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by ratww 4y ago
> The alternative isn't nothing. The alternative is either Java, Qt, Gnome, Slint, rolling your own, doing per OS UI, etc. I said IF the alternative is nothing. IF . Read that again. Read the whole context. Words are important.
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by ratww 4y ago
This fact is very dystopic in itself.
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by ratww 4y ago
I knew a CEO that claimed that Mythical Man Month was his favourite book. As soon as it was decided the team was late (due to constantly changing scope) he put forth a plan to make the team 4x bigger in one year. Contrary to probably the mo
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by ratww 4y ago
Reading is a huge problem with certain developers. It's not only documentation, which they ask for but never read. They also won't read error messages, and ask seniors for help on almost every situation. (But the most infuriatin
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by ratww 4y ago
That's actually perfectly fine, as long as they don't treat the estimate as a deadline.
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by ratww 4y ago
I think that was sarcasm. Or at least I hope so.
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by ratww 4y ago
My company handles this by allowing them to study on the dime. I just ask how much time they want and ask them to do it, and if they need some material or help devising a study plan. Curiously the two that needed it didn't really want
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by ratww 4y ago
True. In some cases it can also mean that the team needs to limit the scope and focus on what really matters. Sure, there's lots of startups burning the midnight oil to finish that MVP. But especially on more mature teams, it's in
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by ratww 4y ago
For most 2D/3D games using ECS, which is something somewhat popular right now, you can definitely easily abstract the editor, in the manner flohofwoe mentioned for example. Same for other systems. A few minutes using Unity3D are able t
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by ratww 4y ago
> Lots of big claims about engines traditionally not being about editors, but nothing to back that up Big claims? What the hell does that mean? What about Bevy, the engine mentioned in the article this thread refers to? Also, most Rust
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by ratww 4y ago
Alright, then it sounds closer to what I'm thinking, although extremely limited :) Either way, I'm glad it exists! My point is only that MORE can be done, regardless of integration or not. What really matters is the data model and
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by ratww 4y ago
Definitely did :) I still have the weird stories to tell, but glad I'm out of there. I hope you're also in a great place!
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by ratww 4y ago
Wow. When you put it this way it makes complete sense.
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by ratww 4y ago
Exactly. According to German Wikipedia: "The ticket is part of a relief package decided by the Scholz cabinet due to the increased energy costs due to the Russian attack on Ukraine" [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/w
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by ratww 4y ago
Makes total sense to me. I personally would probably pay the €69 if my employer paid a part, since I already pay €40 / €63 for Berlin, which I consider a good deal. But for people that have a car and tourists €70 is indeed a bit steep.
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by ratww 4y ago
Sorry, but Electron is amazing if the alternative is "nothing". Same for game-specific editors. Some companies can't do it, so in this case Unity/Unreal editors are indeed better. And some engines also don't have th
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by ratww 4y ago
> When you ship your Unity game it doesn't bundle the engine with it. Sounds like you're confused yourself :) You probably mean "it doesn't bundle the _editor_ with it". The part uncontroversially accepted as b
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by ratww 4y ago
> Game engines are more of an ecosystem Not really. In the case of Unreal/Unity/Godot (and perhaps things like Quake and Source before it), sure. But there is definitely more to engines than this, which is the argument bein
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by ratww 4y ago
This has nothing to do with integration but rather with the goal. Comparing a 2D-only tile editor and an animation editor with a 2D/3D engine and full-IDE is nonsensical. Might as well compare Logic Pro X with Visual Studio Code. Which
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by ratww 4y ago
Oh, that looks amazing! Love the diegetic UIs, they look intuitive and very fun to work with!
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by ratww 4y ago
I'm also a big fan! > The ticket can be bought only throughout the summer months. The ticket is a new thing, by the way. The reason it's only available in "summer months" is because they haven't finished thinki
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by ratww 4y ago
> That's an editor for single game. The more generic you make it, the worse they are to use. ...and yet Unity and Unreal are quite popular compared to "rolling your own editor", and very few people do it. Most people see
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by ratww 4y ago
A lot of what you typed have nothing to do with my answer. You also seem to be making a lot of very uncharitable and unpolite assumptions about me that don't make sense at all, since I only posted one single message, so I'll assum
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by ratww 4y ago
When I was working with a semi-big studio, the people there always talked about this kind of thing. It kinda sucks to depend on Unity or Unreal. I've seen some people at Gamedev.net talking about it in the past too. Curiously most Indi
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by ratww 4y ago
> Different engines have different ways of handling the same (or similar things). There is already a lot of common ground, and this is what I'm after. It can even be just component-based, like Unity, which is a great abstraction u
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by ratww 4y ago
Something web would be really cool, indeed. Not only collaboration, but imagine integrating source control with all that too, that would be an awesome experience. Source Control is not something I enjoyed when I worked in a mainstream engin
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by ratww 4y ago
The components are a concern of the engine and the game code, not of the editor. There is nothing preventing components from talking to each other when a generic editor is used. Have you ever played with Unity? Their modular design is gener
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by ratww 4y ago
Engine editors are already “masters of none”. For a lot of functionality, they need plugins or something similar. See Unity editor scripts for an example. Something unified would be able to take advantage of those plugins in a more generic
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by ratww 4y ago
> Tiled (for 2d maps) or Spine (for 2d animations) are 2 examples of well known standalone editors. Those are a 2D map editor and a 2D animation editor. Apples and Oranges compared to what the editors in Unity/Unreal/Godot do
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by ratww 4y ago
> No, the real world is an excellent place, filled with great people everywhere. The internet is also filled with those same people. That includes Twitter and Facebook. The reason the bad ones are are extra loud in the internet is beca

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