ok... uh so I'm making a game... it's like if GTA & Apple Maps v1 had a baby And that baby was a custom built engine that streams in OpenMapTiles (plus some other public domain mapping data) to render the entire earth as a playable open world game Engine is all C++ with Metal (and Vulcan) renderer - which means this thing runs on ALL Apple platforms... yes even that one (ok not the watch... yet) Right now it's just a sandbox world. No "game" - just layers and layers of systems. Earth scale procedural weather systems (rain, storms, clouds, wind, KpI, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc) which means you can see them coming from the distance and travel across the landscape in a timelapse. And every building has a procedurally generated interior. There's also tons of vehicles, skateboarding (with skateparks), snowboarding (with ski resorts & lifts) Also a photography mode with all sorts of fun goodies The whole thing is a bit mad. Work's been insane right now and I wind down before bed by going through all of the work Claude has done that day, playtesting, writing up new project plans, and then kicking off the next day's projects across my 3 Macs in my house wirring on this all day with Opus 5.5 (maybe save that explainer for another crazy person Twitter screed) Anyway, curious what you think. Now I can post my little updates here instead of blowing up all my group chats with the weird ideas I'm trying next.

Maybe the greatest pizza I’ve had in my life

My first @NewYorkAppWeek event of the week is, naturally, a hackathon! 😄 Can’t wait to see what everyone builds at the AI for NYC event with @joinpursuit

Spotted The Shippies Awards billboard on Times Square 👀 #Shipaton

United’s Starlink rollout started with the smallest, lowest end planes and has been slowly working up which means I have the weird experience of feeling devastated when I get on a plane and see it’s bigger and nicer 😅

Crazy busy weekend (leading up to @RevenueCat New York App Week!) so couldn’t do any actual play testing So kicked my procedural animal life project to fill the world with more life Needs a lot of refinement (they’re still pretty derpy looking) but with a few very flexible animal types we’ve got Tons of birds including circling hawks, hovering seagulls, flying landing pigeons, swimming ducks/geese Distance murmurations (big massive flocks of birds that dance around) >100 Mammals with unique walking cycles and behaviors

Woot woot, the @DarkNoiseApp iPhone Duo update is in the the store! 😁

Apropos of nothing, I added some of the thrusters from my lunar lander onto a sports car 🤪 (ignore the horrible sound fx, last night also started the massive project of bringing sound into the game)

Dang, said Oct 23rd at checkout but by the time my email came through it slipped to Nov 6th

If you're interested in hearing more or possibly even trying out a beta test, I set up a little form here where you can sign up. Otherwise just follow me here and I'm sure I'll keep posting as I bring new ideas into the game forms.gle/ZbEXvXL981218SDJ9

Finally recorded a demo - prepare to be a̶m̶a̶z̶e̶d̶ concerned about me

This one’s a big new “how do I describe this job to my family” achievement unlocked

Demoed this to @austnstuff after a meeting today and I can’t tell if he was impressed or concerned about my mental wellbeing 😅

I have a Testflight build stuck in review for what might be the most wild thing I've ever created 😅