Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG

Hi! First post :) As an intro, my primary side-project is Tides of Revival, an first-person RPG set in a massive world that will play over decades and change with and without your actions. I also run the Open World Gamedev newsletter and Discord, hosted over here: discord.gg/rzByav6Y7Z

This is a terrific video! Pretty, clear, consise. (not sure if the author is here on bsky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2S...

Surfel-based GI

Peak satire

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

Entry number 1: Torch! #shadowdark #drawtober

Gonna participate in #shadowdark #drawtober this year too, but perhaps in a more sustainable manner - thinking one per week or something like that.

Some more technical design docs! This time of the input system I'm building.

Fun talk about USD! I feel less worried already. Btw @rystorm.com you had it open in Godot - how do you find Godot's support? IIRC there's a fork or separate plugin or something for it but there's no support in base Godot.

I like this comparison! In this sense, Java is to programming languages what Microsoft Bob is to operating systems. Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPH...

Holy shit cppreference.com lists vector<bool> as a "space-efficient dynamic bitset", not "total design failure, please ignore"

Well... Almost no-one can make a world with millions of simulated NPCs. Only @vuntracity.bsky.social and Cities Skylines comes to mind. Oblivion does it with ~4000 NPCs. They are/were pioneers in what is still basically an unexplored game design space... And we shouldn't do it? Why no curiosity?

Jappser got himself a horse! #pixelart is fun :)

Coincidence??

This isn't just influential, it is still arguably the best game in the deck building genre.

Crimson Diamond didn't hook me unfortunately. This thing adventure games do where you need to go and talk to everyone first instead of starting with action doesn't really work for me. Perhaps because I'm terrible with names, because I've spent this time talking to people and I remember no one.

The only thing that could make this decade worse is like, robot centaurs with chainsaws. Haha! Sure am glad that's a thing that will never hap.... ( www.reddit.com/r/interestin... )

New video: Supercharging my procedural mountain forest Two years of landscape progress in one devlog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjl... #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen

I'm on suprsketch as an artist. It's a great new platform we're building for artists to have a home without AI. It's like twitch, patreon, artstation etc combined. You can follow my journey and stream my art to your desktop. www.suprsketch.com/s/soma

Confirmed: Tides of Revival will be the first open world RPG with *at least* 1806 physically simulated braziers.

Updated my header-only C #voronoi library (v0.10.0) with many performance and robustness fixes. github.com/JCash/vorono... #gamedev

My latest RPG character, a friar named Jappser, heading into Dolmenwood #ttrpg #dolmenwood #ttrpgart

I just published the notes of the Tool Design Roundtables & OpenUSD Roundtables from GDC 2026: Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de... OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd... These roundtables are always a great way to learn what the industry is doing, what is going well, and what is not going well

The Roottrees are Dead has some terrific writing here and there :)

Oh this lighting is nice. Crisp banding combined with a pretty dithering pattern. The Darkest Files.

There were hunter-gatherer societies for 1 million years according to wikipedia, before a single one of them I guess decided to try to take one of the plants producing tasty things, storing it, and putting it into the ground to see if it would grow again. Galaxy brain move if there ever was one.

Great article/interview :)

Beautiful

Tilemap avoidance :) Playing around with an old concept of mine, realizing it in Godot. #godot #gameai

In gamedev, we're used to sound coming from single points in space, but how do we handle sound coming from an irregular shape? In this article (with plenty code snippets), I go into details with the Point Cloud Sound technique I'm using for water and foliage: blog.runevision.com/2026/06/poin...

My new little game has finally been revealed to the world! AND YOU CAN PLAYTEST IT NOW (eep!)

Quite often when using tools you don't really get enough information about what system resources it is using. This is something that specially bugs me when using resource heavy apps, so from the next version of Ark VCS it tracks all its resources in real time. #gamedev

Sharing these technical documentations freely, my gift to gamedevs everywhere 🥰

This is amazing. First page of how to build worlds. "Games don't need REALISM with unnecessary details! That's just excessive. No, something simpler will suffice. Here we model air currents as they flow around a planet at various degrees from the equator..." 🥰 #worldbuilding #procgen

How on earth is it that libreoffice can be THIS bad at showing a powerpoint doc? Is powerpoint obfuscating stuff in the pptx format? Otherwise... like if you just don't have a specific font... use arial.. and like... don't randomize kerning between 0 and 1200% ???? @jeremy.laumon.name pdfs pls