onikolas7
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Comment · 4 months ago
How to actually make a billion (the YC formula):
1. Work hard to build a great product.
2. Get VC money.
3. Offer great product for free by spending ridiculous amounts of VC money.
4. Switch to a paying model once you have starved any competition with your free offering.
Comment · 1 year ago
As a teenager I loved Samurai Jack. Gendy Tartakovsky is a truly unique creator. I am very excited for his first R-rated feature Fixed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Totally agree! I am now writing a very simple hack'n slash game to identify missing features. I won't be writing an editor any time soon.
Do you have any examples of good debugging features?
Comment · 2 years ago
For anyone looking to write their own engine, I wrote a tutorial! You just need the tutorial and a couple of years :)
Comment · 2 years ago
I recently joined a local game jam with the intent of showing off my 2D engine. Halfway through, I realized I didn't have a way to properly destroy game objects. I realized it after messing up my cooldown timer and accidentally spawning a few thousand projectiles. It's something I knew I had to do that but I kept pushing it back to work on more interesting (but less critical) stuff. Now I am building a very simple hack-and-slash game and adding engine features as needed. Documenting the process here[1] for anyone interested.
Comment · 3 years ago
Translating the OpenGL code to Metal/Vulkan will likely be a lot of work. Have a look at [1] which is something like tutorial 1 in the series. Its super verbose!
OpenGL 4.1 was silently supported up to some version of OSX. Not sure if that is still the case. You could try changing: import github.com/go-gl/gl/v4.6-core/gl to import github.com/go-gl/gl/v4.1-core/gl and see if it works.
[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam...
Comment · 3 years ago
Funny. In the game black&white you would slap or pet your avatar to train it. The lead AI programmer on that was Demis Hassabis of deepmind fame.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am solo building a 2D game engine. Does it count?
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it a surprise that an education system targeting the mean produces results close to the mean? It's like training for the marathon by only doing 2 mile runs and then saying people's ability to run long distances shows little variation.
Comment · 3 years ago
More reasons to opt for remote-only.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think this is one of those issues that are presented as a hard/nuanced problem but really isn't. Single use plastic can be banned the same way lead paint is banned. That's only hard to do because of lobbying by Coke&friends. There is some inconvenience for the consumer, like having to return our glass bottles or bringing reusable containers to the supermarket but that's all doable (proof: that's how it was done before). The hard part is forcing corporate to take a profit hit.
Comment · 4 years ago
No, I agree, it is the sensible thing to be doing, but it looks like we are at a point where radical short term fixes are needed.