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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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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

Terrain painting is simple and quick to access. Cliffs are automatically painted based on slope angle. Supports up to 255 layers. Work-in-progress, but feels very nice to work with when you're used to Unity's tooling :)

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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 · 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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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 · 02/03/2026

It's pretty easy when you know color theory.

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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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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 27/02/2026

Learned DX12 and Metal and started building an engine as a side project as I work towards shipping the Unity game.

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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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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/10/2025

Honestly looks more like this to me

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 28/09/2025

Same. It's pretty transparent with why it recommends games to you and it's not *that* personal. But for developers this is a blessing. Steam is vastly more successful at getting users interested in a variety of games than, say, Playstation is.

Is this game relevant to you?
✅ User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive
✅ In the Top Sellers

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 21/09/2025

Do you have any snacks?

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 17/08/2025

I enjoy looking back on how far I've progressed. It makes the rest of the journey seem less daunting.

Just make it exist first - a picture showing my first iteration of the town of Tristone.

You can make it good later - showing the current version.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 14/08/2025

The world if Unity had kept updating systems that didn't need a full replacement.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 21/07/2025

Swimming? No. Running through the water at high speed is her thing.

A black labrador retriever in their natural habitat, a lake.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/07/2025

Assorted dog pictures of this week

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/06/2025

The new Fable looks... It's not ugly but it's just kinda boring and neutral. Especially in terms of lighting and tonemapping this scene needs more *warmth*. Pre-release footage of course. Fingers crossed.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/06/2025

And during that same year we had Fable II, Prince of Persia and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (which tbh looks quite bland). Just to give a pick of AAA projects on the same consoles.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/06/2025

Games may have been heavily tonemapped but even among the brown games (which were far from the only options) there were some very different styles.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/06/2025

Absolute peak internet moment while Github celebrates it's billionth repository, and it's just the word "shit" written in a markdown file.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 28/05/2025

I think it’s even more useful for stylized games because you can have more definition in the lighting vs using detailed textures. Depends on the style of course. But check out Jusant.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 19/04/2025

So what’s the excuse for still using Google?

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 28/03/2025

Here's one I did two years ago. Probably in Unity 2023. So much improvement- yet so much left to improve. I hope I can share my current work soon.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 28/03/2025

I found my first 3D landscape. I've always loved making these. This was all the way back in Unity 3.

My first landscape rendered in Unity 3. Standing in a meadow in the mountains. A windmill and some trees can be seen with mountains in the background.
The image has harsh contrasts, and shows little regard for color or composition.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 07/03/2025

Show me four GAMES that influenced YOUR current game project

Skyrim, for its brilliant open world design and progression system.
As well as Oblivion, for its three/four-act sidequest design that always tries to subvert expectations.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for its simple yet satisfying combat system

Dragon Quest XI, for its striking visual design

The Bloodline, for some of the movement mechanics and worldbuilding

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 22/02/2025

These are some supposedly real explosions from movies. It seems that once it settles you do mostly see smoke on the outside and fire on the inside.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 16/02/2025

Back to our regular scheduled programme of trying to photograph black dogs.

A black labrador retriever runs towards the camera. Another one is standing in the background, staring off into the distance.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 16/02/2025

Just one more editor tool. I can stop at any time, I swear!

A stopwatch overlay for the Unity scene view

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 05/02/2025

The weather has finally cleared up, so I've been able to go outside and take pictures again.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 05/01/2025

DuckDuckGo AI seems vastly better at getting actually reliable information.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 26/12/2024

The girls are telling me they’ve never been fed in their entire lives.

Two black labrador retrievers doing their best puppy stares. One is wearing a Christmas sweater

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 25/12/2024

Christmas sweater time

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 23/12/2024

The Battle for Polytopia is my favourite.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 19/12/2024

I am the best at programming.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 17/12/2024

Using screen-space shadows as a high-distance fallback to shadowmaps. Downsides: - Inaccurate, especially at highly oblique angles - No off-screen elements But it's way better than nothing.

A screenshot of a large 3D world, showing a large number of trees rendered. Each casting a shadow no matter the distance.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 15/12/2024

18 months of progress.

Two screenshots of the same game in progress with 18 months between them. One says "how it started" and the other says "how it's going"

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/12/2024

UT2004 held up better in my opinion. It's not nearly as high definition, and the art isn't as good, but the rendering has a clarity to it that makes it somewhat timeless compared to Gears of War's obvious visual artifacts.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/12/2024

Apparently there's a strategy in RoW where you can become extremely powerful by petting dogs. This was a bug, but now that I'm aware of it, it's a hidden feature.

A screenshot of the upcoming game Roads of Wonder where the player pets a puppy

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 12/12/2024

Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.

A still from the Skyrim trailer showing the main character about to utter the famous lines "Fus ro dah" - which is accompanied by the main theme reaching its crescendo

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 18/11/2024

Modified Unity's terrain shader to support up to 16 textures instead of just 8. I am aware that solutions for this exist on the asset store, but none of them support ray tracing. Thankfully, Unity 7 will ship with a brand new terrain system, which hopefully won't have such harsh limits anymore.

A grid of 16 different textures on a Unity terrain

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 07/11/2024

Alright. Done with my custom Unity inspector. This should save a lot of quicking and scrolling. Not the prettiest but it works.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 05/11/2024

All fun and games until the PS5 version looks like this in order to sell the PS5 pro.

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Robin van Ee @rvanee.nl · 02/11/2024

The branch name though 😅

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