Michael Nischt @micha@mastodon.gamedev.place

An unfinished MOBA-like concept around teens & demons.

https://dare-night.com

I put a few Vulkan utility functions I use across projects in an stb header:

https://gitlab.com/michael-nischt/vku/-/blob/main/vku.h

Just few simple ones to get started.

Anyone else has / knows something similar?

Cem Yuksel's 'Fast & Robust Solution for Cubic & Higher-Order Polynomials' excellent talk:

https://youtu.be/ok0EZ0fBCMA

Public service announcement:
One Dreamer is a fantastic game!

The story is full of emotions and the copy & paste programming puzzles are amazing as well.

https://www.one-dreamer.com

Mesh Shading for Vulkan has arrived!
(VK_EXT_mesh_shader)

https://www.khronos.org/blog/mesh-shading-for-vulkan

The case against a C alternative (handmade.network)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative

I dreamed of VIM with WASD navigation (Q/E for words)...

It was so good but reality is different. 💤

Adding "-std=c99" can result in much slower binaries?!

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arch-Linux-Bizarre-Zstd

TL;DR: luckily "-std=c11" seems fine luckily.

Last Call BBS, by Zachtronics

https://youtu.be/EdU-ABucIjk

Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)
by Kyle Kukshtel

https://blog.kylekukshtel.com/game-design-mimetics

Longer read but has good points.

Wow, looks like it's too hard / costly for Unity Technologies to continue providing a VS Code extension. 😵

It will be deprecated soon™️ .

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/vscode-unity-debug/issues/206

Anyone has experience with the 4coder text editor?

Can you recommend to try it?

http://4coder.net
https://github.com/Dion-Systems/4coder

MuJoCo is open/free now:
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/opening-up-a-physics-simulator-for-robotics

(Another point on my long to-do list: test it on a small game prototype.)

Published my "handmade" Advent of Code 2021 solutions. 💫

All in plain, modern C.

No dependencies except libc.

Fast with limited, pre-allocated memory.

https://gitlab.com/michael-nischt/advent-of-code

(Feedback is more than welcome. Algorithmically and best practices for the language.)

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2021! #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/

I can now develop & run Linux Vulkan apps / games on ChromeOS v94. Thanks to the Debian "bullseye" container. \o/

(confirmed on an ARM Mali-G72 MP3)

Engineering students don't know what files and folders are?

I'd call that a regression.. but maybe I'm just old. 🙃

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

Flowers has maybe one of the best series endings of all: "Difference, alive, and dead. So small. But if you can hold.." 🙂