Sean B.
@renzu.bsky.social
Tinkerer. Chicagoland.
https://twitter.com/renzumusic/
I stream all my gamedev at http://twitch.tv/seannyb
https://twitter.com/renzumusic/
I stream all my gamedev at http://twitch.tv/seannyb
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Sean B.
@renzu.bsky.social
· Nov 24
#ScreenShotSaturday My game is like Superhot Dark Souls; a turn-based RPG with a combat system you've never seen before. I stream all my gamedev on twitch.tv/seannyb
#gamedev #indiedev
#gamedev #indiedev
Just had a dream where I was coerced into attending the grand opening of a North Korean theme park. One of the "attractions" was the dear leader himself blasting visitors with a water cannon. "Kim Jong blasted me!"
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just had a dream where I was coerced into attending the grand opening of a North Korean theme park. One of the "attractions" was the dear leader himself blasting visitors with a water cannon. "Kim Jong blasted me!"
I will say that Linux is pretty nice once it's configured. My main desktop will always be Windows (supporting an ever-shifting mix of creative software), but Linux works for my always-on 2nd PC with its narrower use cases. The gaming is impressive too... It mostly just works!?
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I will say that Linux is pretty nice once it's configured. My main desktop will always be Windows (supporting an ever-shifting mix of creative software), but Linux works for my always-on 2nd PC with its narrower use cases. The gaming is impressive too... It mostly just works!?
Had a dream where I was a cat whose sole owner perished in their house. I was stuck there, fated to die in a house with a decaying corpse. It was a viscerally depressing dream.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Had a dream where I was a cat whose sole owner perished in their house. I was stuck there, fated to die in a house with a decaying corpse. It was a viscerally depressing dream.
Installed Linux on a couple computers for the first time. My main desktop will have to remain Windows though (creative software, games). Though the lack of bloat & adware in Linux is nice, its jankiness makes me appreciate the just-works-ness of Windows.
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Installed Linux on a couple computers for the first time. My main desktop will have to remain Windows though (creative software, games). Though the lack of bloat & adware in Linux is nice, its jankiness makes me appreciate the just-works-ness of Windows.
I had a dream where I was playing a pauseable-realtime colony sim like RimWorld in a JRPG setting with story, characters, dungeons and quests. I was managing two parties dungeon-crawling in different places. Someone should make that game.
September 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I had a dream where I was playing a pauseable-realtime colony sim like RimWorld in a JRPG setting with story, characters, dungeons and quests. I was managing two parties dungeon-crawling in different places. Someone should make that game.
If the Total Recall machine existed, it should be used to forcibly implant a memory of a traumatic car crash into every driver so that they drive more defensively. While we're at it, implant a memory of losing months of work to failed storage so that people learn to make backups.
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If the Total Recall machine existed, it should be used to forcibly implant a memory of a traumatic car crash into every driver so that they drive more defensively. While we're at it, implant a memory of losing months of work to failed storage so that people learn to make backups.
Found a local Japanese restaurant of the sort that has actual Japanese people dining in it so you know it's legit. I haven't had a (raw) salmon bowl since I was in actual Japan last year; it wasn't as heavenly as *that* one but still damn good.
August 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Found a local Japanese restaurant of the sort that has actual Japanese people dining in it so you know it's legit. I haven't had a (raw) salmon bowl since I was in actual Japan last year; it wasn't as heavenly as *that* one but still damn good.
At a friend's house; I was lying on the couch when this floofy cat climbed on top of me for pettings. Highlight of the night.
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
At a friend's house; I was lying on the couch when this floofy cat climbed on top of me for pettings. Highlight of the night.
So I made a little (ok, 35 min.) examination of some g**ner gacha game. It's an Unreal Engine, blockbuster-style, open world, exploration/action game that scales up to PC with raytracing, and down to the humble smartphone. Seeing it run at 60 FPS on a phone really something. youtu.be/OjRKMTu-k8A
The Graphics of Wuthering Waves – PC, Mobile & Raytracing Compared In-Depth!
YouTube video by Sean Bires
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August 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
So I made a little (ok, 35 min.) examination of some g**ner gacha game. It's an Unreal Engine, blockbuster-style, open world, exploration/action game that scales up to PC with raytracing, and down to the humble smartphone. Seeing it run at 60 FPS on a phone really something. youtu.be/OjRKMTu-k8A
Comfort food (and a use for leftover salmon)
August 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Comfort food (and a use for leftover salmon)
I remember someone arguing that media for children should contain "moral content" (as opposed to e.g. brainrot). I think that's a useful lens for media in general; whether it contains moral content or not, and whether it's sincere, or uses it cynically for genre flavoring.
August 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I remember someone arguing that media for children should contain "moral content" (as opposed to e.g. brainrot). I think that's a useful lens for media in general; whether it contains moral content or not, and whether it's sincere, or uses it cynically for genre flavoring.
Trying it for kicks but man, async/multithreading is hard. There are so many considerations involved.
August 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Trying it for kicks but man, async/multithreading is hard. There are so many considerations involved.
The labyrinthine dreamworld towers over a dark ocean. I came up with a new concept for my generative dungeons consisting of themed height layers - not as conventional roguelike "floors", but as a contiguous level of dizzying verticality.
I stream #gamedev on twitch @ seannyb
I stream #gamedev on twitch @ seannyb
July 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The labyrinthine dreamworld towers over a dark ocean. I came up with a new concept for my generative dungeons consisting of themed height layers - not as conventional roguelike "floors", but as a contiguous level of dizzying verticality.
I stream #gamedev on twitch @ seannyb
I stream #gamedev on twitch @ seannyb
Played a little Bloodborne (via emulation) to investigate how the procedural "Chalice Dungeon" room layout system works. To that end, I drew a full map of the first area.
July 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Played a little Bloodborne (via emulation) to investigate how the procedural "Chalice Dungeon" room layout system works. To that end, I drew a full map of the first area.
Had a bonkers dream where I took a *private jet* to Japan with my relatives. We landed at night in the middle of urban nowhere, and walked to a mostly-empty shopping mall where colorful, tropical birds were hanging out at an indoor fountain. My sister then hugged a scarlet macaw that was sopping wet
July 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Had a bonkers dream where I took a *private jet* to Japan with my relatives. We landed at night in the middle of urban nowhere, and walked to a mostly-empty shopping mall where colorful, tropical birds were hanging out at an indoor fountain. My sister then hugged a scarlet macaw that was sopping wet
Damn, just had a dream with a half dozen false awakenings.
June 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Damn, just had a dream with a half dozen false awakenings.
Dreamt that I entered an elevator that was actually a product demo for a hotel suite on a moving platform. While impressive, I kept falling over as the suite moved laterally, and its control panel had a lot of "dark pattern" UI design that prevented me from exiting.
June 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dreamt that I entered an elevator that was actually a product demo for a hotel suite on a moving platform. While impressive, I kept falling over as the suite moved laterally, and its control panel had a lot of "dark pattern" UI design that prevented me from exiting.
Dreamt that I was trying to find where I parked my car while an enormous tornado loomed in the distance. No one else seemed terribly concerned.
I wonder if this will be the year of the Chicago tornado.
I wonder if this will be the year of the Chicago tornado.
June 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Dreamt that I was trying to find where I parked my car while an enormous tornado loomed in the distance. No one else seemed terribly concerned.
I wonder if this will be the year of the Chicago tornado.
I wonder if this will be the year of the Chicago tornado.
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The Great Hitch Hunt has begun! We recruited a whole room of Hitch Hunters at #UnrealFest Orlando 💪
"Kill the hitch!"
"Kill the hitch!"
June 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Great Hitch Hunt has begun! We recruited a whole room of Hitch Hunters at #UnrealFest Orlando 💪
"Kill the hitch!"
"Kill the hitch!"
I crafted an exciting new weapon for the game (but it's for debug)
I stream #gamedev at twitch.tv/seannyb
I stream #gamedev at twitch.tv/seannyb
May 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I crafted an exciting new weapon for the game (but it's for debug)
I stream #gamedev at twitch.tv/seannyb
I stream #gamedev at twitch.tv/seannyb
Work on the game continues. With a new AI system and a rejiggering of other aspects (new stamina system, etc.) the combat is deeper, more varied and more surprising than it used to be. My spirits are pretty high.
As always, I stream #gamedev #indiedev on twitch.tv/seannyb
As always, I stream #gamedev #indiedev on twitch.tv/seannyb
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Work on the game continues. With a new AI system and a rejiggering of other aspects (new stamina system, etc.) the combat is deeper, more varied and more surprising than it used to be. My spirits are pretty high.
As always, I stream #gamedev #indiedev on twitch.tv/seannyb
As always, I stream #gamedev #indiedev on twitch.tv/seannyb
Because reasons I've been checking out Wuthering Waves. The problem with a gacha game that has "skill based" combat is they can't make it too skill-based, cuz it'll deemphasize the progression grind. So the combat is disingenuous in that way, often boiling down to spammy power battles.
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Because reasons I've been checking out Wuthering Waves. The problem with a gacha game that has "skill based" combat is they can't make it too skill-based, cuz it'll deemphasize the progression grind. So the combat is disingenuous in that way, often boiling down to spammy power battles.
Every few generations, people forget basic lessons like "invading countires is bad", "trade barriers are bad" and more generally "postmodernism is bad", and then they have to re-learn those lessons the hard way. The learning process begins today.
April 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Every few generations, people forget basic lessons like "invading countires is bad", "trade barriers are bad" and more generally "postmodernism is bad", and then they have to re-learn those lessons the hard way. The learning process begins today.