Dan Bruington

“Double Fine has crafted a gameplay formula that is easy to understand yet deceptively hard to master while giving off the very same lunacy I’ve experienced in games like Peak or REPO.” - @gamespot.com @konayma6.bsky.social 😎🫶🏼 www.gamespot.com/articles/lea...

If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

Happy Rocktober 13th, everyone! Bang your head.

DOOM... on a Vectrex.

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

"Adjusting animation speed" by @HalbFettKaese fragcoord.xyz/t/ak2povht This is a great interactive guide on how to handle changing speeds with linear time in shaders. I was actually about to write something like this!

The Withering Realms OST is now available for purchase on Bandcamp. 110 tracks, over five hours. Bandcamp is the best way to support independent musicians, but the OST will be on other platforms next month. moonlessformless.bandcamp.com/album/wither...

Sebastian Aaltonen's No Graphics API is now on Github! github.com/sebbbi/NoGra...

It was a bumpy week with delayed approvals, but Withering Realms was finally allowed to launch into Early Access yesterday. Thank you to everyone who tried the demo, purchased, or streamed. This is just the beginning!

The Occult Frontier is FINALLY yours to explore! Join Clover and her haunted doll in Withering Realms, available now in Early Access. Play the game from start to credits and help shape its final form with your feedback. All the details here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/344...

Something to tide you over until Steam approves Withering Realms for Early Access release: an updated demo! Your save carries over into the full game. If you played during Next Fest, you can use the Realms menu option to start a new game. store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/...

The Withering Realms build is in amazing shape, having been hammered for hundreds hours by the community beta crew. However, Early Access launch is delayed due to unusually slow platform approval. I don't have an ETA yet, as it's not in my control. Thank you for your support!

Keeper coming to PS5 today

I am SO EXCITED that Keeper is out on PS5 now! We've also added a new Psychedelic Mode to all platforms. And a permanent price drop! Check out this new trailer we made (some spoilers, but hey, it's been out for almost a year!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzc5...

Early Access for Withering Realms unlocks September 2nd at 9:00 AM PT / 16:00 UTC. You can play the game from start to finish, fill out your in-game bestiary with over 110 monsters, and help shape the full release with your feedback. store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/...

Hello friends! I’m very excited to announce that WITHERING REALMS will enter Early Access on September 2nd. Wishlist on Steam today, and join Clover and her haunted doll as they explore the Occult Frontier when Early Access begins on September 2nd. store.steampowered.com/news/app/344...

After a solid run of about 13 years at Double Fine, It seems I have found myself with an abundance of free time. If you know anyone hiring for games VFX, please let me know!

Join Clover and her haunted doll on their journey through the Occult Frontier in Withering Realms. Early Access begins on Steam this September, with console releases to follow. Wishlist today: store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/...

The award for best UE5 dev article that could've been a Star Trek/Hitchikers Guide Crossover is the Temporal Quality Guide. It dives into common levers for TSR, Lumen and general ghosting issues that folks encounter. dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Withering Realms is heading to Early Access in September, and I'm working hard to get a community beta ready. First beta wave will be late July or the first week of August, which is a bit later than I hoped, but it's going to be worth the wait! Info on beta: store.steampowered.com/news/app/344...

Hello friends! Withering Rooms is 50% off right now as part of the #SteamSummerSale until July 9. It’s a 2.5D horror action RPG set in a rotting mansion in Wales, with a ton of monster variety and a story I promise you won’t be able to predict. Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2006140/...

Documented For-Loops in Niagara because I couldn't find much about them in the web: realtimevfx.com/t/unreal-nia... #realtimevfx

store.steampowered.com/app/4209010/... A friend of mine is launching a game into early access soon! Fly and maintain a plane over a flooded world... check it out!

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free. Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com I could use re-posting :)

Super Jump Magazine gave Keeper one of the top games of 2025! www.superjumpmagazine.com/2025-games-o...

Come check out the demo for the sequel to Withering Rooms! It's excellent, spooky fun :)

I had a wonderful conversation with @ronscompvids.bsky.social. Please check it out. bsky.app/profile/rons...

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

You don't need to have played Withering Rooms to fully enjoy Withering Realms. You can play them in either order and discover new story aspects both directions. That said, if you are a fan of Rooms, I put a few new details about how the games relate here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/200...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Wow. That's a lot of overdraw."

BIG NEWS! You can try out the first-ever demo of Withering Realms during Steam Next Fest running Feb 23rd - Mar 2nd. To celebrate, here's a brand new trailer🎬 4k trailer link: youtu.be/985f76uxiLA Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/... Wishlist today and I'll see you on Feb 23rd!

Good morning! Fuck ice!

Let's dive into what Kiln is. It's a pottery power-fantasy that celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things, and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens! www.doublefine.com/games/kiln

🚨 ATTN: Technical Geeks🚨 Behold, our 105-minute #Unreal5 KEEPER deep dive! @leepetty.social.bsky, Asif, Will, and Zach walk through lighting techniques using #UE5's Lumen system, animating characters with control rigs, VR environment sculpting, and so, so many camera tracks! buff.ly/1RvxgaY

Thanks for the shoutout, @stevesaylor.net! We are so happy you've been able to enjoy Keeper using High Contrast Mode!

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

One of my favorite #indie releases of 2018, and a real sleeper hit, in my humble opinion, was "Timespinner" by @lunarraygames.bsky.social An excellent #Metroidvania, and an absolute love-letter to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night And there's a sequel on the way, too. #indiedev #gaming #gamedev

Keeper update! ▪️Noir mode! ▪️Ultrawide monitor support! ▪️New accessibility features! You would think a colorful game like Keeper would loose a lot going black & white, but this version has been tuned by @leepetty.bsky.social himself so it really highlights the drama. (As well as his love for AC/DC.)

As promised I recorded the creation of a morph (from scratch) using the tech we developed for Keeper. In about an hour I show how we capture the “Essence” of meshes, blend between them, and spice things up with spatial warps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9V_...

woah it's GUMPY watch out!!

If you're feeling the spirit of award season blasting out of your body like an excited chestburster, please consider KEEPER when making your #SteamAwards nominations in these three categories: 👁️ Outstanding Visual Style 🎶 Best Soundtrack 😌 Sit Back and Relax store.steampowered.com

Check it out!

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

The second official trailer for my upcoming horror action RPG Withering Realms is up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAxS... This one shows a few new mechanics, such as the camera, occult hand, blurry ghosts, and more. #wishlistwednesday

I wrote a neat morph system for Keeper and hopefully I can share a bit more about it in the future. This particular morph was an experiment using symmetry that didn't make it into the game in the end.

So excited for people to finally get to experience this! Proud to have been a part of bringing this vision to life.

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use: blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Another stunner. "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

How about a little #ScreenshotSaturday? We'll be posting some glimpses of Keeper as we approach launch day! Let us begin, then...with a Beach Walk. Keeper — An Odyssey of Mystifying Metamorphosis. Wishlist Now! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/... Xbox: www.microsoft.com/store/produc...

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...