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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you @remedygames.com Control Resonant is an absolute beauty! its been a while since I have been this excited about playing games.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who cares about cache bro, just make your structs are like 500 bytes for your main drawing structure. Computers are gonna be fine.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you had told me some odd 20 years ago that I'd end up having a PS2 Devkit, I would have (a not been able to communicate in english) said you are smoking something

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Graphics Potentially Hot Take: Render Passes are okay to be part of the API. you will end up structuring your graphics code around render passes anyway

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have a buncha senior positions open, we have very exciting projects coming down the line, I promise you won't be disappointed, we also have pizza fridays: careers.castirongames.com#jobs

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Games Industry Careers with Cast Iron Games

Discover the range of games industry roles available with Cast Iron Games. Based in Wakefield, it's an exciting time to join the Cast Iron Games team.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a developer, the PS5 and Sony hardware are the most fun to develop for. As a consumer, the fumbles by Sony lately leave a lot to be desired. Big companies understand one thing, the bottom line, as such I'll speak with my wallet.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm seeing some really bad takes like "people are not using AI are essentially not using cars and use horses". These people are missing the point, just because cars exist doesn't mean people don't walk. Programming is a craft, use your AI, you are just not programming anymore, you are a reviewer.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doing optimization on shadows and my conclusion is as follows: Fuck shadows, all my homies hate shadows.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is there any library that can generate tight AABBs with minimal empty space? I know I can take the min/max and produce one AABB but my geometry has large holes in it and I wanna have multiple AABBs for it. I know it's more proper to do it at art/modeling time but that ship has sailed

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm gonna put this out there, I will help anyone port their PS2 and PS1 (any retro game tbh) to current gen consoles (Switch 2, PS5 etc) pro-bono. There are a ton of PS1/PS2 games that would be amazing to port overall. I just wish I could go to these companies and say "give me the source code" >

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the fun things I get to experience working on consoles is all the different ways things can break due to compiler and hardware differences. Recently ran into an issue/difference between arm and x64, where a float to u64 cast was causing a cascades of errors that ended up as an animation bug

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

@timoflegend.bsky.social hey Tim, do you think Double Fine is interested in bringing the game catalogue to Switch 2?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Please square, make the Kingdom Hearts 4 gameplay as good as Kingdom Hearts 2

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can we distinguish between SSS and SSS please? Graphics people, please choose better names.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here is something funny happening to my laptop. The screen is dying. Which when connected to two monitors also fucks with one of the other monitors and slows the entire computer down. I would love to know what kinda hardware interrupt shenanigans is happening there

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New age verification method: show someone a game from the 1990s and ask when the game came out. If the answer is "a couple of years ago" said person is above 18 if they say "I don't know, probably an old game" they are likely to be below 18

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I asked my brother if he remembered the two childhood games we played. He remembered very fondly. I need to make sure both games get preserved.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Genuine question, does anyone know if I can find the original people who worked on this?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here is the thing, if you look at history we see how cats were beloved by all. Across cultures. If you take any moment and watch the news or social media, you will quickly realize that our love for cats right now will extend into the future as history. Love cats. Long live the cats

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have (very likely not the only person) a very panicky attitude whenever I hit something that I don't know and can't figure out quickly. It produces a lot of anxiety and nervousness. Like I'm about to be judged as utterly incompetent. A healthier mindset would be one of excitement for learning

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Anyone up for about 8 hours of a yap session because I want to learn about any of these: - animation systems - GPU hardware - physics engine I have questions

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I gotta write a copy of Box3D just to learn this shit

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Given I couldn't be arsed to write my own full .sln parser and I couldn't get imgui to work on C# (too much pain), I opted into just outputting a json of the sln. Its just a matter of gathering the info and yeet it into some 2D node graph

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What in god's name is a rotated grid bro and why is my triangle tiny?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'll keep this thread for my GPU optimizations I'm fighting right now: - GPU tells me that the vertex culling part is very stressed. I have tried doing more frustum culling but no benefit was had there. I need to cull things :')

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have an infinite number of projects I need to do, in no particular order: - an OS kernel - GPU on FPGA - shader langauge - physics engine - Animation system - Path Tracer - bake brownies - Chocolate Fondant - CPU profiler - Network Programming - get a cat - GPU driven rendering - graphics api

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This definitely is a skill issue but I really dislike inheritance, not for anyone ideological reasons mind you, purely because I don't know what code gets executed unless I run the code and step through it. Not having the ability to read the code is really difficult.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

What are the origins of "lost in the sauce" D:

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm here to tell you about one of the most useful plugins for visual studio I have found: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... This actually lets you inspect raw bytes interpreted as an image.

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Image Watch - Visual Studio 2015

Learn about the Image Watch extension for viewing in-memory bitmaps in native C++ code

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Actual peak debugging/investigation of render work: - Add Live++ to your engine/game - Run your game through renderdoc - Attach Visual Studio. - Edit/Reload cycle with captures at your finger tips for both GPU and CPU.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm here yet again to tell you that Live++ is making coding so much easier :') I had a ton of debug test codes to tweak and rather than adding variables I'm just changing the code.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I wish I could meet some of the people I interact with on here. Everyone is such a cool person :')

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Don't make your own engine" is a lie propagated by Big Engine. You should absolutely make your own engine, just tailor it to your own game. Your game doesn't need 52 thousand combinations of shaders. You don't need state of the art lighting. Just put the pixels in the bag bro and call it a game.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

kinda shit I post to linkedin because its funny

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

crossing your eyes to find the difference in images really ruins the entire genre :/

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm gonna shit post on LinkedIn. I'm having a rough day anyway.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Every studio that gets caught with it's pants down when it comes to AI uses the same excuse. "We used it for early stages, not the final game" I think I speak on solid ground to say A) nothing is more permanent than a temp solution

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I wish I could have an Nvidia engineer and I could just ask about nsight metrics and they could explain them to me :') god these numbers do not make sense.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nothing about colours is ever simple. Apparently correct RGB interpolation requires a sacrifice

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I love reading about scheduling inside GPUs..."This unit is responsible for scheduling of work...it does a round robin"

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Matt Phillips @bigevilboss.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My good friend is making "a comfy 16-bit gamedev simulator" and would appreciate some shares and wishlists if that sounds like your sort of thing. Cheers! store.steampowered.com/app/4828200/...

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Vaporware EX on Steam

Vaporware EX is a comfy 16-bit game dev simulator full of neon-infused nostalgia, set in the games industry of 199X. Lose the suit, put on a hoodie, and discover what it really takes to ship a game in...

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The last few days have been a nightmare. I was trying to write a small shader compiler to unify some stuff. I keep running into just broken stuff..why does glslangs c interface duplicate my source code when I do a debug version of the shader D:

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Personal Opinion: I think that if you are an artist, programmer, or <insert job title here> and you take yourself seriously and consider what you do as a craft then the use of AI just goes counter to that whole idea. Like what do you mean as an artist you use gen AI? where even the fun in that?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There is this scene in Alan Wake 2, where Ahti is drinking tea with a sugar cube and I really wanna know who wrote this particular scene and why is Ahti drinking the tea like that: youtu.be/TqydU7HxNrg?...

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Yötön Yö (Nightless Night) Full Movie [Alan Wake 2]

YouTube video by Fear Prophets, Adso

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

From time to time, I get hyper interested in GPU hardware but idk where I can read about the nitty gritty detail. For example Nvidia says warps are scheduled via the Warp Scheduler and the instructions for those Warps are issued by the Dispatch Unit. for some reason wanna know exactly how this works

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