Negitivefrags

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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
One issue with Kickstarter for games that are ready to play (at least for us) was that we want to give access to play the game the moment that you decide to give us some money. You can't really do that with kickstarter because you don't kno
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
I understand this isn't the point of the article, but the leading remark is fairly unreasonable. The lack of a clean module system in C++ is fairly directly a result of it's decent from C, a language designed earlier than Modula-2 and thus
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
If you have ten ideas and do nothing, why would the next ten ideas be any better? Unfortunately you don't get better at having ideas by simply having more ideas. You get better ideas because you have experience in trying to use them.
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
I did a talk on the random level generator in Path of Exile if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcM9Ynfzll0 I'm not a great public speaker, so I apologise for the "Um"s and "Ah"s all the time. We have two different gen
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
Isn't this just a method of implementation for your option 3? I don't really see a substantial difference between mocking the server and mocking the API. The same caveat still applies about needing an integration test with the real S3 in ei
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
I see this kind of sentiment all the time from people outside the game development industry. Every single time a new graphics card is launched, a new console, a new engine, whatever. Do people really think that it's a matter of CPU time goe
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder if PayPal is using this approach.
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
> My advice is to learn to use your favorite editor with a TAGS file, then go navigate through a large open source project, and extend it in some minor way. That's more profitable than enduring any book on "design". If this were a book,
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
I'm not saying that auction houses can't work in general, I'm saying that it will not work in Diablo 3 due to it's design. I'm well aware of the benefits of free-to-play, as I am a founder of a company making a free-to-play game!
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
I'm highly sceptical. Ignoring the auction house for a second, Blizzard makes money once though a large up front sale, and then has no monthly fee. The game is played entirely on online servers with no single player however. That means Bliz
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
In my experience binary compatibility on linux is a train wreck. Ever tried to get a binary compiled 5 years ago to run on a fresh install of linux? Good luck. If you still have the specific version of every shared library that it loaded yo
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
On windows at least, this functionality is all available for native code. On linux the situation is a little harder. I am not aware of edit and continue on that platform. Any kind of crash is catchable. For example, we get minidumps of our
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by Negitivefrags 15y ago
You already have it! This is what our good old friend the core dump is for. Load the core dump in GDB and there you are. I'd argue that on windows it's even easier. You can create a symbol server to store all the debugging info (the PDB fil