The boiling heat of battle finally fades. Appreciate the quiet stillness of the coastline, once a place of struggle and violence, death and destruction. All washed away by the gentle waves.

A new post up on the blog: thoughts on how small teams make big games - and a fresh entry from the Hermitorium archives for your reading rituals.

www.theastronauts.com/2025/06/how-...

Bullet time - because some shots deserve your full attention.

Striga - deboning enemies since MDCCXCII.

It has been wayy to long w/o a new Ghost album, hyped for Skeleta!

In our next Tiny Glade update we'll bump the light limit from 32 to 32k while keeping the cost more or less the same.

The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy?
#gamedesign

New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵

spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...