masonremaley

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by masonremaley 1y ago
After publishing this I wrote another crash reporter for a freelance client, but it was much more involved because that project doesn’t ship debug symbols to users so we had to do symbol resolution server side, which precludes using the clo
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by masonremaley 1y ago
That’s also a good question. I personally wouldn’t compress pixel art—the artist presumably placed each pixel pretty intentionally so I wouldn’t wanna do anything to mess with that. By pixel art’s nature it’s gonna be low resolution anyway,
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by masonremaley 1y ago
Good question. I don’t have any authored SDF content right now so take this with a grain of salt, but my thoughts are: 1. Fonts are a very small percent of most games’ storage and frame time, so there’s less motivation to compress them than
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by masonremaley 1y ago
That's a great question. I was concerned about this, so I provide the following two APIs: * https://docs.gamesbymason.com/zcs/#zcs.Entities.chunkIterato... * https://docs.gamesbymason.com/zcs/
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by masonremaley 5y ago
The other reply mentioned that vsync can save battery--on top of vsync, Way of Rhea supports syncing to every other vblank, halving the FPS. This will presumably should save even more battery (though the intended use case is to prevent stut
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by masonremaley 5y ago
I don't have a full answer, but if it helps at all, these are all C APIs--so if you can find a way to call C code from your Java program you should be set.
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by masonremaley 5y ago
Yup! I'm aware of what DPI scale is for, I use it when I write game tools. I don't use it in game, though--that's an intentional tradeoff I'm making. It seems like a pretty common tradeoff for games though! If you want t
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by masonremaley 5y ago
It's not, in my codebase, but I'll edit that when I have the chance so nobody blindly copy pastes it and ends up with something super broken
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by masonremaley 5y ago
Hmm. I think I tried calling into their API to rule that out--but, it's been a while, so it's 100% possible I remember incorrectly which would explain why it didn't work!
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by masonremaley 5y ago
That's a good point--I'll look into whether Microsoft has any guidelines on this, and add a disclaimer to the article when I get a chance.
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by masonremaley 5y ago
It's possible I'm misunderstanding the docs, but here's the line that lead me to believe linking to one of their libraries alone would be enough (and lead to my surprise when it didn't work): ( https://docs.nvi
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by masonremaley 5y ago
Yup, you hit the nail on the head (author of the article here). I guess I could've clarified that, I didn't expect people to assume I was advocating against scaling your UIs to fit the user's screen! Many games scale to fit t