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by danbolt 8mo ago
What’s the game? Genuinely curious!
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by danbolt 8mo ago
My first job out of school was on one of the HD expansions at SkyBox Labs. It was mostly grunt feature work and desync fixes, but I remember that some of the handcoded ASM from the legacy pathfinding had been one-to-one translated to C++. I
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Sleeping Dogs Minimap Technical Fundamentals(medium.com)
4 points by danbolt 8mo ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 8mo ago
If you’re being objective about a programming language, its strengths and weaknesses are always going to a reflection of the game you’re trying to make. Python’s ecosystem will get you very far making web services, but less so with cert on
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by danbolt 8mo ago
My philosophy has always been “ergonomic scripting or drop to C++”, so I’m quite okay with it. C# has always felt a bit clunky to me. It’s nice to have alternatives.
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by danbolt 10mo ago
I tried the 7DFPS Game Jam this month, trying to learn a little more 3D modelling, as well as Godot. It was my first time using the engine to produce a HTML5 build. https://danbolt.itch.io/7dfps-2025
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by danbolt 10mo ago
Within the scope of a game’s production, the programmer time spent dogfooding the new audio format can be used towards something else that improves the value of the end product. The uncompressed audio for latency-sensitive one-shots usually
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by danbolt 10mo ago
The last studio I worked at where the Steam Deck came up, the rendering lead muttered “ ew, no! we don’t have time to figure that out! ” and that was the end of the conversation. A week after launch, the Proton devs pushed a hotfix and the
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by danbolt 10mo ago
The Nintendo 64 has a z-buffer, but the slow fillrate means that depth-checking can hamper your frame time. World Driver Championship sorted their polygons PS1-style with unique microcode, and got a very nice framerate. I sometimes wonder
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by danbolt 11mo ago
I don’t know if I could list something that matches say Cuphead or Silksong, but I do think that Godot is currently on a Clayton Christiansen-style worse-is-better ascent right now.
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A taxonomy of the video game production scope(hushcrasher.substack.com)
1 points by danbolt 11mo ago|0 comments
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The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment(hypatia.ca)
7 points by danbolt 11mo ago|1 comments
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Owner closes 115-year-old 'soba' shop because his kids are allergic (2022)(asahi.com)
5 points by danbolt 1y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 1y ago
When my parents had a house built in the early 2000s, my father was adamant that Ethernet should be wired to every room. It seemed like a good way to future-proof the building for the 21st century at the time. The year we moved in, tweenage
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by danbolt 1y ago
I’ve lived in places where they’ll add the bike path during scheduled road work, as it’s cheaper to get it done while there’s a crew already onsite. It can be a bit stochastic at first like you mention, but over a while I’ve seen the corrid
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by danbolt 1y ago
One of the screens on the Vancouver SkyTrain platform crashed once and displayed the xfce logo, which made me feel a bit of excitement in wondering how it was implemented.
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by danbolt 1y ago
Sometimes we do our own laundry, sometimes we pump our own gas, and sometimes we prepare our own meals. Not having a servant to do those things for us doesn’t make us destitute; it makes us human.
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by danbolt 1y ago
I promise I’m not that whiggish when it comes to automation, but there was a time when a good portion of human labour was washing clothing, and now that’s become much less of a thing for much of the world. Perhaps food service and in-person
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by danbolt 1y ago
I really like the UI’s use of screen real estate on mobile! For studying N5 and N4, I’ve found Bunpro’s lesson grouping by JLPT levels a really nice format. It’s been encouraging seeing a progress bar for each step of the journey. I’d sugge
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by danbolt 1y ago
Depends how many guys one has dated before.
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by danbolt 1y ago
I embedded it at a game studio for PC and game consoles a few years ago. We opted for JavaScript over Lua for reasons I can’t disclose, but runtime performance was sufficient for our needs. I liked having reference counting since the deter
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by danbolt 1y ago
I think you’re in your right to close your account, but itch has a public history[1] of generally being in agreement with you. Leafo talked about feeling a responsibility to host the unique and diverse content the platform holds. [2] This i
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by danbolt 1y ago
After enough programming over the years, I feel like my mind has separated the concept of a colour (which I learned as a child) and `Color` data.
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Valorant, League fans lash out against Riot Games' new gambling rules(polygon.com)
3 points by danbolt 1y ago|0 comments
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1(godotengine.org)
2 points by danbolt 1y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 1y ago
> You might look at the HDR representations of this game and think “Wait, the game appears more colorful” and this is because of the Hunt Effect. The Hunt Effect describes how we think a brighter color is more saturated, but in reality,
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by danbolt 1y ago
> It has a terrible scripting language Curious, could you elaborate on what you find terrible about it? I’ve been toying around with GDScript for a little while, and I think it’s actually quite well-suited for developing 3D games. Or, th
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by danbolt 1y ago
Super Mario Strikers seems to have a fixed timestep with interpolated presentation, which was somewhat more uncommon back in 2002. It looks like doing so benefitted its Wii sequel, where they needed synchronized online play. It’s interest
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by danbolt 1y ago
They weren’t, but they were zoned and organized a lot differently compared to our post-war world of today.
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by danbolt 1y ago
I haven’t used Deno, but I can imagine it can be a bit like finding a C library that doesn’t malloc under the hood. You end up having to search through a hidden subset of the broader ecosystem.

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