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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Have the pleasure of upgrading Messhof's gitlab server today (letsencrypt auto-renew stopped working). Apparently the upgrade process for gitlab is, _manually patching_ between TEN versions, in between each running SQL queries manually to make sure it's _actually_ finished. What a piece of shit

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Casey Muratori @cmuratori.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science: computerenhance.com/theroot

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The Root of the Root of All Evil

A Brief History of Programming's Most Ambiguous Catchphrase

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Blood Dungeon is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox Series, Windows Store, Game Pass, Switch 1+2, and PlayStation 5! RTs very much welcome. I love you. #boneup blooddungeon.com youtu.be/rmbXDEdb6Y0

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Blood Dungeon: Release Trailer

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 24/08/2026

I Burnt My Kid's Pancakes Playing Way Too Much Blood Dungeon, An Excellent Vampire Survivors-Like From The Designer Of Nidhogg, And I'd Do It Again:

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Vampire Survivors Meets Spelunky Is My Newest Obsession

Messhof's latest turns bullet heaven into a neat and chaotic platformer

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

by far the best engine integration out of any scripting layer I've used, and way more productive than C# for its use case

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Got Slug font rendering working on my android gameboy! Plain ol gl es3

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 09/08/2026

BIG HOPS TOGETHER is out now! - Play the 15 hour adventure with 8 players - Pick up, carry, and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other frogs - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story progression and collectibles are shared - 40% off for the next week Link below ->

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What's the best Linux laptop that isn't a framework? I currently have an ROG Flow z13 and it's pretty annoying so I want to replace it, but don't want to wait for a framework pro

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Mattias Ljungström @spacesofplay.com · 30/07/2026

You can live-edit a smaller box3d demo here, if you want to play around with the source code without downloads: minc.dev/playground/g...

minc graphics playground editor with box3d demo

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

what's stopping your app from looking like this

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

every video game needs a photo mode

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

crazy to say but having seen a few friend's games get absolutely binned by their publishers this year I think that given the option, descoping until you can self publish would actually be the less risky decision at this point

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

how many cigarettes is biking 5 miles in 180 AQI equivalent to

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

it's really funny to me that people are complaining about how annoying the traffic is in our cycling game lol

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

we did it. we made the whole video game

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

can't believe Wheel World is out tomorrow. 4 years. Afraid/excited for everyone to play it and afraid/excited for the next chapter of my career

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Marc Michaud @marcmichaud.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Presented without comment

Headline reads: Chatgpt gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

weird hobby of mine: making race car liveries in substance painter 🏎️

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

i feel like this is actually a long-term net positive for small indies making highly bespoke work. people are already sick of the scale-chasing in big games that are made with conventional tools, which is by definition the best result that AI tools _could_ accomplish

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

geez, nightreign is so good. no notes. most fun i've had in a multiplayer game in a long time. i actually really dig the pacing, kind of reminds me of a platinum game in a lot of ways. i wonder if any ex-platinum people worked on it

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N² @antire.al · 15/05/2025

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

3D modeling like it's 1963. Vector display for #Blender Geometry Nodes / Shaders - File in comments #b3d

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

it's wild how you can make a game that looks 50% better but performs orders of magnitude worse and has 10x the content bugs than the original, call it a remaster, and people will praise it

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

an accumulation of screenshots from testing my procedural brutalist city... it's coming together! rn this is focused on generating building placement so that it is interesting to explore, and the building overlap is compelling. lots to do still 😰😅 #GameDev #GameArt

surrounded by concrete columns, this is a screenshot of the underbelly of the brutalist city

sunlight is shining through a series of concrete columns. in the distance you can barely make out dead trees.

a somewhat aerial view looking down at the streets of a brutalist city. the ground is covered in debris.

looking through an alley of brutalist architecture. just ahead is a stairway leading into a building.

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

yep. gotta get the stuff on screen! the best code is the most rewritable code

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Raph Levien @raphlinus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I've now published my blog post, "I want a good parallel computer." raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/... . Thanks much to all the feedback on the draft, I'd like to think I've clarified some things that might have been confusing.

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I want a good parallel computer

The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those...

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originalnicodr @originalnicodr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The last demo that I tried this Steam Next Fest that I loved (and of course took shots from) was Wheel World, made by @messhof.bsky.social and published by @annapurna.com. The art direction and character work are beautiful. Go play it! #VirtualPhotography #FramedSC

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

For what it’s worth, all of the most important/meaningful connections I’ve made at GDC have happened without alcohol around

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

AI images have an extremely distinctive and very strange distribution of spatial frequencies. They're basically made of zebra stripes at varying scales. Every dark band has a corresponding bright band of the same thickness immediately alongside it this is actually MORE noticeable at thumbnail size

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

screaming "microsoft partner center" into a pillow rn

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I think that putting extremely expressive movement mechanics like haste and descenders into a roguelite format is a huge bummer. All the fun in actually playing and experimenting with it gets lost because now everything is just vaguely risky

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DynamicDonut @dynamicdonut.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It means a lot when my issue w/the demo is not gameplay but its brevity. It works in @messhof.bsky.social's favor tho - Wheel World's racing is so fluid & just perfect to ease into. Plenty of interesting takes on sports games lately but this one's my fave yet store.steampowered.com/app/3483160/...

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Wheel World Demo on Steam

Tune your bike, outpace your rivals, and fulfill your destiny

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ruby0x1 @ruby0x1.ca · 24/02/2025

would appreciate a signal boost on the linked post 🍂 and let us know if you play the demo, how you like it or if you had issues!

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

it's DEMO TIME can't wait for you all to see what we've been cooking

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

email rules lol going to try to convert all my messenger/whatsapp/etc threads to email this year

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm glad Consume Me is getting the IGF recognition it deserves, but it being nominated for excellence in visuals while Tiny Glade is only receiving an honorable mention feels like some next level indie gatekeeping

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wow the reviews complaining about Stalker 2’s combat were right in the best possible way

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Adrian Campos @friendadev.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Thinking about metal gear solid 2 hallways

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I don't have any profound political commentary beyond what's already been said today BUT I believe that progress starts with being there for your people, not in the federal government. So if you want to catch up or play a game or something please don't hesitate to reach out ❤️

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sam @samloeschen.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I implemented CMAA 2.0 (www.intel.com/content/www/...) yesterday as part of some Wheel World optimizations I'm working on. It looks nearly as good as a best-case TAA frame to my eyes and performance is on par with FXAA. Why don't more studios use this? I only recall seeing it in a few other titles

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Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing 2.0

This article provides additional performance, improved quality, optional integration with multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA), and the ability to be leveraged asynchronously on graphics processing units...

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