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by chipsy 11y ago
The original assertion of "developers working the hardware better", and your rebuttal, are both incorrect. There was a literal constraint enforcing SMB1's design: ROM space. The developers of the first game had already had se
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by chipsy 11y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Haxe/OpenFL, JS, HTML5, Unity, Python Resume/CV: http://ludamix.com/resume_current.txt Email: jhofmann@321f.net Game developer, also intere
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It's bad if your synth is aiming to be a virtual analog. The correct behavior of extreme resonance, at least in a Moog-type filter, is self-oscillation [0], but actually achieving that through digital subtractive techniques remains CPU
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The filter does not appear to keytrack, thus it gets more or less powerful depending on which notes you play(this is sometimes desirable but usually not). It is possible to make the filter hoot at low cutoff and maximum emphasis.
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Every time I delve into audio DSP I'm a little amazed at how simple a lot of the techniques are in an algorithmic sense. The FFT is a notorious outlier but most effects are elaborate compositions of beautifully simple pieces of code th
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More "authentic 80's synth" soundtracks: Harold Faltermeyer, Vince Dicola, pre-BTTF Alan Silvestri, Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter.
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Nobody in the thread has yet called it what it is: retrowave. This was a musical genre first. It wholly appropriates the aesthetics of a subset of 80's media and condenses it into a "historical fantasy" world that is easier t
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The US has lots of sandwich variants. Sometimes we use dipping sauces or soup sides, sometimes the ingredients are unusual, there are various styles of bread, toasted vs. untoasted, etc. This is a food genre that is shared with Europe and t
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I love PL research, for all its warts. I worry that it's wasted on most programmers, because we don't get a comprehensive pedagogy of each type of problem that these abstractions are meant to solve, and contexts where a less abstr
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The only thing I design to extend is the data. That is, I get suspicious now when I take an existing method and try to parametrize it, because what I'm doing if I do that is building up a richer all-purpose code edifice - and that is a
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It's a good talk. Puts together some common themes of the moment: immutability, referential transparency, shrinking the responsibilities of the data, entity-component systems to track aggregations of data, and an "escape hatch&quo
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The Spectrum 128 contained an AY-8192, so you are right on the money. Earlier models were beeper only.
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Cyclical theories are popular precisely because they have some empirical backing in closely related fields. Consider the predator-prey model, for example: Some generations of predator will experience abundance, others will struggle to survi
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The deadly one for me is dairy. It's omnipresent and I've attributed its component parts to symptoms ranging from brain fog to elevated heart rate to inflamed joints. Fortunately whey seems to be an exception, so protein shakes ar
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Bad faith is not uncommon. But now that they've done it once, feel free to turn the knife and ask for even more. I've been in a negotation where the company made a "final offer" that was egregiously low where I had the l
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I've noticed this phenomenon with titles that might contain plurals or articles, but also might not: e.g. "Sid Meier's Civilizations" or "Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome". It's typical to eliminate these e
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I think of hackathons (and game jams, which I'm more experienced with) as extended parties. You do sit down and get work done, but the atmosphere and presentation are important and make it special. Everyone wants to start near their co
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I spent ages looking and looking at this question around human-readable serialization syntax and whether a substantially better syntax is achievable. I concluded these things: * The structural forms that readily come to mind(linear, hierarc
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Perhaps watch some horror or apocalyptic film? Many of the best in those genres deal with death and meaning in death. When I was a kid I avoided all of it as I found the depictions scary. Now I find some release in seeing how the characters
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You are conflating two different things. Stoical calm isn't just silence, it's silence when the situation calls for such, when making your voice known cannot improve things. Engagement in communication is encouraged if it is belie
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It's awful in games too, although the grain of OO languages makes it a little more compelling at first. OO encourages slicing up code into black boxes, and it just doesn't work. What a game needs is a database view of the world -
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I like thinking about idealized practical computers, and projects like MMIX are particularly special, even if they don't hold any popularity, since they're not just a random hacker's design, but one as envisioned by some of t
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I think allocation is a discussion worth continuing. It's so intrinsic to the in-the-large error rates - overcomplicate the data allocation picture, and you end up writing more, slower, and buggier code, but only some time after you ma
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MMIX 2009(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
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What this scheme does is create equitable inflation. That is, I concur, not identical to BI. However, inflation does come with redistributive effects. In most macroeconomic models, the question of "who makes the money" is abstract
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The diagram resembles a decision table: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table
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Making a phone call is an asynchronous event, and as the song suggests, sometimes you give someone your number but they never call back. With any distributed system in real world conditions, a similar situation arises where a request doesn&
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Something I notice about the UI you use is that it tries very hard to emphasize the structured-ness of the underlying engine. Perhaps the middle ground goes back towards Emacs(or rather, a new iteration of the Emacs concept) - plain old tex
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As it so happens, I'm thinking about consulting on exactly this. I have plenty of game design experience; last weekend I stumbled into a hackathon where I ended up giving an early-stage founder some ideas to radically improve an experi
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I made a generator for non-infinite worlds(specifically, Ace of Spades 0.x, which is a 512x512x63 colored-cube space) that created "faucets" for land and water, flood filled a low-res "biome" tilemap from them, and then

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