Wouter van Oortmerssen

Starting new game studio! Prev. Wasm (LLVM) / FlatBuffers / games&VR at Google. Author of TreeSheets, PLs (Lobster, False, Amiga E..) and game engines (Cube..).

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

After 8+ years at Google, I'm leaving to start my own gamedev company!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

Woah we're doing a new game:

[voxray @voxraygames]

Announcing Hardhats: A Voxile spin-off game entirely around putting together complex builds with your friends, in a world where everything can go wrong!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@jdthewlis Wow this is such a cool idea.. I bet with a more detailed prompt, maybe an easier encoding of some of the values, texture selection etc this idea could be taken a lot further. Possibly with an engine whose features are entirely designed around being optimal for this.

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@timsoret Blue is it if you are 99.9% sure that the sum of "irrational blue voters" + "voters trying to save the irrational blue voters from themselves" is > 50%. Apparently it was 57.8%, so if you thought you were 99.9% sure about this, you were likely statistically wrong. Thus red it is.

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@jakubtomsu_ Don't have a spare room, but do come say hi :)

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@JNavok AI translation netted us a few negative reviews at EA launch (from China and Russia in particular), so I'd be careful with this advice.

But that was a year ago, so maybe it is better now.. and we didn't do human QA on it either (we're a tiny studio with massive amounts of text).

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@rfleury I once made an RTS game prototype with a fat struct for units. It had fields for damage and building ability. I found out while playing that multiple builders not only accelerate construction, they could also accelerate a turrets fire rate to hilarious effect. Free gameplay!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@filpizlo I am not sure how you call that a "preference", I would not be able to complete the kind of projects I do without this "preference". Even "more productive" fails to describe the difference.

I do not just have a "preference" for cars with brakes.

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@filpizlo I know those smart people will tell me it means I need to write more tests.. but I think I prefer my "compile time testing" :) Earlier, static-er, high performance, and with 100% coverage ;)

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@filpizlo All I know is that people claiming this must be a hell of lot smarter than I am, because I'd be hopelessly lost without types saving my bacon.
I so often get type errors that make me realize I am forgetting a thing that otherwise would have been a silent bug introduced.

[Elbow Grease Games @ElbowGG]

Just wrote an EGG Blog post about @voxraygames and its incredible founder @wvo making his own game in his own engine in his own language! Who else does this (except @Jonathan_Blow)?

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

Making building yet more fun in our game.. go try it out, and tell me what you think :)

[voxray @voxraygames]

Announcing: Voxile, The Builder's Update!

It brings together what we've been working on for the last few months:

🌎New world: Crystal Cathedral! A mysterious force has stripped the Crystal Cathedral of all of its crystals! Build a path through the spectral fog and battle the undead in your search for crystals to repair the cathedral.

🏗️Visual Building Plans: see a transparent view of what you're building as you add the pieces!

🔨Overhauled Carpenter Tool: windows with glass panes! building your base is more fun than ever! Reach new places easily!

⬇️Falling object physics has been much improved, objects can now even break if falling from high!

🧌NPCs and monsters engage in combat with eachother, use this to your advantage!

🧨Grenades increase destruction to new levels!

🏰Much improved Procedural Survival mode with lots of new points of interest to discover!

This coincides with 40% off the game - get your friends to buy, play with them in coop, let us know your experience!

And remember, to really help this game, please review on Steam!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@_x1m4 Export PNG gives me a black image.. also needs a way to specify a giant size :)

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@_x1m4 This is art.. I want to see a wall-size high res print of this. Also, 3D 1st person version when? :)

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@pbwinston Run AI per pixel? :P

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@SenSanders

[voxray @voxraygames]

We have a NEW demo up on Steam that has an updated Procedural Survival world and also allows you to play one "Adventure" world, IsleOfVox! See which you like better and let us know :)

[voxray @voxraygames]

Now how do I get up here? Carpenter tool now creates ladders!

[voxray @voxraygames]

In our new Procedural Survival Islands demo, you can use the furniture crafting bench and the powerful new drag-and-drop carpenter tool to build your voxel dream home from scratch 😍

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

This is what we've been working on the last 3+ months.. go play the demo!

[voxray @voxraygames]

We have a NEW DEMO! This is exclusively for the new Procedural Survival Islands we've been working on. You get to play one such island, start from nothing, craft, fight, build, destroy, explore.. SP or co-op!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

@pbwinston "because we can" as the reason for most things..