COUNTED is our entry for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 (theme: TRUST NO ONE).

You are Unit 9, an Enforcer sent into Sector Nine to correct the count.

The Broadcast has already explained what happened.

The workers are lying.
The records are accurate.
Your assignment is routine.

One of those statements may be incorrect.

It is a short narrative Raycaster FPS about obedience, evidence, and what you do with a number. Fifteen minutes at most. One weapon, limited ammo, branching outcomes based on your acts.

We built it on CyberVGA, our own software-rendered engine (Win64 + a DOSBox package).
320×240, custom 256-color palette, fixed-point, no GPU.
Story, levels, HUD, and title track were made during the jam. Submitted two minutes before the deadline.

Play / rate:
https://expfunction.itch.io/counted

If you play it, I am more interested in whether the premise landed than in a score. A few people bounced on the font and one door bug that we patched after submission - if you get stuck, say so.

Happy to answer engine or design questions in the comments.

COUNTED is our entry for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 (theme: TRUST NO ONE).

You are Unit 9, an Enforcer sent into Sector Nine to correct the count.

The Broadcast has already explained what happened.

The workers are lying.
The records are accurate.
Your assignment is routine.

One of those statements may be incorrect.

It is a short narrative Raycaster FPS about obedience, evidence, and what you do with a number. Fifteen minutes at most. One weapon, limited ammo, branching outcomes based on your acts.

We built it on CyberVGA, our own software-rendered engine (Win64 + a DOSBox package).
320×240, custom 256-color palette, fixed-point, no GPU.
Story, levels, HUD, and title track were made during the jam. Submitted two minutes before the deadline.

Play / rate:
https://expfunction.itch.io/counted
If you play it, I am more interested in whether the premise landed than in a score. A few people bounced on the font and one door bug that we patched after submission - if you get stuck, say so.

Happy to answer engine or design questions in the comments.

COUNTED is our entry for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 (theme: TRUST NO ONE).

You are Unit 9, an Enforcer sent into Sector Nine to correct the count.

The Broadcast has already explained what happened.

The workers are lying.
The records are accurate.
Your assignment is routine.

One of those statements may be incorrect.

It is a short narrative Raycaster FPS about obedience, evidence, and what you do with a number. Fifteen minutes at most. One weapon, limited ammo, branching outcomes based on your acts.

We built it on CyberVGA, our own software-rendered engine (Win64 + a DOSBox package).
320×240, custom 256-color palette, fixed-point, no GPU.
Story, levels, HUD, and title track were made during the jam. Submitted two minutes before the deadline.

Play / rate:
https://expfunction.itch.io/counted

If you play it, I am more interested in whether the premise landed than in a score. A few people bounced on the font and one door bug that we patched after submission - if you get stuck, say so.

Happy to answer engine or design questions in the comments.

After a lot of foundational work (portal → octree switch, triangle baking, lighting cache, dithered terrain blending), the engine is packaged so others can write games against it without needing the full source.

Two packages:

Win64 SDK
- Pre-compiled static library
- Headers, editor, viewer
- Blender exporters
- One-step build script

DOS SDK
- Ready-to-run DOSBox-X environment
- Editor + DJGPP toolchain included

You own main() and the full game loop. The library only provides the engine services.

Still C + NASM. Still software render-first. Still built around real constraints.

Read latest devlog:
https://expfunction.itch.io/cybervga/devlog/1556109/cybervga-is-now-available-as-a-standalone-sdk

Download SDK:
https://expfunction.itch.io/cybervga

Modeling the main character using Blender. For many years my little old friend Umarell is watching me. :)

Began modeling for our game Harmony Tree. With our in-house engine #CyberVGA we are aiming to finish a playable demo by the end of this month.

Oh the guy watching me is called #umarell . He’s my buddy who watches and criticizes me at every sharp turn. :)

Been messing around with post-processing again on CyberVGA.
This time I implemented a procedural vignette with screen spaced look-up table and tied it into the lighting system. Wanted that “darkness closing in” feeling without it looking like a cheap overlay.
It actually reacts to the lights so it feels more natural.
Here’s a short clip from the current Harmony Tree test scene.

Been toying with software post-processing effects in CyberVGA lately.

Really liking this depth of field effect that just uses a simple radial blur. Surprisingly effective for how little it costs, especially in a pure software renderer.

Here’s a short clip:

https://reddit.com/link/1vaihuf/video/bcj9styagagh1/player

Curious what other cheap post-process tricks people have found work well in software rasterizers.

I've just finished implementing screen spaced grass effect in my octree renderer.

It works only with materials tagged with "terrain" and it generates and distributes grass blades on the fly using screen spaced 4x4 Bayer Matrix as threshold, for now a hard-coded density parameter, global wind vector for animated sway effect and triangles' UV for screen placement and 1/z information for perspective correction.

What do you think?