If AI was any good, it would notice when I've started browsing Adafruit and talk me out of falling down another giant rabbit hole.
Totally unrelated, I now own a bunch of Raspberry Pi Picos and various e-Ink displays.
Ryan C. Gordon
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Stick it in the camel and go.
Y’all would hand a recovering alcoholic a beer, I swear, lol
Oh wow, someone built a profiler for DragonRuby Game Toolkit: https://pvande.itch.io/firestarter
Super cool! I love the "please don't buy a commercial license until you make money" note, too.
But sorry, good sir: it's an instant buy over here even without a specific game in mind. :)
Start the new year with a really big SDL3 release! 3.4.0 finally shipped, before the stroke of midnight! https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.4.0
I can talk about this publicly now: we're in a movie about Girl Scouts, that's premiering at Sundance! A film crew followed Olive around for cookie season.
If you find yourself in Park City, come watch me dance in a cookie costume. :)
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/6932f8e9bd865145aa60f34d
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@somepx/115588727088066948
Man, this makes you want to make _so many_ games for the Playdate, right...?!
I get that no company is entirely trustworthy, and ones you generally trust sometimes stop being trustworthy in the future. But it’s not controversial to say Valve is more trustworthy than Meta by an order of magnitude in 2025.
One more thing about the Steam Frame: I think the Quest has been a great system that made smart technical choices at an amazing price point.
But it also asked me to pair my phone so it can show me my notifications in-world, and my first reaction was: that would be cool, and I would NEVER let Meta have access to that information.
Which is to say: if the Steam Frame turns out to be an otherwise-lateral move, I would still be eager to dump the Quest. Including repurchasing titles on Steam.
That’s not to imply FEX won’t be amazing at its job…I’m sure it will be. But it can’t break the laws of physics, y’know?
The Steam Frame probably has to be an ARM processor, because you don’t want to have to wonder about space and price constraints with an x86-64, and whether an eyeball makes a good heat sink.
And it probably doesn’t matter much, but that’s one less thing to worry about when porting from the Oculus Quest.
But unlike Proton’s Faustian bargain (the catalog all works! …why port at all?), in VR, the user tends to convert low framerate into vomit, so a real native port could be _crucial_.