Hi! I'm Rune, a full-time solo indie game developer (art, design, code, . ). I'm on 🦋Bluesky:. And on 🐘Mastodon:. I often post about my experiments there; here's a sampling of them. See you on the other side!

I'm unfollowing everyone here that I'm already following elsewhere. While I occasionally cross-post here, I never browse this site anymore, so I don't see posts from my follows anyway. The accounts I keep following are just to keep track, for future following elsewhere.

RT @InfernalWAVE_: very happy to finally open-source my implementation of Surface Stable Fractal Dithering in Godot!. thank you so much to….

With over a hundred pages, my personal website is on the larger side. I started it all the way back in 1998, and I've lost track of all the ways it has looked and functioned over the years. I've done a bit of digital archaeology to rediscover its past:.

I wrote a bit about the many features I worked on at Unity Technologies 2009-2020, while the company grew from 20 to 3000 people. Get a peek behind the scenes of some familiar Unity features, as well as a few that never shipped. #gamedev #unity3d.

Don't use Twitter much anymore, but like I said on Bluesky a few days ago, I just bought my ticket to Everything Procedural Conference. Who else is going?.

My selfish reason for this thread is that there's a few people whose updates I can still only follow here, and that sucks.

I get that it's tough to start from zero a new place. I recommend cross-posting in both/all the places for a while and focus your interactions on the other places, following and interacting with people there, while also making people here aware of your accounts over there.

Most accounts here are inactive at this point. Combine with the increasingly negative perception of this place (bans on Twitter links etc.) and I just don't understand why gamedevs would invest their energy here over those other places that are already more vibrant communities.

For the few people who still post only or mostly here and not on 🦋 or 🐘, I'm curious why?. I get more engagement on those platforms despite having half the followers. And @OskSta who recently got more active on 🦋 gets same engagement there with just a tenth of the followers.

By popular request I've added support for color RGB dithering, CMYK halftone, true 1-bit low-res effects, and much more to the Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering repo!. See it all in this demo video (I spent a long time on it) and 🔊sound on:.#gamedev #vfx

I wrote an FAQ here. Mostly to handle the barrage of questions and suggestions in YouTube comments, but others might find it interesting too.

New dithering method dropped. I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works. Explainer video:. Source repository:. #gamedev #vfx

RT @Sosowski: If you’re still using this place as your main outlet for promoting your work, you might want to look for a way out ASAP, as….

For my game, I need creatures that are both procedurally generated and animated. And not just crawly critters or aliens, but specifically mammals. This is quite a research challenge. Here's a write-up on my progress over the past few years:.#ProcGen

Of course, I recommend Mastodon too. It would have been my preference, but there's just way more people and activity on B. X feels the least active. My feed is like a few stragglers still remaining in a city long deserted.

I use Sky Follower Bridge to find people I follow on X on B-sky too and almost everyone I follow have B. accounts too now. Unfortunately, a fair amount use them as placeholders only and have zero posts on over there. I'd really recommend using it actively. X is a ghost town.

Another year went by as an indie game developer and what do I have to show for it? A bit of a mixed bag of things, it turns out. I've written my 2024 retrospective here (lots of pics and videos in this one):.#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

People still working there might have more info, but can't necessarily say much. Over on 🐘 Aras (also ex-Unity) said, "My understanding is that there's some discussions and arguments [about] how much it should be backwards compat, vs how much they should do breaking changes.".

I haven't followed Unity closely, but I understood many employees were excited to show the new direction of Unity 7 at Unite 2024 and it was generally well received?. But this has since been jeopardized because the new CEO doesn't want breaking changes?.