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I made a proof of concept to port WolfEngine to iPhone. It's cool to see what modern phones can do. Just run desktop-class renderers with all the graphical bells and whistles enabled. At 30FPS. But I'm not sure it'll be more than a novelty any time soon. Maybe in five years this is normal, though

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 04/10/2026

My focus on CPU performance in WolfEngine is paying off. A thousand little guys, without any special optimization on the gameplay side of things. Animations are skeletal, and units are simply instantiated from a prefab. Assets and animations: Toony Tiny RTS Set by Polygon Blacksmith.

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Harry 💬 @halisavakis.com · 10/09/2026

Presented without comment

A screenshot from the "AI GAMING FESTIVAL" list, with a segment called "ARTWORK: SEE GAME'S THST USED AI TO CREATE ARTWORK" and a capsule of a game called "SCHOOL TEACHER SIMULATOR" featuring an incredibly stretched AI generated slop image of a classroom

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foxwarrior3d.bsky.social @foxwarrior3d.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The fourth faction, the Awakeners, awakens various animals and trains them in the ways of magic. They can manifest pure geometric creations of immense power onto the battlefield just when they need to. #rts #gamedev #games

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 31/07/2026

Random UX thought - shouldn't a "brush size" slider in a painting tool be logarithmic? If the slider goes up to 1000, I still care about the difference between 5 and 10 but not so much about 605 vs 610.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/07/2026

I started a habit of keeping WolfEngine's bug count very low by clearing every known bug off the list. This process, of course, caused me to know more bugs which are also now fixed. Now it's time to create more bugs 🙂

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 17/07/2026

Got my engine to run on Windows again (though ray tracing remains Metal-exclusive for now). Meanwhile, working on terrain, physics, vehicles... Lots of stuff. No focus, but it's a lot of fun 😂

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 11/07/2026

I started coding an application that's designed to run alongside the game engine and tie asset creation tools together with your game engine. It mirrors the structure of a Unity project and helps manage / export source files. Right click > create .blend, Unity receives an FBX.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 11/07/2026

Is it just me or does 3D asset creation seem permanently stuck in the 20th century? "Exporting" files to game engines? Why does that take so many clicks anyway? Why do I need three file browsers to import a texture that's already in the project?

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 05/07/2026

The latest engine feature I've been working on is real-time global illumination using DDGI probes. A proven solution that isn't as detailed as something like Unreal's Lumen, but runs faster and appears to be more stable.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/06/2026

Gamers are famously excited by economics. Want to sell a game? Just tell them about all the microtransactions, that always does the trick.

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foxwarrior3d.bsky.social @foxwarrior3d.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My game is now public so you can try it with your friends and tell me about your experience: foxwarrior.itch.io/arcanoflesh #RTS #games #indiegame

foxwarrior.itch.io

Arcanoflesh by Foxwarrior

RTS where even the world is your enemy

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/06/2026

Writing quests is easy. Writing quests that don't need brand new game mechanics or expensive animations on the other hand...

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 09/06/2026

For the past seven months I've been working on a game engine on the side. Introducing WolfEngine. Written in C# / .NET 10, and aiming to make the most of modern GPU's supporting DirectX12.2 or Metal 3. Also integrates Jolt physics, a vehicle SDK, and a WIP terrain system.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 07/06/2026

I played Morrowind recently. It was interesting to play something that holds up so poorly yet at the same time has some strange appeal to it. It made me think about Avowed, and how these games are almost polar opposites. On paper, Avowed does almost everything better but it lacks that X-factor.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 05/05/2026

Engine companies aren’t usually upfront about their tools not being production-ready. That’s progress!

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BARKOUR | Secret Agent Dog 🐶 @barkourdoggame.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This post has no hashtags… if it reaches you, you always pet the dog in games 🐶

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 23/03/2026

For my next game I want to try prototyping in an entirely different engine from what the game will be built in. This should enforce a pure prototyping mindset. No polish- it'll be thrown away anyway.

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 22/03/2026

a thing that makes game engines interesting is that the best engine for a game is one made exactly for it, but the best engine for prototyping and experimenting with a game is one that assumes as little as possible about it.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 21/03/2026

It's a real shame Nvidia has chosen this direction. Machine learning has proven a fantastic tool for dealing with the artifacts inherent to 3D rendering- aliasing, noise, shimmer, etc. This is a big departure from that, and I hope AMD remains focused on serving as a cleanup pass.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 14/03/2026

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But the limits you hit on the Neo are resource limits — memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning physics. A Chromebook doesn’t teach you that. A Chromebook’s ceiling is made of web browser, and the things you run into are not the edges of computing but the edges of a product category designed to save you from yourself. The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 13/03/2026

I feel that for journalistic integrity they should have specified that it was a skeleton

Article titled "Giant Tyrannosaur Discovered in North America Is The Largest of Its Era"

With a thumbnail of a living tyrannosaurus

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 13/03/2026

Prior 2017, every game on Steam was handpicked either by Valve or the community. Most were made by professional developers, were in traditional genres, with slick graphics and marketing. Today, publishing on Steam is accessible to everyone. Most of those 15,000 are not commercially viable games.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 01/03/2026

It's very optimized, but only for spherical rats in a vacuum.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Game exec walks into a curry house. “Make me a pizza?”

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Malcolm @meorge.com · 12/01/2026

Devious pranks 😈

YouTube video titled “Waking a sleeping rabbit by surrounding him with tomatoes”, on the channel OneMorePlease, with 342K views from 2 weeks ago. True to the name, the thumbnail shows a happily sleeping rabbit being slowly encircled by tomatoes a hand is placing around him.

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Been working on voxel ray-tracing again lately, this time using a BVH2 TLAS and SVT64 (64tree) BLAS(s). The heat gradient in the video shows the step count from 0 to 128. This scene contains 256 voxel dragons, each model is 256^3 voxels :)

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 10/11/2025

As if GTA’s ever-changing release dates weren’t enough, the industry can now live in fear of Elder Scrolls appearing out of nowhere.

“I like to just announce stuff and release it,” he explained. “My perfect version – and I’m not saying this is going to happen – is that it’s going to be a while and then, one day, the game will just appear.”

Asked if he wanted Bethesda to shadow-drop The Elder Scrolls 6 like it did with Oblivion Remastered, he replied: “You might say that was a test run. It worked out well.”

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 03/11/2025

The rocky foothills of the red mountains are teeming with bandits, goblins, and more. #gamedev #indiegames

Screenshot showing a hilltop castle amid a rocky terrain

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Malcolm @meorge.com · 30/10/2025

The new Affinity is free forever, and only genAI features are locked behind a paid Canva subscription! (read: The new Affinity is free forever!) www.affinity.studio This seems like the best possible reasonable outcome here 🥳

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Just stumbled upon this ancient PcPersective article on real-time ray tracing.. In 2008. :) pcper.com/2008/06/ray-... It details the story of nine students (Karim, Wussie, Rick, Jan, Rutger, Trevor, Mathijs, Roel, Wilco) who worked in various roles on CPU-ray traced games using the Arauna engine.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The three types of game dev job listings

RESPECTABLE AA STUDIO is hiring 25 different LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR C-SUITE DEVELOPERS for EXCITING NEW GAME THAT’S BEEN GETTING LOTS OF BUZZ

Requirements:
-At least two PhDs in game development
-Shipped at least 25 AAA titles as a lead developer
-400 years of experience with Unreal Engine
-Expert in C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Swift, Rust, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, R, QBASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, punch cards, and operating Babbage’s difference engine
-No, we are not fishing for one specific person who coincidentally just left their job at another studio. Why would you think that?

THAT FAMOUS GAME STUDIO is hiring a developer for THAT BELOVED GAME FRANCHISE THAT WAS FORMATIVE TO YOU BECOMING A DEV!

Benefits:
-$150,000/year plus insurance, dental, a retirement plan, and a puppy
-Hang with those famous game devs you saw at that GDC talk
-We have a ball pit!

Requirements:
-A positive attitude 😊
-Passionate about our game!
-Willing to learn
-Some basic game dev experience a plus but not required
-Onsite only on Pitcairn Island

A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO DOWNLOADED UNITY YESTERDAY is hiring a developer for I DECIDED TO TURN MY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN INTO A GAME

-so im making this game and i have this rly rly good idea but i never made a game b4 so i need u to do all the engine stuff and the programming and fix the mechanics and do the sound and lighting and shaders and backgrounds, i drew my characters on the back of homework but can u turn them into pixel art for me, i cant pay u but we can do rev share and when this game is a big hit youll make millions of dollars

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length