This account is going inactive. I currently have no plans to delete it, because despite the search being almost useless, I don't want to create dead links to a lot of personal history. I might occasionally check DMs, but I won't be posting anything new here anymore.

The site says we have cleared 1 million signatures! I hate being like this, but there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real. That means we have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them! I'll have a video on this later today. https://t.co/EpnNTDR85U

The #StopKillingGames EU Citizens' Initiative is the best shot we'll likely get at a pro-consumer outcome. This is NOT just an internet petition. Only 200k more signatures means the EU Commission MUST take action. If you live in the EU, consider signing! https://t.co/gmFwhyfBie

I play a lot of retro games. I'm spoiled by the fact that you just install a game and play. For the next generation of gamers, this is becoming increasingly untrue with even singleplayer games like The Crew being rendered inoperable due to mandatory server-side connections.

Since release, Tiny Combat Arena has been designed to be able to be played 100% offline. This means with no connection to Steam whatsoever. If Steam isn't detected, the game will save all its settings locally, and Steam APIs and features are bypassed/forwarded to local versions.

@Why485 @CarlHaufle @dannyodwyer @nuclearoption @HiddenAsbestos @bahamutod We were making some of the most successful flight sims in the industry at EA in the late 90s but unfortunately the execs looked at us and said “give us a million seller and we’ll keep making them”. The market just wasn’t there for a rapidly growing company back then.

@CarlHaufle @dannyodwyer It couldn't be just me. It'd need to include other developers like Mitch behind @NuclearOption, @HiddenAsbestos' Thunder Helix, VTOL VR's @bahamutod, and more. Going over the death of the "mainstream flight sim" in the 00s, and its recent revival is a much more interesting story.

WHAT NOCLIP DOC DO YOU WANT IN 2025? (there's also a doc behind this image but we're not gonna get into that right now...)

Following the decimation of an armored column with cluster munitions, a plucky battle tank attempts to main cannon snipe an AV-8B. #flightsim #indiegame [ Tiny Combat Arena by @Why485, @micro_prose ]

I've re-released my first game/mod, Keys 🗝️ Now that Half-Life 2 has Steam Workshop support you have no reason not to play it! Go play it!

Made this to explain where the entries I play in this very niche genre with only a handful of games stand.

Following the development of House of the Dying Sun is what got the ball rolling on my current career. I've said it many times before, but it's such a great game with such a strong vision, and some of the tightest and most polished gameplay in the genre.

In the middle of improving controller support for the Arena map. The functionality of the circle in the center is going to be expanded, but it's meant to act as something like a cursor and reference point.

If I ever make another game it will definitely be built with the Steam Deck in mind. This thing is so good.

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It's a too bad because I think the URP lens flares actually look REALLY good, with a decently powerful and procedural editor. Just, don't go spamming hundreds of them in a scene I guess. https://t.co/ySi7N1E5Fp

Put another way, the bottleneck of a hypothetical Unity space game using URP lens flares for the engine will very possibly be rendering just the lens flares, and not by a small margin.

In case somebody out there needs to know, the new URP Lens Flares in Unity 6 look fantastic and I love them, but they do not scale well. In a frame with 300 ships, with 4-6 flares per ship, a whopping 80% of the rendering frametime is taken up rendering ONLY lens flares.

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The Tiny Combat Arena 0.15.2.3 update is live! It brings two new missions, the laser-guided AGM-64C missile, the powerful T-72 tank, and a ton of quality-of-life fixes. Explore all the new features here: https://t.co/b45wITXFU5