Alastair Toft @alastair@mastodon.gamedev.place

#startrek was always super variable in quality, but what made me love the old shows was the optimism that, hey, the future can be bright for us as a species once we sort out our shit. The modern incarnations either don't understand the core idea behind the franchise, or are just uninterested in it. And to me that's really sad when the rest of mainstream pop culture already seems to lack any positive vision of the future.

Been trying to write a type reflection system for my C++ project. It would mostly be used for serialising arbitrary gameplay structs to the disk or the network. It's interesting trying to write a system optimizing for minimal boilerplate code (per struct supported) rather than the usual speed/memory.

Plus I got Life is Strange 2 and Cities Skylines over the holidays and both have native Linux versions

Finally upgraded my #linux distribution and the latest @gnome is looking really good :)

Happy New Year 🎆

Don't forget to vote today if you can 😊

Really excited to see that the Hammer editor is making a comeback along with Half-Life :)

Back to working on my engine today, looking at a terrain level of detail system so the visible world can extend out to the size of a whole planet...

At the massive Brighton climate strike today #fridays4future

It's horrible to look at, but hey! #gamedev https://youtu.be/coJ07agTUP8

Some more on my C++ personal project this evening. I finally got the terrain editing functionality to work asynchronously 😊