DizzyDoo

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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
A common tactic for Poker players who want to make some of their actions in a common scenario random (call in one instance, or perhaps re-raise instead) is to look at their wrist watch, and depending on where the second hand is they can sim
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I was genuinely interested, and, wow . It's been 15 years since I've tried Second Life but I'm not terribly surprised the scripting/modding looks like this, and all your comments about the exposed API make sense now.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
That sounds like an issue (and a big issue at that) with the API your engine is providing to you, rather than an issue inherent in A*! Building/rebuilding a navmesh is the expensive bit, cell look-ups ought to be essentially 'free
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that there's now a third way C# is utilised in Unity which is via their new 'Burst' compiler, part of their wider move to an Entity Component System they've called DOTS[1]. It supports a subs
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I'm a bit confused by your comment, when you say that "testing if a cell is blocked has a sensing cost", do you mean the obstacle/wall is not in your graph at the point of search? A properly calculated navmesh by definit
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I've been working at detangling myself from the Adobe lineup of products. I really like (or liked) Adobe AfterEffects, it's been very helpful for me in compositing trailers for my computer game business, but it's totally been
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Other one would be Double Fine, while it is relatively early days since they were acquired in 2019, they seem to have been just working on their projects since then. Psychonauts 2 was very well received last year - from what I've read
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I'm in the same boat - I have a free GSuite account and need to either pay Google for it or move elsewhere. What's not clear is that I have a YouTube channel attached to this Google identity and I don't know if when my custom
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Woah, 42u, that's quite something! How many of those slots are you using? What kind of cooling do you have to have for that closet, and how is the volume for the rest of the house?
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Hmm, I would never price a game at $5, that sounds insanely low. I've sold a decent % of my copies in Oceania so I'm confident my pricing isn't off, it's been working for the last six/seven years in any case. From t
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Mostly Unity and C#, I still use Python for bits and pieces (see my other comment). I made and make all the art myself, just painting in Photoshop, animating in the wonderful Spine by Esoteric Software (great tool that's worth every pe
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I still use a lot of Python, often for little tools or scripts, especially anything where data needs to be transformed (like file formats for art assets), or something needs to be automated (run build scripts for all the different platforms
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I got up early every day and got in an hour or two before my proper full-time backend Python programming job begun. That and working on The Cat Machine on Saturdays got it finished within a year, and then after it came out I could go full-t
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I make video games like this one [0] or this one [1]. It's pretty simple, you can buy the game and then download and play it. Are games 'desktop apps'? It's not the language I would normally use but I think it applies. H
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I could easily bot this though - I'm not an expect web scraper/automator by any means, my experience with PhantomJS is probably quite out of date, but what's stopping me from running x,000's of littl
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
"Build usage profiles" is pretty much on the opposite pole to DuckDuckGo's whole 'privacy, simplified' deal.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
How would this not be gamed by bots? I see how what you're suggesting would work if there were humans going through and moderating, but I can imagine they would be deluged with millions of reports. Doing it algorithmically is just givi
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I've had those Staedtler 'pigment liner' pens that are in the parent comment's link, deeply disappointing. They dried out very quickly, and I do really try to take care of my pens. My go-to fine-liners, as someone who sk
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I know most of the comments here are already and will continue to be along the lines of "they're two different things requiring two different skill sets", which I agree with. But my first breakout indie game[0] was directly i
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I think the more people creating game engines and open-source game frameworks the better, since every now and then something like Godot will emerge and continue to prevent a Unity-or-Unreal mono-culture. Which, to be clear, I don't thi
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
When hankchinaski says 'managed' I think they really mean that there's some capital-A App dashboard somewhere, on Digital Ocean or wherever, and they log in and click 'new database' and that's it. No ssh-ing to
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I guess Factorio is an idle game as much as Age of Empires, Sim City or Roller Coaster Tycoon is? That is to say, not really very much at all. Sure, when I go and make a cup of tea the simulation keeps on churning, and some numbers continue
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but it's worth also mentioning that your full 3d SNES game example is pretty much exactly what games like Star Fox[0] did, back in the early 90's. The Super FX chip is inside the SNES cartridge. From
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Really interesting, thanks for posting. What do you practically do with the psychopath dogs/pups? Presumably the 'insane effort' required to keep them in line doesn't square well with all the other hard work your farm re
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Yeah, I have to agree. I've been a full-time indie game developer for six years now and I'm fortunate that my peer network consists of about 90% people in the same boat, they have a few shipped titles under their belts. If I want
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
If a video gets lots of views because of some other signal that isn't "this looks like a fun game", it's not too difficult to see that? The comments on YouTube or Reddit will be: 'look at this bug', or 'th
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I mostly use it to say "oh good, there will probably (with a certain % likelihood) be x,000 people who will buy the game within the first week. I know publishers like Playway do exactly what you describe with all of their <insert ni
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I'm an indie game developer on Steam and one of the most important business metrics for me is Wishlist Count. When I have a game coming up to release I can see what the level of interest is for it, and roughly how that will convert to
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
It is very silly.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
No, though I wrote the level/puzzle editor in Python, which would generate json that was read by the game, which was written with the Unity engine and lots of C#.

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