Evan Todd
@etodd_
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Born again, recovering indie game developer.
Joined July 2009
For those still following me, here’s the story of how I kinda disappeared and stopped making games five years ago, and how I might sort of be back?
etodd.io
In March 2018, I had been a full-time indie game developer for four years. My heroes were Jonathan Blow, Lucas Pope, and Robyn and Rand Miller. I had 2,500 Twitter followers, an ambitious title under...
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The cool version control kids are all talking about Jujutsu. Here’s an article to help you figure out what it is and whether you should try it
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Jujutsu is a new version control system that is backward-compatible with Git. All the cool kids are raving about it. In this article I will try to help you decide whether it’s worth investigating. If...
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I only just discovered The Association for Computational Heresy this year, but already I have realigned my life’s primary ambition to “get a paper accepted at SIGBOVIK.”
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#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! https://t.co/yd3PlPKsVh
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From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are...
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Editing video in Blender actually turned out to be a lovely experience. Peak software.
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Hey everyone, I made one of those YouTube devlogs, but it accidentally turned into an Outer Wilds fan video. Not mad about it.
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Godot Engine 4.4 is finally here! 🚀 Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes, and more! https://t.co/Kh3Ta1TFv3
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Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes - spotting all the optimizations that have been applied...
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My first non-trivial @godotengine contribution! 🥹 And it's net negative LoC 🤗
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Fixes #85213, fixes #50824, fixes #65390. Attached is a test project which pauses and unpauses every second, and includes: A GPUParticles2D with gravity, tangential acceleration, and turbulence. A...
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Underneath the layers I will always be 14 years old nerding out at Micro Center
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Is the wiring in your house as cursed as mine? Hairdryer overloaded a GFCI outlet in the bathroom and the garage opener (and nothing else) stopped working. 💀
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I blogified a tech talk I gave recently at StrongDM
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When I started at StrongDM five years ago (woah), we had zero automated tests. Last year we had 50,000 tests. Today, around 70% of our code is covered by over 100,000 tests, most of which run on...
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Merged!
You can find the technical details here. Still lots to be done! https://t.co/tGqJGm7aEO
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This 500-year-old portrait may seem ordinary, but it's one of the most mysterious in history. There's so much detail that you can read every musical note on this small page. But look closer — an unsettling secret is hiding in plain sight... 🧵
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Seriously, I got the engine cloned and built in 15 minutes. That's an achievement for a project this size.
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Fixes #85213, fixes #50824, fixes #65390. Attached is a test project which pauses and unpauses every second, and includes: A GPUParticles2D with gravity, tangential acceleration, and turbulence. A...
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Using AI to write code is like using a calculator to do math, except the calculator hallucinates the wrong number 75% of the time
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Actual footage of Apple's in-app purchase policies hitting Patreon creators
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