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by danschuller 10y ago
I wrote a digital book, plus art, engine and example code about how to make a JRPG style RPG. ( http://howtomakeanrpg.com/ <- the current copy is pretty terrible!). I'm still in pre-release but early-access has been
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by danschuller 10y ago
Location: Hong Kong (for now! I'm British and plan to return to the UK after my current project is finished) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: 3d, realtime systems, C#, C++, Unity, Lua, Résumé/CV: https:/&#
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by danschuller 10y ago
Awesome. I even use Visual Studio and C# but didn't know about this!
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by danschuller 10y ago
This a total tangent but I always thought it might be interesting if an IDE pulled data from source control (and presented it inline somehow). How "hot" a function is - has it reiceved a lot of edits in the recent past? Or is cold
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by danschuller 10y ago
I didn't know the combat system for Ultima V was paper-prototyped first. That's an interesting tit-bit! I've never actually seen it done on games I've worked on but since reading about it in The Art of Game Design: A Boo
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Embedding Lua in the Web(starlight.paulcuth.me.uk)
40 points by danschuller 10y ago|13 comments
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by danschuller 11y ago
This is some of the most clear, easy to following writing I've seen when talking about graphics programming. The illustrations are excellent too - good stuff!
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by danschuller 11y ago
Virtual and augmented reality seem like the endgame for what phones do for us now. Instead of a computer on every desk, or every pocket, it's one in every eye. I'd rather follow a set of virtual arrows to my destination than have
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Telegraph Publishes the Dumbest Article on Encryption You'll Ever Read(techdirt.com)
2 points by danschuller 11y ago|0 comments
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by danschuller 11y ago
I loved Ultima 7. An amazing feat for the time! The world simulation aspect of it was really cool (and something even now you don't see that often. Like a baker going to through process of baking bread everyday)
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by danschuller 11y ago
Neat. The speed-up with respect to cores is particularly impressive (though it would be interesting to know the exact conditions. Or is just some type of average-case?)
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by danschuller 11y ago
I think conscious isn't a binary yes/no kind of property. It's more a range, where you can put humans arbitrarily at 1.0 and then a mouse might be 0.05 or something like that. It certainly has self-awareness of somekind, even
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by danschuller 11y ago
This is a neat. I like the idea and implementation! Reminds me a little of the .plan files from the old Quake days, mixed with twitter / social media. http://floodyberry.com/carmack/plan.html I've signed up.
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by danschuller 11y ago
I have quite fond memories of Swansea, I use to walk down to the beach on mornings in the summer and read there for a few hours before starting my day. I think everyone would win if it became a tech-hub. The city center is a bit ugly (proba
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by danschuller 11y ago
This doesn't mention any Eastern traditions of fake meat which are also pretty interesting and stem from Buddhism. I've visited restaurants here in Hong Kong where everything is mock meat (usually tofu processed in some cunning ma
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by danschuller 11y ago
This was previously the Bitsquid engine. Really nice engine hope Autodesk can take the tooling to the next level!
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by danschuller 11y ago
Interesting stuff. In a modern system an MVC (or similar) type architecture would work well for dialog. Of course writing that kind of thing on the NES where every byte counts would be a lot more challenging.
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by danschuller 11y ago
Singapore is a great place. Very meritocratic, high-tech, modern and forward-looking but it is a sort of benevolent dictatorship. This is Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Lee Kuan Yew who built up Singapore (obviously a brilliant leader but al
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by danschuller 11y ago
Pandoc is great. I'm writing my book in markdown and using some Lua scripts and a latex style file with Pandoc to produce a nicely formatted pdf. (It's also one of the more prominent Haskell products but you wouldn't even kno
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by danschuller 12y ago
Agreed. A more generic VM seems the way to go. .NET's CLR does well supporting a wide array of different languages very well C#, F#, IronPython, IronRuby etc
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by danschuller 12y ago
I'm living in Hong Kong now and I see old people collecting cardboard and looking through bins more than once a day. It's not a good situation! There are more news stories of older people commiting suicide compared to the UK. Five
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by danschuller 12y ago
An interesting read but poor tools can't only be attributed to shipping culture. A more important reason is the tools are good enough (only just, but that's enough) and at that point priorities change. And once momentum becomes bi
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by danschuller 12y ago
Just because they use it doesn't mean it's not still despised :) Until very recently C++ has been the best tool for the job (or more usually C++ and Lua or other scripting language).
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by danschuller 12y ago
Creating a game a month is hard enough - impressive to see it completed using many different programming languages and frameworks
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by danschuller 12y ago
I used to work at Stainless, along with one or two other people I've spotted in this thread. It's a great place with good people. Here's a little background for those who might not know: Carmageddon was the precursor to games
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by danschuller 12y ago
Any recommendations? I'm loving Serial, I listened to nearly all of it today. Occasionally I listen to Startups For the Rest of Us ( http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ ) but it's hit and miss if the content is r
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Bitspark allows Hong Kong’s Maids to send money home via Bitcoin(techinasia.com)
1 points by danschuller 12y ago|0 comments
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by danschuller 12y ago
It's interesting sometimes it's harder to go from language A -> B than B -> A. If you're born Japanese then you lost the language lottery. Japanese has a limited set of sounds and there are very few close languages gram
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by danschuller 12y ago
I think this just demonstrates the power of the internet/social networks and an increasingly interconnected world. Notch creates a small game on his own, improving on Infiniminer, it catches the imagination of an entire generation. Wit
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by danschuller 12y ago
I wish is a little bit more ubiquitous everywhere else. It's a great language and would have been a far better Javascript!

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