Tristan Castle

Making a small little pinned post of some of my favourite assets and renders that I've done. While these are renders of the assets, all assets shown are game ready!

it feels odd that what's holding technology back from benefiting humanity at this moment, isn't really a technological problem, but a bureaucratic issue of incentive structures there's so much money being wasted on things that are either neutral or a net negative within tech now, it's weird

Getting back into reading has been a wonderful experience. For nearly a decade I've just listened to audiobooks thinking I didn't have the attention span to read. Now I'm realising how much it's helping me improve my attention span

Scrolling my socials this week.

VR getting flooded with llm-coded mods is like watching a lovely neighborhood you dug get flood-replaced with Crumbl-cookies and other stripmall slop. I'm sure it'll keep lots of folks entertained, but all I see is the last vestiges of a market for true dedicated work drown.

Google is auto-opting us into letting them not only save, but train AI on *any media* uploaded during *any* search interaction, including regular Search, Maps, Lens, Translate, Shopping, Flights, etc. Turn off "Search Services History", and delete *all your past data* (reason in thread below).

Curtain Road, London EC2A Concrete slap and tactile paving footpath with manhole covers and brick road. #reference #materialreference

I feel like game devs are a unique combination of all of “doing some of the hardest software engineering”, “wild west cowboy bullshit”, and “hitting themselves in the head with hammers for no reason”

I would kill or die for Larry

I had an incredible trip to Japan recently. Here's a few of my favourite photos I took on my old Nikon

Sorry it had to come to this but

1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not. Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc All different from GenAi!

After trying to teach myself to Rig for a couple of weeks, I realised I wanted a more formal understanding so I went out and got a course by @pierrick-picaut.bsky.social. While quite early, I already feel like it was the right choice as it's already answered a handful of the questions I had

The lack of good FPS games set in the Stargate Universe is shocking to me. Like the format of the show is a basic shooter design; mission brief, loading screen (wormhole), do objective, fight back to the gate. Add in some background plot and puzzles and it would be a great either sp or coop game

Some nice texture of peeling paint #Reference #MaterialReference

A question for my fellow professionals and academics in the game development space. How do y'all deal with burn out when working on personal projects outside of your paid work hours? I ask because I have been stuck in a rut for a few months now and I'm keen for any advice

If you haven't see any of the video's that the Youtuber @timmm.tv has made, absolutely give it a try. Excellent production quality and writing

to celebrate me finally kicking off my itchio store, I've published a new brush called Alien Bones. I've used this brush extensively in my own personal projects. like my hair curves brush, this is also free. makkon.itch.io/makkons-alie...

My partner and I saw Mickey 17 last night and honestly I thought it was an excellent film. While I can somewhat see how some people have taken issues with parts of it, but personally I can't really see them as negatives

It pains me but I'm so opposed to Meta that the second the Valve Deckard is available I'll likely be ordering one to go back to one of their devices. While the Quest 3 was in many ways genuinely an upgrade over the Index, I'm not at all fond of their ecosystem and I want out of it