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by franknine 4y ago
Another great devlog thread on TIGSOURCE is Leilani's Island by Craig Forrester, it's a treasure trove of 2D platformer development: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=46289.0
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Cutting through the hype of Blockchain Gaming(youtube.com)
2 points by franknine 4y ago|0 comments
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by franknine 4y ago
It's unlikely for a small indie to roll a mobile game engine But if you are talking about companies with millions of dollars of income from gacha games like Hearthstone, most of them have already attempted to roll their own or even use
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by franknine 4y ago
People Make Games made a video about this Infiniminer/Minecraft story and they interviewed Zach Barth. When Microsoft was reviewing the 2.5B Minecraft deal, Zach was working for Microsoft and was on those meetings. https://w
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by franknine 4y ago
And implementing Sign in with Apple in Unity is one of the worst experience in my career that I dedicated a blog post talking about: - Native Sign in with Apple button not working in Unity - Official Sign in with Apple plugin provided
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by franknine 4y ago
Sometimes they just force you to implement feature for them, like “Sign in with Apple” > We’ve updated the App Store Review Guidelines to provide criteria for when apps are required to use Sign in with Apple. Starting today, new apps sub
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by franknine 4y ago
Working on games with Unity for nearly a decade, the standard approach is to defer upgrading Unity as long as possible. Generally we stay on the old LTS (Long-term support) version until it’s no longer supported. Latest version and new LTS
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by franknine 4y ago
There's another episode from Gaming Historian specifically for Tengen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLA_d9q6ySs It talks about how Atari abuses the copyright system to gain access to Nintendo’s protection system
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The Next Video Game from BioShock’s Creator Is in Development Hell(bloomberg.com)
10 points by franknine 5y ago|0 comments
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In Search of Concentration Camps in Xinjiang a Documentary on Urban/Rural China(youtube.com)
1 points by franknine 5y ago|0 comments
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by franknine 5y ago
You are forced to use IL2CPP on mobile since the Google/Apple mandated ARM64 build is not available through Mono. (Mono itself does support ARM64, just Unity doesn't bother to port it) I recently had a bug which erroneously stripp
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by franknine 5y ago
This is worse than I could possibly imagine. Did your studio at least get credited for the work on timeline tools?
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by franknine 5y ago
The paid support is not cheap and mostly useless, at least in Asia region. We still need to go through normal bug report system, create reproduction steps for them, and get denied for back-porting bug fixes every single time. The only thing
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by franknine 5y ago
Part of it is also due to Unity3D sticked with the ancient stop-the-world mono GC for a very long time and discuraging developers from doing allocation in official talks.
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by franknine 5y ago
I think it's just a matter of different industries having different situations.In game industry performance is a real business advantage thus it’s a goal. On consoles, every game developer works on the same machine, the one who can get
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by franknine 5y ago
Quoted from Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers chapter 20: Let me set the record straight: The whole mysticism around the monad is the result of a misunderstanding. The monad is a very simple concept. It’s the div
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by franknine 5y ago
https://twitter.com/anticheatpd/status/1412024189561851904?s... There are cheats doing CV on video stream and they work on consoles. I guess they would also work on cloud gaming services.
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by franknine 5y ago
Reminds me of the great video from Nick Robinson talking about Ubisoft pulled Driver: San Francisco from all digital storefronts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkxzQDo0ng
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by franknine 5y ago
Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan are mostly around the Hsinchu area. They paid a premium to truck water from other areas and the government limited agricultural activities in Hsinchu as well. They almost got affected, but then there wa
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by franknine 5y ago
I think in the GTAV case, they kind of dropped the ball by not doing profiling when players complained. The exact same thing happened to our game as well, it was also a Json deserializing library that caused the problem. At the first releas
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by franknine 5y ago
There is a game about turning the universe into paper clips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ It has one of the most beautiful endings in my opinion
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by franknine 5y ago
He kept a very detailed devblog on TIGSource, documenting all the aspects of making the game including sound, modeling and shader programming. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3073... Also there is
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by franknine 6y ago
There are a lot of pro-CCP and pro-reunification organizations in Taiwan. Such as Patriot Alliance Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Alliance_Association and Chinese Unification Promotion Party https:&
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by franknine 6y ago
Highly recommend Functional Programming in C#: https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-c-sh... If you want to learn how to do some functional in C#. If you just need some ready-made monads, language
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by franknine 6y ago
This game reminds me of Infinifactory by Zachtronics https://store.steampowered.com/app/300570/Infinifactory/
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by franknine 6y ago
You cannot use service from any other cloud provider as your game backend if you use Lumberyard. https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/faq Q. Can my game use an alternate web service instead of AWS? No. By “alternate web s
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by franknine 6y ago
Snails might host Angiostrongylus cantonensis ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis ) which can kill people
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by franknine 6y ago
Found an old postmortem on Jak and Daxter from 2002 talking about pros and cons of using GOAL: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131394/postmortem_nau... And Andy Gavin talked briefly about GOOL on Ars T
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by franknine 6y ago
You also need to make sure .meta files are set to visible and get committed along with the assets, or the asset references will be completely messed up. Unity also makes visible .meta default now, and some would create a git hook to do a pr
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by franknine 7y ago
Hong Kong is China territory with semi-democracy government under "One country two system" policy. But most of the legislators are appointed by CCP or groups close to CCP. That's the reason why even facing landslide defeat in

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