Jonathan Moallem

The other week I decided to add an asset packing system to my C++ game engine, Siege, and so I thought it might be fun to do a writeup on my process as well as all the cursed things it does that will keep me up at night. Enjoy! #cpplus #cpp #gamedev #opensource #programming #gameengine

Went into the shops for launch day and it was bittersweet considering it may just be both the first and last physical release I work on.

I’m still waiting for a public statement regarding this incident and an apology from Freeplay and their board members.

I've just learned that Freeplay has removed me as a sponsor for Parallels due to an accusation from a speaker that I am a "zionist". Where did the speaker get this idea? Because Unpacking was included in a listicle in an online Jewish publication a few days ago. I didn't even know about the article.

All good goals go to VARhalla

This is football, my friends. Intensity. Drama. Unknown African nations.

Da Capo My entry to TOXIC YURI VN JAM 2 sees a young lady casting a courtesan in the role of her beloved childhood maid. 📖 Play it now: slewingtons.itch.io/da-capo #ToxicYuriVNJam #GameDev #writing #LGBT #LGBTQIA #queer #lesbian #romance #gothic #maid

I’ve never felt so validated in going out to a sports bar to watch a game. Whole place erupted at 2-0 and you could see genuine hope in every Aussie’s eye.

I'm SUPER psyched to be part of Frosty Fest 26! Verbal Void will be part of the upcoming showcase. Tune in on Sunday June 7th to discover more about this neurodiverse adventure game! #GameDev #Indiegame #pixelart #neurodiversity

Node graphs are the carcinisation of software

Ended up having a bit of a brainworm after seeing a cool rainbow this morning and thought it would be neat if I could make one with volumetric fog, using the antisolar point from the directional light in the scene.

I usually try to avoid mentioning my day-job on here, but it’s awesome to see our game popping up all over the place. Incredibly proud of the team and what we’ve done to rep Brisbane.

This is the kind of smart, dense, mixed-use urbanism you’ll only find in Australian cities.

The Big Sand desert party is happening this Saturday at the Red Rattler in Sydney, I'm super excited to show off what we've been working on 🏜️ events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

My talk on building open world game systems with World Partition in #UnrealEngine is finally up online! I was really worried about missing things on the day and yes I totally did, but I got most of it and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Link to full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuz...

I've been working with my friend on a live show for a virtual band at the end of this month. This video goes into the fancy cameras, Unreal trickery, and puppetry that makes up the show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWV...

Had a really good time playing @doublefine.com’s Keeper, but my partner and I just spent the whole time arguing over which one of us would be the bird in the relationship.

I have survived the consequences of my actions

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

It’s so cool that the biggest game in the world right now is an Australian Indie

New favourite mug! Compiler Explorer knocked it out of the park with this merch.

Scarecrows are my personal favourite animated humanoid constructs

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Join us for a tour around our new game. Coming 2026.

I have spent this entire game being told to “touch grass” and now finally my time has arrived!

Special Edition of Fantasy Town Daily! DnD is for Nerds has been a huge inspiration for the events in our game, and I've been so psyched to see how successful their new board game kickstarter has been.

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x

let's talk internships in the past 5 years (when #gamedev industry money was flowing) there was loud discourse about offering paid internships only in the era of studios scraping to get by, has this had a chilling effect on the # of internships offered? is this a problem? share your thoughts

Craft 3D objects from Lua code in my new puzzle game “Replicube”, releasing in April, try the free demo now on Steam 🤓 s.team/a/3401490

Extra extra! Read all about it! Princess Woodsong has been brought to ‘justice’!

Be careful out there, rogue deer WILL attack on sight!

Just in time for the Steam sale, we’ve released a new patch cleaning up some of those small outstanding nitpicks that have been keeping us up at night. Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/152...

The Steam City Builder and Colony Sim sale is live, and we’ve got our biggest discount yet of 60%! If you’ve been wishing for the chance to run your own adventuring town, look no further s.team/a/1524530

Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate ♻️ Our debut issue of Fantasy News Daily is out now!

We can keep this theme going. This is me at the height of my career in computing.

If you haven't heard of the Game UI Database (gameuidatabase.com), it's a great tool for when you need to remember that one cool menu from a game you played years ago.

I’ve seen a few people over the last year refer to smaller, indie games as “trash” and we should embrace trash. Trash is the antithesis of slop. It has weird, spiky edges and may end up being someone else’s treasure. Slop is an amorphous churn of substance, devoid of personality and intent.

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅 ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

Race a tiger beetle, blow up a pipeline, eat some dry leaves! You can do anything as an isopod! 🦐🧲 Isopod demo is OUT NOW and will be available until the end of Steam Next Fest on March 3rd! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910

Bimbo comments coming soon since this was literally the easiest thing to just drop in and get working bsky.app/profile/jonj...

Summer evening bats are the best part about this country.

Hi #selfpromoSaturday, I make trinkets and badges, and I'm currently giving 50% of the sale price of everything sold on Femmecraft.com this month to @transjusticeau.bsky.social. Here are some things I sell that you might like!

First blog post of the year: DONE! In this exciting episode, I talk about the fun little string token class I added instead of writing the static mesh packer like I said I would. #cpplus #cpp #gamedev #opensource #programming #gameengine

I've just released two Lua libraries: * AVM – array programming & linear algebra * Geo2D – 100's of functions for computational geometry Check them out at: 1. github.com/eigenbom/avm 2. github.com/eigenbom/lua...

My win for this afternoon was getting multi-mesh scene import working for GLTF files! Static mesh imports to the engine will now bake all the meshes it finds along the import node path into one mesh for the pack file. Almost makes up for skipping GGJ this year.

This is me and C++ every dang work day.