Lars Thießen

@larstofus.bsky.social

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Senior Gameplay Programmer and former gamedev professor. he/him Blog: https://larstofus.com/ DMs are open.

A cropped screenshot of the Unreal Editor, showing a label and it's tooltip. Both are partially translated into german. The label reads "Override Weltschwerkraft". The tooltip reads "Bei 'true' wird GlobalGravityZ anstelle der Projekteinstellung DefaultGravityZ verwendet.".
A cropped screenshot of the steam review rating of the Corsair Cove Demo, sitting at 92% with 220 reviews.
A screenshot of an Unreal Engine 5 frametime graph showing an increase in frametime that is linear and extremly fast.
A grey cat sitting in a basket
A screenshot of Unreal's Home Tab, but displaying the blog larstofus.com instead of the intended epic home screen site.
Cropped screenshot of system requirements of the game "A Bumpy Ride" on the game's steam page. The additional notes section says: "A Bumpy Ride runs on Unreal Engine 5, which is known to be a heavy game engine for even some desktops. Please verify your ability to play the game by downloading the demo before purchasing!"
Two cropped Unreal editor screenshots showing the setting of explicit navigation targets inside the UMG editor. In the left version now widgets are available for selection, on the right three widgets are available.
Cropped screenshot from Blender release notes, showing the improvement of animation playback performance (40 -> 160 fps)
Cropped screenshot of a Godot supporter gold member status
Table of peak player numbers of Godot Engine games. At the top is "Slay the Spire 2" with 574638 players, in second place "Brotato" with 38905, in third "Backpack Battles" with 36557.
Cropped screenshot from the Unreal Engine GitHub pages, showing the counter of open pull requests.
A cropped screenshot of an out-of-memory-warning shown by Ubuntu.
Cropped screenshot of Git Cola: A dialogue that asks for a username, but labels the text field for this username as "Password", including a "Remember password" checkbox.
A cropped screenshot from the game "Necromunda: Hired Gun", showing an input prompt: "[ESC] Confirm"
A cropped screenshot of the Path of Exile settings UI, showing the setting "Networking Mode". Three options are available via a dropdown menu: "Auto", "Lockstep", and "Predictive".
Screenshot of the game Dark Messiah (2006), showcasing the full body mesh in first person view.
Three event nodes in an Unreal event graph. The first node is in a "disabled" state with no node connected. The second one is in "enabled" state since a connection was made. The third node had it's connection removed again, but the "enabled" state remained.
A cropped screenshot of the context menu of a function parameter in Unreal's blueprint editor. The copy & paste entries are disabled.
A cropped screenshot of the inputs/outputs editing panel of a blueprint function in Unreal. A valid drag & drop operation inside of the inputs list is marked green, an invalid drag& drop operation from the list of inputs to the list of outputs is marked red.
Screenshot of the search feature in the windows start menu. The search term is "recycle bin", but the search results do not contain this very folder.
A screenshot of the Unreal 5.6 FPS template. The hand of the playercharacter clips into the camera, making the thumb disappear.
A warning above a wikipedia article, warning that part of the article might be written by an AI: "This article may incorporate text from a large language model. Such text potentially includes hallucinated information or fictitious references. Copyright violations or claims lacking verification must be removed. Please see the associated project page for additional guidance. (July 2025)"
A cute cat, sleeping.
Comparison of the install size of various engine components in 5.5 vs 5.6
A bot comment on a pull request, describing that the pull request was closed due to a "missing generative AI text".
A snipped of the Unreal Source code, showing the signature of the function FScene::UpdateSpeedTreeWind.
A before and after picture from the context menu of Unreal's Static Mesh Socket Manager. The after variant offers the additional menu entries "Cut", "Copy", and "Paste".
A screenshot of the Sync-Fork popup that is part of the GitHub web interface.
A list of CryEngine version in the mobygames interface.
A slightl confused cat next to a half-finished plastic bricks building.
A cropped screenshot of the taskmanager comparing the memory consumption of Unreal Engine 4.0 (~350 MB) and Unreal Engine 5.5 (~2,5 GB)
Comparison of the old and new Paint version in the task manager. The new version consumes around 108 MB of RAM, the old one around 14.
A cropped screenshot of MS paint, showing the new Copilot button.
Screenshot of the HackerNews frontpage with my recent Unreal-Article being marked.
An innocent cat being confronted with bitemarks in a bag of cat snacks.
The official system requirements of the Game "Flocking hell". The processore requirements read as "Anything, really", the Graphics requirements as "Whatever you have".
Two screenshots of the Visual Studio UI showing the AActor class being shrunk by over 300 bytes.
A screenshot of an "Welcome to Outlook 2016" message (in german).
The "don't make me tap the sign" meme from the Simpsons, with "tap" being corrected to "flip".
A picture of an old-school ClipArt showing a book with the title "Build your own atomic bomb")
A screenshot of the Windows 11 power settings. "Processor performance boost mode" is set to 'disabled'.
Partial screenshot of a gitHub pull request page. The visible text says "UnrealBot added the accepted label"
A part of a Superluminal profiler screenshot. The screenshot shows the a call of the function IsThisApplicationForeground() taking 139 milliseconds.
A graph showing the daily blender foundation donations over the last weeks. There is a strong surge at the right/recent end of the graph.
A part of a screenshot of the game Trackmania (2020), showing a respawn number goal with the value 2147483647
A timeline of the published editions of the book "Game Engine Architecture". The last panel - where you would expect a fourth edition - shows a polite, but hungry dog asking for more (implying they also want to read a new edition).
A screenshot from the superluminal profi.ler showing a long (5 sec) function call.
Screenshot of the socket manager in Unreal's Static Mesh Editor, using a fixed "Add" button with a green plus.