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Announcing Tangle(absurdjoy.com)
1 points by Impossible 5y ago|0 comments
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Deep dive: how Shapez.io went from web game to $1M Steam hit(newsletter.gamediscover.co)
2 points by Impossible 5y ago|0 comments
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by Impossible 5y ago
Can this be changed to the original title? From Our Kitchen to Yours: NVIDIA Omniverse Changes the Way Industries Collaborate
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by Impossible 5y ago
You can always say no to this. I've seen recruiters do this other places and people got their pictures taken down after the fact.
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by Impossible 5y ago
Calling this "Draconian" is a little bit of a stretch, but I agree that it's a good thing for employees this policy has changed. Amazon does makes and publish games, and it is common to have clauses that you cannot compete w
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ProtoRes: Proto-Residual Architecture for Deep Modeling of Human Pose(unity-technologies.github.io)
2 points by Impossible 5y ago|0 comments
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by Impossible 5y ago
Oh, I think that will be a great change for them. It especially makes sense with the new focus on metaverse.
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by Impossible 5y ago
The 6 month priorities are due to PSC, Facebook's performance review cycle. Work that took more than a half effectively doesn't count for bonuses or promotions and could possibly get you fired, so it's disincentivized.
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DirectStorage Developer Preview now available(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by Impossible 5y ago|0 comments
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Progressive Tiling 2D Blue Noise Point Sets Encoded as Images(nothings.org)
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by Impossible 5y ago
Hopefully the SDK is available before hardware ships, or at least day one. I'm tempted to beg for early access to it. Although I'm excited about the launch games, I really bought it for development. I don't want to wait 6 mon
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by Impossible 5y ago
This book was in development while I was working on the core interpreter for the Facebook Horizon visual scripting language. While many things in it are not directly applicable to a VPL, it helped with more robust implementation in at least
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by Impossible 5y ago
Pico CAD is a full low poly modeling tool in Pico 8. It's very different from an implementation standpoint than SpriteStack, which is voxel editor, rather than a polygon modeler. They are only similar in both being low resolution, resu
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by Impossible 5y ago
The Noita team explored some game ideas along those lines and had challenges. If you haven't seen the GDC 2019 talk about tech and design of Noita I recommend checking it out. They show some early prototypes focused on building https:
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by Impossible 5y ago
Yes, the falling sand roots of Noita make it a little tricky, because it's a really good Roguelike platformer/shooter, that has a lot of interesting systems and mechanics, but the sand mechanics and physics are kind of a "val
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by Impossible 5y ago
I've worked for Oculus and Unity and know a lot of people at Epic and Roblox so I've tried to understand what people mean by Metaverse (outside of directly referencing Snow Crash or Ready Player One). My simplified version is a 3D
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by Impossible 5y ago
VR Chat is made with Unity but not owned by Unity FYI. So are almost all other social VR apps (RecRoom, Facebook Horizon, etc)
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by Impossible 5y ago
There are few Lego games that actually embrace free building or engineering. I've heard it is because Lego doesn't want a digital app to cannibalize their physical sales, which always seemed silly to me.
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by Impossible 5y ago
Someone has already made a working Gameboy emulator for it. There is also a Doom port. https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/08/gamekid-a-game-boy-emul...
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by Impossible 5y ago
It seems like there's a modern definition of scam, especially with gamers, which is hyping or marketing a game too well and not completely delivering on promises (often imagined) due to budget constraints, design or technical challenge
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by Impossible 5y ago
I've done this multiple times ~4-6 months between jobs. I'd like to be able to do it for years, maybe next round...
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by Impossible 5y ago
This was my experience at FAANG as well. I had some terrible game industry jobs, but I've been at a few studios where I had a much better experience than FAANG even if pay was lower
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by Impossible 5y ago
It's also possible to work on games or game like software at FAANG, not crunch (although FAANG companies have plenty of other toxic qualities that can make them worse than a game job in subtle ways) and get paid a FAANG salary.
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by Impossible 5y ago
Ultimately it's working on game tech and companies like Roblox also hire for other roles that don't have exact equivalent in web or mobile development (art and game design roles mostly). Limiting your definition of "game dev
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by Impossible 5y ago
There is way more gamedev in the Bay Area than Roblox...
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by Impossible 5y ago
I was paid similar rates at a midwest non-gamedev company in early and mid-2000s. Left to get in gamedev and got a 2x salary bump instantly...
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by Impossible 5y ago
Although you're right, if you phrase OP's question as "how do you manage complexity with Ink", you could talk about specific named constructs in Ink (knots, stitches, weaves, tunnels, etc.) These are specific ways to org
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by Impossible 5y ago
You do it to understand the problem you're working on before you start writing production code. If you understand the problem you're working on, there's no need for prototyping, which is probably true for most code an average
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by Impossible 5y ago
Machine Zone is relatively successful. They also funded Mino Games https://minogames.com/en/ , which might not be "successful" on your terms, but they've stayed in business for 10+ years which is better t
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by Impossible 5y ago
Zenith is a VR MMO that went through YC https://zenithmmo.com/ . Multiverse isn't exactly an MMO, it's more of a tabletop RPG platform (think Roll20), but is also YC funded https://www.playmultiverse.com

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