Andrew Haining
@1st-c-lord.bsky.social
Code Lead @ http://www.screenburn.com/ working on Silent Hill: Townfall
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In my experience AI enthusiasts are the same mediocre work shy hangers on that have always poisoned game development but now they're much easier to spot
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In my experience AI enthusiasts are the same mediocre work shy hangers on that have always poisoned game development but now they're much easier to spot
Any time you see a quadrilateral in engineering, you're probably looking at something aesthetically appealing rather than optimal.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about
DiskSat’s design offers “a power-to-weight ratio unmatched by traditional aluminum satellites.”…
arstechnica.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Any time you see a quadrilateral in engineering, you're probably looking at something aesthetically appealing rather than optimal.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Playing ffvii remake, I'm about 10 minutes in and I fucking hate it, what an utter disgrace
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Playing ffvii remake, I'm about 10 minutes in and I fucking hate it, what an utter disgrace
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
This is pretty close to perfect. I'd happily bin mobile GPUs and TBR but I understand why they're included. I probably would've binned hardware rasterisation altogether though and that would've been a mistake.
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is pretty close to perfect. I'd happily bin mobile GPUs and TBR but I understand why they're included. I probably would've binned hardware rasterisation altogether though and that would've been a mistake.
Unfortunately he makes the same mistake that basically everyone does. He's ignored the word immersive in the definition. It's not just a simulation, it's a simulation in service of immersion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSF4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSF4...
What Is An Immersive Sim?
YouTube video by Timothy Cain
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Unfortunately he makes the same mistake that basically everyone does. He's ignored the word immersive in the definition. It's not just a simulation, it's a simulation in service of immersion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSF4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSF4...
It's perverse lawcraft but Disney signed that Open AI deal to create a market that they can use to counter Google's fair use defence in their court case.
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's perverse lawcraft but Disney signed that Open AI deal to create a market that they can use to counter Google's fair use defence in their court case.
Tl;DR support critics if you hate advertising and don't support advertising if you are a critic, advertising is the antithesis of criticism and will always seek to eliminate it.
I'm going to throw some cold water on the anger about this.
It is now considered ROUTINE for AAA games to spend as much on marketing as they do on Dev. Dev costs $200M? That's the starting point of conversation on how much to spend on marketing, PR and ads.
1/short thread
It is now considered ROUTINE for AAA games to spend as much on marketing as they do on Dev. Dev costs $200M? That's the starting point of conversation on how much to spend on marketing, PR and ads.
1/short thread
Report: The Game Awards trailers can cost devs up to $1 million
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tl;DR support critics if you hate advertising and don't support advertising if you are a critic, advertising is the antithesis of criticism and will always seek to eliminate it.
It took Americans to really unlock the potential of warhammer and judge dread because the British establishment is deeply terrified of that anti imperialist part of English culture. Total War 40k is gonna be banging
December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It took Americans to really unlock the potential of warhammer and judge dread because the British establishment is deeply terrified of that anti imperialist part of English culture. Total War 40k is gonna be banging
RE9 looks incredible 🤞
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
RE9 looks incredible 🤞
Now THAT'S gonna be an RPG
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Now THAT'S gonna be an RPG
Casey Hudson directing a game doesn't quite carry the same weight after Anthem, hope they pull it off but i'm not holding my breath tbh, I don't think he understands what made kotor great.
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Casey Hudson directing a game doesn't quite carry the same weight after Anthem, hope they pull it off but i'm not holding my breath tbh, I don't think he understands what made kotor great.
Seeing the Clair Obscur soundtrack performed live is definitely a highlight on this years game awards
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Seeing the Clair Obscur soundtrack performed live is definitely a highlight on this years game awards
Lots of other AAA games have budgets in this range, what's unique here is that Sandfall are the only ones telling the truth.
"Sandfall wanted to prove that indie studios were capable of making prestige games at a fraction of the budget and personnel of larger studios....
"Sandfall, which said the budget for Clair Obscur was less than $10 million..."
Wow
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...
"Sandfall, which said the budget for Clair Obscur was less than $10 million..."
Wow
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...
A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Lots of other AAA games have budgets in this range, what's unique here is that Sandfall are the only ones telling the truth.
Crowd sourced reviews are a terrible idea and them carrying weight makes games worse but the solution isn't to let devs remove the negative poorly written, pointless and bigoted ones but keep the positive poorly written, pointless (probably not bigoted tbh because that's not how bigots work) ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Crowd sourced reviews are a terrible idea and them carrying weight makes games worse but the solution isn't to let devs remove the negative poorly written, pointless and bigoted ones but keep the positive poorly written, pointless (probably not bigoted tbh because that's not how bigots work) ones
Playing Doom The Dark Ages and it's got the same problem as Doom Eternal, massively over-designed. It's like they didn't read the reviews for Doom 2016. It was widely praised for getting out of your way.
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Playing Doom The Dark Ages and it's got the same problem as Doom Eternal, massively over-designed. It's like they didn't read the reviews for Doom 2016. It was widely praised for getting out of your way.
I'm not particularly interested in the fantasy of unregulated speech and I do think this game could've made it's point without the paedophilia but this was a thought provoking read. I think it's fine that this game exists on gog and gog alone www.rockpapershotgun.com/horses-review
Horses review
The machine can't get off without your help.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm not particularly interested in the fantasy of unregulated speech and I do think this game could've made it's point without the paedophilia but this was a thought provoking read. I think it's fine that this game exists on gog and gog alone www.rockpapershotgun.com/horses-review
When you deliberately make bad things that sell a lot, you're ensuring it's success or failure rests on factors you can't control, the main one being that something actually good will come along and draw those fickle eyeballs www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty...
"Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? | Eurogamer.net
Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? We asked industry experts to find out.
www.eurogamer.net
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
When you deliberately make bad things that sell a lot, you're ensuring it's success or failure rests on factors you can't control, the main one being that something actually good will come along and draw those fickle eyeballs www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty...
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Routine is out in a couple of days and I was curious about when I first wrote about it, in an issue of PC Gamer.
2012.
2012.
ROUTINE on Steam
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
store.steampowered.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Routine is out in a couple of days and I was curious about when I first wrote about it, in an issue of PC Gamer.
2012.
2012.
I revile Trump but Maduro did just annex 2/3rds of Guyana, there's no good guys in that fight.
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I revile Trump but Maduro did just annex 2/3rds of Guyana, there's no good guys in that fight.
DRAM is extremely cheap to manufacture but it's been controlled by a price fixing cartel for decades, at some point that cartel makes a mistake when planning the manufacturing volume and you get economic shocks, that's a big part of why cartels are illegal
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
DRAM is extremely cheap to manufacture but it's been controlled by a price fixing cartel for decades, at some point that cartel makes a mistake when planning the manufacturing volume and you get economic shocks, that's a big part of why cartels are illegal
Hall Effect and TMR gamepads have been about for years now and mainstream sites are still recommending legacy junk, you can't trust anything.
www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ps5-dual...
www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ps5-dual...
The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales
You can grab a PS5 DualSense gamepad - underrated for PC play, in this writer's view - for cheap this Black Friday.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Hall Effect and TMR gamepads have been about for years now and mainstream sites are still recommending legacy junk, you can't trust anything.
www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ps5-dual...
www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ps5-dual...