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by doomlaser 5y ago
Luckily, this particular developer is still at Unity and still fixing bugs—and doing the world a service by writing fascinating breakdowns about them https://blog.unity.com/technology/fixing-time-deltatime-in-u...
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Video Games as High Art? Roger Ebert and the cultural abyss (2009)(doomlaser.com)
40 points by doomlaser 5y ago|60 comments
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by doomlaser 5y ago
Here's an image of Dürer's famous Melancholia engraving, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I#/media/File:Albre...
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Static album cover art is more nebulous in the streaming age. What's interesting is the different approaches users and musical groups have taken to accompanying video on platforms like YouTube. There is not yet a de facto standard to r
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by doomlaser 6y ago
One could imagine this technique also working in latent reserves of coronavirus harbored by people who have become infected.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Maybe there should be a genre distinction for truly "walk in the park" or "hike in the woods" style experiences, though even in the woods or at a park you'll often encounter trails or paths, which tend to shape a mo
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by doomlaser 6y ago
What you're looking for is called a Walking Simulator—no explicit goals or win state. There's a nice niche for them in games like Proteus. I wrote one myself in 2007, before the genre had a name. You are a single pixel just explor
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by doomlaser 6y ago
What a beautiful creation. People are making more and more exciting projects in Pico-8, the virtual console that this is made in. It is a fully self-contained environment and provides a great set of constraints that have led to a lot of cre
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by doomlaser 6y ago
The Chicago Art Institute is a treasure. Large collection of the Impressionists, from Van Gogh to Monet, to post-Impressionist Seurat to Georgia O'Keefe. And that doesn't even scratch the surface. It's a great place to spend
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Some people might remember Hotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications Independent forums might be due for a comeback as well, with modern technological amenities
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Google is shutting down development of Tilt Brush VR and open sourcing it(techcrunch.com)
2 points by doomlaser 6y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 6y ago
> ASML Holding of the Netherlands dominates the market for the equipment. Major semiconductor makers began full use of it in 2019 and ASML is the sole company capable of mass-producing it. They supply the whole industry, from Samsung t
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Roguelike implies procedural environment creation and permadeath, so each run is different and flavored by the random nature of the game's possibility space.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
> Multiplayer support for all features Impressive. The Stanford course 'CS193u: Video Game Development in C++ and Unreal Engine' sounds good too: https://www.tomlooman.com/stanford-cs193u/ I also happen to
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by doomlaser 6y ago
I distribute a Mac app outside the app store. In my case, it's a freeware tool to hide the cursor with a hotkey or idle timer: http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/ Architecturally, it's
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Books I bought that I've been enjoying this year: Favorite Folktales from Around the World, by Jane Yolen [0]: Excellent short folk stories from many different regions. Great for short bursts of story, sometimes with interesting wisdom
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by doomlaser 6y ago
It oriented almost perfectly. I'm truly amazed at what SpaceX has accomplished so far. Just need to stick that landing a few dozen more times. It's quite a reorientation.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
I'm really interested in seeing how it will perform its "belly flop" landing. Seems like a high risk maneuver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTYMry7fq0#t=1m17s
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by doomlaser 6y ago
> Converting from linear sRGB to Oklab With public domain C++ code! This is incredibly useful to me as a Unity developer. Can almost be plugged right in to C# & Unity Colors. Could be used for interesting real-time color effects. One
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by doomlaser 6y ago
It will once it rolls out onto more phones. Right now it is only available on iPhone 12 Pro models
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Unity has become a strong platform choice for AR development as it wraps both ARKit and ARCore and is cross-platform with iPhones and Android phones, as well as webgl. Pokemon Go, probably the AR app with the most market penetration, is Uni
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by doomlaser 6y ago
How is it that Microsoft's Electron apps are so snappy and performant? You would never know Visual Studio Code was Electron by how it performs. I'm not a user of their cloud apps, but are they similarly snappy, or is it just that
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by doomlaser 6y ago
atan2() is incredibly useful in game development. You can use it to determine the angle between objects, calculate the angle of a 2d vector, and other useful things. https://ryankubik.com/blog/atan2/
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Quake 2 had an interesting model format. It was essentially a set of OBJ mesh keyframes that get linearly interpolated between, for the smoother animation you see in Quake 2 character models when compared to Quake 1. MD2 was what it was cal
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Incidentally, I happen to have made one for an event called Gamma 256, which took place 13 years ago today: http://doomlaser.com/trekking-across-the-northeast-for-gamma... Of course, in 2007 the genre didn't yet have a
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Another famous one is called Proteus https://store.steampowered.com/app/219680/Proteus/ A recent one that many love is called A Short Hike https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055540/
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by doomlaser 6y ago
The genre term for this type of game, lacking in explicit goals or win-state, is Walking Simulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game#Walking_simulat...
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Black Holes Cast Shadows(sciencealert.com)
1 points by doomlaser 6y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 6y ago
In the Quest 2 "welcome" app they give you a paddle and a ball, and it feels really cool to throw the ball and whack it. It also puts them on a virtual desk in front of you, and I was having so much fun I tried to rest my elbows o
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by doomlaser 6y ago
It needs a Pokemon Go. I just got a Quest 2. $299, Apple quality. Works by itself or can plug in to a PC and be powered by its GPU and CPU. It's waiting for new experiences with mass appeal. Valve gave a Half Life incarnation.. it&#x2

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