Mason Remaley

Indie game dev, board member on the Zig Software Foundation. 🏳️‍🌈 Twitter sucks, follow my mailing list instead:

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

My puzzle game Way of Rhea is out now on Steam!! 🎉

[Games by Mason @AnthropicSt]

Way of Rhea - A Puzzle Game | Out now on Steam!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. RTs much appreciated, the best way to support me is to pick up a copy and leave a review. :)

#gamedev #thinkygames #puzzlegame #rust #indiegames

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New SYCL 2026 talk just dropped: "Real-time Software on Linux: How hard can it be?" by Jeff Anderson https://t.co/Nwaq4JBDCx

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For SYCL's first systems talk update, we have Andrés Villegas presenting "Data Oriented Design for Mortals: https://t.co/HmqevPMf9r

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

⏰ Fix Your Game's Input Latency

#gamedev #indiedev https://t.co/wlqxU68g2j

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

Also updated all my game dev libraries for it today:

https://t.co/IebNZTl4gb

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

Zig 0.16 out!

https://t.co/7m0e9p94Co

[Matt Knight ⚡️ @embedded_boi]

Tickets are up for the next Software You Can Love conference in Vancouver!
https://t.co/HQjm73ivmS

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

🧮 How To Write Fast Game Engine Math

#gamedev

https://t.co/Lj9hO3Xqod

[Eric Lengyel @EricLengyel]

New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
https://t.co/xWEz0q2c4N

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

https://t.co/VsbNq4QHKI

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

🔗 Neat Shader Tricks, The Future of Graphics APIs, and Other Links

It’s been a while since I did a links round up–here’s the cool stuff I read/watched over the past few months!

#gamedev #indiedev

https://t.co/qY0BllcjqV

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

@rudedoggtweets I don’t go through SDL for everything though. For example the main ideas behind their filesystem abstraction for games are great IMO, but the actual API is missing too much so I expose a similar interface to the game but using Zig std types.

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

Many programmers consider Vulkan to be overly complex–maybe not even worth engaging with as an #indiedev.

If this is how you Vulkan, or modern graphics APIs in general, the goal of this talk is to change your mind.

https://t.co/3pQRGDUDt0

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

@rudedoggtweets Thanks, glad you found it useful!

For my last game I did it myself, but I decided to just use SDL this time. I have it ported to the Zig build system here:

https://t.co/QNo9rvbxze

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)

https://t.co/uL8HsfIlNV

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

Many programmers consider Vulkan to be overly complex–maybe not even worth engaging with as an #indiedev.

If this is how you Vulkan, or modern graphics APIs in general, the goal of this talk is to change your mind.

https://t.co/3pQRGDUDt0

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

@rudedoggtweets I think you’ll enjoy the talk—using Vulkan directly has let me take advantage of features not often exposed by wrappers that greatly simplify my renderer.

(This isn’t a criticism of SDL3 GPU though—it wasn’t ready when I started this work, so I didn’t evaluate it.)

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

"I Fixed Windows Native Development"

Cool script for installing the VS SDK/toolchain without going through Microsoft's installers.

https://t.co/fwJKDVeLj0

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable

https://t.co/LLWZCoX83j

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

🔉 Statically Linking PipeWire

I recently helped @tuple solve an interesting problem. On #Linux, Static binaries are easier to ship, but PipeWire expects dynamic linking.

To solve this, I've open sourced a static build of PipeWire. Read more below.

https://t.co/d5Dln9ZFR7

[Mason Remaley @masonremaley]

that feeling when you’re about to have a text renderer, but not yet