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by jezzamon 3y ago
Cool to see there's demand for articles like this. I program all my games from scratch in plain old JavaScript without using a game engine, so maybe I should start doing some writing about it...
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by jezzamon 3y ago
You should try doing a game jam (or, multiple!) You have an extremely short time frame, and each time you start from scratch so you learn what systems work and what doesn't in a practical way that doesn't allow for perfectionism.
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by jezzamon 3y ago
California has some decent regulation on this. And there's an ongoing bill at a federal level, I believe!
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I wonder how true this actually is now. I initially read this and believe it was accurate but I've come across two things that make we wonder about it now Specifically for clothes, the cost of "good quality" products could po
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by jezzamon 4y ago
Cheating in online games is enough to make multiplayer unplayable if it becomes rampant enough, which as a game developer you care about. One example: https://www.ign.com/articles/team-fortress-2-players-protest... So
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by jezzamon 4y ago
Check out the list here! https://explorabl.es/economics/ The explorabl.es website is maintained by Nicky Case and has a whole bunch of explorable articles written by different people in different categories. Usually if
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I think free mutability and not really needing to know about types are two things that make the language easier for beginners. If someone who's not familiar with programming runs into an error like "why can't I change the val
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by jezzamon 4y ago
Yes, you do. Each piece has randomness within the piece too, so even then it's not all the same. Being able to learn how the level generation works as a player is part of the experience of playing a roguelike game, so I don't thin
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by jezzamon 4y ago
Seems like a significant amount of commenters are arguing against the title without realising the content agrees with them :)
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I think in my entire time working I haven't met anyone who has significantly contributed to open source (aside from "let me fix some bug that's annoying me in a library"), so I'm not sure how required it really is
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by jezzamon 4y ago
All of those bar one can be done by physically separating yourself from technology, which is quite feasible in short periods. Downgrading to a dumb phone works ok too (until you need to work with some service that requires an app)
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by jezzamon 4y ago
Nice!! I needed to understand some go scripts with work so I used Advent of Code as an opportunity to learn it as a new language and solve the next problem using it. Unfortunately that day's problem was more difficult than the rest so
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by jezzamon 4y ago
It depends on the device, but it's not necessarily true that the software behind it is trivial. Interfacing with the human body is tricky and knowing how to use the hardware to make the most of the limited set of electrodes or whatever
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I just opt out, or more often don't opt-in for a lot of the swag things that come my way if they're not something I'm interested in
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I think the difference is whether the content is truly infinite or not. If there's enough content such that you could spend an unhealthy amount of time scrolling, then you are sacrificing your users well being for engagement. If there&
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by jezzamon 4y ago
For my creative coding projects (which are usually looping animations) I've set up scripts that export a short video at every git commit. Going back and seeing things develop is quite satisfying, and also useful if I stumbled upon a co
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by jezzamon 4y ago
They intentionally prevented it from being able to general realistic faces to reduce the potential for deep fakes
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by jezzamon 4y ago
I actually made a Wordle variant me and my family have been playing that prevents you using a word you have ever used before (unless it is that day's word). It's a really small tweak and it takes a while to have any impact, but it
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by jezzamon 5y ago
There is something incomplete feeling about just the default styling. If you're going for a brutalist design mentality then sure, go for it, but sometimes the appearance actually does matter
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by jezzamon 8y ago
Oh man, it took me a while. I started in August and have been chipping away at it on the side, until now.
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by jezzamon 8y ago
Yes, apologies I made some approximates in the article! Interestingly if you're talking about discrete time fourier transforms (which is what we usually deal with in computers with jpegs, mp3s, etc), then you can perfectly represent a