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mholiv , 10 days ago to random

This dev log has a ton of technical detail about moving from a single player game to a multi player game in Bevy with diagrams and everything. I also talk about the #bevy 0.18 migration and the bevy meetup at #FOSDEM

Personally I am just supper have to have simultaneous hosting across mutiple multiplayer connection strategies and a headless server build.

https://exofactory.net/blog/2026-02-04/

#rust #GameDev #indiedev #multiplayer #diagrams

mholiv , 1 month ago to random

Ironically a rather productive holiday update. Some technical notes on real time settings application in this one. See you all next year! #rust #bevy #GameDev #indiedev https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-12-30/

mholiv , 2 months ago to random

Lots of videos in this one. Turns out full screen shaders and drag to place belts are harder than one might think. I think I have a cool thing to contribute to the #Factory game genre. https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-12-04/

#bevy #GameDev #rust #WGSL

mholiv , 2 months ago to random

This one covers porting to #bevy 0.17, moving to Avian for physics, and a lot of QoL fixed. #rust #GameDev #indiedev

Lots of images and videos in this one. https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-11-16/

mholiv , 4 months ago to random

The Exofactory Demo is officially out. A ton of bugs have been fixed thanks to the testers during the soft launch period particularly on the #Linux build.

The game is written in #rust with #bevy and it’s been a great time. The game is releasing as part of Steam Next and the algorithm really matteres for #IndieGameDev so if you are interested in the game I would recommend checking and and playing the demo early this week if you can. (That and it’s fun). https://store.steampowered.com/app/3615720/Exofactory/

mholiv , 4 months ago to random

Upside of using #bevy and open source tooling in general is you can get your games to compile on non corporate approved architectures. I just got the #aarch64 and #RISCV builds running. (I can’t promise RISC-V works on real hardware yet as I don’t have any real hardware to test it.) If you have RISC-V hardware and want to test let me know. Here is the game running natively on a Pine Book Pro. #GameDev

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mholiv , 4 months ago to random

The Exofactory demo has been soft launched and is available to download on Steam. So so so much work. Lots of game dev specific stuff in this one. If you play it do let me know if you see any major bugs. Lol. Will hard launch as part of Steam Next fest but you can play it now. #GameDev #rust #bevy https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-10-07/

mholiv , 5 months ago to random

There are a TON of technical details in this one. The work I did over last month convinced me that ECS might be by far the best way to build a factory game. If you are interested in alpha testing or technical code details I recommend talking a look. #bevy #rust #GameDev https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-09-08/

mholiv , 6 months ago to random

Happy to publish the latest Exofactory devblog. Long story short then Blender/Bevy Skein plugin is amazing and terrain level of detail is annoying. Way more technical detail in this one. #bevy #GameDev #rust #rustlang

https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-08-07/

mholiv , 6 months ago to random

I’ll be speaking live in 10 min (5pm Denmark time) about writing games in #Rust with #bevy. Feel free to watch me here. It will be available VOD later so no time stress. https://live.bornhack.dk/ Exciting times at #bornhack

mholiv , 7 months ago to random

A little nervous to do this but I don’t see too much #bevy content so I thought I would shoot my shot.

I’ve been working on a factory game written in #rust with #bevy and I recently hit a big milestone (aka now on steam)

If anyone’s interested in #indiedev dev logs I have a rss/atom feed. This weeks is mostly about art, but I normally talk about ECS woes and the pain of programmatic terrain generation. This is my first “large scale” game so it’s a mixed bag.

https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-07-06/