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Jarl Larsson
@jarllarsson.bsky.social
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Graphics- and game programmer.
Worked on #thegunk , #steamworld heist & dig2
Making a #vulkan renderer in my spare time.
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Jarl Larsson @jarllarsson.bsky.social · Feb 2
I've written an article for my webpage on how the raymarcher for The Gunk was made! jarllarsson.github.io/gen/gunkraym...
#gamedev #xbox #gp #graphicsprogramming #rendering #unreal
Raymarching The Gunk
How the raymarched slime was developed for the game The Gunk.
jarllarsson.github.io
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
J. Jonah Jameson having a blast #spider-man2 #ps5 #photomode #virtualphotography
Screenshot from the game Spider-Man 2. With Miles’ Spider-Man swinging in the air and Jameson holding on.
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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sneptech.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Signs🛸 #forzahorizon5 #photomode
Screenshot of car making crop circles in forza horizon 5
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
you heard of running Doom on random gadgets but have you ever heard of…
“Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape”
bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
this explains how!
((the internet is healing 😌))
#IndieDev
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
bogdanthegeek.github.io
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Sega Rally 95. Used to play it together with my sister like once a year at an inn on the way to our grandparents. Very nostalgic. 🙂
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Separated buffers for opaque- and fog volumes. I like how this is coming together! The subtle contact shadow from the fog is nice. Next up: also draw opaques into the shadow volume and then get material- and colour support to the buffers. #vulkan #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
I really like the shapes and shadows I can make with this. #gamedev #vulkan
Fox looking out over a rainbow coloured fluffy cloud world. In the distance: a T-rex. Fox looking at a peach coloured circle cloud with a little cloud inside of it. Fox in creepy foggy landscape.
September 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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sschoener.bsky.social
Async, too much
blog.s-schoener.com/2025-09-22-a...
Bilbo: "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I make this async?"
September 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Moved my render stages around to be able to sample the volumetric froxel fog shadows in the fragment shader as well. (exaggerated shadows in video) 🔵⚫🦖 #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #vulkan #renderer #raymarcher
September 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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peg33.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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dianaj.bsky.social
Morning thoughts about "AI".

Where do we go from here?
Thoughts about “AI” Yes it’s: The slop The theft The brainrot The loss of work The crumbling of creator rights The destroying of the environment and infrastructure But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you. Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical. Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school. It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large. [At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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valaeryan.bsky.social
"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."
August 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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sosowski.bsky.social
Ok but the cake goes to Visual Studio that will shove a "please rate" in my face while not being able to render a menu bar properly at the same time.

Did things always worked this badly or am I geting old?
August 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
I've been moving all my volumetric lighting from the main raymarcher into frustum space - in a "froxel" volume cube.
Now the lighting is 🏎️💨 , so I can afford to make it softer and cast longer shadows. It runs in 60fps @ 4K on an RTX 2070 S.
I'm really starting to like the look of it! 🙂 #vulkan
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Dumping a bunch of recordings of interesting looking glitches and debugging I've done the last weeks while implementing dda and froxel volume for my raymarcher. #vulkan
August 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Early test using 1 layer of DDA to skip large empty chunks during render of volumetrics. #vulkan
Raymarched volumetric fog in different colours and weird shapes. The same raymarched fog visualized in grayscale to show the number of steps the marching took to reach full density or to quit.
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
you have got to be kidding me
July 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Going to try out DDA to "sparsen up" my voxel field. My hope is that it is simple and fast to implement, without having to dive into with something more complicated for now. First test just rendering the blocks. Delightfully glitchy look.
A ball of blocks rendered using DDA voxel raytrace. Also pictured, some debug objects: a helmet, a fox and a cube.
July 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
jarllarsson.bsky.social
Finally got around to integrate #DearImGui into something! Up and running 1.92 in my Vulkan renderer. I'm in dire need of it atm. 😅
Screenshot of Dear ImGui demo window runnin in custom Vulkan renderer with experimental volumetric stuff in the background.
June 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
June 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM