Cleared out a lot of technical debt: Removed circular dependencies, made #helios compile cleanly under the more demanding #Clang compiler (#MSVC, thanks for letting my first baby steps slide), and cleaned up a fair bit of mess.

#helios is now on #macOS 🍎

#indiedev #indiegames #gameengine

Finished and published the report on #helios, my C++ game engine that slowly shifted from #OOP toward DOD #ECS.
What started as a small prototype turned into a deeper dive into #architecture, #performance and trade-offs.

I enjoyed the ride tremendously! 🕹️

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403758780_helios_Explorative_Entwicklung_einer_ECS-basierten_Game_Engine

On #helios’ way toward an #ECS-driven infrastructure, I’m rewriting resource management, abstracting it into a TypedHandleWorld - a handle-oriented, domain-specific registry that simplifies access to resources otherwise scattered across the system(s).

#gameengine #enginedev #indiedev #indiegames

helios is currently rendering ~10.000 objects in the #gameloop at stable 60 fps (w/o inst.). Lets crank those rookie numbers up and make sure the render resources are managed more cache friendly, render commands batched and queues optimally sorted.

#gamedev #helios #enginedev #indiegames #indiedev

finished my project assignment on the exploratory dev of an #ECS-based #gameengine. Now it’s time to refactor the remaining tech debt into more idiomatic ECS. Out with the old (SceneGraph), in with the new! (flat list of components sharing relationships)

#helios #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

#Manifesto for #AI -Augmented #Software #Craftsmanship - a 🧵

With tools like #GitHub #Copilot, #Claude Code and #Gemini CLI, our work has changed massively. The models keep getting better - but with that, the question grows louder: How can we trust #code that was generated by a synthetic #assistant? And at what point does this code start to interfere with an existing, carefully crafted codebase without us even noticing?

I'm using #helios as the #framework for a #university project .
I've published an accompanying technical report that outlines the key architectural decisions behind the #prototype and discusses its further #development. 👉

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397445662_helios_Design_and_prototypical_implementation_of_a_C_game_framework

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

From #Camera- to #Clip-Space, to #NDCs and z-Fighting - the latest article in my series examining the mathematical underpinnings of the #OpenGL rendering pipeline focuses on projection matrices.

https://thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/articles/computer-graphics/from-camera-to-clip-space-derivation-of-the-projection-matrices

#LinearAlgebra #Math #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

In my latest article, I examine model matrices through the lens of change-of-coordinates transformations, and why (R×M)×v ≡ R×(M× v).

https://thorsten.suckow-homberg.de/docs/articles/computer-graphics/model-matrix-transformations-a-change-of-coordinates-perspective

#GameDev #OpenGL #Math #rendering #linearalgebra #computergraphics