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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So the US @fda.gov website, fda.gov is just down...

Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If your game runs on a potato, and you can't find a machine that won't run it, the minspec matters less. Just pick a potato you can reasonably get, and do validation on.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Memory shouls be the easy one, ideally your allocator can tell you how many blocks you have allocated to start from Minspec should always be a physical spec that you have a machine for and do testing on, I generally expect the game to run but degraded on some set of specs below there.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Zuck is naming his new computers in exactly the same way I named my PCs as a teenage boy.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Unclear if this is "public transport" or simply "transport" for the public, which would include road and highways.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I mean, I feel I need a compelling reason to do extra work, and making getters and setters is a lot of work.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Maybe if you do something simple like lz compress it with prior frames you can get the size/throughput high enough to help that way?

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

With the origin at the bottom left I'm about at [0.4, 0.9]

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

That seems inline with what I've seen in some older consoles. You could also be freeing up some shader units that have other work they could be doing?

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Yes, dare I say able to "function" in the exact same ways that LLMs can appear competent.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

But is that just because your very competent as a front-end engineer so can identify the failings in that space, and maybe you just miss similar failings of engineers of other areas and give them the benefit of the doubt? 😉

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The failure mode I see most commonly is: impressively able to get the basics done without anything above a very cursory understanding of how the code they write effects the system.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

How do I say "daily" delicately? I'd say LLMs haven't changed it much.

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 11/02/2026

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

But he's always run his companies like a 12 year old... "I want to put a car into space" or even "make me the fastest care that runs on pure power"

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The other two tried never made plans in the first place. 😅

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 14/11/2025

we don't just need to be funding small studios to make one game, we need to be funding them to make the ones they can fuck up before they can make the ones they learn from.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just even having DXC as it is now, including SPIR-V support is huge!

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm for building tools that support a small agile team, of maybe 10-20, with room to grow. In my opinion, the main reason to build something new, is to focus on iteration speed. For code to pull in, it's all the little things that are huge, OpenEXR, OpenUSD, imgui, volk, DXC, etc.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Despite the industry settling more and more on Unreal. It's never been a better time to build a game studio on internal engines and tools. With all the open source, and knowledge sharing, Programming Languages, the resources are better than ever!

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yeah. If you turn off TAA and most of the temporal algorithms, I find those are the biggest contributors to the "Unreal look"

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I remember this was one of the guiding principals when we were working on The Witness. Puzzle adventure games became such an interaction hunt, for The Witness Jon decided that all interaction should be a clear and fixed set of things.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 03/08/2025

I made an anti-AI post on LinkedIn and the people angry or defensive all have Visionary or Founder as their listed role, and everyone agreeing with me has a real job. Amazing how that is.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The scam is to conflate everything that computers do (or ever have done) with the current "AI" craze, so that the AI scam tech that nobody wants feels inevitable, rather than a tech bubble run by villains, that needs to crash immediately.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Uhh... I'm in San Francisco, and while Waymo is a real thing, tons of Uber and Lyft, and I've not once seen robot food delivery in this city.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Know your rights before you hit the streets. Peaceful protest is protected — but only if you know how to protect yourself legally. Read, share, and stay safe.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Yeah, I mean it makes good no thrills drip coffee. But it's not going to like change your life if you don't prefer drip.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Do you have a link? I'd love to read more specifics

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

ICE opened their detention center in Newark WITHOUT permission from the city, and in violation of state law. Mayor Ras Baraka has been fighting to close it down. RT this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 01/04/2025

New blog post! "Measuring acceleration structures", in which we will compare BVH costs on various GPU architectures and drivers and attempt to understand the details enough on AMD hardware to make sense of the numbers! Reposts appreciated :) zeux.io/2025/03/31/m...

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Measuring acceleration structures

Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an abstract data structure that stores scene geometry, known as “acceleration structure” and often referred to as “BVH...

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hey everyone! My talk on how we approach NPR rendering in @unrealengine.bsky.social at Telltale Games that I gave at the Graphics Programming Conferences is posted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoUJ...

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NPR Light Rendering at Telltale

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Ya'll, don't use PlasticSCM / Unity VCS, They really are trying to take a bad VCS, and make it even less useful. Their forum links aren't even working anymore: forum.plasticscm.com/topic/3387-m...

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Topics tagged unity-version-control

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

That makes sense to me. Coroutines are a special beast. If anyone else is checking out UE5 coro libs, I also want to throw SquidTasks out there as a great coroutine library with UE5 integration: github.com/westquote/Sq...

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GitHub - westquote/SquidTasks: C++14 coroutine-based task library for games

C++14 coroutine-based task library for games. Contribute to westquote/SquidTasks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

But not for console SDKs, console ports are something you can always solve with enough will. I think I've seen a UE3 release on a new console recently. Ports are a fixed product and a fixed target. That's manageable IMO

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

As a counter-point. Everytime I've been on a game that decided to freeze our version too early, I've always regretted it. We've been convinced one way or another that we **need** the new version, and regret the decisions we made because we thought we were done merging. It's changed how I treat UE

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I actually find it to be better then live++ since, when you setup the systems correctly, it's easy to understand and *predictable* which means it can be robust to some pretty dramatic changes with a little thought.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I'm my experience, if you set it up early enough, with some basic rules/structure, and it's fast/useful. It's really not hard to get this sort of system to be super robust.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I had great exp doing this. Two tips that I found help.. 1. Map shared memory to de/serialize to so you don't have to hit disk. 2. Move you're stable bulk resources loading (meshes/textures/etc) to another process, so they stay resident between reloads. You can get super fast reloads this way.

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Indy Ray @scatteredray.bsky.social · 05/01/2025