I finally got round to writing that blog post y'all were badgering me about! Finally revealing how those waves are made 🌊

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/3/27/around-the-world-30-making-better-waves/

#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #GodotEngine #Godot #ProceduralGeneration #ProcGen

After my recent podcast appearance at
@stayforever
where I talked about the optimization of RollerCoaster Tycoon, I finally found some time to also write an article about the same topic:
https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/

If you know German I'd still recommend the podcast, which also dives deep into the development history of the game 🎢

Thinking about game developers who posted on forums in the early 00s about how REAL developers build their own game engines from scratch.

I bet their engine is still unfinished, and their kids born since have made more/better games than them.

Swift Concurrency PSA 🧵 1/2

A common pattern I’ve seen when working with continuations is to try encapsulating awaiting them so a call to some method naturally suspends until the continuation is called. However, something I didn't consider is that the continuation holds a strong reference back to its suspended task, and the entire stack that task references!