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thope.xyz
Game programmer specialising in engine and tools. Currently based in Scotland.
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Found a nice way to extrude this barrier mesh with miter corners in the vertex shader :) Extrude along the X axis. The vertex local X is used as the interpolant, before multiplying with the model matrix. pos.x = mix(end0 + tan(angle0) * pos.y, end1 + tan(angle1) * pos.y, pos.x); #gamedev #indiedev

Nice line segments www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Report...

Believe it of not those yellow lines are actually infinitely tall 2d capsules, and the vehicle now collides with them, which is something #indiedev #gamedev

very important feature #gamedev #indiedev

I logged in to twitter to see what’s up. Lots of ads and AI. Clicked on a programming video, fine. Immediately autoplays a police shooting, then ‘cyclists are bad’ road rage, then black man criticises George Floyd, and... I cannot

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

Any tips for toon shading? This is my first attempt in blender. Final implementation will need to be suitable for realtime. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Added a shader build step, then spent some time trying to get a paint brush like material working. This uses a multicolour paint brush texture to perturb the normals + brightness. Not an artist but I think it looks ok? #gamedev #indiedev

First steps towards a little road tool #gamedev #indiedev

🚨OUR CRESCENT COUNTY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE🚨 💫Drift and drive on your witch-tech motorbroom 🎁Make deliveries by day, street race by night 🖌️Explore a painterly open world 😘Be a flirty disaster and kiss your friends Pledge now!! 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... 👈

Just Backed Crescent County and you should too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... Amazing game by an amazing person in a world she's been building for years and years. Vroom vroom!

Some good vector math right here madethisthing.com/iq/vectypes

Fixed some bugs with my draw list -> mesh generation. Wheel meshes now roll properly Added some audio too, even though it's not great it does bring it to life #gamedev #cpp

*making tyre screech noises*

suspension needs tuning #cpp #gamedev

hehe funny little car (abstract) #cpp #gamedev

Sunday cloth physics #cpp #gamedev

Anyone know how to read to the cpu from a FBO depth attachment in #webgl 2? glReadPixels keeps telling me no… #opengl

Got some test floor textures in, but more exciting is the block vertex editing and wall selection logic so I can add textures to the walls later :) #gamedev #cpp

Still not sure what the game is going to be if any, but had fun working on level editing tools #gamedev #cpp

Wrote up a solution for axes being flipped all wrong when having #blender files directly in your #unity project Found some forum posts of people doing this years ago, but thought it was still worth sharing. gist.github.com/thomashope/8...

An Avocado Swap should be a thing

Reminder UK folks, today is the deadline to respond to gov's AI consultation & awful proposal to opt-in all copyrighted work for training by default. www.gov.uk/government/c... - form is long but you don't need to answer all the questions, just take 5 mins to just respond to the first overview q's

Defo some marketing hype here but agree that many apps should be better websites. Spent the last 1.5 years working on a web game engine and I can see a lot of growth there too rogueengine.io/blog/your-ap...

Pepsicoutzi is not a word. Pepsicoutzi is not a word. Pepsicoutzi is not a word. Pepsicoutzi...

I, just played Balatro for 3.5 hours… i was supposed to go to bed 3 hours ago

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