After 8+ years at Google, I'm leaving to start my own gamedev company!
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Wouter van Oortmerssen
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Starting new game studio! Prev. Wasm (LLVM) / FlatBuffers / games&VR at Google. Author of TreeSheets, PLs (Lobster, False, Amiga E..) and game engines (Cube..).
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#REAC2023 - the slides from Wouter van Oortmerssen's "Scripting Language? Engine Language? Why Not Both?" posted - inearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/downloads/reac - Enjoy!
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Initial progress on a new level! We'll show how this level evolves as it is being built..
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My talk is up in half an hour! Still time to sign up for the conference: inearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_conferenc I'll answer questions after the talk as submitted on Discord.
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My talk is ready to go for Monday! Come check it out if you want to hear my wacky thoughts on how programming languages and game engines best go together :) Also come ask Q's (or heckle) in Discord!
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T - 2 days for the first open virtual Rendering Engine Architecture Conference 2023 - June 5th and 6th! the schedule posted online: inearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_conferenc and you can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI)
(Co-organised with: @stevemcauley, @kenpex, and Michael Vance.)
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Well guess which programming language comes on top in what is obviously the most important metric of all? youtube.com/watch?v=Qg8OGA My completely random naming strategy finally paying off! ;) Thanks for the vid.
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#REAC2023 is 10 days away and I can't wait! We have amazing talks for all that signed up (it's free! It's virtual!) so join us to hear about rendering architectures from and on June 5 & 6.
inearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_course/
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We're looking for a voxel artist to work on our (still) unannounced game!
VoxRay games is a team of 5 mostly based in the US, but will consider candidates anywhere in the world, remote, full-time or part-time.
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Details on how that design came to be:
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This is a fantastic change.. it allows for >2GiB buffers without forking the format, allowing 64-bit sized things within an otherwise 32-bit offset world.
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"2 GiB FlatBuffers ought to be enough for anybody..."
Introducing support for 8 EiB FlatBuffers (aka 64-bit FlatBuffers). That ought to be enough.
github.com/google/flatbuf
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Giving a talk on why the intersection between game engine and programming language matters.. and why it is giving us a lot of development velocity in our engine (built on the Lobster programming language) at
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We now have our full line-up announced for the Rendering Engine Architecture Course 2023. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
inearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_course/
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Landscape procgen has so far been our weak spot, experimenting with some new tile/brush sizes and ways of placement
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Some more screenshots from our first test level.. first, the starting NPC village with Bullet-O-Matic vending machine
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Automatic "path building" by just specifying two end points.. uses a weighted A* to find a path with the least height differences, then uses the local voxel data to find the right stair pieces to place to make a functioning path
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Taking a stroll through this overhang, and brightening things up a bit!
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Now extended with static & frame variants, it's like IMGUIs, but.. for state! :)
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If you're coming to #GDC23 here's the schedule for the Open Source Summit I helped organize: schedule.gdconf.com/search/open+so Lots of exciting OSS projects represented!
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Experimental new Lobster feature: Class member variables with method scope!
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Experimenting with the new "light volume" rendering by that can also do nice volumetric fog.. on a new ruins voxel set by !
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Started working on the in-house voxel engine of ! These are a few dev snapshots of the new real-time lighting engine #voxel
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It's running on the deck! (Windows build, mostly unmodified).. seems to run at decent FPS too, just no controls yet :)
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First iteration of new jackhammer tool, mine a landscape block to get its resources for crafting!
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Hello, world! We're VoxRay Games and we're working on an unannounced new voxel game! #voxelgamedev #voxelart #voxel #indiedev #gamedev
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Same thing on LinkedIn if you prefer to interact there:
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If that is not you but it sounds like someone you know, please let me know! DM's open. [10/]
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We are particularly looking for someone who is is a good fit for the _direction_, i.e. that means someone who is fan of ray-tracing, voxels, the game play style, in-game editing, crazy custom programming languages, hardcore optimized / minimalist CPU/GPU code, etc. :) [9/]
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Primary dev platform right now is Windows / Visual Studio.. we can probably swing someone who wants to work in Linux but it may complicate matters a little. Mac is not working yet. [8/]
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We have funding secured, which means I can pay people a decent salary (or contract rate, at your preference) from the POV of game dev companies, but we can't compete with Big Tech :) Fully remote anywhere on the planet (we have team members in North America and Europe) [7/]
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Code wise very focused on simple/small/fast. We have no space/time for grand architecture, we're doing a lot with little, and making the dream of "fully ray-traced" happen we need some very efficient code/shaders. The game still starts up in about a second in release mode. [6/]
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Gameplay wise our focus is on "user generated content" meaning easy editing and being flexible in what styles of play users can make happen in game, with influences from FPS, RPG and survival gameplay. Imagine a next gen "Fallout meets Minecraft" and you'd not be far off ;) [5/]
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The entire "renderer" sits in mostly a single GLSL shader, various "engine parts" are in C++, but the bulk of the code (everything you'd consider "scripting" but also "engine glue") is written in strlen.com/lobster/ [4/]
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The game is based on ray-traced voxels, by which I don't mean some RTX eye candy, but full end-to-end ray-tracing (currently in a pixel shader). No polygon in sight. The world is made from (and authored as) uniform blocks of voxels. Old tech-demo vid: [3/]
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Voxel raytracer now does arbitrary size/rotation sprites too! They're made from the same blocks as the world, and can be moved between world and sprite status easily. Physics of these things coming next :) Recorded with DOF for cinematic effect.
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I am ideally looking for a fairly experienced gamedev, since this person likely will need to be wearing many hats, all the way from gameplay to gnarly shader or C++ engine stuff. Quick summary of what we're building: [2/]
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