Hi, I'm not dead. I started a new project that took a while to have anything to show for it. And here it is:

Skelly, the bare bones game framework

It's ment for 2D pixel art and low poly 3D games. Software rasterizer that builds to web assembly without Emscripten, and without WebGL

https://wildrose.space/2025/11/12/new-project-wasm-game-framework-without-emscripten/

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Update on my tiny 3D software renderer:

✔️ Per-mesh transform support
✔️ Per-mesh vertex-based lighting

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Update on my tiny 3D software renderer:

• Dynamic smooth/hard normals calculations
• Accurate triangles generation during frustum clipping

Slowly but surely... 🎯

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Update on my tiny 3D software renderer:
✅ Smooth normals implemented
✅ Gouraud lighting now supported

Kinda a milestone for visual fidelity

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I gave it a shot, but got no luck getting animation data from a GLTF file. So, while I figure that out, how about switching to something simpler like MD5? ...and guess what? It's working!

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Wrote a bare-bones physics engine supporting spheres, boxes, raycasts, and collision callbacks. Works reasonably well especially when coupled with the spatial acceleration structure that was added last week. With projectiles using raycasts to avoid the "tunnel effect" at high speed things are starting the get interesting.

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This week, I have tried to squeeze as many entities as possible in a single scene (1 squared km) and implemented a simple 2D spatial acceleration structure (uniform grid partitioning) with the goal of reducing the CPU time required.
The speedup is insane: I can now easily query this grid to obtain the visible entities, or the closest ones in a radius, instead of scanning all them.

Now, do I really need 10 million entities? 😅

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More optimizations, and with the frame time going down the number of triangles is increasing. Fat pixels everywhere!

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Finally added frustum culling and 100'000 randomly positioned meshes on top of the terrain. There's still no gameplay, but walking around the hills feels good

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