Resmi
@resmi.bsky.social
I do systems programming for games (apologetically)
we’ll optimise after shipping
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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We’ll optimise before shipping
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We’ll optimise before shipping
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September 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.
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Thinking About Game Difficulty
Periodically a wave of discussion about game difficulty occurs in game developer spaces, so I wanted to share some thoughts that Zach Barth and Keith Holman of Zachtronics [http://www.zachtronics.com]...
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September 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.
web.archive.org/web/20250107...
web.archive.org/web/20250107...
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What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?
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This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
i think the impulse here is noble, but tbh the longer i spend in games, the more honest the core sentiment of “it was made by like three people” becomes. there are artists and plumbers — sometimes you’re a plumber. there’s no shame in that.
I took a quick look at the credits to see what "silksong was made by 3 devs with support from a few contractors" looks like in practice
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i think the impulse here is noble, but tbh the longer i spend in games, the more honest the core sentiment of “it was made by like three people” becomes. there are artists and plumbers — sometimes you’re a plumber. there’s no shame in that.
this is like an alternate universe where game engines evolved into something usable
August 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
this is like an alternate universe where game engines evolved into something usable
low-key inflicting massive self-esteem damage to patrick fischler
i changed my phones Brough icons to unsettling david lynch characters so i wouldn’t play them so much, it didn’t work and now these are canon to me
August 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
low-key inflicting massive self-esteem damage to patrick fischler
@toboggan.work @draknek.bsky.social very slowly working my way through bonfire peaks lost memories part 2. I can’t even picture what a valid solution for “Steeple” COULD look like. great stuff :)
August 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
@toboggan.work @draknek.bsky.social very slowly working my way through bonfire peaks lost memories part 2. I can’t even picture what a valid solution for “Steeple” COULD look like. great stuff :)
this is the culture sound cards want to take from us
i need to know who said "yeah lets put golf for nes on nintendo music" with a straight face
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
this is the culture sound cards want to take from us
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June 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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But their *perception* of what is going on is that they are becoming smarter and more effective, and the more they do it the more unrealistic that perception is going to be. It's like the tech industry invented a drug that gives you dunning-kruger syndrome.
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
But their *perception* of what is going on is that they are becoming smarter and more effective, and the more they do it the more unrealistic that perception is going to be. It's like the tech industry invented a drug that gives you dunning-kruger syndrome.
inside you there are two wolves
April 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
inside you there are two wolves
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Telltale Games released their first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em, 20 years ago today
February 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Telltale Games released their first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em, 20 years ago today
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pro-tip: passing HWND_TOP, or most scarily the equivalent 0, to SetWindowPos as hwndAfter, and then holding alt+tab while the function is called will cause your window to inherit WS_EX_TOPMOST and stick it to the top of your screen forever. An amazing number of Windows apps have this problem.
February 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
pro-tip: passing HWND_TOP, or most scarily the equivalent 0, to SetWindowPos as hwndAfter, and then holding alt+tab while the function is called will cause your window to inherit WS_EX_TOPMOST and stick it to the top of your screen forever. An amazing number of Windows apps have this problem.
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Okay you know that 120fps "frame interpolation" thing that every millennial has been aggressively turning off on their parent's televisions for the last 10 years? Okay. What if we replaced all of culture with that
January 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Okay you know that 120fps "frame interpolation" thing that every millennial has been aggressively turning off on their parent's televisions for the last 10 years? Okay. What if we replaced all of culture with that
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this occupies the recesses of my mind that would be better spent learning how to poach an egg
December 24, 2024 at 10:42 PM
this occupies the recesses of my mind that would be better spent learning how to poach an egg
posting is degenerate behavior
December 23, 2024 at 3:04 AM
posting is degenerate behavior