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Michael Odden @michaelodden.com · 04/10/2026

Wonderful shader-workshop at Software You Can Love Vancouver by @masonremaley.bsky.social 👏

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Beyond Realm @powerspikestudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A roguelike deckbuilder where you run a restaurant and the rent doubles every month. Delicious and stressful at once ;-)

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks!! I wanted to pick something unique, but that people understood the basic “rules” of, and cooking seemed perfect for that

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 14/09/2026

No prob thanks for the heads up!

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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That’s weird, thanks for letting me know. I’ll figure out what happened, I think worst case scenario I probably have a copy that I can reupload

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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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Mason Remaley @masonremaley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I only caught the tail end of your talk, but am looking forward to watching the upload when it’s up! Sorry I didn’t get a chance to say hi! :)

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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

All hyperlinks & additional commentary can be found here: gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...

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2025 Devlog

The games by Mason devlog from 2025.

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

And lastly, the miscellaneous/creative writing section. My favorite post here is "Last-Lamb".

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

Cool tech links from this month include Johnny Marler's hot swappable Unity plugin loader, improvements to how git handles large files, and more.

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

I like reading about game design, but it’s hard to find good stuff. Tech and business writing is easier to find. If you have a game design blog ping me! Here's what I enjoyed this month.

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

Steam has also been doing some good stuff. You can now embed videos in your long description, and they announce that they're gonna start shipping gaming ready PCs running Linux in 2026.

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

Zig turned 10 this August (🎂!), and in October Synadia and TigerBeetle made a $512,000 pledge to the Zig Software Foundation. This issue contains updates on Zig, as well as links to blog posts and talks about Zig from around the web.

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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 · 12/09/2025

You’re welcome, I’m glad you found it helpful! Good luck on your Zig gamedev journey, it’s exciting to see more people doing games in Zig :)

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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 · 13/07/2025

Maybe it’s a way to increase the challenge, like juggling blindfolded

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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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