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Andre_LA

@Andre_LA@mastodon.gamedev.place

Northeast brazilian game developer.

Making Nene game framework and HomeNaut!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784640/

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ocornut, to random
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"Cog", a set of debug tools for Unreal Engine:

Lately I've been increasingly hearing anecdotes of AAA devs writing Dear ImGui tools inside Unreal for some reasons...

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Andre_LA,
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@ocornut
O3de also adopted dear imgui for some in-game tools:

https://youtu.be/WIUhaVXFDkc?si=zbssMq3BaE4IAgkm (at 42:25)

It's becoming quite mainstream!

_benui, to random
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If Discord went away tomorrow, what alternatives would there be for making a gamedev community knowledge-sharing?

Andre_LA,
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@_benui
For a Discord alternative, Matrix, for this use, a forum, like the luxe engine one.

manualdousuario, to random Portuguese
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    Andre_LA,
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    @manualdousuario
    Hehe

    Mas olha, a julgar pelo que fiquei sabendo, foi desastroso mesmo.

    Imagina viajar, chegar no hotel e descobrir que oq vc pagou caro não valeu de nada.

    Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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    I'm thinking about switching code editor. I wonder what's a good one?

    My singular reason is it's impossible to google for help related to Visual Studio, because all results are about Visual Studio Code.

    And well, adding a "-code" to the search doesn't exactly improve the search results.

    So yeah. I'm actually perfectly happy about Visual Studio except a few settings I can't for the life of me find, nor make a successful google search where to find.

    Andre_LA,
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    @Nifflas
    Helix it's a good option in case you want to use a modal editor.

    manualdousuario, to random Portuguese
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    Andre_LA,
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    @manualdousuario É nessas horas que fico mais convencido de que o pessoal que faz a tomada de decisão nessas grandes empresas são deslocadas da realidade.

    Não que eu não viva numa bolha, eu mesmo sou um tanto deslocado também, mas... alguém pediu ou se importa com isso?

    pixelfed, to random
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    ⚠️ Account deletion is permanent

    We receive multiple requests every week to restore accounts accounts that were previously deleted.

    How can we improve this?

    Andre_LA,
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    @pixelfed

    (Note: I'm not familiar on how other social networks do that)

    My guess:

    • Disable for a short period of time (like 1 week) and then actually delete.

    • Warn about this behavior, and add an option to delete data immediately.

    • I suppose this is already being done, but make sure it's the actual owner of the account who is doing this

    [1/2]

    aeva, (edited ) to random
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    you're gonna make a 3D game, and you want it to stand out against the rest! pick your unique visual style:

    Andre_LA,
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    @aeva I want to learn graphics so I can make something like Cassette Beasts:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/

    reduz, to random
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    These past days I've been lectured about all the horrible tales Unity developers have with the C# garbage collector and how they have to write their whole codebases obsessively to not trigger GC spikes.

    Is it really that bad folks? If C# GC is that bad, what impedes you from using C++, Rust or even Swift for Godot which don't have any of those issues?

    Andre_LA,
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    @reduz
    Maybe Beef could be a good alternative? It's pretty similar to C# but manually managed instead of GC.

    GameFromScratch, to gamedev
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    Two awesome @MonoGame announcements, caused indirectly by the tire fire

    1- MonoGame are forming a non-profit to guide and project the open source game framework
    2- The awesome @ReLogicGames are also donating $100,000, plus 1K per month!
    https://gamefromscratch.com/re-logic-make-huge-donation-to-monogame/

    Andre_LA,
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    @GameFromScratch whoa!!

    GameFromScratch, to unity
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    Are you a developer looking for a new game engine (...for reasons).

    If you are developing a 2D or 2.5D game, especially for mobile or web, you absolutely must check out the Defold game engine.

    Defold for Unity Developers:
    https://gamefromscratch.com/introduction-to-defold-for-unity-developers/

    Andre_LA,
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    @GameFromScratch
    :defold: ✨

    aeva, (edited ) to random
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    Which is more work from start to finish?

    Andre_LA,
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    @aeva
    I voted on game engine bc there's always a feature that could be added on an engine while I can see a game be considered "done" eventually.

    illusionofmana, to random
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    Is it me or has discord become more and more unstable year over year? Like for me it crashes once a day. I remember as a kid, having a windows 95 PC with longer uptimes.

    I refuse to buy into nitro because their moderation, removal, and report of servers built to specifically do terrible things to other people is grossly negligent and lacking... Why would I give them money when at the very least, their product cant even jump between servers without toppling over itself.

    Andre_LA,
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    @illusionofmana
    It's super buggy on Android, like, really bad!

    On desktop (linux) I do get some problems too.

    aeva, to random
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    I wonder if all the game design colleges are gonna stick with teaching their students Unity and nothing else, or if I'm gonna start seeing student resumes with Godot experience soon 🤔 (the studio I belong to is an Unreal shop)

    Andre_LA,
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    @aeva Here (🇧🇷) I think most of courses will keep Unity classes because it's the major engine on job openings (most of 🇧🇷 studios makes mobile games), however:

    I've already heard that some studios are migrating to Unreal (especially the outsourcing and non-mobile focused ones), and I've seeing some Unreal openings too, this might make some courses to change to Unreal, the problem though it's the hardware requirements. 1/2

    glassbottommeg, to random
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    Unity saying "don't worry we'll send a bill to Microsoft and Sony and-" has huge Sovereign Citizen Sending Letter Signed In Blood To Reclaim Their Federal Taxes energy. https://twistedvoxel.com/unity-playstation-xbox-nintendo-pay-on-behalf-of-devs/

    Andre_LA,
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    @glassbottommeg
    stonks

    illusionofmana, to gamedev
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    so this sucks.
    side of Masto.
    Any of you guys have any Godot tutorials that are just killer for getting started? I have a whole project to migrate over now...

    Thanks in advance.

    Andre_LA,
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    @illusionofmana The manual it's a pretty good text-based introduction!

    djlink, to random
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    Mozilla review privacy in some of the popular car manufactures and it goes as you'd expect https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

    Andre_LA,
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    @djlink

    Next step: houses.

    pervognsen, to random
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    I'd love to see a survey of non-gamedevs about the wider perception of ECS in the industry. The only AAA game I know of which is structured anything like the popular conception of ECS is Overwatch.

    Andre_LA,
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    @pervognsen
    I tried using ECS (using my own ecs lib) for my games and published on that it used it.

    Not for performance, but I thought it made more sense and was more organized.

    So, only indie stuff.

    My conclusion is that ECS might work nicely for engine systems, but for gameplay, it didn't really helped me, just using an "EC" approach (similar to Unuty) was much more easier and flexible.

    djlink, to random
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    33% is quite a bump, I feel like in the long run this will only drive more players to PC only, probably on the next gen, especially considering there are things like Steam Deck now and multiplayer gameplay is free outside consoles.

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    @djlink
    In brazil it rose 40% 🙃

    djlink, to random
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    I think ever developer bounces around between wanting a fancy IDE with all the things, and just a clean & fast text editor where we can type the code and that's it, nothing else.

    Andre_LA,
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    @djlink I endup using Helix since it's kinda the middle-ground between both (that is, built-in LSP support).

    Andre_LA, to random
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    By the way, this website exists:

    https://www.workwithindies.com/

    manualdousuario, to random Portuguese
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    @manualdousuario Pensando seriamente em apagar minha conta, e talvez até ler sobre a lgpd pra obrigar o total apagamento de dados de lá.

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    @manualdousuario
    Então, eu to mantendo a @, mas eu muito raramente entro e uso hoje em dia realmente.

    Só que eu não quero meu conteúdo que postei lá sendo usada pra treinar a IA estúpida do sujeito (tem arte, devblog, etc).

    manualdousuario, to random Portuguese
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    Andre_LA,
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    @manualdousuario

    A coisa que mais me choca sobre a Google, Meta, Twitter, etc, é que não há uma moderação sólida dos anúncios deles.

    O que eu já vi de ad podre (seja misoginia ou desinformação) no Youtube e no Twitter não tá escrito.

    djlink, to random
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    A bit sad that majority of people im following on birdsite are moving to bluesky instead of mastodon, a larger % in this last migration. I want to keep following them but I don’t see myself maintaining 2- accounts in the long run

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    @djlink For me it's unfortunate although a bit funny since Bluesky it's really just like mastodon, but worse and with money (although the feeds thing it's a bit cool).

    I've been thinking about doing this:

    Any highlight post from here I'll share there, but only with a summary alongside with a link to the original post here hehe.

    Andre_LA,
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    @djlink I would say there is two main similarities:

    1: Multiple feeds are important:
    On mastodon we have "home", "local", and "federated", each one with some filter options (on website front-end), and each hashtag I would consider it's own feed too

    On blue hashtags aren't clickable, but there's "custom feeds", "home", "popular with friends" and IIRC "only posts" are the default ones, but there's user-made ones, like the "Game Dev" feed. I'm not sure how popular this is, but it's a main feature

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