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Making a game and sharing progress!

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Playing around with buoyancy... with interesting results
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#screenshotsaturday #bevy #gamedev #rustlang

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@topotoylabs Also this

https://t.co/C6IfUKwU7q

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🌱Plant experiments! 🌞Rays from above give plants energy, causing growth. Super janky atm, but fun

@BevyEngine #indiegame #rustlang

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Very nice! I worked on something similar, just for spherical “plants” in an ecosystem. Never really took it much further, as it didn’t scale very well, but it was fun. I wanted to turn it into a compute shader and a better sun ray obstruction mechanism than ray casts 🌱

https://t.co/47lTCGKNtF

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Realized I didn't post for all of 2025, so here's a timelapse of a simple seed->plant->seed growth system 🌱 Happy new year!

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@nilay_savant I agree, but seems like the community is opposed to AI.

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@AWeirdPhysicist @CheviDon @mouthofmorrison @Ascii211 @ElectronicsbyJH You should generate som higher res ones just for the art. They're kinda beautiful

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@SebAaltonen does this mean PETAFAB will be released on mac too?

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@pearkes @superlogical @almonk Will it have voice input?

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@jonringer117 @Mic_92 I was testing setting up my env with Nix last year, but got frustrated as a Nushell user that Bash was so tightly coupled to Nix.

I later learned about Nuenv, and apparently https://t.co/Jd0Gm7R0jW has revived it but I haven't tested. Would be cool to see more Nushell in Nix!

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@IroncladDev @iroh_n0 What do you use it for?

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@AlexRWendland @carllerche is the edit-loop measurement taken at opt-level=3?

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@carllerche And I just upgraded to 0.7 :) love the release cadence!

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@SebAaltonen That rebuild is too fast, please rewrite in no-std rust

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jj is awesome! It has completely replace git for me :) And I didn't know until now you are building your own jj-remote, but I'd love to try it!

Feature request for game dev:
An issue I encounter a lot is wanting to avoid unoptimized game assets in my repo history, like textures, models and sound. I don't always have time to optimize them, but I still want them in my jj history, so I spend time optimizing away a few MB so they don't bloat the repo. It would be a great to have a jj setup with a remote that can serve a limited slice of the history, so I don't need to download the entire history of assets locally to get started, but can still go back in history and have those assets served on demand.

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@SebAaltonen I like the "no" prefix. It's already a strong brand.
> no_gpu, no_api, NoGL, no_gfx.

Alternatively someting with "bindless"
> bindlessGL, bindlessGPU, etc

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@SebAaltonen Loved your posts about massive multiplayer and the voxel project. It's a great time to cook up something great!

https://t.co/1aPSvO8zuP

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New WebGPU terrain build with color painting tools: https://t.co/RgwJPBkTas

This concludes my single week prototype. It was a blast! I really enjoyed doing it.

Prototyping continues on Christmas vacation:
- 2nd week = full 3d voxel system
- 3rd week = 10,000 player multiplayer

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@sitnikcode I’m glad the guy with the GitHub AI handle is positive to AI

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@JasonBud A simple phone app with voice input, and option to edit the voice input keybind to hold-spacebar

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@damarberlari Looks incredibly satisfying

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@rachpradhan How do you avoid overfitting to one type of problem?

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@mumpitzgames I bought it but can't play on mac. Is a mac release planned?

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@mitchellh @AnandChowdhary @superlogical @almonk @dizzyup I've been loving their iOS SSH app Echo, so I can't wait for what you guys cook next! Is there a chance the multiplexer apps get voice input?