Mason Remaley
@masonremaley.bsky.social
Independent game developer, board member on the Zig Software Foundation. Shipped Way of Rhea, working on something new. 🏳️🌈
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Mason Remaley
@masonremaley.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Game Dev Newsletter
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🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs?
The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st...
#gamedev #indiedev
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs?
The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st...
#gamedev #indiedev
🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.
gamesbymason.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs?
The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st...
#gamedev #indiedev
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs?
The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/st...
#gamedev #indiedev
Do I know anyone who’s an expert on HDR that would be down to answer a few questions over DM?
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Do I know anyone who’s an expert on HDR that would be down to answer a few questions over DM?
🔗 June Links - Wolfire vs Steam, Indie vs AAA, What Does ‘Content Creator’ mean anyway?
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July 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
🔗 June Links - Wolfire vs Steam, Indie vs AAA, What Does ‘Content Creator’ mean anyway?
#gamedev #indiedev
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June 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reposted by Mason Remaley
My friend's game, give it a try!
Here's the game:
store.steampowered.com/app/1110620/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1110620/...
Save 50% on Way of Rhea on Steam
A puzzle game with challenging puzzles, but forgiving mechanics. Master the use of your color changing staff to solve mind bending puzzles, unlock new areas, and help out your friends. Undo any mistak...
store.steampowered.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My friend's game, give it a try!
📅 May Links
I'm doing a new thing where I share my favorite links at the end of each month on my site, you can read May's links here.
#gamedev #indiedev
gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...
I'm doing a new thing where I share my favorite links at the end of each month on my site, you can read May's links here.
#gamedev #indiedev
gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...
May 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
📅 May Links
I'm doing a new thing where I share my favorite links at the end of each month on my site, you can read May's links here.
#gamedev #indiedev
gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...
I'm doing a new thing where I share my favorite links at the end of each month on my site, you can read May's links here.
#gamedev #indiedev
gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/...
🌴 What I Learned from Staying Inside
Chris Zukowski holds an online conference "Staying Inside" on game marketing every year. I wrote up some notes.
Multiple speakers touched on a shift happening in game funding that may be of interest even if you aren’t looking for funding...
#gamedev #indiedev
Chris Zukowski holds an online conference "Staying Inside" on game marketing every year. I wrote up some notes.
Multiple speakers touched on a shift happening in game funding that may be of interest even if you aren’t looking for funding...
#gamedev #indiedev
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Portland based and interested in Zig? We're putting together a hang out!
Details TBD.
zig.day/usa/portland/
Details TBD.
zig.day/usa/portland/
Zig Day Portland (OR)
Zig Days are single-day collaborative programming events
zig.day
April 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Portland based and interested in Zig? We're putting together a hang out!
Details TBD.
zig.day/usa/portland/
Details TBD.
zig.day/usa/portland/
A couple of weeks ago while working on the beta release of my ECS, I noticed my command buffer abstraction was slow.
It turns out I was assuming the optimizer could do a few things it couldn’t. The fix wasn’t all that interesting, but how do you catch this sort of mistake?
#gamedev #indiedev
It turns out I was assuming the optimizer could do a few things it couldn’t. The fix wasn’t all that interesting, but how do you catch this sort of mistake?
#gamedev #indiedev
April 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Reposted by Mason Remaley
Mason is incredibly smart and was one of the first people to encourage me to make my own engine - highly recommend subscribing to their newsletter if you love zig, game engines, game architecture, etc
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April 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Mason is incredibly smart and was one of the first people to encourage me to make my own engine - highly recommend subscribing to their newsletter if you love zig, game engines, game architecture, etc
Interested in game design, game engines, and the business of indie games? Tired of scrolling social media to search for content worth your time?
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April 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I’m writing a new game engine in #Zig, and I’m open sourcing each module as I write it.
Today I released the beta version of my entity component system ZCS, I’ll consider it a beta until I’ve shipped my next Steam game using it.
#gamedev #indiedev #ECS
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/zcs/
Today I released the beta version of my entity component system ZCS, I’ll consider it a beta until I’ve shipped my next Steam game using it.
#gamedev #indiedev #ECS
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/zcs/
ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig
ZCS is an open source ECS implemented in Zig.
gamesbymason.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m writing a new game engine in #Zig, and I’m open sourcing each module as I write it.
Today I released the beta version of my entity component system ZCS, I’ll consider it a beta until I’ve shipped my next Steam game using it.
#gamedev #indiedev #ECS
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/zcs/
Today I released the beta version of my entity component system ZCS, I’ll consider it a beta until I’ve shipped my next Steam game using it.
#gamedev #indiedev #ECS
gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/zcs/
If you apply this normalization approximation repeatedly, it converges IFF the initial magnitude is (~-2.24, 2.24).
Outside that range, it diverges.
This is easy to verify empirically, but I'm not a good enough mathematician to prove it. If you are let me know how you did it! 😜
#gamedev #math
Outside that range, it diverges.
This is easy to verify empirically, but I'm not a good enough mathematician to prove it. If you are let me know how you did it! 😜
#gamedev #math
March 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Quick performance tip. If you’re comfortable requiring support for FMA3 (Intel & AMD CPUs have had it for the last 13 years!) you should probably be using your language’s fused multiply add intrinsic where relevant.
February 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Quick performance tip. If you’re comfortable requiring support for FMA3 (Intel & AMD CPUs have had it for the last 13 years!) you should probably be using your language’s fused multiply add intrinsic where relevant.
Since shipping my indie puzzle game Way of Rhea last year I’ve been hard at work on game two, but I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like.
February 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Since shipping my indie puzzle game Way of Rhea last year I’ve been hard at work on game two, but I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like.