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Gamedevs -I find at least- are so obsessively deep at SOLVING their problem at hand that their headspace is indexed on shipping the game, the project, deadlines
by RobRivera 1y ago
Gamedevs -I find at least- are so obsessively deep at SOLVING their problem at hand that their headspace is indexed on shipping the game, the project, deadlines, and what to eat for the next meal (probably pizza).
Rather than the academia.
Just a hunch tho
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y agoIsn't that just it though? The problem very well could be that some part of the game is running too slow so they just start solving it. No time to read and write academic papers.
- RobRivera 1y agoThat's what I have found to be the case: time is in short supply
- colonCapitalDee 1y agoThis algorithm is asymptotically faster than the state of the art, but it isn't faster in practice. At least not yet!
- thfuran 1y agoSomebody somewhere might be Ramanujan, but the average person is going to be a whole lot better served by reading literature than trying to reinvent the field.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y agoI'd certainly Google for some algos before writing one myself. Years ago, however, I came across a paper for optimal convex polygon decomposition that had zero implementations and the paper was so complicated.. couldn't figure out how to implement it myself. I came up with something new and published it which was apparently enticing enough to be picked up by at least one game library. So that was neat.