Eniko Fox

Founded queer gamedev studio @kitsunegames with @Njord. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss, Ultra Hat Dimension, Lore Finder. Also: Coding History on YouTube. She/her. Dutch, former US greencard holder, now living in Cyprus. Mask wearer

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You can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko

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2026-04-08 19:21:19 UTC

i have finally worked out a complete plot outline for the "covid: the jrpg" game i'm never actually going to make
(its a jrpg where theres a pervasive plague with a death cult around it with themes like eugenics, the banality of evil, and mooorrreeee)

2026-04-06 21:23:09 UTC

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@nprofile…hm63 yeah but that has nothing to do with a prerendered depth map

2026-04-06 21:17:52 UTC

I have long felt frustrated by articles/videos that say some PSX games that used prerendered backgrounds also had a depth map for occlusion, because they never elaborate and I know the PSX has no depth buffer
But I think I figured it out. They probably compared some coarse depth value (probably the character's position depth) against the depth buffer and generated a mask texture on the CPU and then used the PSX's mask bit for occlusion
Or at least that's how I would probably do it if I had to

2026-03-30 20:16:23 UTC

snprintf can safely format a string into a target buffer
it can also, without writing anything, tell you the size needed to safely format a string into a target buffer
however, this being C, there is (as far as i can find) no helper method to use snprintf to find the size of the buffer you need, allocate it, and then write the formatted string, unless you make it yourself
this is great since writing a wrapper function like this is extremely easy to fuck up, leading to buffer overruns

2026-03-29 07:39:16 UTC

It's nice to just ignore DST and just let my bedtime and wake up time be one hour later

2026-03-20 15:43:35 UTC

Always a fine day when a prominent fascist kicks it

2026-03-19 07:41:04 UTC

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@nprofile…g0e5 all the wealthiest people on the planet are morons so can we really blame them

2026-03-19 07:35:50 UTC

thanks youtube
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/254/683/666/407/207/original/452934f6909c2af4.mp4

2026-03-04 08:24:21 UTC

According to my feed today computing is basically over and software engineering is basically over and people buying games is basically over so I guess what I'm getting from all this is my life is basically over thanks

2026-03-01 08:12:31 UTC

every time someone tells me LLMs are the future of coding i just tell them research shows that coders using LLMs report feeling 20% more productive but are actually 20% less productive

2026-02-24 09:02:20 UTC

is it just me or does searching for deep knowledge on retro systems seem to be more and more pointless as search engines get more and more unusable

2026-02-17 09:49:19 UTC

am i just into retro computing/coding because that's the era i remember when almost all software i used on a daily basis wasn't trying to screw me over?
i think about this sometimes. have yet to come up with a satisfying conclusion

2026-02-09 21:38:43 UTC

okay this is a shot in the dark but do any #DOS folks know anything about where one would start with actually authoring PC speaker sound effects?

2026-02-05 20:34:42 UTC

PSA: Daggerfall released closer to Minecraft than Minecraft's release is to today

2026-02-03 08:13:14 UTC

Sorry Apple fans in advance for what I'm about to say
Since liquid glass I keep seeing stuff basically framing Apple as "they were once the good guys but now they have forsook all their principles and become the bad guys" and like. Apple was always the bad guys though lol

2026-01-21 15:38:20 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 wonder how annoying it would be to adapt the existing code from perspective to orthographic
i guess i could also only do frustum culling and then build up the shadow map N chunks per frame to keep the load down

2026-01-21 10:00:16 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 those reflections probably wouldn't look as spectacular though

2026-01-21 09:57:21 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 oh cool i didn't know it had that, i thought it was all realtime

2026-01-21 09:54:11 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 that looks great! was this done in avoyd?

2026-01-18 10:40:41 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 my fps actually did go from like 260 to 300 when i cleaned up my shader mess and only set uniforms/samplers that were universal only once for the entire render pass

2026-01-18 10:34:34 UTC

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@nprofile…0kf8 like occlusion culling! :D

2026-01-18 10:30:43 UTC

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whenever someone brings it up i just think of this video https://youtu.be/ftHoJYvto7o?t=388

2026-01-18 09:39:41 UTC

i really wonder if anyone doing greedy meshing for a block game has actually profiled things to confirm whether or not number of vertices from standard blocks is even an actual bottleneck

2026-01-17 10:13:33 UTC

so uh, gltf is the modern 3d model format you wanna use right?

2025-12-29 14:39:57 UTC

if you saw a ghost in real life would you be able to see their backfaces 🤔

2025-12-19 11:25:58 UTC

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@nprofile…9vka its probably the latter. they have enough money to buy anything so they hyperfocus on the thing they can't buy, eternal life
unless you're elon musk then you also hyperfocus on another thing you can't buy: being likeable

2025-12-19 11:10:01 UTC

i am tired of people showing me, against my will, the opinions of billionaires obsessed with immortality

2025-12-19 08:52:08 UTC

Do people who make board games call themselves game developers or do they use a different term

2025-12-17 10:45:16 UTC

GLFW
Games Live For Windows

2025-12-12 15:03:49 UTC

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@nprofile…9rel oh that'd be interesting 🤔
i figure i'll mostly write these by hand though, anything i add any time soon isn't likely to be more than a few blocks

2025-12-11 20:02:41 UTC

new (bi)weekly block game thread cause doors are done! \o/
not only are doors 2 blocks tall now, there's a generic system to create up to 16x16x16 multi-block structures just by specifying the positions and blocks in json
anyway, doors make a huge difference to the game's feel. with doors and tables and such these shacks are starting to feel like real houses
#EniBlockGame #GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt #ProcGen
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/701/991/011/538/104/original/563ca340aa42dd46.mp4

2025-12-11 19:56:03 UTC

you ever notice nobody speculates anymore what they'd do in a zombie apocalypse. wonder if that kind of speculation lost its luster now we're going through what feels like the actual end of the world

2025-12-05 07:11:01 UTC

12 hours left on this bundle https://itch.io/s/169922/kitsune-games-bundle
#nevent1q…m9xh

2025-11-21 08:56:56 UTC

every day in this hellscape
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/586/850/589/910/730/original/bf146859914e4b63.png

2025-11-11 19:35:16 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvy @nprofile…f4xf what would an instruction pointer even look like in a 3d block space 🤔

2025-11-11 11:57:24 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf tbh that could be a funny way to do that 8-bit in-game assembly i've been thinking of. where operations are blocks

2025-11-11 11:52:01 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf i *could* do that....... >_>

2025-11-10 09:28:22 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvy oh are you doing squared distance minus squared radius?

2025-11-10 09:07:40 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvy I suppose if the bullets have hit boxes you could collapse those into points to reduce the number of checks?

2025-10-20 08:45:10 UTC

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@nprofile…fnpd also as a primarily windows user who has only dabbled a tiny bit in linux i prefer linux mint orders of magnitude to ubuntu which just has way too much bizarre nonsense going on

2025-10-20 08:43:57 UTC

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@nprofile…fnpd visual studio doesn't work on linux right now, which is a major blocker to me adopting it as my main OS
people will tell you to use vscode as if it's equivalent in quality and usability to visual studio. it is not

2025-10-17 12:26:17 UTC

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@nprofile…z0jd is there some other resource i can use to find common high value kerning pairs?

2025-10-17 12:15:46 UTC

can someone who's good at typography explain this to me: https://github.com/andre-fuchs/kerning-pairs
i thought futzing about with some common kerning pairs would be minimally taxing since (as usual) i have a migraine but there's a bunch of "pairs" in there with just a single letter and i dont know wtf is up with that

2025-10-15 08:13:37 UTC

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@nprofile…9rel good point about the random access. I was just thinking about how often you have to look at a block and all it's neighbors

2025-10-15 08:07:18 UTC

I wonder if storing chunk data in Morton order would lead to significant speed gains due to improved cache locality 🤔

2025-10-13 09:39:22 UTC

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@nprofile…avnq you over in the Netherlands?

2025-10-13 09:33:09 UTC

It's becoming hard to remember the last time I didn't have a weather induced migraine
I wanted it to be less hot but not like this 😞
#BaroPosting
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/366/161/713/591/481/original/dc49fe268dfc13d4.jpg

2025-10-12 10:45:43 UTC

Hey can someone make a Firefox addon that replaces the names of tech billionaires by prefixing them with "Serial liar and perpetrator of investment fraud"
For example "Sam Altman Wants 250 Gigawatts of Power. Is That Possible?" would become "Serial Liar and Perpetrator of Investment Fraud Sam Altman Wants 250 Gigawatts of Power. Is That Possible?"
Or "Serial Liar and Perpetrator of Investment Fraud Sam Altman’s OpenAI Is Officially the World’s Most Valuable Startup at $500B"

2025-10-12 09:27:09 UTC

"i couldn't join mastodon, i couldn't deal with having to see someone posting at me from somewhere called jorts dot horse. besides people there are so *earnest*"
ah the fragility of bluesky posters

2025-10-10 20:46:46 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn not sure I wanna go quite that far with it but yeah kinda like that

2025-10-10 16:35:51 UTC

tbh i'm kind of surprised how receptive people are to a free mouse mode in block game (at least as a toggle) and everyone didn't go "ew are you kidding me? no standard mouse look only"

2025-10-09 14:28:06 UTC

still can't get over the fact i unironically saw someone complaining on bluesky that they don't like mastodon because people here are too earnest
just. absolutely mind boggling thing to say out loud where others can perceive it

2025-10-09 08:24:56 UTC

Every day lately I go to bed thinking "tomorrow I'll get my work done" and then the next day I wake up to another horrible migraine
#BaroPosting
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/343/245/979/929/621/original/14c109d4f5b443cf.jpg

2025-10-08 22:25:25 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn oh weird. Tiny voxels huh?

2025-10-08 20:09:24 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn it's way too high def to really draw any conclusions. like, they don't even really use voxels?

2025-10-08 20:00:42 UTC

i have been doing a lot of research on LOD in voxel engines and i've come to the conclusion that aside from making sure my world generation can generate lower detail versions of chunks independently i don't actually care to solve that particular problem any time soon
(also it is incredibly hard to find any screenshots let alone videos of anyone looking at player built structures using mods like distant horizons so i can scrutinize the quality of this approach)

2025-10-08 17:43:22 UTC

ive been watching some voxel game engine devlogs and like half the episodes from repeat vloggers are "so i rewrote my entire engine in a new language and graphics api"

2025-10-08 15:08:51 UTC

I'm really tired of terrible policy proposals being shot down due to public outcry and then they just keep trying it over and over until they can either sneak it through or people are too exhausted to put up a fight anymore. Stuff like chat control comes to mind. Doing that shit should be considered a crime

2025-10-08 09:02:22 UTC

Btw I wrote the html, css, and javascript for https://enikofox.com/blockgame entirely from scratch in Notepad++

2025-10-07 23:22:21 UTC

you know i see a lot of voxel game engines that boast about having super far view distance because of LOD terrain but i really gotta wonder how well that works once players start, you know, building stuff on top of the natural terrain

2025-10-07 09:36:43 UTC

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@nprofile…k0gr i mean they'd probably post that image and say it was about mastodon

2025-10-07 08:45:43 UTC

wow lol do *not* search for "mastodon" on bluesky and read the top posts if you actually like it here

2025-10-06 18:28:59 UTC

i think it's funny when people say "mastodon has moderation issues too!"
of course it does. it's millions of real, messy humans interacting over multiple communities with intersecting and often contradictory rules, moderated by real, messy humans with feelings and biases. of course it has moderation issues, it's inescapable when you put millions of people together
the thing that makes fedi (imo) better is that here you get to at least *choose* the messy humans making the decisions for you

2025-10-05 18:19:54 UTC

wowww youtube has a new feature where, i guess, multiple people can collab on a single video?
so anyway if someone you sub to collabs on a video in this way it will just shove a channel you dont even recognize into your subscriptions feed. amazing ux, truly excellent, no notes
i'm sure this won't enrage users who, unlike me, aren't driven to spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure out where the fuck this video in their subs feed came from
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/322/921/286/754/241/original/55145d39fa71275f.png
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/322/923/495/016/612/original/f117618dcf466f65.png
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/322/933/010/839/149/original/caccc30c0ad9d34f.png

2025-10-05 12:13:18 UTC

if you're new here on fedi from #Bluesky (or recently returned from bluesky) and you want some help kickstarting your account, link me to an introduction post in reply to this post and i'll give it a boost for you

2025-10-03 20:23:31 UTC

okay the block game site is live! https://enikofox.com/blockgame/
particularly proud of the feed of mastodon posts below the FAQ :3 it handles images, video, gif, audio, and "unknown" media. and it even handles polls! :D
#EniBlockGame

2025-10-02 21:31:03 UTC

Jesus fucking christ Cyberpunk 2077 came out FIVE YEARS AGO? I'm dead. I'm dust. I'm not even here anymore, I've been atomized by receiving this cursed knowledge

2025-09-11 09:29:32 UTC

hey fedi programmer folks, this isn't urgent but i'm going to have to store my block game's world data in some kind of acid compliant database at some point. do you have any recommendations? it must be a file-based database, obviously. and game data doesn't usually neatly conform to the boring numbered rows with named columns table design of traditional databases for websites and stuff
i think ideally i'd just be able to store raw binary data

2025-09-11 09:06:37 UTC

man. im sure having a day. couldnt sleep last night. when i did finally get to sleep, i had lots of night terrors. then i had a really bad nightmare only to wake up from that sleep deprived and immediately found out my post had been used in a right wing rage bait article

2025-09-10 12:00:18 UTC

Congrats to Nintendo for securing a patent on a mechanic that's been used in games for 50 years 🙄

2025-09-07 08:45:43 UTC

welp. tried to scroll my bluesky feed again. immediately felt my mental health take a drop and stopped
not sure how anyone uses social media with twitter style toxicity

2025-09-06 09:48:54 UTC

i will say that one thing i am excited for with quote posts on fedi is that quote posts are great for building on jokes
maybe that's part of why people experience fedi as humorless? 🤔

2025-09-06 09:45:54 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 i've read enough reddit posts from people in healthcare saying that just getting them to wash their hands is an uphill battle sooooo -_-

2025-09-06 09:42:42 UTC

i don't mean to be insensitive but
have they considered wearing a good quality respirator? oh right, healthcare personnel are anti-masking now for some reason
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/long-covid-hitting-doctors-and-nurses-hard-2025a1000n7q

2025-09-05 17:59:01 UTC

Family visit is concluded. I really love our pluslife testing kit. We can just have guests test for covid when they arrive, wait 30 mins, then when they're clear we can all take off our masks and just be normal. And @nprofile…m042 and I don't have to worry about getting infected
It's really liberating

2025-09-05 10:22:00 UTC

I don't wanna hang out with family I wanna work on my block game 😫
(I love my mom and like hanging out with her but I'm trying to ride a hyperfocus wave here)
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115106642952394352

2025-09-05 10:15:17 UTC

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@nprofile…d23x one value: Maybe

2025-09-05 08:59:23 UTC

people who code with AI are a joke and if you fit that descriptor I need you to understand that all of us actual programmers are making fun of you

2025-09-03 13:40:42 UTC

if i can't use a browser with a real ad blocker anymore (ie firefox dies) then i'll just stop browsing the web i swear to god
edit: please do not recommend brave https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

2025-08-25 20:02:27 UTC

I have come to the conclusion that while I love technology I despise corporate technology and those two things are not the same thing

2025-08-25 19:17:41 UTC

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@nprofile…gvnm oh there's text strips! how i've wanted those >_>; i've been making my own text as images for years

2025-08-25 18:58:27 UTC

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@nprofile…gvnm i should give it a look at some point. there's probably a lot of things that were hard in 2.75 that are much easier now

2025-08-25 18:15:00 UTC

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@nprofile…gvnm that's the version i started on and i have a blender project with the workspace all set up the way i like it. i tried upgrading once and ran into a bug where after i laid out the entire video i couldn't export it successfully so i reverted to the known working version and have been scared to upgrade ever since >_>

2025-08-25 15:22:56 UTC

people often ask me* "eniko why do you use blender 2.75 to edit videos" and the answer to that is that i was making YT videos in the uncanny valley time where windows movie maker was no longer sufficient but also there was no free non-linear video editor for windows worth its salt
but blender was there, and free, and had a non-linear video editor. and now i just can't be bothered switching
*ok they don't really

2025-08-25 11:41:02 UTC

Bluesky logged me out on my phone over a week ago and I just haven't bothered logging back in cause of the hassle and tbh my life is better for it

2025-08-20 17:13:46 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn turns out promising a technology that will do and fix literally anything and everything means there's no reason to invest in anything else
I mean, if you're a tech hype brain poisoned VC investor anyway

2025-08-20 10:01:41 UTC

LB: I knew AI was bad but I didn't know it was "reduce cancer detection rates to 78% of previous levels within 3 months of starting to use AI" bad
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115060024352856216

2025-08-20 09:26:33 UTC

Reading a thread of comments on a poll about where people stand on covid mitigations and seeing someone proclaim "I know when I have the covid/flu" so they know not to see people if they have symptoms
My good man, a large quantity of covid infections are asymptomatic (but can still spread) with figures quotes at 25%, 45% even up to 60% of infections. I know this is inconvenient but it is the reality of the situation

2025-08-18 18:08:36 UTC

When you're a kid nobody tells you how much of life as an adult is taken up by trying to figure out what to have for dinner

2025-08-15 09:19:02 UTC

I still think of the time I was telling people to get off Twitter and one person came at me thinking they had the perfect gotcha by going "well I bet you still use Facebook, and they did a genocide"
And I got to tell them that I had stopped using Facebook on account of them having done a genocide

2025-08-13 09:31:25 UTC

Finished watching the Star Wars prequels yesterday and
Wow Anakin is such an incel piece of shit

2025-08-11 17:57:36 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…srqz on a scale of 1 to 10 how close are you to going "fuck it I'm using AllocHGlobal"

2025-08-08 11:58:48 UTC

Just had some kefir. Like. Medicinally. Can't believe people drink this stuff for fun
#food

2025-08-08 09:43:32 UTC

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@nprofile…36ma out of curiosity have you had a bosche bol yet?

2025-08-07 10:22:53 UTC

public service announcement: you can always go to your YouTube watch history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history) and remove videos that are messing up your recommendations. removing videos from your history does affect your recommended videos

2025-08-06 15:55:10 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn that's kind of what I was getting at with "contributes to your body of work." if you can't show it to anyone then it's not (meaningfully) contributing to your body of work

2025-08-06 08:27:42 UTC

When you think about it it's kind of a miracle that YouTube never got a dipshit rebrand like "YouTube is now TUBE"

2025-08-05 17:10:45 UTC

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@nprofile…d23x good info, thanks

2025-08-05 16:49:29 UTC

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@nprofile…d23x how does that work out for you

2025-08-05 16:43:10 UTC

Any fulltime gamedevs or other creatives prone to side projects (so like all of them probably) have experience with working on whatever you feel compelled to work on on a given work day, so long as it is something that contributes to your body of work?
Boosts appreciated