Software-/Game developer I write my own engines ⚙️ All my recent projects: https://alek-tron.com/https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3magdsyy2b22vDid some polish on the UI. Windows now support smooth scrolling and clipping, buttons look more like buttons now and just look at that silly little price tag animation #indiedev #gamedev #incrementalgame #indiegame20 Dec 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3magdsyy2b22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3m3xoljhi7c23Compression is not doing it justice but my subpixel anti-aliased GPU text renderer is now working pretty well. Supports colored text and backgrounds and I was able to get rid of all visible artifacts. Was quite annoying to figure out sub-pixel bugs...24 Oct 2025 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3xoljhi7c23https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3m2r6ddoc2k2zNew blog post: alek-tron.com/Pop/Pop.html https://alek-tron.com/Pop/Pop.html09 Oct 2025 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2r6ddoc2k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3m2ofwv2tqs2jMy new blog post is about my experience developing 'from scratch' software for real users and how easy it is to forget basic functionality when it is not handled for you by a framework anymore. Functionality that users take for granted and expect to work. https://alek-tron.com/AppChecklist/Checklist.html08 Oct 2025 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ofwv2tqs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lx5mzd7zns2eWorking a bit on the visuals of my game. Tried Magicavoxel for modeling the drones and satellites. Not my strong suit but it certainly looks better than the placeholders from before. The lasers also have some actual sprites now. #gamdev #indiedev #odinlang #voxels24 Aug 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx5mzd7zns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lwujhbazm222Implemented a prototype voxel renderer and I'm already quite happy with the result. Unfortunately I can't use MSAA for anti-aliasing anymore so edges are a bit ugly at the moment... #gamedev #indiedev20 Aug 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwujhbazm222https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lwjvyrsirs2zSome UI work16 Aug 2025 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwjvyrsirs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lw5ufx6h6c25Currently redesigning my old game into an Incremental Game. Video compression is not happy about it. #gamedev #indiedev #odinlang #incrementalgame11 Aug 2025 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw5ufx6h6c25https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3luzqsa5vrc2tMy 'Dear Imgui' Odin backends are finished (for now). Supports Windows as platform with D3D11, OpenGL 3.3 and a very much experimental software rasterizer for rendering: https://github.com/alektron/imgui-odin-backends @ocornut.bsky.social @gingerbill.org28 Jul 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3luzqsa5vrc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lunmnohecs27Imgui Odin backends now also include an OpenGL renderer in addition to DirectX and the software rasterizer: https://github.com/alektron/imgui-odin-backends #imgui #dearimgui #odin [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunmnohecs27https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3luhk2ck74c2sNow also features an experimental software rasterizer. #imgui #dearimgui #odinlang [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2025 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3luhk2ck74c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lu5eddnti22yI wrote a custom Dear ImGui backend for Windows/DirectX in Odin. With thin abstraction layer to allow easy extension for more platforms/renderers: https://github.com/alektron/imgui-odin-backends #imgui #DearImGui #Odin #Odinlang17 Jul 2025 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu5eddnti22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3ls3pisb7ls2fSuper minimal profiler + flame graph for DearImGui (~100 LOC): https://alek-tron.com/FlameGraph/flamegraph.html Can be trivially adjusted for other UI systems and languages due to its simplicity. #imgui21 Jun 2025 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls3pisb7ls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lqfttfz2ls2yCurrently working on a native version of DXF Explorer (dxf-explorer.com) It opens DXF files with millions of entries in milliseconds, filters them in realtime and comes as a single executable file.30 May 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfttfz2ls2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lppcbnzofc2w"Why am I fighting this thing daily for what essentially becomes a glorified asset loader" Works well with what always like to say about big engines: Their biggest 'benefit' is platform independence, especially in regards to rendering APIs. Everything else is just in the way. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lppcbnzofc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3loyjoymq3c24Creating a Windows window with custom title bar is for some reason much harder than it should be. Here is my method to achieve it which is simpler than other solutions I've found online, yet covers most edge cases AFAIK: https://alek-tron.com/borderless/borderless.html12 May 2025 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3loyjoymq3c24https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lm5tdti4is2hThe predicted trajectory of a spaceship in an N-Body system visualized in realtime. Multiple trajectories with different timesteps are calculated in parallel which results in this chaotic shape until it converges to the calculations with the lowest timestep. #gamdev #graphics #space06 Apr 2025 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm5tdti4is2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3llzjqyhi7c2aGot my old space sim project running again and might implement some new ideas I've been having...04 Apr 2025 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3llzjqyhi7c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lgodw5i7i22lMade this little cheat sheet for #odinlang pointer/slice/container types26 Jan 2025 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgodw5i7i22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3ll2qkpemss2tMy game 'Chunk Miner' is now on GitHub: https://github.com/alektron/ChunkMinerGame A simple but complete game, written almost from scratch in just ~3200 lines of Odin code. Care was taken to make the code simple, readable, extensively commented. No cruft, no engine, just a game. #gamedev #indiedev #odinlang23 Mar 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll2qkpemss2thttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3ljvdumu7lc2eNot sure what's going on with my VR game all of a sudden. This is more traffic than it got ever since I released it. Well... I happily take it https://alektron.itch.io/fear-of-falling #gamedev #indiedev #vrdev #vr08 Mar 2025 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvdumu7lc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3ljth6n53pc27My little game is almost finished and according to cloc it's just 3150 lines of code. Not bad, considering that its only dependency is the #Odin standard library (stb_image and miniaudio). #gamedev #indiedev08 Mar 2025 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljth6n53pc27https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lj6m2775jk23Added saving/loading to my game today. Thanks to the whole game state being a relatively sane struct I simply write the memory buffer to disk and done. Effectively a one liner. Even stuff like the particle system Just Works™ #gamedev #indiedev #odin27 Feb 2025 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6m2775jk23https://bsky.app/profile/alektron.bsky.social/post/3lhtzwutnp22iMake sure you don't run out of ore... #gamedev #indiedev #Odinlang10 Feb 2025 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:ukeauk74tv5j5qa3obpqnmci/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtzwutnp22i