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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 28/09/2026

I've been quiet for a little while, but now that the production of Knuckle Paradise is in its last polishing sprint, you're going to soon see me talk more about it. 👀 Also: DEMO SOON. You know the drill, wishlist and spread the love: store.steampowered.com/app/1864220/...

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 16/09/2026

The Black Mesa Taco Hitbox is what keeps me awake at night.

A taco 3D model from the video game Half-life showing that its hitbox is not matching the taco shape and is 90 degrees rotated compared to what it should be.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 17/08/2026

Call me a nerd, but I enjoy trying to write typographic systems that automatically break lines following each language typographic rules. Some each cases still to fix but mostly there.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 10/07/2026

Allez salut, c'est les vacances 👋

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 10/06/2026

Just saved 15% of CPU frame-budget by just caching a rectangle comparison into a bool. 😅 Whenever I audit code, most of the time performances are stuck into computations that could be cached once at load time. Second to that is devs not batching draw calls (it's more frequent than you think).

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 04/06/2026

Les demandes de congés que je dois valider. ✨

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 19/05/2026

Ah! Now that Knuckle Paradise is public, I can talk extensively about TOOLS. I went zero hardcoded thing on this one. We've got it all: - animation - sprite - map - cutscene - particle - FMOD 3D sounds - dialog - credits - quests - UI - profiling - localization... What should I begin with?

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 18/05/2026

Relatable problem. I guess I've remade this system something like 3 times before it was satisfying, balanced, and readable.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 29/04/2026

Sometimes my notes look like a Death Star plan of attack.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 23/04/2026

Discovering the mental state that is the superposition of being very excited and extra exhausted. ✨ It's like that moment after uploading your game jam project and you crack open a red bull to celebrate being sleep deprived. But hey, today is announcement time! So be ready. 🐔

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 04/04/2026

The cursed object has been acquired.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 18/03/2026

Real commit message that totally makes sense in its context.

A source control commit message saying "unbreakable rain of shit".

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 26/02/2026

And byyyeeee, I'm on holiday. 👋 (We're story, level, and feature complete.)

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 20/02/2026

When announcing new games over the years, there's at least one thing that is unchanging: scams. They have only one technique to scam you: Steam contact e-mail. You MUST assume that 100% of mails sent on it ARE scams. NEVER put your main contact here, or else scams will be mixed with legit demands.

Screenshot from the Steam backends showing support contact info. A note is written where support email is that goes: "use a unique address here that you won't use anywhere else"

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 12/02/2026

I am fascinated by early delay and reverb sound effects, which basically were tape recorders with a loose magnetic tape in the casing, self-recording and replaying itself to add an echo. Or reverd being basically just a spring propagating a sound through it.

A Roland Echo machine with its casing opened and showing the loose magnetic tape within it that is used to self-record and playback a sound with a delay to create a repeating echo.

A spring-reverb device showing multiple springs in-between its sound input and output. Very simple and crude looking.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 11/02/2026

Today I posted this screenshot of Mario Sunshine on our dev chat as a reference for the last gameplay system we need to ship our alpha build later this month.

A screenshot of the video game Mario Sunshine showing Mario riding a purple Yoshi.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 04/02/2026

Le « AFJV wrapped » il tape fort... 2025, pire année pour l'emploi dans le jeu vidéo depuis 20 ans. Rapport complet : emploi.afjv.com/observatoire...

Graphique de la progression du marché de l'emploi dans l'industrie du jeu vidéo en France montrant le nombre d'offres d'emploi publiées sur l'AFJV par année entre 2011 et 2025. On observe un énorme progrès durant les années, pour atteindre en 2025 son niveau le plus bas depuis plus de 15 ans.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 15/01/2026

Post a game that you remember playing that few people remember

A sceenshot of Uniracers (known as Unirally in Europe) for the SNES.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 13/01/2026

Every open-source conversations these days.

The Victoria and David Beckham meme that goes:
- I think that the problem is...
- Be honest
- I've looked into the problem and I think that...
- Be honest
- I asked copilot what the problem is but I have no clue if it's the problem, and I haven't tested the solution
- Thank you

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 09/01/2026

I received my late christmas present from me to me. Atlusexuality intensifies. I started to import those because of the european grifters selling them 4 to 10 times US prizes.

A photo of boxed copies of Shin Megami Tensei IV and Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse for the Nintendo 3DS

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 01/01/2026

La quasi seule photo de moi de 2025. Donnez moi de la brioche.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 28/12/2025

I can barely move so I’m living the couch life and recharged the custom GBA.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 25/12/2025

Holiday classics number 1: done. Now to reinstall Deus Ex...

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 18/12/2025

Je ne sais pas quoi te dire d'autre que : on a du faire une map de test avec que les éléments destructibles dedans et on a des testeurs qui abandonnent le jeu pour juste tout casser. 😅

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 04/12/2025

I fantasized Metroid Prime 4 so much over the years that I don’t expect anything of it anymore. Here we go.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 04/12/2025

If you've been wondering how our next game is progressing, the answer is "just about 20380 sprites integrated".

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 01/12/2025

Les annotations dans nos spritesheets, c'est quelque chose.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 11/11/2025

I am free. Not a timeless game, but I had fun in moment when I needed a game to dissociate on.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 10/11/2025

Perks of having your game editor directly integrated into the game itself: I'm likely to be the unbeatable "player" with the largest play time.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 28/10/2025

The fun thing with uninstalling Chrome, is that it asks you to fill a survey for feedback, except that there is no link and the survey actually doesn't exist.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 25/10/2025

Les deux ambiances de ma vie. Arco : super film, Ugo Bienvenu vraiment toujours solide. Chainsaw : mappa doing mappa shits.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 13/10/2025

Moi : nan mais, les tatou’ geek c’est pas mon truc. Also, moi : je fais rien demain, t’as quoi comme flash ? … OUI C’est du zigoumi (la mère de « chien chelou », si t’as la ref), une être humain cool, suivez la : www.instagram.com/zi_gou_mi

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 13/10/2025

How many copies of the Direct3D shader compiler can one possibly have on their computer?

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 08/10/2025

I don't share that enthusiasm of being in the Mordor of SEO and growth experts.

An email notification from Linkedin celebrating 14 years of being on the platform

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 10/09/2025

Once again from our Discord, and this one is so on spot that it hurts.

A Silksong meme saying "when you finally unlock a mask in act 1, so bosses kills you in 3 hits instead of 3"

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 06/09/2025

Pas impossible que ce soit le jeu qui fasse l'exception de la règle « avoir un avis divergent sur internet est interdit ». Quelques memes vus sur notre discord.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 07/06/2025

Preparing myself to be disapointed by my drops.

Final Fantasy Magic the Gathering boosters

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 14/05/2025

The new tree map of Fork (the best git GUI around, no debate possible) is interesting. No surprise, the most edited file is the character controller (9600 lines 💀). (Working on this project for 4 years already. 💀💀)

A tree map view of a git repository using the Fork software

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 07/05/2025

Gamedev fuel recharged. This is our coffee stock for the next ~3 months at the office.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 02/05/2025

« Frence », c'est comme ça qu'on écrit Suisse en anglais ? (Je précise, c'est un scam. C'est toujours drôle quand ca tente d'usurper des gens qu'on identifie bien.)

Un mail de scam pour récupérer des clés Steam de nos jeux se faisant passer pour Baghera Jones notant qu'elle est "native of Frence" avec une faute à France. Baghera est Suisse.

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Thomas Altenburger @thomas.flying-oak.com · 30/04/2025

Can't wait to properly show this bad boy in action. I spent 3 years remaking our engine and tooling (now fully in-game-editing). Hoping to ship the tools with the game. I can only show unused/old test assets while our next game is unannounced. Which means... almost nothing.

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