The witch and the 66 mushrooms is a wonderful 7 hour metroidvania for 7$. Go give it a try. Very appropriate for Halloween season.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/891170/The_Witch_The_66_Mushrooms/

In my last job hunt, I applied to a blizzard graphics job that wanted unity experience.

External recruiter: when did you last use Unity?

Me: 13 years ago. Last 5 years was publishing graphics research, 8 years prior to that was me working at blizzard on engine/graphics for starcraft 2, heroes of the storm, Diablo 4.

External recruiter: sorry, you dont have the experience we are looking for.

She thinks she is bad at math (9yo) but the teacher mentioned negative numbers to her and she started talking about imaginary numbers, dual numbers and split complex numbers.
Im creating a monster 😂

My daughter is having trouble learning how to factor numbers.
I told her it's so hard, even for computers, that we use it for encryption, and explained that quantum computers can do it a lot faster, and we arent 100% positive there isn't a better way to do it on regular computers.

My god yes.
A=10
B=11
...

I just bought the new castlevania game, was that a good decision or bad decision?

alternate

Some people vibe code, the rest of us make the training data (sometimes unwillingly)

Binary Serialization in df_game_data

A new blog post where I talk about how the binary serialization works. In particular, how static vs dynamic sized objects are handled to avoid special case limitations.

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/15/binary-serialization-in-df_game_data/

Ok so why do we care about gaussian splats again?
Like even if some day we can relight them, why do we care?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117417575856168461

Crap.

Big businesses do this strategy - take over a market, stop working on it, supress competition. See Microsoft, for instance internet explorer.

I never thought of it being applied to intellectual pursuits - also in pursuits of profits from market domination. What a dark thought.

Enjoy the most unhinged blog post I have ever written.

"Why The AI Determinism Argument Annoys Me"

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/07/why-the-ai-determinism-argument-annoys-me/

Hey, where'd all the block chain people go?

Im just living my life and mostly ignoring AI and I dont think its the wrong choice.

Writing unreadable code is now a metric of success.

df_game_data v1.0 released!

https://github.com/Atrix256/df_game_data

This is an editor and data compiler for read only game data in C++.

Describe schemas using C style stuct definitions, edit data in the editor, compile data to make a .bin file and a generated .h, use the .h to load the .bin in your code, make your game.

It supports hot reloading of the bin file as well.

Give it a try, tell your friends, let me know what you think. I made it for my own use, but is something that desperately needed to exist.

If you go to america.gov/chat and type "play minecraft" you get quite the response...

My 3 cats all in one shot. And no QR code this time.
Left to right:
Macaroni (young), the grub (~18 years!), cinder (~12 years)