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by corysama 4y ago
NBA Jam Tournament Edition for the arcade had a CPU with bitwise addressing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010 and the programmers used the lower 3 bits of pointers to store extra values. Source: a friend of min
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by corysama 4y ago
So, then if designers stopped lowering the contrast of their sites, users would adjust their monitors back to sensible defaults rather than cranking the contrast to make low-contrast web sites look good. Right now we are stuck in a loop wh
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by corysama 4y ago
I'm a fan of the DragonBox series. At least their algebra set. Haven't checked out the others. https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-5 https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-12
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by corysama 4y ago
I don’t know what I’m talking about. But, I recall the Unity3D folks talking about a camera calibration process that involved photographing a dozen full frame images of a flat neutral gray surface, averaging all those images to average out
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by corysama 4y ago
Thank you so much! I maintain a subreddit that collects "Behind the Scenes/The Making of" videos for videogames. I've posted your youtube vid there. https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/co
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by corysama 4y ago
Will Wright’s talks at the Game Developers Conference were not to be missed. They were wild, fascinating and funny. He would often go off-topic with mini-presentations like the “Russian Space Minute” where he marveled at the analog computer
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by corysama 4y ago
Oof! That's a blast from the past. I learned about this 40 years ago from my favorite book as a kid "How to Win at Video Games - from the editors of Consumer Guide(R)" https://archive.org/details/book_h
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by corysama 4y ago
Do we need another song about love? Do we need another library for formatting text? Do we need another bedtime story? No, we probably don’t. Won’t and shouldn’t stop people from making more :)
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by corysama 4y ago
“How to just put pixels on the screen?” is a common enough question on r/GraphicsProgramming that I made a little gist that uses SDL https://gist.github.com/CoryBloyd/6725bb78323bb1157ff8d4175d...
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by corysama 4y ago
The only argument I’ve heard that makes me go “OK, fine!” in favor of FLAC is that they forced a standardization of metadata. FLAC is well-supported. But, PCM RIFF WAV files are triv-i-al. Any CS101 student can write a parser. They don’t n
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by corysama 4y ago
Yes, but the limitation is per-scanline, not per frame. Thus, “racing the beam”. The tree branches are above all the other sprites besides the swinging vine.
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by corysama 4y ago
> Look at this image of Pitfall, and notice how the tree canopy, tree trunks, ground, pit, and underground cave all show left-right symmetry. These are all built from the playfield (plus additional tricks to be described later). The only
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by corysama 4y ago
It's a single, standalone binary executable for each platform.
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by corysama 4y ago
As was Flickr.
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by corysama 4y ago
This is indeed what I meant. I wasn’t clear. Entertainment products in general have a strong Power Law Curve to their relative revenues. Games are expensive to produce and have a high variance on their returns. So, the rewards for a profita
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by corysama 4y ago
I worked in gamedev for 20 years. In retrospect, I could have made a lot more money selling ads for cat pictures. But, enjoyed the chaos of being at the intersection of art, tech, design and commercialization. My advice to everyone wanting
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by corysama 4y ago
That kind of legal ass-covering is expedient when you are going to explicitly reproduce someone else’s source-available work. It’s cheaper in that case to go through the whole clean room hassle than to risk getting into an intractable argum
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by corysama 4y ago
I’ve never worked on indie desktop software, but I’ve heard the same story repeated here for over a decade by those who have: Everyone wants buy once, updated forever software. But, they don’t want to pay for it. Usually they think a fair,
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by corysama 4y ago
0.5 bytes per image. Not 20,000 bytes per image. Mishmashing implies that small clumps of pixels are in the model file somewhere. That's literally not true and has no relationship to how the algorithm actually works. There's a t
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by corysama 4y ago
> The thing to remember is AI literally copies the originals. While it mashes them together in a way that makes the lines hard to see that is in fact what it is doing. I see this argument a lot, but it cannot be true. The image database
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by corysama 4y ago
Then someone put Sokol and IMGUI together into a single .h + .cpp combo and you get https://github.com/pplux/imgui-app
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by corysama 4y ago
Over in Reddit I asked the author what’s the goal behind using only integer types? "Just for fun."
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by corysama 4y ago
Really obvious use that took too long to occur to me: Make a bunch of textures for your game. Label them and use them to train a specialized model file. Use that to make more textures for your game. It’ll get you 80% of the way there for
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by corysama 4y ago
How did the 2600 host any programming language at all? It only had 128 bytes of RAM!
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by corysama 4y ago
There are intrinsics for a wide range of ARM and PowerPC SIMD instructions, a huge range of Intel SIMD instructions and several useful instructions like ByteSwap or FindFirstSetBit on several architectures. But, there is not an instrinsic f
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by corysama 4y ago
Popular compilers support popular SIMD architectures through “intrinsic” functions. They look and act like regular functions, but they are built in to the compiler and usually compile to a single specific assembly instruction. In the artic
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by corysama 4y ago
She made the animation library used to make the presentation https://acegikmo.com/shapes/ How much work indeed!
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by corysama 4y ago
Can anyone confirm/deny my theory that AI audio generation has been lagging behind progress in image generation because it’s way easier to get a billion labeled images than a billion labeled audio clips?
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by corysama 4y ago
Low-level APIs are used to build lots of varied high-level APIs. They are also used to build stuff like https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2016/09/09/doom-2016-gr... and https://mamoniem.co
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by corysama 4y ago
This is what happens when a generation raised on mecha anime grows up.

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