Vulkan.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"I Fixed Windows Native Development" Cool script for installing the VS SDK/toolchain without going through Microsoft's installers. marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-w...

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Welcome to Johnny's World

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🔉 Statically Linking PipeWire I recently helped @tuple.app solve an interesting problem. On #Linux, Static binaries are easier to ship, but PipeWire expects dynamic linking. To solve this, I've open sourced a static build of PipeWire. Read more below. gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st...

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🔉 Statically Linking PipeWire

I created a statically linked build of PipeWire for Tuple by reimplementing dlopen.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

that feeling when you’re about to have a text renderer, but not yet

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🔗 Prototype Progress, Monthly Links, & Zig Turns 10 I've been busy wrapping up the prototype of my next game, but I set aside some time for my link roundup. This thread is a summary + screenshots, scroll down for hyperlinks--not my preference, social media sites don't want you to leave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st... #gamedev #indiedev

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🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Do I know anyone who’s an expert on HDR that would be down to answer a few questions over DM?

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🔗 June Links - Wolfire vs Steam, Indie vs AAA, What Does ‘Content Creator’ mean anyway? #gamedev #indiedev gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As part of my shader library, I've been playing with Voronoi Noise and Voronoi Diagrams. #gamedev #indiedev #shaders

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ggadwa.bsky.social @ggadwa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My friend's game, give it a try!

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📅 May Links I'm doing a new thing where I share my favorite links at the end of each month on my site, you can read May's links here. #gamedev #indiedev gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...

A screenshot of the links in the linked blog post

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🌴 What I Learned from Staying Inside Chris Zukowski holds an online conference "Staying Inside" on game marketing every year. I wrote up some notes. Multiple speakers touched on a shift happening in game funding that may be of interest even if you aren’t looking for funding... #gamedev #indiedev

Promo art for the Staying Inside 2025 conference, features a bridge (presumably in San Francisco.)

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Portland based and interested in Zig? We're putting together a hang out! Details TBD. zig.day/usa/portland/

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Zig Day Portland (OR)

Zig Days are single-day collaborative programming events

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A couple of weeks ago while working on the beta release of my ECS, I noticed my command buffer abstraction was slow. It turns out I was assuming the optimizer could do a few things it couldn’t. The fix wasn’t all that interesting, but how do you catch this sort of mistake? #gamedev #indiedev

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Kyle Kukshtel @kkukshtel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Mason is incredibly smart and was one of the first people to encourage me to make my own engine - highly recommend subscribing to their newsletter if you love zig, game engines, game architecture, etc

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Interested in game design, game engines, and the business of indie games? Tired of scrolling social media to search for content worth your time? Sign up for my newsletter to receive regular writing on game development. #gamedev #indiedev gamesbymason.com/newsletter/

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Game Dev Newsletter

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m writing a new game engine in #Zig, and I’m open sourcing each module as I write it. Today I released the beta version of my entity component system ZCS, I’ll consider it a beta until I’ve shipped my next Steam game using it. #gamedev #indiedev #ECS gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/zcs/

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ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig

ZCS is an open source ECS implemented in Zig.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you apply this normalization approximation repeatedly, it converges IFF the initial magnitude is (~-2.24, 2.24). Outside that range, it diverges. This is easy to verify empirically, but I'm not a good enough mathematician to prove it. If you are let me know how you did it! 😜 #gamedev #math

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Floating point division is slow, and square root is slower. What if I told you that you could approximate 1/sqrt(x) as y = -0.5x + 1.5? #gamedev #indiedev #math

A 1/sqrt(x) curve with a linear approximation that at first glance doesn't appear to fit it well

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Fun bit of easing trivia–if you look up most library’s implementations of "easeOutBounce" and such, they make this bizarre use of the post-decrement operator... #gamedev #indiedev

v = 7.5625 * (v -= 1.5 / 2.75) * v + 0.75;

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Linear interpolation is convenient, but boring. If only there was an easy way to stylize linear motion without storing a bunch of extra state... #gamedev #indiedev

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Quick performance tip. If you’re comfortable requiring support for FMA3 (Intel & AMD CPUs have had it for the last 13 years!) you should probably be using your language’s fused multiply add intrinsic where relevant.

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Since shipping my indie puzzle game Way of Rhea last year I’ve been hard at work on game two, but I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like.

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