you are doing the best work keep going!!!

got around to playing Ray Frank's Having Company, a quake 2 mod that I am now convinced is one of the greatest surrealist masterpieces of our time. if you like weird shit and the aesthetics of amateur fan maps, you need to try this. I can't remember the last time a game made me laugh this much.

- 900 PCX image files
- 533 lines of C code
- 256 colors
- rendered in Plush
- audio by evie

"programming is wonderful because, well... let's just say, you have the power to create magical new things that excite and engage people~!"

(made with plush: github.com/erysdren/plush)

bsky fucked up the aspect ratio on the gif for some reason, please visit the link if you wanna see it as intended~!

god help me i have written more about software rendering and a file named polyrobo.mdl

erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...

i chose Q3 BSP files because they already store baked lighting data in vertex colours (as well as a standard lightmap) which is way easier to deal with in Plush. with gouraud shading it looks pretty sweet, i think,,,,

(yes the DOOM alpha HUD is just a fun placeholder hehehe)

i am working on a software-rendered 3D game for MS-DOS! again! this time i am using the Plush software renderer (from Nullsoft Inc.) as a base and using Quake 3 BSP files to store level geometry.

seems like i'll be targeting Pentium 133 territory, maybe higher, depends on how well i can optimize...

i wrote about the Utah Teapot and its lesser known friends

erysdren.me/docs/utah-te...

libertarian-addled brain version of twitter, that literally sprung forth from within twitter, moderated by and operated by some of the same Big Brained Genieouses who made twitter shitty BEFORE 2023 manages to fuck up. this is your local news you can trust, at 11. do you know where YOUR lifeboat is?

more 3d software rendering thoughts and musings! check it out only on my blog!!! hell yeah!!!

erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...

Bumping this again, things haven't really been improving much... thank you again...

waking up again.

Shit has been so fucking unbelievably bad recently, and i really need some help... my wife and i havent been able to eat much besides beans and rice for ages and the bills keep coming... sharing this also helps a lot <3
paypal.me/lauralorian
#mutualaid

thanks i'll add a note

wrote a new big blog post today that is very relevent to my interests. you may be interested in reading

IF YOU LOVE IT, DOWNLOAD IT.

erysdren.me/blog/2025-08...

new little devlog video for one of my many gamedev projects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYe...

new patreon post! an early draft of some reverse engineering & documentation that will be on my website sometime soon. enjoy!

www.patreon.com/posts/test-d...

new patreon post! an early draft of some reverse engineering & documentation that will be on my website sometime soon. enjoy!

www.patreon.com/posts/test-d...

made a new blog post on my website talking a little bit about integrating Jolt Physics into the FTE Quake engine!

erysdren.me/blog/2025-06...