Mike Immersed
@mikeimmersed.bsky.social
#dotnet developer | fan of games and VR (Zelda, Last of Us, Mario Kart, Steep, Lone Echo, Pistol Whip) | product of the 80s
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Mike Immersed
@mikeimmersed.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hi Bluesky folks!
🎮 I enjoy games (big fan of Zelda).
👨💻 And I'm a backend developer working with .NET, going on quests for perf wins.
🎮 I enjoy games (big fan of Zelda).
👨💻 And I'm a backend developer working with .NET, going on quests for perf wins.
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Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Made the classic rookie mistake of pouring boiling water into a room temperature pyrex. It did not like that at all, let me know with a bang, and left a hot watery mess of broken glass. Thankfully the shards didn't fly as forcefully as the sound, but I might have trust issues when pouring hot water.
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Made the classic rookie mistake of pouring boiling water into a room temperature pyrex. It did not like that at all, let me know with a bang, and left a hot watery mess of broken glass. Thankfully the shards didn't fly as forcefully as the sound, but I might have trust issues when pouring hot water.
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Making Penguin Festival's VR gameplay trailer was really challenging, but also fun and rewarding. Here's a little postmortem for my own posterity but also in case anyone else finds it helpful!
#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Making Penguin Festival's VR gameplay trailer was really challenging, but also fun and rewarding. Here's a little postmortem for my own posterity but also in case anyone else finds it helpful!
#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
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I’ve been following this indie game for a while - its Kickstarter ends Saturday! It’s at $11,634 and needs to reach $12,000 or it will sadly lose ALL of its funding.
If you love indie games or puzzle platformers, check it out and consider supporting 🫶🏻✨
If you love indie games or puzzle platformers, check it out and consider supporting 🫶🏻✨
PHi : The Broken Strings
3D Puzzle Platformer with emotionally charged levels, heal the wounds of someone's past and restore the balance of a fading hope.
www.kickstarter.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’ve been following this indie game for a while - its Kickstarter ends Saturday! It’s at $11,634 and needs to reach $12,000 or it will sadly lose ALL of its funding.
If you love indie games or puzzle platformers, check it out and consider supporting 🫶🏻✨
If you love indie games or puzzle platformers, check it out and consider supporting 🫶🏻✨
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I'm such a C# shill but,
any time I hear someone say "the garbage collector slows things down too much" I feel like they're not aware of just how many tools you have to avoid heap allocations
it seems to me whatever work that entails, it's almost always less work than using an unmanaged language
any time I hear someone say "the garbage collector slows things down too much" I feel like they're not aware of just how many tools you have to avoid heap allocations
it seems to me whatever work that entails, it's almost always less work than using an unmanaged language
![C# code that reads:
Span<float2> points = stackalloc float2[3] {
Mathfs.AngToDir( 0 ),
Mathfs.AngToDir( Mathfs.TAU / 3 ),
Mathfs.AngToDir( 2 * Mathfs.TAU / 3 )
};
foreach( float2 p in points ) {
// ...
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5nq3pybl4nnoxfp3ovjy2lh7/bafkreic64lsk47hi5cwvfsnzzzm5jvi32g3fb5tb2xwiwadqyqn2w53bxe@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm such a C# shill but,
any time I hear someone say "the garbage collector slows things down too much" I feel like they're not aware of just how many tools you have to avoid heap allocations
it seems to me whatever work that entails, it's almost always less work than using an unmanaged language
any time I hear someone say "the garbage collector slows things down too much" I feel like they're not aware of just how many tools you have to avoid heap allocations
it seems to me whatever work that entails, it's almost always less work than using an unmanaged language
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bringing out the classics
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
bringing out the classics
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
It's so good to hear a message of hope again
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It's so good to hear a message of hope again
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this was fun. let’s do it again.
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
this was fun. let’s do it again.
Got Platinum this week in The Last of Us Part II
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Got Platinum this week in The Last of Us Part II
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Initial conditions:
m1=79.8 m2=87.9 m3=129.0 (solar masses)
v1x=4.64 v1y=0.842 v2x=-6.178 v2y=-5.515 v3x=4.818 v3y=0.642 (km/s)
x1=20.0 y1=-4.0 x2=-10.0 y2=33.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis
m1=79.8 m2=87.9 m3=129.0 (solar masses)
v1x=4.64 v1y=0.842 v2x=-6.178 v2y=-5.515 v3x=4.818 v3y=0.642 (km/s)
x1=20.0 y1=-4.0 x2=-10.0 y2=33.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Initial conditions:
m1=79.8 m2=87.9 m3=129.0 (solar masses)
v1x=4.64 v1y=0.842 v2x=-6.178 v2y=-5.515 v3x=4.818 v3y=0.642 (km/s)
x1=20.0 y1=-4.0 x2=-10.0 y2=33.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis
m1=79.8 m2=87.9 m3=129.0 (solar masses)
v1x=4.64 v1y=0.842 v2x=-6.178 v2y=-5.515 v3x=4.818 v3y=0.642 (km/s)
x1=20.0 y1=-4.0 x2=-10.0 y2=33.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis
Krypto has arrived!
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Krypto has arrived!
Z-Fighting: The video game. Are those zombie sprites coming out of the walls or is it just the low-precision depth buffer?
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Z-Fighting: The video game. Are those zombie sprites coming out of the walls or is it just the low-precision depth buffer?
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thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.
More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
thundergolfer.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.
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This is reminds of a band from Sweden I learned about. The lead made a hybrid electronic-hand cranks music machine that makes its song(s) via marbles dropping on a variety of instruments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU...
Imagine if Americans had that safety net to keep us afloat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU...
Imagine if Americans had that safety net to keep us afloat.
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)
YouTube video by Wintergatan
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is reminds of a band from Sweden I learned about. The lead made a hybrid electronic-hand cranks music machine that makes its song(s) via marbles dropping on a variety of instruments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU...
Imagine if Americans had that safety net to keep us afloat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU...
Imagine if Americans had that safety net to keep us afloat.
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
Marathon (classic)
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Marathon (classic)
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It's my 🎂Birthday🥳 today so it would be a great time to play Moving Houses! Or leave a review for it (those help so much)! Or just share this around. Get a friend to play it. Don't tell them anything about it. It's better that way... store.steampowered.com/app/2831060/...
Moving Houses on Steam
A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.
store.steampowered.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's my 🎂Birthday🥳 today so it would be a great time to play Moving Houses! Or leave a review for it (those help so much)! Or just share this around. Get a friend to play it. Don't tell them anything about it. It's better that way... store.steampowered.com/app/2831060/...
Drop something '80s
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Drop something '80s
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As someone who built the things in CA to help with streamlining the benefits process after relying on it most of my life, I have lots of feelings on what’s happening with SNAP.
Keep filing your paperwork (SAR7/RE). When the stupid is over it’ll matter 🫰🏻
Keep filing your paperwork (SAR7/RE). When the stupid is over it’ll matter 🫰🏻
October 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
As someone who built the things in CA to help with streamlining the benefits process after relying on it most of my life, I have lots of feelings on what’s happening with SNAP.
Keep filing your paperwork (SAR7/RE). When the stupid is over it’ll matter 🫰🏻
Keep filing your paperwork (SAR7/RE). When the stupid is over it’ll matter 🫰🏻
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A quick gamedev history story.
When I started my career, there were so few 3d artist the company I was hired by had to start a training school to make enough to actually make a big game.
At first we didn't know anything. Real time 3D was new and primitive, and nobody really had mastered it.
When I started my career, there were so few 3d artist the company I was hired by had to start a training school to make enough to actually make a big game.
At first we didn't know anything. Real time 3D was new and primitive, and nobody really had mastered it.
October 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A quick gamedev history story.
When I started my career, there were so few 3d artist the company I was hired by had to start a training school to make enough to actually make a big game.
At first we didn't know anything. Real time 3D was new and primitive, and nobody really had mastered it.
When I started my career, there were so few 3d artist the company I was hired by had to start a training school to make enough to actually make a big game.
At first we didn't know anything. Real time 3D was new and primitive, and nobody really had mastered it.
Me: Hello, I went to bed at a decent time, I'd like 8 hours of sleep please
Sleep dealer: Best I can do for you is 3 hours
Sleep dealer: Best I can do for you is 3 hours
October 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Me: Hello, I went to bed at a decent time, I'd like 8 hours of sleep please
Sleep dealer: Best I can do for you is 3 hours
Sleep dealer: Best I can do for you is 3 hours
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Mine might be Star Wars Gangsta Rap
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Mine might be Star Wars Gangsta Rap
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The pure joy of watching the group of inflatables dancing
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The pure joy of watching the group of inflatables dancing