AbandonWindow
@patricknasralla.com
Technical art and game development from the edge of the void. Love generative systems and procedural things with loads of agents!
Ex medical doctor, senior developer at KPV Lab, and now a founder of Visibyl Ltd
Ex medical doctor, senior developer at KPV Lab, and now a founder of Visibyl Ltd
If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula
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If you've not had a chance to sign this yet, please do
Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you've not had a chance to sign this yet, please do
lol @steampowered.com for asking me to prove I’m over 18 **when my literal account is** 🤦
September 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
lol @steampowered.com for asking me to prove I’m over 18 **when my literal account is** 🤦
Someone has been making my day on my morning dog walks lately! Thanks mystery person!
July 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Someone has been making my day on my morning dog walks lately! Thanks mystery person!
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Hey #GameDev, do me a favor and boost this skeet from @bmann.ca! It'd be great to get the games industry involved in this early verification process. 🥰
Hey @bsky.app team -- @trezy.codes runs a full verification process with the Games Industry Labeler.
Would be great to onboard him as a community verifier sooner rather than later.
Tech talk here with background -> atprotocol.dev/tech-talk-tr...
Would be great to onboard him as a community verifier sooner rather than later.
Tech talk here with background -> atprotocol.dev/tech-talk-tr...
Tech Talk: Trezy and the Games Industry Labeler & Game Dev Feed
Trezy built a Games Industry Labeler, including self-labeled and verified accounts, moderated with an Ozone instance, as well maintaining a Game Dev Feed.
atprotocol.dev
April 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Making friends in Holyrood park this morning.
April 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Making friends in Holyrood park this morning.
When you reelize he just wrote the word “afforbable”.
April 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When you reelize he just wrote the word “afforbable”.
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Look at your savings, now back to me, now back at your savings. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in the future needing to retire. What’s in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it’s trash. Look again, your trash is now nothing! Anything is possible when clowns run your country. I’m on a horse.
April 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Look at your savings, now back to me, now back at your savings. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in the future needing to retire. What’s in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it’s trash. Look again, your trash is now nothing! Anything is possible when clowns run your country. I’m on a horse.
I am so unreasonably excited for the 10th
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I am so unreasonably excited for the 10th
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It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
What’s a game that is universally loved that just didn’t click with you?
Spelunky 2. On paper, it's my perfect game. I've over 600 hours in Noita and I LOVE roguelikes. I just couldn't get into it - really tried, too. Over the years I put in, like, 30-50 hours but it just never clicked for me.
Spelunky 2. On paper, it's my perfect game. I've over 600 hours in Noita and I LOVE roguelikes. I just couldn't get into it - really tried, too. Over the years I put in, like, 30-50 hours but it just never clicked for me.
What’s a game that is universally loved that just didn’t click with you?
Cyberpunk. I tried 3 times to get into that game and it never clicked. I disliked the shooting, the inventory, the hacking, the map, everything. I probably would have enjoyed a point and click adventure version of it better.
Cyberpunk. I tried 3 times to get into that game and it never clicked. I disliked the shooting, the inventory, the hacking, the map, everything. I probably would have enjoyed a point and click adventure version of it better.
What’s a game that is universally loved that just didn’t click with you?
Mine is probably Hades.
For me the progression felt artificial…I never felt I was getting further on my own but that I was on a prescribed path to hit story beats. Sometimes I’d just…get further…but it rarely felt like skill.
Mine is probably Hades.
For me the progression felt artificial…I never felt I was getting further on my own but that I was on a prescribed path to hit story beats. Sometimes I’d just…get further…but it rarely felt like skill.
March 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What’s a game that is universally loved that just didn’t click with you?
Spelunky 2. On paper, it's my perfect game. I've over 600 hours in Noita and I LOVE roguelikes. I just couldn't get into it - really tried, too. Over the years I put in, like, 30-50 hours but it just never clicked for me.
Spelunky 2. On paper, it's my perfect game. I've over 600 hours in Noita and I LOVE roguelikes. I just couldn't get into it - really tried, too. Over the years I put in, like, 30-50 hours but it just never clicked for me.
Oh, God. Should… should somebody tell them?
March 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Oh, God. Should… should somebody tell them?
This makes me unreasonably happy.
So... I notice that the cats from Assassin's Creed Shadows have cat eyes responding to the lighting, distance and angle of the camera.
Superb job!
🐈⬛🐈👁️👁️
Superb job!
🐈⬛🐈👁️👁️
March 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This makes me unreasonably happy.
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NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed.
Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️
Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️
February 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed.
Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️
Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️
Movies you have watched more than six times, GIFs only
February 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Movies you have watched more than six times, GIFs only
Back to the particles today! Got the system all hooked up to real-time audio input for "ListenState" which now outputs audio spectrum info! I've found that the state machine is really helping to manage complexity now.
February 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Back to the particles today! Got the system all hooked up to real-time audio input for "ListenState" which now outputs audio spectrum info! I've found that the state machine is really helping to manage complexity now.
One of the cool things about shifting my particle simulation wholly to compute is that I can decide *exactly* which kernels to dispatch. This means: particle state machine!
February 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
One of the cool things about shifting my particle simulation wholly to compute is that I can decide *exactly* which kernels to dispatch. This means: particle state machine!
Worked on porting some of the Unity VFX graph functions to custom compute shaders today! Very early days but I'm quite happy with my versions of sphere attractor and turbulence so far!
January 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Worked on porting some of the Unity VFX graph functions to custom compute shaders today! Very early days but I'm quite happy with my versions of sphere attractor and turbulence so far!
Back to work with some particle VFX for an upcoming PuzzleDust project! Today I had some fun with SDFs...
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Back to work with some particle VFX for an upcoming PuzzleDust project! Today I had some fun with SDFs...
Wow! You dont see something as original and fun as this too often!
The Steam store page for 『Öooo』 is now live!
Check it out and don't forget to add it to your wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...
#Öooo #gamemaker
Check it out and don't forget to add it to your wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...
#Öooo #gamemaker
January 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wow! You dont see something as original and fun as this too often!
This is a really informative thread for those thinking to write to their MP/MSP about the recent AI consultation. Thank you Marsh!
A week ago, I had dinner with a key author of the AI consultation. Not just dinner: I berated them for about 7 hours. In return, they gave me a horrid cough. Which is a fair revenge. Anyway, here's a thread about what I took away from the conversation. These are my inferences, not quotes.
January 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is a really informative thread for those thinking to write to their MP/MSP about the recent AI consultation. Thank you Marsh!
Holy crap. I just watched “Lair of the white worm” and I now know what the reference material for Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place was… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lai...
The Lair of the White Worm (film) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 31, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Holy crap. I just watched “Lair of the white worm” and I now know what the reference material for Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place was… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lai...
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With Hogmanay it seemed like a good time to signal boost to the gamedevs of my adopted home, Scotland.
If you're a Scotland-based or Scotland-born gamedev drop your name in the replies to be added (only self-nominations thanks folks).
Reposts welcome & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙌🏻
go.bsky.app/RVGcV8u
If you're a Scotland-based or Scotland-born gamedev drop your name in the replies to be added (only self-nominations thanks folks).
Reposts welcome & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙌🏻
go.bsky.app/RVGcV8u
December 31, 2024 at 12:16 PM
With Hogmanay it seemed like a good time to signal boost to the gamedevs of my adopted home, Scotland.
If you're a Scotland-based or Scotland-born gamedev drop your name in the replies to be added (only self-nominations thanks folks).
Reposts welcome & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙌🏻
go.bsky.app/RVGcV8u
If you're a Scotland-based or Scotland-born gamedev drop your name in the replies to be added (only self-nominations thanks folks).
Reposts welcome & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙌🏻
go.bsky.app/RVGcV8u
100% this. Although my go-to cozy place has to be returning to Wolfstack Docks in Sunless Sea… Man, that music!
no "cozy game" will ever feel cozier than firelink shrine does in dark souls
December 11, 2024 at 9:26 PM
100% this. Although my go-to cozy place has to be returning to Wolfstack Docks in Sunless Sea… Man, that music!
Caves of Qud tip: don’t spend 300 reputation leaning a skill from the Mechanimists when you’re STANDING IN THEIR HOLY PLACE 🤦♂️
December 10, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Caves of Qud tip: don’t spend 300 reputation leaning a skill from the Mechanimists when you’re STANDING IN THEIR HOLY PLACE 🤦♂️