John Austin
@johnaustin.bsky.social
Founder of Pontoco and Project Lead for The Last Clockwinder. Engineer, Game Designer, Tea Lover; in no specific order.
Previously: Lead XR Eng at Funomena | Research at Google Brain
@kleptine on the Hellbirdsite
Previously: Lead XR Eng at Funomena | Research at Google Brain
@kleptine on the Hellbirdsite
Dreaming of beautiful fields of mac and cheese 🧀
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Dreaming of beautiful fields of mac and cheese 🧀
Every time I go to check out what the front-end world is up to.
July 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Every time I go to check out what the front-end world is up to.
More tests blending painted environments with physical lighting:
July 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
More tests blending painted environments with physical lighting:
I've been playing using realtime bounced lighting combined with the painted photoshop decals. This way dynamic objects can pick up some of the lighting that Anita paints in photoshop.
Curious what people think. It's cool, but not yet sure if it's the right effect. 🤔
Curious what people think. It's cool, but not yet sure if it's the right effect. 🤔
June 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I've been playing using realtime bounced lighting combined with the painted photoshop decals. This way dynamic objects can pick up some of the lighting that Anita paints in photoshop.
Curious what people think. It's cool, but not yet sure if it's the right effect. 🤔
Curious what people think. It's cool, but not yet sure if it's the right effect. 🤔
Yussss 1000xStickers
June 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Yussss 1000xStickers
Here's one with white tufts!
June 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's one with white tufts!
Back to working on wheat physics! This actually uses Unity's hair package 😅 So we're covering the game essentially in a giant head of hair. Very normal.
June 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Back to working on wheat physics! This actually uses Unity's hair package 😅 So we're covering the game essentially in a giant head of hair. Very normal.
Starting to get some paint layers into the game! This uses some custom tech I've been working on to let artists paint directly on the scene.
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Starting to get some paint layers into the game! This uses some custom tech I've been working on to let artists paint directly on the scene.
Some experiments for our recipe codex for The Infernal Parade. 👀
June 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Some experiments for our recipe codex for The Infernal Parade. 👀
I mean, I knew Rust was fast, but wow does it eat server workloads for breakfast. And only using .01Gb of RAM! What in the world.
May 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I mean, I knew Rust was fast, but wow does it eat server workloads for breakfast. And only using .01Gb of RAM! What in the world.
I spent hundreds of hours learning to draw so I could make pictures like this
April 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I spent hundreds of hours learning to draw so I could make pictures like this
Got auto-generated navmeshes working for different rooms!
January 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Got auto-generated navmeshes working for different rooms!
Lattice now has the ability to collapse simple nodes into a minimized form that snaps onto the parent node. This is shockingly nice! It makes working with complex scripts much more pleasant, because long chains of casts can be hidden out of the way!
January 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Lattice now has the ability to collapse simple nodes into a minimized form that snaps onto the parent node. This is shockingly nice! It makes working with complex scripts much more pleasant, because long chains of casts can be hidden out of the way!
Some news! We've recently been working on a new project called The Infernal Parade. It's a bit of a spiritual successor to Clockwinder, but for consoles/pc! Build factories out of your own clones to cook food for an endless parade of horrors.
January 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some news! We've recently been working on a new project called The Infernal Parade. It's a bit of a spiritual successor to Clockwinder, but for consoles/pc! Build factories out of your own clones to cook food for an endless parade of horrors.
An initial start on automatic parallelization for Lattice! The color here shows the work unit each node has been assigned to. These will all get split across cores.
December 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
An initial start on automatic parallelization for Lattice! The color here shows the work unit each node has been assigned to. These will all get split across cores.
I dueted with a man who claims to be 75 but doesn't look a day above 50. He sounded like a Japanese Frank Sinatra!
December 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I dueted with a man who claims to be 75 but doesn't look a day above 50. He sounded like a Japanese Frank Sinatra!
Ended the night singing jazz in a little bar in Shibuya? Japan continues to deliver.
December 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Ended the night singing jazz in a little bar in Shibuya? Japan continues to deliver.
Since the last one went over so well, here's another concept that just came in for the new game project! Spooky warmth.
I'll be posting more about this project than some of previous in development stuff! Credit: Glenn Hernandez
I'll be posting more about this project than some of previous in development stuff! Credit: Glenn Hernandez
November 20, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Since the last one went over so well, here's another concept that just came in for the new game project! Spooky warmth.
I'll be posting more about this project than some of previous in development stuff! Credit: Glenn Hernandez
I'll be posting more about this project than some of previous in development stuff! Credit: Glenn Hernandez
Look at these concept images that just came in for the new project!!! It makes me so excited ahhhhhh. This is going to be so good. 😱
Credit: Glenn Hernandez
Credit: Glenn Hernandez
November 17, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Look at these concept images that just came in for the new project!!! It makes me so excited ahhhhhh. This is going to be so good. 😱
Credit: Glenn Hernandez
Credit: Glenn Hernandez
The most damning chart of today is the fact that The Bronx, one of the most liberal boroughs in NYC, voted +12 points Republican compared to the last election. (28% in 2024 vs 15% in 2020).
This was not just a turnout problem in the swing states. The democrats are losing real working class votes. 😕
This was not just a turnout problem in the swing states. The democrats are losing real working class votes. 😕
November 6, 2024 at 8:35 PM
The most damning chart of today is the fact that The Bronx, one of the most liberal boroughs in NYC, voted +12 points Republican compared to the last election. (28% in 2024 vs 15% in 2020).
This was not just a turnout problem in the swing states. The democrats are losing real working class votes. 😕
This was not just a turnout problem in the swing states. The democrats are losing real working class votes. 😕
My girlfriend wrote a Google Research blog post! She's developed an ML model that understands medical CT scans!
And it's built for the public! Anyone can now train a local model on their own PC that can understand chest CT scans! Wild!!
research.google/blog/taking-...
And it's built for the public! Anyone can now train a local model on their own PC that can understand chest CT scans! Wild!!
research.google/blog/taking-...
October 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
My girlfriend wrote a Google Research blog post! She's developed an ML model that understands medical CT scans!
And it's built for the public! Anyone can now train a local model on their own PC that can understand chest CT scans! Wild!!
research.google/blog/taking-...
And it's built for the public! Anyone can now train a local model on their own PC that can understand chest CT scans! Wild!!
research.google/blog/taking-...
Can't show screenshots of the project I'm working on, but probably fine to just show the depth map right?
August 29, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Can't show screenshots of the project I'm working on, but probably fine to just show the depth map right?
Quick sketch during a meeting #procreate
May 21, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Quick sketch during a meeting #procreate
