Game dev articles.
Making games: O'BLOCK, engines, haggling AI and shipping on Steam.
Rust · Game dev · Oct 16, 2026 · 12 min
Bevy instancing: drawing 639,000 units with one draw call per mesh
Bevy instancing past automatic batching: units as plain data, 48-byte instances, Arc hand-off and one draw per mesh. Real Rust code and measured frame times.
Game dev · Rust · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
My game has one mechanic, so I taught the NPCs to lie
O'BLOCK is a sneaker-flipping haggling game with one verb: name a price. How every NPC hides a real limit and opens with a different number, so haggling stays interesting.
Rust · Game dev · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min
Adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to my Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines
How O'BLOCK got Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean in a custom Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines: glyph atlases, fonts and string width.