Making a 1-button game. Won't have time for rebindable controls because this is a small game, but I can assign any number of buttons to act as the button. Going for Space Bar, Z and X. Should I add more? Which ones?
I want to avoid buttons that trigger stuff like Windows Sticky Keys tho.
Asking for a friend*: Are there any books about ECS, code patterns that work well with ECS, common pitfalls of ECS? She's thinking about the Gang of 4 book or Nystrom's "Game Programming Patterns" and wanting that but for ECS.
@mcc I have not yet been convinced that ECS is useful for anything but 1. extremely complicated games that literally nobody makes, and 2. people who want to make engines rather than games.
I have literally implemented SRP at both the client and server side but I am still unable to figure out, if I were to purchase or set up a "Passkey", what exactly I would have, or how it would work, or which computers, web browsers or web sites I should expect it to work with
@mcc@cthos Honestly it's time for Linux to get with the times and start properly supporting secure enclaves. It's such a huge improvement in security, and Linux to me now feels like one of the least secure OSes for not using them.
@Nifflas I like things that lean into their mediums, so to speak. An analog synth that leans heavily on its analogness is cool. A digital synth that goes all in on being digital is cool.
But a digital synth going to great lengths to be analog just seems like... wasted effort. I mean, sure, there are questions of being affordable and accessible, but, you're never going to be actually cool trying to be something you are not.
@Nifflas Oh yeah. I've been trying my hand at that myself, with very limited success because a) it's hard and b) I am totally clueless about it. But that feels like a good angle for coming up with something actually new? So far it's a lot of banging my head against various walls though.
I especially like synthesis that can run on resource-constrained systems, so that they feel like they are a good fit in the digital world because they are easy for a computer to do.
And in a final act of self-defeat for the evening, I wipe my phone so I can put it in a bag for tomorrow and go to sleep so I can get up early and catch my flight and… oh… oh wait… I just disabled my phone… which is also my alarm clock.
One thing I've never really figured out a good approach to is how to indicate when something is in charge of interacting with a variable.
Say, I want a particular script to handle any associated Rigidbody2D.bodyType, and only that script, how do I structure the code so I will not forget that?
Normally I'd inherit from Rigidbody2D and implement the behavior I want there, hide the member with my own, and always use that custom class. But, Rigidbody2D is sealed!
@Nifflas This might be a good place for "composition over inheritance". Create a new class that does not inherit from anything, but that wraps a Ridigbody2D, and exposes the functionality you need, and only that.
I think generally the more modern view is that inheritance is often problematic and should be avoided, and it is better to wrap things than to inherit from them.
Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
@Gargron Some days I think we treat software development far too cavalierly. This stuff can be dangerous! It can completely change the path of your life if you are not careful.
The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.
To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:
@mcc Man, Shadow of Doubt is definitely quite an experience.
But also, if we're talking about Yoko Kanno, did you hear the Earth Maiden Arjuna soundtrack? Because that one sure is something entirely unique, as well.
