nightowl_games

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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Isn't there a lot of daylight between old Fortran code and AI? What if we rewrote the old algorithms in C with modern techniques? Multitthreading? Or GPU compute? If there's value there, I could do these things. Probably wouldn&#x
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
> Canada Trudeau has been PM since 2015 and the last election was in 2021. Sure, it looks like he's gonna lose the next one, but Canada hasn't had a oppositional landslide election.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Only question is when to buy
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
This is why I'm ultimately bullish on intel
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
I see no real reason to redesign the MBP. Only place I think they could push further is the camera and maybe even the speakers. The keyboard, trackpad, display and ports are a okay.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Thanks! The web versions of both of our mobile/web games do about the same as the IAP versions. We dont have ads in the mobile versions, so the ad revenue is reasonble. We're actually leaning more into smaller web games as a resul
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
We got it in unreliable/unordered and it still barely moves the needle on network perf over websockets from what we see in north america connecting to another server in north america
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Yeah we use WebRTC for our games built on a fork of Godot 3. https://gooberdash.winterpixel.io/ tbh the WebRTC performance is basically the same network performance as websockets and was way more complicated to implement. M
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
All the men I know hung out on discord and played video games together during covid. All the wives and girlfriends cruised instagram. It was clear which was better for mental health. Video Games + Discord isn't perfect, but a lot of (m
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
I actually had this problem recently and I just sorted by absolute numbers of positive ratings and it worked pretty well. (You could only rate thumbs up/thumbs down). Nice to see a more mathy solution tho
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
2 or 3 families I can imagine. 5 is a lot. 10 seems like a very rare, and somewhat odd, exception.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Many times the code is reused in places where it is the correct code, so then you when you change it you have to slow down and split those places up. We have a git submodule of common UI widgets, changing one of those is impossible now, eas
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Looks beautiful there! Sounds like a waiting list has developed. I wonder if the minor exodus away from major centers will continue. Personally, as a millenial entering my 'family' years, I feel pretty attracted to smaller centers
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
You don't, but Rust isnt the right fit for gamedev imo.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
No. Your game code is a new class, in whats called a module, which is fully supported by the engine. Your game code almost definetly relies on the same stable APIs that a GDExtension or GDScript itself uses. There will be no merge conflicts
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Forget gdextension imo Compile the engine from source and add your classes as a module. Cuts out all the gdextension glue code and then you don't need to ship a shared library.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Netcode dev here. Predicting the clock is a trivially solved problem. The client and server know the latency between each other, the server can offset the timestamp on the input from the client to compensate for this difference, and the cli
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
You can host a blog using it using GitHub pages for free.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Requiring the rider to get a special license, force them to ride on the road and not on paths. If you want a motorcycle, then it should be regulated as a motorcycle.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
I bet they can do something about it.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
"Which, if you’re like me and didn’t finish their college level math courses, means absolutely nothing. I dropped out of art school, so it’s mostly over my head." This is why Ben Golus's posts on shaders are the best. Cause t
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
E bikes are such a legal grey area. Personally I think some of them should be categorized as a motorcycle. Some of em really rip!
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
As a game dev, I found Jekyll really easy to get on to. Nice way to write blog posts. Easy to tweak the html/CSS/JS when needed https://jekyllrb.com/
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Yes, I believe it is the same as Wolfram's "Computational Irreducability". I'll copy paste the question I emailed him about it: > In computers, floating point numbers have a limited precision, based on how many bits a
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Can't you just tell us what it is?
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Sounds like something that WooCommerce should have in their license or something. idk sounds like a pitfall to me. Why would anyone pay WooCommerce anything then? Just fork it and change the attribution code.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Starcraft 2 lets you resume a game from a replay.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
> It's possible that the outcomes might vary between two games So just to clarify: in League, the 'dt' passed into each 'simulation step' is NOT constant? Isnt this kinda crazy? In your later articles, floating p
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
Yeah you _could_ but I fail to see why you would ever do this. It's also not feasible to synchronize the client with the server in real time with this input.
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by nightowl_games 2y ago
> League of Legends does not use a fixed-step server clock, but rather a measured frame delta time which we throttle to a target frame rate. This makes the server more resilient to system-wide performance spikes, but this pattern definit

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