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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This "controversy" around authors using big words (and that's supposedly ableism) reminds me of the time I was told off by a guy for using the phrase "language convention". He thought I was showing off. This was during a ->linguistics<- class. We're cooked.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also, I didn't give up on the project. I went back to uni and is currently finishing up my bachelor, hence the lack of updates.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm thinking about going for a more low-poly style with old school-style vertex painted models (to make things more manageable). Another victim of modern graphics, there's something about it. #gamedev #gameart

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm *this* close to giving up on this whole project. Creating a whole system of persistent actors with AI schedules that are loaded at all times and can traverse between cell boundaries seamlessly = piece of cake. Making an undo action register properly in an editor module = impossible. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Currently in the process of moving the whole thing to a plugin instead. That way I can more easily seperate editor and runtime parts of the framework. I've spent the last few weeks extending the DataTable asset to contain the reference tracking inside of it instead of a seperate system. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you are new to C++ and get a cryptic linker error that is obviously not meant to be read by humans. I don't blame you if you decide to just say fuck it and never touch C++ again in your life. I'm convinced the error messaging have repelled a significant amount of people for using it. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Did a small test run on Flax engine again just to see how far it has come. It's still impressive for what it is (the compile times are tiny compared to Unreal which is a huge plus). What they sorely need though is a proper UX designer. Some parts are still just as confusing and opaque. #gamedev

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Flax - Flax Engine

Best development performance out there Unleash your creativity and be more productive. With Flax you can boost your game development and bring it to another level. We’ve created tools that are slim an...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I shouild probably mention that I don't mean THAT kind of AI, I mean normal AI we used to have in games (like, people moving and opening doors and shit). Maybe I should say behaviour. LLMs have destroyed our language. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Game development is like: Time spent creating an elaborate AI framework: one day. Time spent trying to figure out why all your characters butts are turned the wrong way: a week. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Saving dead characters now work properly. I spent some time trying to keep save game file size as low as possible. With some tricks I managed to squeeze the data down from hundreds of kb of Items, containers, harvestable plants and NPCs (with their skeleton data) down to just a few kb. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Got schedules to work. The guy in front has a place he needs to be at a certain time. The two other guys are told to follow him during certain hours. At this point (when recording), they have walked from the other side of the map. All while the proxy system loads/unloads them #gamedev #unrealengine

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's such a hassle to work with the world cells in my game (having to create them manually...), so I decided to create a little tool that automates the process. This took some Unreal Black Magic(tm) to get working but here we are. #gamedev #unrealengine

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The dialogue system is now completed. For those curious about it works, it's just a bunch of IDs that are connected. But the thing that took some thinking was how to do conditions/events. You can create any number of those from a base and fill them with whatever data you want to check: #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Here's a handy chart for people that don't understand that a higher framerate puts a ceiling on how many calculations you can perform in one frame (ergo the complexity of the game): #gamedev #gaming

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The new dialogue editor is coming along nicely. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Am I the only one that thinks this kind of sucks? Not that I don't want a new Fallout (I love Fallout), but Obsidian worked really hard to create IPs of their own to work on and now Microsoft pulls the plug on their own game to have them do the same thing they tried to escape from 10 years ago.

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Obsidian is reportedly making a new Fallout game headed by Josh Sawyer after Microsoft pulled the plug on an Avowed sequel

25% of the studio's workforce was let go in the sweeping Xbox layoffs, and multiple games in development were cancelled.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just found out that the dialogue plugin that I used would not be able to interface properly with my reference handling system. I need to create my own in order to not have dialogue conditions spaz out if they hold an outdated reference. Current progress: #gamdev #unrealengine

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This took me waaaaaaaay too fucking long to figure out how to do but I managed at last. Doing editor coding in unreal is like taking a cheese grater to the balls. #gamedev #unrealengine

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

One thing that always bugged me in Unreal is that changes to DataTable rows don't propagate (which makes total sense btw). So, I decided to create a reference tracker that automatically set row names to the correct one when discrepancies are found. No more headaches! #gamedev #unrealengine

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Favorite greek characters Hercules Odysseus Achilles Daddychilles

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Equipment enchantments are now completely implemented. You can mix and match different kinds of enchantment types and triggers (with some restrictions). e.g. Putting a 'On-Hit' on a weapon triggers when you attack. On shields, it triggers when you block. Target can be either self or them. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Working on the persistence system for NPCs. I can now load/unload actors and proxies properly. This will allow me to have characters move about all the time, even on the other side of the map. The proxies contain no assets, only a reference. And a simplified AI-routine for schedules. #gamedev #rpg

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's funny seeing people saying "it's such a relief that Godot changed its mind on AI". They didn't, this was already their stance. This goes to show how a game of telephone get people riled up over nothing and then calmed down again by *checks notes* getting the same answer twice. #gamedev #godot

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 30/06/2026

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

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Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

H.P. Lovecraft: impossible geometry (tired) Franz Kafka: impossible bureaucracy (wired)

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There's no practical difference between using genAI and sharing it, and having friends over and sharing *your* favourite music from a CD-rack. People who call themselves AI-artists are fooling themselves. You're not creating anything), you are curating to an audience of one (yourself). #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I guess I'm accidentally lucky because I'm creating and performance profiling my game on an eleven year old computer. If it works on this old junk it'll probably work on most computers people use nowadays.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The thing with the Godot AI thing going on is that even if they had a really strong policy against AI it wouldn't change anything in regards to reactions to AI usage. I bet my balls that it would have only changed from "why are you allowing it?" to "How come you didn't catch it?" #gamedev #godot

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm sure that everyone who is now raging against Godot for trying to find a way to deal with genAI assisted contributions is now volunteering to verify all these contributions

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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I see some concerns raised about Godot's policy on contributions using AI. TL;DR: Godot isn't vibe-coded. As a whole, the Godot foundation and maintainers are fairly critical of AI usage, and don't make nor accept vibe-coded contributions. Godot doesn't include AI features nor intends to add any.

Godot's current policy on AI-assisted contributions reads like this:

"The use of AI to contribute to Godot is discouraged, and contributions made entirely by AI are prohibited.

We acknowledge that AI can be useful, but we are convinced that human effort results in better and more relevant contributions.

If you do use AI, we expect that you put in effort to proofread and improve anything it generates, and that you disclose what you used AI for. As maintainers spend significant time reviewing your code, please make sure that the code you submit is well-tested and functional. Please be respectful of their time and only submit something you have put thought and effort into."

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The absolute worst writing trend in the last 10 years or so: characters talking to themselves/commenting the scene during gameplay. Cut that shit out, it's embarrassing. It's never funny, it's never witty. It's just annoying. Writers who do that should have their license revoked.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Half life 1: you're a nerd Half life 2: "OH MY GOD IT'S JESU- I MEAN, GORDON FREEMAN"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One of the biggest blunders Epic made here is depreciating blueprints. If you care about actual Democratization of game development, this is a huge blow to that! It was a way for newcomers to code in a genuinely accessible way, one that they could further build their skill development off from.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Here's a good, nuanced video that's raising a larger problem with AI. Where, in 20 years time, are you going to find the senior developers when all juniors have been replaced? What AI-pushers are hoping to happen, I assume, is that AI will in time replace seniors as well. But that's a BIG if.

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AI Coding Works. That’s the Problem

YouTube video by SimonDev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm going to echo something that has been pointed out by others regarding AI usage. If we disregard the ethics of it for a moment and focus on seller-buyer relations, it's a huge branding issue. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Whenever I'm architecting anything in my game there's this voice in my head that says: "yeah that's nice and all, but remember you have to store this in a savegame". And a cold shivers runs down my spine. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Glad I'm still sticking to UE4

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just watched the Fable gameplay demo and the devs were like: "In Fable, you are free to express yourself however you want" *Proceeds to massacre a village*

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Watched Possession (1981) for the first time and I couldn't stop laughing at this scene because I was reminded of that "mom cancelled my wow account video" Great movie though

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I think it's wise to take some time to really understand what parts of the world actually need to be explained. If that gauge is not working or not calibrated you can easily fall into the trap of wanting to explain everything. Teaching history helped me with this. It's remarkably similar in a sense.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Before cod zombies we made custom matches in counter strike where you solo'd an entire team of knife-only bots

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If the the elder scrolls 6 have color coded loot I'm gonna kill myself

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

1. Blame tech marketers! 2. I am NEVERENDINGLY angry that the videogame industry went the way of (generally) making us play against other people instead of making first class enemy bots for those of us who like games but are old and don't want to be perennially teabagged by twitchy middleschoolers.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In a little over three weeks summer vacation starts. I'm more than ready to dive back in and do some proper gamedev for a few months. #gamedev

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I see people on here, once again, have the worst case of let-me-interpret-that-as-unfavourably-as-I-can-itis

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The music in the first Thief game is completely magical within the game (probably my favorite soundtrack) but sounds like hot garbage outside of it. I don't think there's a game that highlights the principle of "it works in the right context" more than that game.

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

DLSS: Deep Learning Slop Sampling

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Elias Frost @theeliasfrost.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

After doing mostly technical art and modelling for several years I decided to dust off the old tablet. I'm still very rusty but it felt nice to just do some good ol' painting for a change. #art #digitalart

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