iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I suppose that's true. You'd never use a pointer to std::string anyway (why would you?) ... it feels criminal, but I'll try it out.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

std::string doesn't have a virtual destructor, so you can't safely inherit from it.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about writing a C++ String class again.... if only to be able to write "if (str) { ... }" instead of "if (!str.empty()) { ... }"

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2026 metaphor:

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One more Aliens in the Family post - I like how they were trying to make "walking into the garage to something weird & unexpected" a running gag.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please enjoy this scene from "Aliens in the Family", a real 90's TV show.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Images of the short-lived ABC TGIF show "Aliens in the Family" has been buried deep in my brain cavities for 30 years. Apparently it only had 8 episodes. Now you too know it exists.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Without spoiling it - extremely good puzzle. 10/10

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lego era is over. Jigsaw puzzle era begins

Weird jigsaw puzzle, with edges barely put together

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reticulating splines... (and screen-shake) #gamedev #indiedev

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Found a lil leafy friend on my car

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if the green orb from Heavy Metal was real.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last night, I got the projection matrix (and 3D) "working" in my software renderer... but.... at what... cost?

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A year ago or so I started adding a software renderer to my engine because well... I was curious, and I wanted to go through that awesome tinyrenderer guide. There's no good reason to work on this, but I did it anyway, and now it's more or less reached parity with my GL renderer (but god is it slow)

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sony: we are getting rid of game discs forever fuck you Microsoft: our next console cant even read game discs fuck you Nintendo: Samus is BACK and BOY, is she HUNGRY

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why make gameplay when I can make the map uselessly repeat from one end to the other? #gamedev #indiedev

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 31/08/2026

🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨 Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 www.dfaf2026.com

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is done! What if I bought another Lego set...

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

J/k CoMaps works in my car, so that one instead.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is 2006: I am using MapQuest for directions It is 2026: I am using MapQuest for directions

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Me: I'd be happy to have any follower that isn't an obvious AI / bot / spam account BluSky: now you can be seen even less!

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just noticed a couple were wrong in that video - ColorBurn should be DstColor, SrcColor and Overlay should be DstColor, DstColor

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Was surprised that game engines basically give you 4-5 presets, and tell you to use a custom function if you want something more complicated, but having looked at a lot of the permutations, I get it now. Most are junk or probably only useful in certain alpha blending situations.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I wanted to see how many Photoshop blend modes were possible using glBlendFunc + glBlendEquation (as well as SDL_ComposeCustomBlendMode), and as far as I can tell, the answer is 12 (-ish - would require a blog post). Also used the duck from the W3C CSS draft for funsies.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/08/2026

All the biggest announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live aftermath.site/gamescom-openi...

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm almost motivated to write a blog post... almost.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My main project right now is a raycaster prototype. I'm still building out some ideas for it, but the movement and collision feel really fluid so far. The art reads from .aseprite files, and supports palette swapping. It's challenging, but really satisfying to see a lot of color combinations easily.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also, because I tend to get side-tracked easily, I spent a couple weeks porting my engine to the web (with Emscripten). #gamedev

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This tiny music player is the result of a ton of audio (and font) programming. I needed a way to quickly test audio formats, and metadata reading, so it made sense to build this out. It even reads m3u files, and 24-bit audio (although I can't hear the difference between it and 16-bit).

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm terrible at self-promotion, so I'm gonna post some stuff I've been noodling away at lately...

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Spent most of the weekend doing a bunch of emscripten things for the web build of my game engine. Just tested it on itch io and while it's not very mobile friendly (ie. touch controls), it works great! Check it out here: rewrking.itch.io/enginetest pw: 1234

rewrking.itch.io

Engine test by Rew

A browser game made in HTML5

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?

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Developers discuss the pain and prevalence of side work clauses

How an industry renowned for creativity is actively stifling it.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been staring at this wall a lot. You could say it's been a "normal" week.

That boring brick wall from learnopengl.com, with working (ish) normal vectors and some janky lighting.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been staring at this wall a lot. You could say it's been a "normal" week.

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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

23 colours #pixelart

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yesterday and today, I've been porting my engine to wasm (via emscripten), and for all the jank that tooling has, it's nice to finally get it working - minus threads, dynamic linking and an assimp/glb thing.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Game promo VHS tapes are a wonderful goldmine of weird.

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trying to optimize my own font/text system (uses FreeType), and I genuinely don't understand how browsers load (multiple) fonts and glyphs, and render UTF8 text so fast. It seems like dark magic in comparison.

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Spent the past 10 days or so rewriting the audio code in my game engine, which ended up being a huge rabbit hole. Switched from OpenAL (audio lib) to SDL3's abstractions, 16 bit to 32-bit floating point samples, and mono to stereo conversion, to support basic spatial audio, which is my next project.

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Matt (Tired) @mattfrith.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Please observe my madness... I'll finish this eventually ;') #pixelart

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And who could forget this classic rock climbing documentary:

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Helpful guide for rock climbing documentaries: The Dark Wizard - "Climbing without gear alleviates my depression" Free Solo - "Climbing without gear is the only way for me to feel" The Alpinist - "Climbing ice without gear is better than drugs" The Dawn Wall - "Ever climbed with a bro?"

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Andrew King @rewrking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Myself, a fool: It's 91 degrees outside with 50% humidity. Better go to the one coffee shop I like that I know has bad AC, order a hot latte, and work on my laptop while sitting far too close to the windowed side of the room.

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