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bitinn

@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place

Trying my best to talk more about gamedev | currently Tech Artist and R&D at an AAA publisher.

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MissingThePt, to random
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The trick to not being mislead by Google AI is to only ask questions that you know the answers to with 100% certainty.

bitinn, to gamedev
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Can older gamedev share some wisdom on how crunch manifest in the early 90-00s era?

These days crunch feels like a “feature” of game industry:

  • yes, by market cap we are definitely one of the biggest video game companies.

  • but even within it, your choice is to either crunch to meet increasingly difficult deadline;

  • or see your project cancelled in 2-4 years, then either continue on with other big projects or get layoff.

Are the 90s’ crunch different?

#gamedev

bitinn,
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@dphrygian yeah it is one of my working theories: cycles. Both the cycle for a big game is longer and the cycle of game market is at a point where you go big or go broke.

But still, we are creating much more values then before, the market matured, yet the project management regressed?

b0rk, to random
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finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

dougbinks, to random
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A good reason to use colour rather than color in your code is that colour has the same number of letters as both albedo and normal so you can align your code better.

daviwil, to gamedev
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This voxel displacement technique for "modern retro" rendering looks so incredible, really inspiring:

https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

#gamedev #graphics

clive, to random
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If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

bitinn,
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@clive @ernie Also interesting to note: the web search interface is much more responsive with udm14; the latest web interface has been very vey slow on my iPhone 13 Safari, which makes no sense hardware wise. My gut feeling is Google intentionally did this to force people into their search app.

msinilo, to random
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Oh no, it seems like VS 2022 no longer opens FBX files (VS2019 did)... Never thought I'd be sad about that, but it was handy

parismarx, to tech
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African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.

https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/

saint11, to random
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I've always wondered why top-down games make house interiors bigger than their exteriors. So, I tried making everything to scale...

Now I know why—it's SO much harder than I expected! (But I still think it's worth it!)

video/mp4

runevision, to random
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I've quietly made my LayerProcGen framework public:
https://github.com/runevision/LayerProcGen

It's a framework (C#) that can be used to implement layer-based procedural generation that's infinite, deterministic and contextual.

Nobody else have tried/tested it yet - if you're up for taking it for a spin, let me know how it looks; what's clear or confusing, if you think there's low hanging fruit improvements I could make, etc.

Video of a mountainous terrain and visualizations of the kind of layer based generated data that's used to generate it.

apq, to random
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PureRef has gotten a big update with 2.0 https://www.pureref.com/blog/pureref2/

GIF support, grouping, drawing, and more.

samwho, to random
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✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!

You can read it here: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing.

It starts off by showing what happens when you have no queue...

A screenshot from the post. It shows the first visualisation, an orange circular button on the left and a black rounded square on the right. The button is clicked, and a request travels to the black square, the server, and gets processed by slowly disappearing in a clock-like fashion.

aras, to Playdate
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Because no one stopped me, I ported "Everybody Wants to Crank the World" #playdate demo to PC (Windows/Mac). https://github.com/aras-p/demo-pd-cranktheworld/pull/1 :playdate: :demoscene:

Using Sokol libraries by @floooh to do most of heavy lifting.

Fun fact: while the demo is running, it takes up as much CPU time as the windows task manager on my PC.

Miriamm, to random
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This morning Ireland officially recognised Palestine as an independent state. Our history of struggle and oppression has taught us the value of freedom and justice, and we always stand unwaveringly with the oppressed. I’m very proud to be Irish today
🇮🇪🇵🇸✊🏾 https://news.sky.com/story/ireland-and-norway-recognise-palestine-as-independent-state-13141083

sarahjamielewis, to random
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"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.

Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.

The system doesn't work for you.

xoxo, to random
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🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! https://2024.xoxofest.com/

w7voa, to random
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(AP) — Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law.

calmeilles, to random
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tixie, to random
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iTerm, can you NOT PUT FUCKING AI in my terminal. I don't need AI in my fucking terminal ffs.

Damn, tech bubble is fucking rotting everything

jamie,
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@konnorrogers @tixie I literally opened Mastodon specifically to post this screenshot 🙃

caseynewton, to random
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The past week of news out of OpenAI illustrates how a company that once prized moving with caution is now dead set on winning at all costs, whatever Scarlett Johansson or anyone else thinks about it https://www.platformer.news/open-ai-scarlett-johansson-her-voice-sam-altman/

BrendanSinclair, to random
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I've been laid off and need a new job. Maybe game journalism, maybe something else in games, maybe not games at all. Entertaining all possibilities at this point, so please reach out if you think I might be a good fit for you.

GameDeveloperDotCom, to random
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IGN Entertainment buys GamesIndustry, RockPaperShotgun, and other outlets https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ign-entertainment-buys-gamesindustry-rockpapershotgun-and-other-outlets?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ktwfc, to random
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