Mason Remaley

My puzzle game Way of Rhea is out now on Steam!! 🎉

Tickets are up for the next Software You Can Love conference in Vancouver! mattnite.net/blog/sycl-2026…

🧮 How To Write Fast Game Engine Math #gamedev gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/math/

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

🔗 Neat Shader Tricks, The Future of Graphics APIs, and Other Links It’s been a while since I did a links round up–here’s the cool stuff I read/watched over the past few months! #gamedev #indiedev #neat-shader-tricks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gamesbymason.com/devlog/2026/#n…

@rudedoggtweets I don’t go through SDL for everything though. For example the main ideas behind their filesystem abstraction for games are great IMO, but the actual API is missing too much so I expose a similar interface to the game but using Zig std types.

@rudedoggtweets Thanks, glad you found it useful! For my last game I did it myself, but I decided to just use SDL this time. I have it ported to the Zig build system here: github.com/allyourcodebas…

Many programmers consider Vulkan to be overly complex–maybe not even worth engaging with as an #indiedev. If this is how you Vulkan, or modern graphics APIs in general, the goal of this talk is to change your mind. gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/vulk…

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphi…

@rudedoggtweets I think you’ll enjoy the talk—using Vulkan directly has let me take advantage of features not often exposed by wrappers that greatly simplify my renderer. (This isn’t a criticism of SDL3 GPU though—it wasn’t ready when I started this work, so I didn’t evaluate it.)

@masonremaley I've started looking at SDL3 GPU since it kind of covers both, but I do like how a lot of Vulkan works after you struggle, and if you're doing something "simple" with it. Anyway, curious how you're handling that part since you want to support consoles and desktop

"I Fixed Windows Native Development" Cool script for installing the VS SDK/toolchain without going through Microsoft's installers. marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-win…

🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/micr…

🔉 Statically Linking PipeWire I recently helped @tuple solve an interesting problem. On #Linux, Static binaries are easier to ship, but PipeWire expects dynamic linking. To solve this, I've open sourced a static build of PipeWire. Read more below. gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/stat…

that feeling when you’re about to have a text renderer, but not yet

All hyperlinks & additional commentary can be found here: #ten-years-of-zig-links" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gamesbymason.com/devlog/2025/#t…

And lastly, the miscellaneous/creative writing section. My favorite post here is "Last-Lamb".

🔗 Prototype Progress, Monthly Links, & Zig Turns 10 I've been busy wrapping up the prototype of my next game, but I set aside time for my link roundup. This is a summary + screenshots, scroll down for hyperlinks--not my preference, social media sites don't want you to leave.