Bill Roeske
@cyberwilhelm.bsky.social
Lead engineer/tech artist @ Kittehface Software, XR enthusiast
Former Engineering Manager @ TheoremOne, Lead Eng/Tech Art @ Pi Studios
He/Him
Former Engineering Manager @ TheoremOne, Lead Eng/Tech Art @ Pi Studios
He/Him
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if your video game has a blank slate player self-insert protagonist there is absolutely no reason that i shouldn't be able to make them a woman
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
if your video game has a blank slate player self-insert protagonist there is absolutely no reason that i shouldn't be able to make them a woman
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Hey @unity.com the 'stats' view in the upper right of the game tab tells me I have 198 SkinnedMeshRenderers in view. This means the engine has a list of these somewhere. For real, is there a place I can see that list?
The frame debugger doesn't have a filter for this.
The frame debugger doesn't have a filter for this.
September 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Hey @unity.com the 'stats' view in the upper right of the game tab tells me I have 198 SkinnedMeshRenderers in view. This means the engine has a list of these somewhere. For real, is there a place I can see that list?
The frame debugger doesn't have a filter for this.
The frame debugger doesn't have a filter for this.
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Preview of a thing I'm working on. It's a MASSIVE database (~800 entries) - investors, pubs, grants & funds w/meticulous detail (platforms, genres, funding capacity, pillars, etc). It has a gamified front end styled like an old P&C adventure to match developers to their best possible partners.
September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Preview of a thing I'm working on. It's a MASSIVE database (~800 entries) - investors, pubs, grants & funds w/meticulous detail (platforms, genres, funding capacity, pillars, etc). It has a gamified front end styled like an old P&C adventure to match developers to their best possible partners.
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The Last Craftsman officially launched on steam today! i wrote da music in it. check it out if you like cozy farm sim vibes but with a crafting and automation twist! many great silly characters to meet too!
store.steampowered.com/app/2238440/...
#indiedev #gamedev #gamemusic
store.steampowered.com/app/2238440/...
#indiedev #gamedev #gamemusic
Save 10% on The Last Craftsman on Steam
Get settled into Gear Springs! Gather materials, craft items, go fishing, and battle it out with punch cards in the ruined facility. Don't get distracted though, you've still got to stop the last Craf...
store.steampowered.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Last Craftsman officially launched on steam today! i wrote da music in it. check it out if you like cozy farm sim vibes but with a crafting and automation twist! many great silly characters to meet too!
store.steampowered.com/app/2238440/...
#indiedev #gamedev #gamemusic
store.steampowered.com/app/2238440/...
#indiedev #gamedev #gamemusic
This is my first year watching the Wholesome, Women-led, Latin American, SE Asian, and more SGF-associated streams.
My wife and I are actually really enjoying ourselves seeing some things we otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
My wife and I are actually really enjoying ourselves seeing some things we otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
June 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is my first year watching the Wholesome, Women-led, Latin American, SE Asian, and more SGF-associated streams.
My wife and I are actually really enjoying ourselves seeing some things we otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
My wife and I are actually really enjoying ourselves seeing some things we otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.
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Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you sometimes need to bite down on something?
Drywall Eating Simulator is a physics-based 3D adventure simulator about eating drywall as a result of interacting with society.
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/...
Drywall Eating Simulator is a physics-based 3D adventure simulator about eating drywall as a result of interacting with society.
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/...
June 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you sometimes need to bite down on something?
Drywall Eating Simulator is a physics-based 3D adventure simulator about eating drywall as a result of interacting with society.
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/...
Drywall Eating Simulator is a physics-based 3D adventure simulator about eating drywall as a result of interacting with society.
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/...
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I just wanted to put out a hearty "Cry more" to anyone who whines about a VR sequel / side game coming out to a game IP they like.
I'm quite excited to try out the Thief VR game. Stealth/Sneaking/Futzing games are pretty perfect for VR honestly.
I'm quite excited to try out the Thief VR game. Stealth/Sneaking/Futzing games are pretty perfect for VR honestly.
June 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I just wanted to put out a hearty "Cry more" to anyone who whines about a VR sequel / side game coming out to a game IP they like.
I'm quite excited to try out the Thief VR game. Stealth/Sneaking/Futzing games are pretty perfect for VR honestly.
I'm quite excited to try out the Thief VR game. Stealth/Sneaking/Futzing games are pretty perfect for VR honestly.
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My read is that vibe coding is software engineers (or wannabe engineers) discovering tools for making messy hacked together prototypes to validate an idea with poor code, and then pushing that to production with minimal testing.
Excuse me but that is a game designer's job.
Excuse me but that is a game designer's job.
May 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
My read is that vibe coding is software engineers (or wannabe engineers) discovering tools for making messy hacked together prototypes to validate an idea with poor code, and then pushing that to production with minimal testing.
Excuse me but that is a game designer's job.
Excuse me but that is a game designer's job.
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Ever since July when the strike started (and my work at Akupara stopped) I've been floating by on just streaming and convention money.
I've put off having to take outside help for as long as possible but my savings have finally run dry and rent is due in a couple weeks.
ko-fi.com/senabryer
I've put off having to take outside help for as long as possible but my savings have finally run dry and rent is due in a couple weeks.
ko-fi.com/senabryer
Support Sena Bryer
Support Sena Bryer
ko-fi.com
May 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ever since July when the strike started (and my work at Akupara stopped) I've been floating by on just streaming and convention money.
I've put off having to take outside help for as long as possible but my savings have finally run dry and rent is due in a couple weeks.
ko-fi.com/senabryer
I've put off having to take outside help for as long as possible but my savings have finally run dry and rent is due in a couple weeks.
ko-fi.com/senabryer
I used to think that I by working in video games, I was doing real-time-sensitive programming. Then an audio streaming programming task came my way.
April 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I used to think that I by working in video games, I was doing real-time-sensitive programming. Then an audio streaming programming task came my way.
Trying to diagnose popping in this audio ring buffer and the purring from this cat on my desk is being an actual problem.
April 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trying to diagnose popping in this audio ring buffer and the purring from this cat on my desk is being an actual problem.
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I made this little Displacer Beast kitten sticker over the weekend:
April 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I made this little Displacer Beast kitten sticker over the weekend:
For a company that's so petrified by the specter of backwards compatibility that it won't even remove ancient cruft that can be auto-upgraded, Unity's (buried) policy of "Use Addressables! But also they make DontDestroyOnLoad() unsafe so don't use that foundational function anymore" is pretty wild.
April 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
For a company that's so petrified by the specter of backwards compatibility that it won't even remove ancient cruft that can be auto-upgraded, Unity's (buried) policy of "Use Addressables! But also they make DontDestroyOnLoad() unsafe so don't use that foundational function anymore" is pretty wild.
I've been slowly trying to improve my hard surface modeling skills, and pretty happy with the topology on this one. The real-world scale is about 2.25 inches tall.
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've been slowly trying to improve my hard surface modeling skills, and pretty happy with the topology on this one. The real-world scale is about 2.25 inches tall.
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Put another way:
If you love VR, and want to play anything that isn't:
- Free to play Gorilla-tag clones w. Microtransactions
- Horizon Worlds made by teenagers
- User Community VR Mods of flat games
- VR chat worlds (until that platform runs out of money)
You need to actually buy the darn games.
If you love VR, and want to play anything that isn't:
- Free to play Gorilla-tag clones w. Microtransactions
- Horizon Worlds made by teenagers
- User Community VR Mods of flat games
- VR chat worlds (until that platform runs out of money)
You need to actually buy the darn games.
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Put another way:
If you love VR, and want to play anything that isn't:
- Free to play Gorilla-tag clones w. Microtransactions
- Horizon Worlds made by teenagers
- User Community VR Mods of flat games
- VR chat worlds (until that platform runs out of money)
You need to actually buy the darn games.
If you love VR, and want to play anything that isn't:
- Free to play Gorilla-tag clones w. Microtransactions
- Horizon Worlds made by teenagers
- User Community VR Mods of flat games
- VR chat worlds (until that platform runs out of money)
You need to actually buy the darn games.
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happy valentine's day
February 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
happy valentine's day
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If you don't know what to do right now to support devs, write a review on every game you loved last year. Just a thumbs up and one sentence is enough.
February 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you don't know what to do right now to support devs, write a review on every game you loved last year. Just a thumbs up and one sentence is enough.
Playing an Astro Bot game for a little bit is like tonic for the soul.
February 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Playing an Astro Bot game for a little bit is like tonic for the soul.
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in regards to yellow paint:
December 30, 2024 at 9:54 AM
in regards to yellow paint:
Once again running Windows in a completely foreign language and number formatting ruleset to test cross-culture file serialization compatibility for a retrofit into a project, and realizing that most people I know in person would look at me like I'm crazy if they came in and saw my computer.
December 12, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Once again running Windows in a completely foreign language and number formatting ruleset to test cross-culture file serialization compatibility for a retrofit into a project, and realizing that most people I know in person would look at me like I'm crazy if they came in and saw my computer.
Spent a few weeks helping on an Unreal 4 project to get familiar with it. I'm taking to it much better this time, but Blueprints being binary files is debilitating for collab.
It's been interesting bouncing between Godot, Unity, and Unreal for various clients. Each feels like it has its segment.
It's been interesting bouncing between Godot, Unity, and Unreal for various clients. Each feels like it has its segment.
December 4, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Spent a few weeks helping on an Unreal 4 project to get familiar with it. I'm taking to it much better this time, but Blueprints being binary files is debilitating for collab.
It's been interesting bouncing between Godot, Unity, and Unreal for various clients. Each feels like it has its segment.
It's been interesting bouncing between Godot, Unity, and Unreal for various clients. Each feels like it has its segment.