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by psykotic 12y ago
I developed 9 ports and maintained 13 ports of RAD's Telemetry middleware for the game industry over a period of 3 years. My biggest takeaway from that experience is that build management, testing and release management are the hard pa
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> On the other hand, can't patents protect smaller companies? Open sourcing projects and technology has its case-by-case pros and cons. I agree the increase in open source adoption has had a largely positive impact on the developmen
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by psykotic 12y ago
From what I know, the three major salary surveys are from IGDA, Developer and GDMag (now defunct). Here's the summary of GDMag's 2012 survey: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/189893/Industry_in_flu
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by psykotic 12y ago
I'm not using my own salary history as a benchmark. The IGDA salary surveys and my exposure to a range of developers seem to bear out my remarks. As for how I know salaries outside of public surveys, I am on a private forum where peopl
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I'm going on personal knowledge and IGDA salary surveys. What part of the industry are your friends in? I should maybe have mentioned that the growing F2P, casual, mobile segment bears little resemblance, economically and otherwise, to
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> Cool software that makes money (game development) doesn't pay very much. Your thinking must be stuck in the last century. By the time I entered the game industry 13 years ago, salaries were already on par with the software industr
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by psykotic 12y ago
There are social, cultural and infrastructural factors which you completely trivialize by neglecting to mention them. In Thailand, for example, working-class people do often live with others in small spaces, but either they are strangers in
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by psykotic 12y ago
Fractal curves like the Koch snowflake are likewise continuous and nowhere differentiable. John McCarthy (yes, the inventor of Lisp) has a simpler to analyze construction of a Weierstrass-like function from a triangle wave: http:/&#x2
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by psykotic 13y ago
On several occasions, Kay has mentioned Molecular Biology of the Cell as an outstanding example of how modern technology can be used to create textbooks in the aid of comprehension rather than spectacle. An example of vulgar abuse by Kay&#x
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by psykotic 13y ago
Euclid has two proofs. The first is the one submitted here. The second one uses the complicated theory of proportion from Book V. However, it's very simple and intuitive when recast in modern terms. Take a right triangle ABC, drop an a
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by psykotic 13y ago
> What I think will be the killer feature over Occulus Rift is that Project Morpheus has 60 virtual speakers, which (from the liveblog commentary) could lead to audio taking a bigger part in gaming. With old fashioned two-speaker headpho
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by psykotic 13y ago
> I mean, someone reverting your code because of a personal vendetta? I laughed out loud when I read this and several other specific details in the story. It sounded very familiar. I have several friends and many acquaintances who work a
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by psykotic 13y ago
The claim that demos are proven to reduce sales lacks context. The Apogee shareware model was extremely successful in its day but was predicated on certain assumptions about marketing and distribution that are no longer true. A standard sce
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by psykotic 13y ago
The worst example of this was Visual Studio 2012. The UI was redone to superficially fit the Metro style. It became flat and monochrome and so visually undifferentiated that it was hard to navigate. And there were of course the obnoxious AL
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by psykotic 13y ago
My second-hand impression is that Richard Evans is responsible for most of what actually shipped in the game's creature AI. As the Wikipedia article says, Demis only briefly held the title of Lead AI Programmer on the project.
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by psykotic 13y ago
Funny. Brian Hook developed a game 12 years ago called Candy Cruncher with nearly identical naming, visuals and gameplay: http://www.pyrogon.com/games/candycruncher/ Edit: He just said he successfully filed for th
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by psykotic 13y ago
> Because people don't buy CoD for the single player campaign they buy it for the multiplayer. I assume 'people' means a majority. While I'm not privy to statistics specifically for CoD, one of the first games I worke
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by psykotic 13y ago
I'm 31 and grew up with a C64 and then an A500. My first PC was a 486-DX2 66 MHz in the middle of the nineties. In the 386 days, the PC still felt far inferior to much older Amigas.
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by psykotic 13y ago
> I'm ok with designing weapons; my ethical beliefs allow that. It would be unethical to accept the project but deliver a weapon that didn't work properly. Sabotage for a good cause is unethical? You have strange ethical belief
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> (a bug that becomes popular to exploit is still a bug, I don't care what the pro-gamers say) Do you hate rocket jumping and wall hugging in Quake as well? Both are essential to playing Quake at a decent level. Both started as acci
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by psykotic 13y ago
> You could make a super-simple DOTA-like game with only one hero to choose from and super-simple combat mechanics and you'd still see all the cultural and mechanical problems you see in modern DOTAlikes. You'd still have playe
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by psykotic 13y ago
How can the existence and relative success of this game offend you so? Virtually all games out there nowadays are newbie friendly and watered down to a fault. People with your preferences are drowning in choices. For those of us who enjoy u
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by psykotic 13y ago
Did anyone notice the name of the example database in the video demo? The RethinkDB crew must be Dota fans.
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by psykotic 14y ago
In any recent Crytek game, they're 100% of the game.
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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls(bookofhook.blogspot.com)
288 points by psykotic 14y ago|59 comments
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by psykotic 14y ago
When I went to high school in Denmark in the late 90s, Latin was still a mandatory first-year course for students on the language track (the other being the science track).
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Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker(youtube.com)
11 points by psykotic 14y ago|1 comments
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by psykotic 14y ago
My test just now was on Windows, but I use it regularly on Mac and Linux as well, and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if it silently clobbered changes like that. You're sure you had unsaved changes to the Sublime buffer for the file wh
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by psykotic 14y ago
Yes, that what's I was describing. It works just fine. When I tab back to Sublime, I get the "<filename> has changed on disk. Do you want to reload it?" modal dialog box. (If there are no unsaved changes in the Sublime buffer that c
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by psykotic 14y ago
> I tried SL2 and it quite happily ignored the fact that the file had changed. Weird. I use Sublime Text 2 exclusively across all three platforms. Whenever an open file changes (e.g. I sync to Perforce), it pops up a modal dialog box w

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