Giuseppe "Juice" Modarelli 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG
@gmodarelli.com
Senior Tech Artist. Graphics Programmer on the Open Source RPG Tides of Revival
He/Him
Valencia, Spain
https://gmodarelli.com
He/Him
Valencia, Spain
https://gmodarelli.com
The peas have got AI Janet!
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The peas have got AI Janet!
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I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
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Last week was my last week at Iron Gate - After three years working on Valheim, it's time to start looking for new adventures elsewhere.
If you know someone looking for a kickass Tech Artist/Programmer, hit me up. Happy to work either remote, or on-site in Stockholm.
Portfolio's at dahnberg.se
If you know someone looking for a kickass Tech Artist/Programmer, hit me up. Happy to work either remote, or on-site in Stockholm.
Portfolio's at dahnberg.se
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Last week was my last week at Iron Gate - After three years working on Valheim, it's time to start looking for new adventures elsewhere.
If you know someone looking for a kickass Tech Artist/Programmer, hit me up. Happy to work either remote, or on-site in Stockholm.
Portfolio's at dahnberg.se
If you know someone looking for a kickass Tech Artist/Programmer, hit me up. Happy to work either remote, or on-site in Stockholm.
Portfolio's at dahnberg.se
I've implemented a GPU-driven debug line renderer for Tides based on this great article by @belgianrenderer.gijskaerts.com www.gijskaerts.com/wordpress/?p.... Now I can debug why my GPU-driven LOD selection doesn't work 😅
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I've implemented a GPU-driven debug line renderer for Tides based on this great article by @belgianrenderer.gijskaerts.com www.gijskaerts.com/wordpress/?p.... Now I can debug why my GPU-driven LOD selection doesn't work 😅
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We've just finished another iteration on Tides! This one took three months to do. @gmodarelli.com's renderer is more GPU driven and I have gotten a long way on the release's gameplay goals!
We have a more stuff we wanna do and then release something playable in December!
bsky.app/profile/srek...
We have a more stuff we wanna do and then release something playable in December!
bsky.app/profile/srek...
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We've just finished another iteration on Tides! This one took three months to do. @gmodarelli.com's renderer is more GPU driven and I have gotten a long way on the release's gameplay goals!
We have a more stuff we wanna do and then release something playable in December!
bsky.app/profile/srek...
We have a more stuff we wanna do and then release something playable in December!
bsky.app/profile/srek...
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Hi, I'm an Art Director & 3D Game Artist
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hi, I'm an Art Director & 3D Game Artist
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
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New blog site (with RSS!), and
UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime!
Read it AGAIN!
panthavma.com/articles/lin...
UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime!
Read it AGAIN!
panthavma.com/articles/lin...
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New blog site (with RSS!), and
UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime!
Read it AGAIN!
panthavma.com/articles/lin...
UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime!
Read it AGAIN!
panthavma.com/articles/lin...
Fuck AI, now and always
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fuck AI, now and always
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“Fuck AI”
— Guillermo del Toro
🎥 Vanity Fair
— Guillermo del Toro
🎥 Vanity Fair
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Fuck AI”
— Guillermo del Toro
🎥 Vanity Fair
— Guillermo del Toro
🎥 Vanity Fair
Tell me you rewrote the renderer multiple times without telling me you rewrote the renderer multiple times!
October 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Tell me you rewrote the renderer multiple times without telling me you rewrote the renderer multiple times!
After a couple of months of on-and-off work on Tides of Revival I have completed the implementation of Meshlet-based GPU-driven rendering and cascaded shadow maps. I had to touch every aspect of the renderer to make this possible and I'm happy it's now over :) Onto new rendering features now!
October 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
After a couple of months of on-and-off work on Tides of Revival I have completed the implementation of Meshlet-based GPU-driven rendering and cascaded shadow maps. I had to touch every aspect of the renderer to make this possible and I'm happy it's now over :) Onto new rendering features now!
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New blog post: Outlining an alternative path to learn graphics programming.
themaister.net/blog/2025/10...
themaister.net/blog/2025/10...
A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset – Maister's Graphics Adventures
themaister.net
October 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New blog post: Outlining an alternative path to learn graphics programming.
themaister.net/blog/2025/10...
themaister.net/blog/2025/10...
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🇮🇹 Scenes from different cities in Italy today during the nationwide general strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza:
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🇮🇹 Scenes from different cities in Italy today during the nationwide general strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza:
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Hollow Knight costume design
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hollow Knight costume design
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I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
Ten Years of D3D12
For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...
therealmjp.github.io
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
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And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.
venturebeat.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
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Hey folks - I am around for work from mid September so if you need for your game:
-Technical environment work
-VFX work
-Level design
DM me or get me at my email address
Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com
Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!
-Technical environment work
-VFX work
-Level design
DM me or get me at my email address
Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com
Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!
August 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hey folks - I am around for work from mid September so if you need for your game:
-Technical environment work
-VFX work
-Level design
DM me or get me at my email address
Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com
Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!
-Technical environment work
-VFX work
-Level design
DM me or get me at my email address
Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com
Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!
I had a great time doing this interview, and I am really grateful for the opportunity given to me by @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social, whose graphics programming books sit on my shelf 😊 Thank you!
Big ideas don’t always require big teams; they just need the right tools
Graphic Programmer Giuseppe Modarelli from Tides of Revival reveals how The Forge streamlined their pipeline, letting them focus on what truly matters: the game
🎥 Watch the interview: vimeo.com/1108550396
#TheForge #GameDev
Graphic Programmer Giuseppe Modarelli from Tides of Revival reveals how The Forge streamlined their pipeline, letting them focus on what truly matters: the game
🎥 Watch the interview: vimeo.com/1108550396
#TheForge #GameDev
August 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I had a great time doing this interview, and I am really grateful for the opportunity given to me by @wolfgangfengel.bsky.social, whose graphics programming books sit on my shelf 😊 Thank you!
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My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p...
#gamedev
#Trackmania
#gamedev
#Trackmania
Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering
A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…
larstofus.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p...
#gamedev
#Trackmania
#gamedev
#Trackmania
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Reposts appreciated!
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
July 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposts appreciated!
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
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Hah, this wasn't really intentional but the generator spawned out a nice village on the side of a mountain. I wonder who lives there, I'm hoping for goat people!
#procgen
#procgen
July 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hah, this wasn't really intentional but the generator spawned out a nice village on the side of a mountain. I wonder who lives there, I'm hoping for goat people!
#procgen
#procgen
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.