mmalex
@mmalex.bsky.social
synth tinkerer (plinky); midjourney; NVResearch (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
continuing to add decidedly-non-uzu (yet old) ideas to my live coding thing. I now have a 'canvas' page where one can draw silly pictures with a mouse/tablet, but also arrange the named patterns in a 2d way. the video below shows blending between patterns of simple repeating notes...
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
continuing to add decidedly-non-uzu (yet old) ideas to my live coding thing. I now have a 'canvas' page where one can draw silly pictures with a mouse/tablet, but also arrange the named patterns in a 2d way. the video below shows blending between patterns of simple repeating notes...
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Hurrah! The Nintendo Switch port I’ve been working on is finally done - Moonring is out today!
#gamdev #moonring
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
#gamdev #moonring
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
Moonring DX | Nintendo Switch download software | Games | Nintendo UK
Travel, trade, sneak, fight and sail the world of Caldera in this retro-inspired open-world, turn-based RPG, featuring a mix of hand-crafted world and procedural dungeons.
www.nintendo.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Hurrah! The Nintendo Switch port I’ve been working on is finally done - Moonring is out today!
#gamdev #moonring
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
#gamdev #moonring
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
sometimes I record short screen captures to document a feature for myself or others, and i've noticed that they are nearly always exactly 1 minute long. I think my brain has been trained by all the 1min short content online, oh no I am cooked
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
sometimes I record short screen captures to document a feature for myself or others, and i've noticed that they are nearly always exactly 1 minute long. I think my brain has been trained by all the 1min short content online, oh no I am cooked
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
allowing myself some colour for the evening jam
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
allowing myself some colour for the evening jam
i really love the new clark album, steep stims. recommended. reminds me a lot of his 'clarence park' early work.
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
i really love the new clark album, steep stims. recommended. reminds me a lot of his 'clarence park' early work.
i was, am and will always be a sucker for degraded, noisy, blurry, confusing images. after images, reflections, glitches, noise, blur. reverb, crackle, intermodulation distortion, crunch. add it all! [CW flashing lights; no audio]
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
i was, am and will always be a sucker for degraded, noisy, blurry, confusing images. after images, reflections, glitches, noise, blur. reverb, crackle, intermodulation distortion, crunch. add it all! [CW flashing lights; no audio]
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The post on using spatial hashing with raytraced ambient occlusion attracted quite a bit of interest so I expanded it into a blog post to discuss how it works behind the scenes to both reduce the noise and its cost. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The post on using spatial hashing with raytraced ambient occlusion attracted quite a bit of interest so I expanded it into a blog post to discuss how it works behind the scenes to both reduce the noise and its cost. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
corsica studios is closing down/morphing into a new form, so the london algoravers are holding a final gig with a great lineup. this wednesday-> ra.co/events/2280905
ra.co
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
corsica studios is closing down/morphing into a new form, so the london algoravers are holding a final gig with a great lineup. this wednesday-> ra.co/events/2280905
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funnily enough we had a similar door bug in lbp1- all mechanisms were physics based, including glass lined sliding doors on (iirc) the frozen wasteland/russia levels. 1 day the doors got stuck; much bisecting didnt find it; eventually found the matrix inverse in ps4 sdk headers had been changed....
Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2".
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
Tom Forsyth (@[email protected])
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Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I sha...
mastodon.gamedev.place
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
funnily enough we had a similar door bug in lbp1- all mechanisms were physics based, including glass lined sliding doors on (iirc) the frozen wasteland/russia levels. 1 day the doors got stuck; much bisecting didnt find it; eventually found the matrix inverse in ps4 sdk headers had been changed....
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I finally finished my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting port of LLVM/Clang/wasi-libc/libc++!
it will be published on NPM in the coming hours
it will be published on NPM in the coming hours
October 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I finally finished my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting port of LLVM/Clang/wasi-libc/libc++!
it will be published on NPM in the coming hours
it will be published on NPM in the coming hours
i periodically google for it but is there yet a usefully good (gcc/clang level, or just below; more than tcc) c/c++ compiler packaged and built for (and targeting) wasm so one can run it in the browser, without massive pain? for building client only c++ sandboxes.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
i periodically google for it but is there yet a usefully good (gcc/clang level, or just below; more than tcc) c/c++ compiler packaged and built for (and targeting) wasm so one can run it in the browser, without massive pain? for building client only c++ sandboxes.
uzu pattern language + shadertoy style environment + integrating any uniforms automatically (thanks @boggo.bsky.social for the idea!) makes that 90s rave flyer vibe so easy...
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
uzu pattern language + shadertoy style environment + integrating any uniforms automatically (thanks @boggo.bsky.social for the idea!) makes that 90s rave flyer vibe so easy...
i find this whole video super inspiring. how happy he is to manifest something esoteric just because he wants it to exist. the little rant at 27:45 explains it better than i can youtu.be/FQqsh-YU-KE?...
This Chair Took Adam Savage Two Years To Make!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
i find this whole video super inspiring. how happy he is to manifest something esoteric just because he wants it to exist. the little rant at 27:45 explains it better than i can youtu.be/FQqsh-YU-KE?...
the 'rib' primitive in strudel/tidal and now ginkgo is such a nice example of 'just enough randomness' and 'repetition makes it intentional'. basically, rib says 'take whats to the left of me, cut & loop a given chunk of tape of it (start time & loop length) and feed it onwards'.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
the 'rib' primitive in strudel/tidal and now ginkgo is such a nice example of 'just enough randomness' and 'repetition makes it intentional'. basically, rib says 'take whats to the left of me, cut & loop a given chunk of tape of it (start time & loop length) and feed it onwards'.
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances: STOCHASTIC TILE-BASED LIGHTING IN HYPEHYPE
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
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November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...
added modulation. clearly the first parameter to try is sample loop end point, ofc
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
added modulation. clearly the first parameter to try is sample loop end point, ofc
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they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)
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I AM NOT DEAD YET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Sy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Sy...
I am not dead yet
YouTube video by TodePond
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I AM NOT DEAD YET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Sy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Sy...
ok i try not to be old-man-shakes-fist-at-sky too often, but wtf is <cstdint> and why is there std::int64_t all over this code. I thought stdint.h's int64_t was long enough... all this std:: stuff just makes me itchy. god damn.
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
ok i try not to be old-man-shakes-fist-at-sky too often, but wtf is <cstdint> and why is there std::int64_t all over this code. I thought stdint.h's int64_t was long enough... all this std:: stuff just makes me itchy. god damn.
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Łukasz from Wookash Podcast (@gameengineering.bsky.social) has posted a lengthy conversation I recorded with him a few weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU...
It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU...
It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)
Dear ImGui | On UI Architecture with Omar Cornut
YouTube video by Wookash Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Łukasz from Wookash Podcast (@gameengineering.bsky.social) has posted a lengthy conversation I recorded with him a few weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU...
It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU...
It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)