Matthew Collison

@did0f A) right? If we’re saying bake the scene’s shadows but keep the player’s dynamic? As long as there’s no day night cycle, if there is, it’s B) I think

Quick poll for #gamedev folks. Mostly static scene. ONE character moves. How do you handle shadows? a) Split casters across two shadow-casting lights (one cached, one live) b) Keep `autoUpdate = true`, lower shadow-map resolution c) Cache once, accept wrong NPC shadow pose d) Other Tradeoffs in the post didof.dev/en/blog/threej…

@boona11 @ThisGuyHaHa @cursor_ai @levelsio Absolutely phenomenal

Just submitted Tiny Hamlet to @cursor_ai x @levelsio #VibeJam 2026 🏡 Build your own cozy little village in the browser ; walls, roofs, fences, campfires, NPCs wandering around, day/night cycle. Multiplayer too. No downloads. No login. Just vibes. 👉 tinyhamlet.net

I'm also working on a new brand map (and playing around with those amazing generated PBR textures 😍)

#vibejam D9: Graphics I'm happy with the gameplay, so I'm focusing on maps+visuals. - Anamorphic Bloom (a kind of horizontal lens flare) - Soft Motion Blur - TRAA (Smoother anti aliasing IMO) - 3D LUT - PBR Meteors - Realtime shadows And ~4 FPS impact (220 AVG down to 216!!)

It's the little things that add up - here is the same map before those visual changes (+ the old UI) The difference is night and day!!! It was so washed out and lifeless

@kylebrussell I used 3.5 sonnet in cursor daily back then for work

Claude 3.5 Sonnet was June 2024 anthropic.com/news/claude-3-…

I think this is false memory? The code coming out of the tools was not very good two years ago

There it is! (at least from a 2 min playtest it feels like it)

#vibejam Day 8... Multiplayer Pain 😫 There's some core render-loop issue in the game that I missed Yesterday's multiplayer was a red herring for something else going on under the hood... Some perfect 367ms delay, even on <1ms ping Wish me luck!

@just_in_bytes @colyseus Very ambitious to write a server in go for a web game 🤣 it’s hard enough to make a simple JS one to work haha

@MrCollison @colyseus I'm in the same boat! I started with a go server and very quickly did a rewrite to @colyseus. Still getting a bit of lag tho. Is this going to be only 4 player?

#vibejam Day 7: Online Multiplayer ✅ Thanks to @colyseus for being the framework for the (third) vibe-server-rebuild ✅ Clean local movement ✅ Synced States ✅ Working Spectator ✅ NPCs But there are bugs to sort: ❌ Start-round local wiggle ❌ 200ms~ behind sync at times

@just_in_bytes @colyseus I just got off work and had a play and I noticed it’s masking some massive 300ms delay 😬 I think 8 play will end up being the limit when I’m done with it - that’s the aim!

@did0f Sort of bloomy, soft too shading with no outlines and a little bit of atmospheric haze. It does look amazing

This is like my childhood dream 3D renderer

@did0f @colyseus Thanks! Yep, it’s kind of like cell shading but the shader outline is heavily on the outside rather than on all surfaces

@MrCollison @colyseus Hey the movements are super fluid, kudos! I like also the border thingy, how is it called?

#vibejam Day 7 - Multiplayer Fixes (+sus green dude gathering) ✅ 200ms desync is GONE - on low ping it feels like LAN. this clip is my server hosted on @colyseus cloud - on WiFi!) ✅ Start round wiggle fixed Still some funky business to fix with the bones but otherwise great!

@alhuissi @colyseus It bloody is Add ragdoll physics to that + dynamic levels then 😵‍💫 But I finally cracked it... I'll have an update tomorrow evening. Perhaps even a link!!

@mrcollison @colyseus it's an exponential on complexity

@MyMoonEnt @colyseus 🤣 I appreciate the pointers Our claudes are just assisting other claudes via their human proxy

@mrcollison @colyseus Ahaha no worries im too learniing with claude, im just regurgitating what he fixed for my case too ahah

@pranviskidding The whole player (and all other physics) uses Rapier.js - it works beautifully with Three.JS The punch is a violent push forward and a snap back (to stop it dragging the player forward)

@mrcollison Hey Matthew, just wondering how you achieved the punch action of your ragdoll. Also is it completely made in threejs??

#vibejam Day 6: ok multiplayer sync is perfect (80ms simulated ping) - how is it this good?? I think the moon/sun map AI needs some work though 🤣

@alhuissi @colyseus My god it's the biggest headache by far right? Or is it just me haha

@mrcollison @colyseus looks smooth! I'm fighting with multiplayer for my game right now

@MyMoonEnt @colyseus Already in! But missing input replay on reconciliation, extrapolation for late/dropped remote snapshots (remotes only render inside the interp window) and a server-side per-client input ring buffer with adaptive lead I have no idea what that means but at least claude does 🤣🤣

@mrcollison @colyseus Cool, try client side prediction and jiterring/interpolation tolerance, should smooth out the syncing

#vibejam folks, help! I'm deciding which multiplayer server regions to go with I think I have budget for 4-6 cheap @colyseus regions Where are you all based? Based on my twitter analytics right now, it'd be: - US - India - Canada - Japan - EU - Middle East