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by khalladay 4y ago
Ah yes game engine development, where we herd all the lazy folks who hate efficient solutions to problems.
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by khalladay 4y ago
I'd be careful about painting the developers at Rockstar as "not curious," that feels like an incredibly unfair conclusion to draw from this. Those developers have other pressures, and deadlines to hit. There are a million re
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by khalladay 4y ago
It's a little more possible now that iq has spent years teaching us all how to do it though
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by khalladay 4y ago
Don't data breakpoints help with both of these things?
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by khalladay 5y ago
I think my favourite open source project to poke around in recently is [Reshade]( https://github.com/crosire/reshade ). The code is pretty readable and is doing a lot of interesting stuff. Every time I've taken a lo
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by khalladay 5y ago
> I wonder if a lot of gamedevs just get tired of playing their own game and thus don't care about it anymore as a result? FWIW, if you work on large enough projects, you probably aren't playing the game that much at all unless
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by khalladay 5y ago
I could be misremembering, but this seems like an idea that's been tried (and failed before). I have a memory of a service whose pitch was that you'd load funds into an account (a 1 time large transaction to get past the CC fees),
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by khalladay 5y ago
hell yeah, making a game just for fun or to learn new stuff is the best. Good luck!
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by khalladay 5y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I have a bit of insight here. I've been happily employed in the games industry for the past 10 years and don't have any plans to leave it, but while I have absolutely recommende
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by khalladay 5y ago
I think I probably sleep poorly (based on my criteria above) about once every other week or so. I definitely wake up sometimes before it's time to wake up and lie there for awhile, but I can't remember a time when it's taken
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by khalladay 5y ago
For the most part I consider myself super lucky in the sleep department. I go to bed roughly the same time every night, fall asleep within about 15 minutes of turning out the lights, and usually get about 7-8 hours of sleep. Sometimes I&#x2
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by khalladay 5y ago
This is a weird stance to take. Software development is not sports. There is no "game day," and the best teams I've worked on have managed to treat folks with respect while still maintaining a high degree of quality. You can
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by khalladay 5y ago
I'm super out of the loop on all things blockchain... why is it cool that pixel art is stored on the blockchain as opposed to anywhere else? What benefit does that provide?
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by khalladay 5y ago
Disabling javascript (via the dev console) and reloading the page did the trick for me.
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Hooking and Hijacking DirectX 11 Functions in Skyrim(kylehalladay.com)
1 points by khalladay 5y ago|0 comments
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by khalladay 5y ago
I really like the beers from the Athletic Brewing Company ( https://athleticbrewing.com/ ). Aside from being slightly less carbonated than alcoholic beer, it's hard to tell the difference between them. And more important
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by khalladay 5y ago
No... they wouldn't. Unless the only thing keeping unqualified people from doing safety critical work is the job title they give themselves.
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To Bind and Loose a Reference(thephd.github.io)
1 points by khalladay 5y ago|0 comments
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by khalladay 5y ago
I've been in games for about 9 years. In my experience, virtually everyone uses Perforce. Studios that use Subversion seem to be the outlier. You're dead on with the rest though. I'll add that UE4 is a large, hulking behemoth
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by khalladay 6y ago
Capstone is a real treat to work with. It has a lot of quality of life features that really sped up development when I was putting together a function hooking system (like tagging instructions with RIP-relative operands).
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by khalladay 6y ago
If you're looking for more computer security / hacking related books, I can recommend "Sandworm" (by Andy Greenberg) and "The Cuckoo's Egg" (by Cliff Stoll). Both appear to have audible versions.
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by khalladay 6y ago
This is true a lot in games - often the "debug" version of a game is literally too slow to reproduce issues, so you have to work with the optimized builds. ...even if the actual debugging would be much easier with a debug build.
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by khalladay 8y ago
It's possible that this was done entirely through chat. Ie/ Rumor types " Snatches Hat " in chat. As long as both players agree that what's typed in chat is what happened, it doesn't matter if the game actual
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by khalladay 9y ago
What parts of the article drove this comment? I admittedly skimmed it, but the whole thing seemed to be about why millenials aren't just "doing it with money," and that reason wasn't that they wanted life to be like scho
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Writing a Simple Vulkan Memory Allocator(kylehalladay.com)
1 points by khalladay 9y ago|0 comments
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by khalladay 9y ago
Author here - cool to see this posted to HN! As I touched on at the end of the article, I really don't have a clue what I'm doing in Vulkan, so any feedback from folks who know even a little bit of what they're doing is very,
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Gameboy Advance Development by Example: Sprite Animations(kylehalladay.com)
3 points by khalladay 9y ago|0 comments
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by khalladay 9y ago
Sounds like I have some more to figure out :) I haven't touched alpha blending on the GBA at all yet, but that sounds excellent. I'm especially interested to see what the performance cost of blending is on the GBA, given how expen
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GBA by Example: Drawing and Moving Backgrounds(kylehalladay.com)
4 points by khalladay 9y ago|2 comments
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by khalladay 10y ago
Got a source for the Cold War stuff?

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