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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW

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Gameplay engineer and designer with @capscollective.com, living in Brisbane, Australia. Opinions optimised for ATI Radeon graphics cards. For more info, check out jonjondev.com

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · Mar 25

The other week I decided to add an asset packing system to my C++ game engine, Siege, and so I thought it might be fun to do a writeup on my process as well as all the cursed things it does that will keep me up at night. Enjoy!

#cpplus #cpp #gamedev #opensource #programming #gameengine

The fruits and folly of implementing an asset packing system in C++

After implementing a packing system for our custom, C++ game engine, Siege, I go in-depth on some of the design decisions, and unforeseen hazards encountered along the way.

capscollective.com

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · 1d

This is just a frame from Twin Peaks.

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Being social can feel impossible in this hyper-connected age, and as a community we need to come together and support each other in destroying all identification and disappearing in the wilderness for 8-10 years.

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Whether you broke your ankle dancing the night away or have been uncontrollably foaming at the mouth, consider getting therapy when you get home.

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · 1d

It’s been an amazing week - an exhausting week. Take a moment to congratulate yourself on making it through.

It’s also important that we listen to our bodies coming away from these events. If it’s telling you that you need to faint and cough up blood, give yourself the patience and space to do so.

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · 5d

I have survived the consequences of my actions

A beanie-clad individual at a lectern in front of a slide titled “who am I?”

A beanie-clad individual shrugging sheepishly to camera

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · 10d

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

STREAMING & SERIALISATION FOR UNREAL OPEN WORLDS

JONATHAN MOALLEM
LEAD PROGRAMMER @ GAMELOFT BRISBANE

Unreal Engine 5 provides built-in solutions for chunked streaming management, multi-user editing, instancing, and LODing with its World Partition systems. Theres a ton of great tunctionality to lean on that will get you 90% of the way to your open world game, but there's also a lot of glue and gotchas to look out for. This talk offers an overview of some of the systems and strategies we've used at Gameloft Brisbane to manage multi-platform, open world games, from schedule and world state to streaming and serialisation.

TUE 7TH OCT @3PM

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s so cool that the biggest game in the world right now is an Australian Indie

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · Sep 2

New favourite mug! Compiler Explorer knocked it out of the park with this merch.

A white and green mug featuring a cheat sheet for the x86-64 calling conventions

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Jun 30

Scarecrows are my personal favourite animated humanoid constructs

A newpaper titled Fantasy Town Daily with 2 articles, an ad, and a drawing of a scarecrow.

Scarecrows Had The Final Straw
All across our fields, farmers have awoken to a shock, as scarecrows have up and started walking about! Little is known of the scarecrows motives, but they have become territorial of their fields.

On the advise of local agricultural and enchantment experts, the farmers guild have agreed to "Burn it all down and send those monsters back to the inferno."

Townsfolk are warned they may notice a slight food shortage in the coming weeks, and to avoid wearing any overalls and sun hats for their own protection.

The Orb of Awakening
Local innkeeper Veronica Stalwart has gained supernatural powers after she touched an orb containing the soul of a long dead god while cleaning her attic.

When asked about her intentions, she stated "I promise to use these powers for good, no matter WHAT the being inside of me says!"

Donate Blood Today!
Please, Don't ask Why!

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · Jun 24

It’s honestly cost me more time than saved having used it for a while. It was almost never strictly faster than a few autocompletes and sometimes even recommended something that LOOKED reasonable enough only for me to say “wait a moment that’s not what I wanted to do at all!”.

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House House @househouse.bsky.social · Jun 6

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵

Join us for a tour around our new game.
Coming 2026.

Big Walk - Gameplay Overview

YouTube video by House House

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · May 11

I have spent this entire game being told to “touch grass” and now finally my time has arrived!

Map screen from Elden Ring highlighting Church of the Bud, Main Entrance.

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Apr 9

Special Edition of Fantasy Town Daily!

DnD is for Nerds has been a huge inspiration for the events in our game, and I've been so psyched to see how successful their new board game kickstarter has been.

Wake. Adventure. Sleep. Repeat.
Are you looking to hustle? To rumble? To make a name for yourself in this chaotic world we live in? Well come to Jarren's Outpost, and become a legend. Join the Sabres, make a deal with the Blood Cult, and screw over your closest allies today!

Seriously, there's only one day left to go there, you better start running!

Lycanthropills!
Unleash your inner beast!

No Free Actions
Notice to adventurers, in accordance with updates in combat guidelines, please keep your quips and one-liners to a minimum, as your opponents are no longer required to wait until you're finished before attacking.

In exchange, it's now fair game to attack an evil wizard or warlord if their monologue exceeds thirty seconds.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · Apr 5

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?

1/x

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · Mar 31

let's talk internships

in the past 5 years (when #gamedev industry money was flowing) there was loud discourse about offering paid internships only

in the era of studios scraping to get by, has this had a chilling effect on the # of internships offered? is this a problem?

share your thoughts

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Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · Mar 31

Beyond being potentially exploitative, it’s also a liability, and wrong to charge clients for the work of a pseudo-employee. Generally the intern should be getting way more out of the relationship than the business (who would be sacrificing time to educate them). Business work = junior or graduate

Jonathan Moallem 🔜 MIGW @jonjondev.com · Mar 31

On the point of different definitions, I would suggest that internships do not have to be a paid program, but they should not have the individual working on anything providing business value. It’s a teaching opportunity provided by the employer to reach out to students; not a source of free labour

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Walaber @walaber.com · Mar 29

Craft 3D objects from Lua code in my new puzzle game “Replicube”, releasing in April, try the free demo now on Steam 🤓
s.team/a/3401490

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Mar 27

Extra extra! Read all about it! Princess Woodsong has been brought to ‘justice’!

The Woods Last Song:

The notorious Princess Woodsong and her bloodthirsty band of furry friends have been brought to justice by our brave adventurers.

The princess is awaiting trial for her crimes, including:
• Insubordination
• Unkemptness
• Murder
If sentenced, she will be locked in 'The Tower', an asylum for runaway princesses.

DID YOU KNOW?
The cost of a single health potion is enough to feed a family of five for a year!

Donations to your local Guild Co. branch will increase start of next quarter, to help afford essential costs.

GET A NEW
FOCUSING CRYSTAL!
Your spells will backfire no more!

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Vertex @endvertex.bsky.social · Mar 16

I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...

For-Profit (Creative) Software

YouTube video by EndVertex

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Mar 25

Be careful out there, rogue deer WILL attack on sight!

Fantasy Town Daily newspaper with the following articles:

Princess Out for Revenge:
Princess Woodsong, who apparently has been captured for six months, has grown tired of waiting for rescue.

She was broken out by a band of befriended woodland creatures, who she has trained into a deadly miltia. Now, reports indicate she's out for revenge against the town for forgetting about her.

Our correspondent from GuildCo. has reached out to clarify the situation: "We think her ransom note got caught in our spam filter.

Think you might be Psychic?
Get tested today, at any nearby inquisition outpost!

Royal Spell Bans:
Following a royal decree, the following spells have been banned from non-authorized use:
• Zone of Tax Evasion
• Repress Trauma
• Powerword: Gaslight

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Mar 24

Just in time for the Steam sale, we’ve released a new patch cleaning up some of those small outstanding nitpicks that have been keeping us up at night.

Patch notes:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/152...

Fantasy Town Regional Manager - Quality of Life Update v2.2.7 - Steam News

We're back at it again making some little changes so the game is all up to date just in time for our biggest sale yet!

store.steampowered.com

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Mar 24

The Steam City Builder and Colony Sim sale is live, and we’ve got our biggest discount yet of 60%!

If you’ve been wishing for the chance to run your own adventuring town, look no further

s.team/a/1524530

The capsule art for the game showing the sale cost of $4 ($5.60 AUD), with Steam’s artwork for the sale in the background

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · Mar 23

Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate ♻️

Our debut issue of Fantasy News Daily is out now!

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