I do Web Games, SaaS and YouTube 🇧🇷 • 🌳 My latest game: https://xitter.cf/t.co/p8vC30JnjZ • 🌿 Open Source Grass: https://xitter.cf/t.co/tnV9smU1yg
All projects & links ➡️
Joined July 2020
- Tweets827
- Following306
- Followers3.9K
- Likes1.3K
Pinned Tweet
My Three.js grass implementation is ready and open-source! 🌿
Feel free to grab, modify and use it as you want in your projects
I even added stylized trees as a bonus for you :)
Link in my bio
#threejs #stylizedgrass #gamedevelopment
Com todo respeito, mas ficou bom não...
Essa edição tem
> zero personalidade
> zero contexto do resultado final
> faz edição de tudo porque sim
Eu tentei usar IA pra editar meus vídeos mas... dá não.
Se tu usar para uma coisa ou outra, com um humano orquestrando, beleza.
Mas soltar assim na mão da IA não rola.
Eu prefiro um vídeo editado mais ou menos por um humano do que assistir esse negócio tacando motion em mim a cada 5 segundos.
It’s finally here! 🙌🏻
After weeks of work, I’m proud to share my video on this year’s #vibejam
If you followed along as I built Hollowlands in public, this is the full devlog showing how it all came together.
Hope you like it!
Estou a procura de um UI designer focado em jogos que NÃO usa IA.
Conhece alguem? Marca aí ou chama DM.
Pra quem me acompanha a um tempo sabe que eu sempre repito a mesma coisa "código não importa".
E a interpretação natural das pessoas geralmente é: "se não importa vamos fazer de qualquer maneira". E na era da IA isso se transformou em "vamos fazer tudo com IA".
E é verdade, com IA você consegue fazer (quase) tudo que você precisa e mais...
Só que esse "mais" é onde a galera tropeça.
Da mesma forma que você não precisa passar meses fazendo uma feature para o seu produto, você também não precisa ficar fazendo 1.000 prompts sem parar para melhorar o seu produto.
Sacou? A solução nunca é "mais código".
E vou além... Vejo uma galera postando protótipos de jogos aí como se fosse o fim dos desenvolvedores de jogos. Como se esses jogos fossem resultar em milhões de vendas na Steam.
Não vão, galera!
CÓDIGO
NÃO
IMPORTA
Parem de falar como se o Claude fosse a solução de todos os problemas. Não é!
Mesmo tendo Claude, acredita que estou fazendo meu jogo NA UNHA?
Sabe porque? Porque sempre quando peço a IA para fazer qualquer coisa o resultado é genérico e não reproduz o resultado que gostaria.
Pede IA para fazer uma arte, uma decisão criativa, um som ou qualquer outra coisa. O resultado não vai ser bom suficiente.
Então estou fazendo o meu processo manual ser o produto final. Usar IA para isso não seria suficiente.
Um produto (SaaS, jogos ou qualquer outra coisa) precisa de mais, muito mais que apenas código.
O nível para o sucesso é alto. E IA não entrega isso por conta própria.
Então é por isso que as empresas ainda cobram Leetcode. Quem sabe, mostra que vai mais além. O "além" que o Claude não substitui.
ainda tem gente que coda sem IA?
tem tantos anos que já to usando que achou loucura que ainda tem empresa que cobra leet code
já achava besteira antes e acho ainda mais hoje em dia
leetcode é e sempre foi ferramenta de medir EGO de dev
leetcode não prova nem 1% do que um dev precisa e tem que fazer no dia a dia
AI agents have 10x'd the number of three.js projects out there.
Did this also 10x the revenue generated for the builders?
Did it increase donations to maintain three.js itself?
I don't think so (hopefully it did)
But the ones selling the shovels are pretty happy right now.
I just open-sourced this chess instructor tool
Plug your API Key and learn chess in realtime
Just be aware that this was a weekend prototype
So there are a lot of adjustments do be made
Hope you enjoy it!
This might be the future of education! 🤯
I decided to test the GPT-Live-1 API and built a real-time chess instructor
It uses Stockfish under the hood to always give you accurate moves
You can interrupt the conversation at any time, and it will always provide up-to-date guidance on how to play using its backend capabilities
It is a very nice use case for it!
I've been feeling the same way.
I lost the joy of building anything on three.js. Even games...
But being positive for a second, I've never been more productive with content creation
I'm working on a video for my YouTube channel and I did a visualization that would have taken me hours to make
Now it's just seconds
The situation is bad from some angles, but good from others
...How do I recover the joy, though? 🧐
I think it's time to hang up my Three.js hat.
First of all, this is not a pity post—I'll be fine. I'm also not 100% confident about this.
But I'm an over-sharer and like to talk out loud, so I thought I would share some thoughts on where I see things going and why I'm considering quitting Three.js development.
Some signals I've noticed lately that have gotten me thinking:
- Since Astra was released, I've probably seen at least 10 posts from different people that have achieved similar quality to Three.js Water Pro or better.
- Someone downloaded a video recording of one my posts, fed it to Astra and recreated it with 90% accuracy
- I've had less and less clients referrals
- A Three.js developer I respect very much is retiring from the industry due to impact of AI and lack of interest
- I've heard 2nd hand accounts of other developers losing majority of course/plugin sales due to AI
- I've noticed Three.js posts have shifted from work created by seasoned developers to vibe-coded games and demos.
Fundamentally, I no longer really see value in what I do when it can be replicated so easily.
I've always enjoyed working on hard problems. Naturally, outsourcing the hard part to an agent takes away a lot of the enjoyment for me. High-level orchestration of agents does not tickle my brain in any special way.
At the end of most days I feel unfulfilled and bored. I honestly feel like I've lost much of my critical thinking ability as I've stopped coding. I find it harder to focus on tasks and my attention-span and comprehension is noticeably dropping.
My plan right now is to finish up Water Pro v4 and see how that performs. After that, I think it's time to start thinking about what else is out there for me.
I'd love to hear thoughts from other developers & freelancers on the matter, positive or negative.
Feel free to vent!
This might be the future of education! 🤯
I decided to test the GPT-Live-1 API and built a real-time chess instructor
It uses Stockfish under the hood to always give you accurate moves
You can interrupt the conversation at any time, and it will always provide up-to-date guidance on how to play using its backend capabilities
It is a very nice use case for it!
I wonder if I should continue working on this game after the game jam
Initially I was very upset about the results and didn't want to continue
But now I'm revisiting it and it actually looks quite nice
I don't know where I would take it though
After 15 days of hard work, I'm happy to share my game for @levelsio's 2026 #vibejam
The game is called Hollowlands and I'm trying my best on it. Learning a lot of new stuff in the process.
My previous game development experience + AI is a powerful combination that I honestly think it's underexplored by many.
What used to take weeks of development now is being done in days, allowing me to focus more on the creative part of the process.
Next step: Integrating multiplayer using @colyseus by @endel who's also a fellow brazilian 🇧🇷
The indie hacking movement is no longer about people trying to solve real problems
Instead they are now selling ad spaces
I've made some updates to my open-source three.js grass.
Now it has flowers! 🌼
On top of that I
> Improved the sway of the trees
> Added Ambient Occlusion below the grass blades
> Smoothed the transition between the road and the grass
> Made the sky auto rotate for more dynamicity
Link in bio if you're interested
I’ve been thinking a lot about AI these past days
Using AI to create an illustration doesn’t make me an Illustrator
Using AI to create a song doesn’t make me a Composer
So does using AI to code make me a coder? A game dev?
That got me thinking after 9 years doing the craft
I went to Gamescom to learn about web games
I had the opportunity to talk with @Poki's Business Developer @romyhalfweeg
She has a lot of insights on how to launch a game that performs well on web platforms
Key insights:
1. The web audience is mostly composed of 9 to 12 year old kids who want fast gameplay loops and really bright colors
2. They want something to work towards, so they feel like their time investment is worth it. This could be a new item to unlock, a new world, a new level, etc.
3. Web is the best way to gain experience with game dev fast, so you know the whole dev cycle at least once
4. A lot of companies are turning to web games as a fast way to improve customer satisfaction. So the future for web games is promising
Watch the full video for the complete talk
Jezz... Creating an organic and realistic football/soccer match simulator is so challenging! 🤦🏻♂️
I had an idea for a new game and started prototyping.
But I've been building this for a while and I'm still nowhere near achieving what I wanted in the first place.
AI doesn't help a lot as it's not so good with 'new' problems that don't have a public source out there on the internet. Plus the lack of vision to detect weirdness make it even worse.
I'm trying to figure out how to solve this problem in a reasonable time before I give up.
Open to suggestions
Pro tip for game devs 👨🏻💻
> I've created a "meme game" for my brazilian YouTube audience. It's an autobattle with roguelite mechanics.
> But the game was completely unbalanced.
> So I took this weekend to create a script to simulate 30.000 matches to spot 'why'.
> And it worked perfectly!
> Now I'm able to see the win-rate of every character and item in the game, see where the game is too easy or too hard.
Tip: MAKE SURE YOUR CODE IS HEADLESS.
That means all the logic is self contained and separated from the visuals (ECS Architecture is perfect for that)
If you do that, you have endless posibilities when testing it out programatically.