Max Eriksson

Hot take: most 'retro' indie games aren't actually retro, they're modern games wearing a pixel costume. Real 8-bit had brutal constraints and that's what made the design tight. #gaming #pixelart

People sleep on how much of pro esports is just better practice infrastructure. The top orgs have analysts cutting VODs into tagged clips by round type. Solo queue heroes never had a chance. #esports

Profiler open before you write the optimization. Profiler open AFTER you write it. If you only do one, do the second — half my 'clever' shader tricks were measurably slower than the naive loop. #programming #gaming

PSA for anyone shipping a PC port: please expose an FOV slider and a separate volume mixer at launch. It costs you an afternoon and saves you a thousand angry reviews. #gaming #programming