I make indie games, worked on Stelumi, Staxel, Starbound and a few other.https://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3l7dhjd5zrh2oNever managed to truly understand quaternions (can use them just fine) so for a decade i tried to make Euler angles and mat4x4 work, what a waste of time. Still I'm not comfortable with having this system in my code that i don't truly understand, but it sure makes for shorter and faster solutions.25 Oct 2024 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7dhjd5zrh2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3l6y7hbi3zk2aShame how linode akamai keeps increasing the price on my VPS servers, time to move, used them for over a decade.. shame21 Oct 2024 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6y7hbi3zk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3l6xe3bixxy27Reminder, if you start your own lil company, you get to spend a weekend once in a while doing accounting every quarter.20 Oct 2024 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6xe3bixxy27https://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3l6wp5z7jcb2gTrying to do additive animations in my project and the bugs are mind bending20 Oct 2024 09:37 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6wp5z7jcb2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3l6sza4hesn27How do folks feel about revshare gamedev projects this decade ? Given that publisher are less likely to fund a project.18 Oct 2024 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6sza4hesn27https://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3kjbb3yx2732mStumbled upon a technique that is new to me to speed up a deferred renderer and it worked really well, and later found this article explaining the principles http://filmicworlds.com/blog/visibility-buffer-rendering-with-material-graphs/ allowing me to skip the depth prepass18 Jan 2024 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjbb3yx2732mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3kah4jwbxjq2dProbably not very efficient use of dev time, but feel that if you make an online-only game that you shouldn't outsource those parts to a 3-rd party.28 Sep 2023 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3kah4jwbxjq2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3k7ybxfv53o27It is 0 days since screwing up interpolating euler angles yet again.22 Sep 2023 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7ybxfv53o27https://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3k7nq36k6at2sFell during bouldering last week 🙄 it's a good reminder of how fragile health and mobility is. Hope to be back to walking and driving in a week.18 Sep 2023 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7nq36k6at2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3k6kxpxdhn32hNew lil dangerous c# feature i just ran into [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.SkipLocalsInit]04 Sep 2023 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6kxpxdhn32hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3k4ebdoh43h2pCan't wait for the articles about how Baldur's Gate 3 shows that early-access is the way to go for games.07 Aug 2023 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4ebdoh43h2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3k2uoxndr6k2mDigital goods pricing keeps being weird, want something cheaper ? just get more people to buy it.19 Jul 2023 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3k2uoxndr6k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3jzp2rp7kwk2xWhen working as a lead with a few programmers, do you prefer to tell juniors to redo some work to get a better design/style or do you quickly do the changes yourself and show them as an example of what is preferred ? both have downsides.04 Jul 2023 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3jzp2rp7kwk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bartwe.net/post/3jzlwplhw422fRecently seeing some indies shipping far too early, getting pushed out by their publisher and then failing hard. I get that publishers want to get rid of the non-viral non-hits, but most of these games have potential if they just had taken the time...03 Jul 2023 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:vebofomwrpgweaxt3eva6rnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3jzlwplhw422f