krajzeg

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by krajzeg 6mo ago
Echoing the thoughts of the only current sibling comment: lots of "serious" developers (way to gatekeep here) definitely use coroutines, when they make sense. As mentioned, it's one of the best ways to have something update e
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by krajzeg 11mo ago
I was quite active in the Allegro community around that time, mostly on the allegro.cc forums - but I was still a 14-year old learning the ropes back then. Missed out on DJGPP, it was already MinGW under Windows for me. I took part in a few
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by krajzeg 1y ago
Just wanted to note: this is in no way the original source code for the game. It's disassembled and commented source code. Here is the repository owner explaining the process himself: https://github.com/Piddewitt/C
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by krajzeg 2y ago
Just leaving this here: many of the Pokemon cards in question are being sold through Heritage, hyped by CGC (the grading company). https://www.cgccards.com/news/article/13534/ History both repeats and rhymes,
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by krajzeg 2y ago
Lua is very flexible and very fun to hack! With a different approach [0], you can get a switch on tag that feels more like a "standard" switch statement, eg.: result = switch(shape) { rectangle = function(r) retu
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by krajzeg 2y ago
I love that this is on today's internet, and as its own site, not as an account in somebody's garden. Uniquely tailored to what it is trying to do and oozing with personality, but professional in presentation. I have zero interest
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The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside(medium.com)
240 points by krajzeg 2y ago|51 comments
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by krajzeg 3y ago
If you find this interesting and find yourself in Berlin with a bit of free time, the Deutsche Techniksmuseum there has a great exhibit on Zuse, including replicas, actual units of later computers, design drawings, storage units... well wor
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by krajzeg 3y ago
The GBA still had some cartridges with enhancement hardware, though a lot less focused on overcoming CPU/memory limitations than on the previous consoles. My favorite is WarioWare: Twisted [1] including a gyro sensor (+ a rumble pack)
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by krajzeg 3y ago
As a game developer, I find eased tweens with a preset duration better for most UI use cases. However, this other type of animation is extremely useful when you want to smooth a movement that is continuous/unpredictable, with no defini
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by krajzeg 3y ago
> ...GraalVM Truffle framework... Futurama Projections... I know it's partly on me for not knowing the domain, but I honestly suspected somebody is trying to make fun of me with some concentrated technobabble. Especially since I wou
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by krajzeg 3y ago
I can already see the wonderful cyberpunk future, where people writing e-mails use Gmail's AI assistant to add all the polite boilerplate, while the recipients trying to get through their overflowing inbox use the Gmail-integrated AI s
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by krajzeg 3y ago
In fact, the Plus plan is being removed completely. It's only mentioned off-handedly in the last paragraph of the article, but it's another giant change for indie devs (who have no choice but to migrate from Plus to Pro). They are
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by krajzeg 3y ago
Do we have a good, objective benchmark set of prompts in existence somewhere? If not, I think having one would really help with tracking changes like that. I'm always skeptical of subjective feelings of tough-to-quantify things getting
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by krajzeg 4y ago
But that's just the thing. If we were having a normal conversation, I would react the same and ask you where you had found a room this big. However, in the context of receiving the same run of text that GPT-3 did, printed on a sheet of
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by krajzeg 4y ago
I actually find the first example strikingly similar to what would happen if a human was given a secretly broken tool. If somebody asked me: "Hey, what's the area of a room 1235 x 738m, here's a calculator?" and the calc
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by krajzeg 4y ago
You are not! PICO-8 was where I started, and it was a great experience - both for its community at the time and due to the constraints it imposed, making me focus on finishing games and boiling them down to the essentials. I heartily recomm
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by krajzeg 4y ago
> building up a brand That's a big topic, and one I'm not an expert on - if I was forced to pick my weakest gamedev suit, marketing would be it. What worked for me was picking a social media outlet I felt comfortable with, then
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Itch.io is great and has single-handedly made it much easier to get an early audience for a freeware game. It's been a great help for me as well. It's harder to actually earn money there (at least in my case, it's orders of m
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Slipways is built on top of Unity. If your main goal is to make a game (a daunting prospect on its own), having to create an engine on top of that is probably not going to help your chances. If your main goal is to enjoy yourself, there are
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by krajzeg 4y ago
The first question I think you should ask yourself is: why do you want to go into game development? Is it to take part in making a AAA hit? Do you have lots of your own game designs that you'd love to see the light to day? Do you want
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Their fix included a similarly large refactor, they just used the "security screen type" as a newly introduced parameter instead of something unique to the screen instance. I do agree that in the real world, sometimes you have to
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Agreed. The fixed logic, at least judging by the commit message, still feels very shaky on correctness grounds ("if we are dismissing something that doesn't seem to be right, ignore it"). Since they're rewriting code and
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by krajzeg 4y ago
While impressive, volleyball is one of the most formulaic sports when it comes to predicting what happens next. This is not a dig on volleyball (I'm a fan!), but it is how the sport works. The first touch is always about receiving the
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by krajzeg 4y ago
No issues with the Postgres - it's rock-solid so far (100% uptime over 6ish months). Most DBs are going to be a SPOF, unless you're willing to go into a distributed/replicated DB setup (which for my use case, I'm definit
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Moved backend services for my videogame from Heroku to Render. It's been super-easy, and the service is more responsive and significantly more stable now on Render, despite me paying much less. 1. Almost no work. The app was Node.js +
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Radical ideology craves credibility. I would suppose that for that reason, the regimes interested in treating a subset of people as inferior would look for experts who could testify to that fact. These end up being doctors and psychiatrists
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by krajzeg 4y ago
The 400 system is the grads or gradians, indeed originating from the French revolution. Nowadays I don't think they're used as the principal unit in any country. Wikipedia does mention it gets some use in specialized fields such a
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by krajzeg 4y ago
No, you're right. My SCSS is a bit rusty these days and I simply forgot how flexible it is, sorry for the misleading comment.
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by krajzeg 4y ago
Perhaps it was my own CSS preferences speaking, where I try to limit "spooky action at a distance" for consistency. But yeah, a".selected" state on an ancestor seems like a good use-case for this if you have different ta

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