Thomas Fossgard / Indie Dev

First look at our dark and cozy game set in the 90s!

This is me if anyone is interested finalboss.cc

Added a nice convenience for placing auto-constructed buildings.

Look at the art style of O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT, a survival adventure game where you have to carry a cursed object across an abandoned world

Just wrote an EGG Blog post about @voxraygames and its incredible founder @wvo making his own game in his own engine in his own language! Who else does this (except @Jonathan_Blow)?

@henningsanden There’s a checkbox, combine on import. So you can keep working in a sane way in the project with separate objects, export one FBX, and combine in Unreal :)

Whats the best way to manage models in Unreal? - Importing the fbx with separate objects and combining using blueprints? - Combining the objects before import, importing a merged object? - Any other way?

Below the Crown is coming in April! Our final Update in Early Access is in just a couple weeks. What a wild ride so far, and IGF honorable mention to boot. We added a discount to celebrate and made this trailer remix🥳

People try to question @owenmahoney’s prediction that the games industry will soon triple. As a reminder: 12% YoY growth is 3x in 10 years 25% YoY growth is 3x in 5 years Experts say 2025 YoY growth rose to ~7%, it’s only a matter of time… slowly and then all at once.

@JonasNoeland @Anduril100 Problemet med all forvirringen rundt energikostnader, er et vi ikke veier inn at samfunnet ikke tolererer blackouts. Vi trenger derfor en garantert kraft. Fornybarkontrakter bør derfor kreve et garantert minimumkapasitet, som de kan kjøpe andre steder. Så kan man sammenligne..

Kjernekraft er kanskje ikke så dyrt som du tror. Det som er dyrt, er kortsiktige regnestykker. Selv den «dyreste» kjernekraften ser rimelig ut – hvis du regner slik regjeringen selv gjør. I dag svarer jeg @Anduril100 i E24. Han argumenterer godt for å slippe kapitalismen løs på kjernekraften – og vi er enige om det viktigste. Men han plukker feil tall fra boken vår «Energikrisen», og det ønsker jeg å oppklare. Kjernen i saken er enkel: Hva du mener kjernekraft koster avhenger av hvilken tidshorisont og rente du legger til grunn. Vil du ha investeringen tilbake på femten år? Da må du ha 194 øre pr. kilowattime (kWh). Fordeler du kapitalkostnadene over seksti år, blir det 130 øre/kWh. Men her er det interessante: Regjeringen legger selv til grunn to prosent risikojustert rente – dog ikke risikofri – for investeringer etter syttifem år (vær obs på rentestegene). Fra et bærekraftsperspektiv argumenteres det for renter ned mot 1,4 prosent over hele livsløpet. Med slike forutsetninger koster selv det første og dyreste kjernekraftverket i Norge under 59 øre/kWh med hundreårs levetid — slik boken legger til grunn. Etter at investor har fått forventet avkastning på investeringen sin, produserer kraftverket billig strøm i generasjoner til en driftskostnad på 30 øre/kWh. Forskjellen mellom markedsprisen på strøm og driftskostnaden kan være vesentlig, og representerer en betydelig verdi – både for eiere og for samfunnet. Det er ikke et regnetriks – det er hele poenget med langsiktig infrastruktur. Så hvorfor vurderer vi kjernekraft med helt andre regneregler enn det staten bruker på alt annet? Og hvorfor hensyntar vi ikke bærekraftsperspektivet? Legger vi ikke da opp til et «bruk-og-kast-samfunn»? Gi kjernekraft like vilkår som annen kraftproduksjon – vilkår som hensyntar både levetid og egenskaper. La markedet avgjøre resten. Les hele innlegget i E24 – lenke i kommentarfeltet.

@timsoret Definitely a lot of work to be done. Just think it's important to separate between EU created problems and just national ones. "Blame EU" is often too easy. Crossing fingers for the new EU startup company!

@thomasfossgard I don’t know. I prefer things to be minimal, smooth, seamless, default legal. Until now in France, Spain, Germany, we are drowning in obsolete red tape, poor gov websites, unclear rules, steps that could be automated, etc.

For 10 years if you pointed this in Europe they would treat you as an iconoclast. Today it’s finally becoming mainstream.

@MatthiasPretzel @VeroWendland In the US now, 12 reactors of the same basic type (PWR) like Biblis have achieved licences to operate for 80 years. The 30 year "lifespan" argument is pure nonsense. These are machines that can be maintained, parts replaced and be made to run 80+ years.

@VeroWendland Welche Kenntnisse kritisieren Sie? Ich bin kein Experte, bloß Bürger. Präzisieren Sie Ihre Kritik und ich kann darauf antworten. Sie können aber nicht schlüssige Argumente vom Tisch wischen indem Sie behaupten, man könne die Laufzeiten beliebig verlängern.

Tja, liebe Grüne, hätte der Atomausstieg das AKW Biblis nicht gekillt, dann hätten Frankfurter Rechenzentren jetzt CO2-armen billigen Strom und bräuchten kein dreckiges & teures Gaskraftwerk.

Hello whoever's still here 🫡 Surprise, I've been working on a new game in the last couple years! I wanted to find out if LLMs could be "intelligent" NPCs in a real 3D game, and it turns out they mostly can :) It's called Robotopia, and it's a 3D adventure all about (human) creativity and getting robots to do your bidding with your voice. You can try the PC/Mac alpha today on our discord below!

@bjoernstengel @VeroWendland @remmaloque Today, 12 US reactors of the same type as the German ones have been approved to run 80 years. That German ones couldn’t be made to run just as long is a tired lie. Literally misinformation. world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ocone…

@VeroWendland @remmaloque Selbst ohne den 2002/2011er Ausstieg sind diese 30% eher Idealisierung als Realität. Einige der Reaktoren der 1970er Jahre wären heute mutmaßlich ebenfalls teilweise stillgelegt oder hätten massive Investitionen für Laufzeitverlängerung gebraucht.

Davor haben u. A. die Grünen gewarnt. Wollten Maßnahmen ergreifen um das zu verhindern bzw. zumindest zu lindern. Aber das war ja alles Bevormundung! Mit scheint immer mehr, einige in der Politik beschäftigen sich mit Agieren, andere nur mit Populismus. focus.de/earth/das-ist-…

Creating the HBO intro in 1982 by Liberty Studios in NYC.

RT @YesboxStudios: You the player can customize the optional tilt-shift blur how you like. That wraps up this fun side-project 😖 https://t.…

@DavidOsmond8 Interesting! Nice work and will follow how it develops. I would love to see transmission requirements. Treating Australia, a place with 3 time zones as a copper plate isn’t very realistic, and I can see the possibility of bottlenecked scenarios in a more detailed simulation.

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100% RE Last 222 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)

@Kl_Stone @marhin @75Jamin No. Look how quickly France decarbonized in 15 years. So far you’re at 25 years and counting. Far behind still. If you’d kept the 167TWh/year you had in 2007, you’d be nearly there. And no, they weren’t old. Over 10 reactors in US have been approved to run for 80 years now.

@marhin @75Jamin Naja, heute haben wir gar keine AKW mehr und nur noch etwa die Hälfte an CO₂-Emissionen pro erzeugter kWh. Womit ich nicht sagen will, dass die AKW für den höheren Wert verantwortlich waren. Sondern, dass man mit EE genau so gut dekarbonisieren kann.

Und warum hat dann Tschechien (mit fast 40% Atomstromanteil) regelmäßig den -nach Polen- zweitschlechtesten spez. CO2-Wert (481g/kWh in 2024) in der EU?

@YesboxStudios Dude.. Looks incredible!

Faux-3D lighting in a 2D game. Achieving the last 10-20% accuracy may not be possible though.

@paulg youtu.be/bpZbnUHHwvU?si…

Things that stuck in my head.

@TorporGames @deantak Congrats @TorporGames !! Excited for the future!

Big news! Torpor Games has closed a minority seed round with KRAFTON, 1Up Ventures, and Sisu Game Ventures to help grow the Suzerain Universe. Ata spoke with @deantak at GamesBeat about what’s next. Read it here: gamesbeat.com/torpor-games-r…