juanuys
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Comment · 4 years ago
This just published since your comment:
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...
Comment · 4 years ago
There's nothing like having kids and other commitments to sharpen one's focus and make timekeeping a thing of perfection.
I note the older students (40+/50+-year-olds, with families, etc) getting their work in way ahead of schedule whilst actively participating in discourse, moreso (dare I say) than the significantly younger ones in our cohort.
Comment · 4 years ago
A good place to start: The Art of Game Design By Jesse Schell.
Comment · 4 years ago
> 5.) Creating video games is extremely labour-intensive, which is why there are so few Free and Open Source ones
If you mean free as in "gratis", then there are loads of free games available online.
E.g. https://itch.io/games/free (468,224 results)
...and that's just one site. There are free games on Steam, and free games on aggregator sites like Kongregate and its ilk.
If you mean free as in "libre", then sure, there are fewer games. But, frankly, most game code bases I've seen is a complete mess. Might as well just start your own from scratch ;-)
Comment · 5 years ago
This has been posted once before in 2018.
I'm genuinely curious to know what everyone's opinion is of Eco. (finance noob here)
Comment · 5 years ago
> Instead, try approaching people who are speaking in groups of two.
I would advise to check body language first. If the duo are facing each other head-on, don't interject. If they're turned slightly outwards, like they're observing the crowd whilst talking, go for it.
I've had a couple of intense conversations broken up like this by someone standing there awkwardly, but then you also don't want to make them feel bad by telling your conversation partner "I'll finish the story later <turn> Hi!", etc.
Comment · 5 years ago
They should call it WetaHuman.
Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder if it will feature Chocolatiers [0] as a mini-game...
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi Walter, thanks for your time!
Do you play many games nowadays? Which ones?
What do you think is going to be the next big gaming breakthrough? Or the next big genre/theme? (E.g. for economics, it was F2P/IAP, never of which I'm a fan of. Also, city building + survival is really big right now.)
Comment · 5 years ago
Whenever I hear "fixed point arithmetic", it reminds me of the jittery graphics on PSX.
Can't find a more official source than Reddit, but here goes:
> It's because the position of each polygon's vertex (corner) is only calculated at a very low precision. Once the polygon moves (or the camera) the vertexes will stay at the same point, until they're closer to the next and suddenly "jump" to the new position without transition. Newer graphics hardware could interpolate smoothly here with more in-between states (that's where all the talk about "floating point precision" came from in graphics).
0. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bkedc/heres_a_quest...
Comment · 5 years ago
How about this:
Mum, dad - you know how I always tell you to turn your stuff off and on again?
Well, by turning it off, Facebook also turned off the On Button.
Comment · 5 years ago
A few things that worked for me:
Try some ideation techniques [0].
Take a long walk.
Carry a sketchbook.
Spend time with folks you normally don't spend time with, outside of your echo chamber.
Unplug, and take naps. Near dream-states always gets me going.
0. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/introd...
Comment · 5 years ago
Quake: Let's not forget the NIN-composed soundtrack!
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