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by shinymark 9y ago
I think you might be correct for Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) but that’s not correct for XBLA. Source: personally worked on native C++ XBLA games.
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Show HN: Death's Door, a streaming-only adventure(mixer.com)
2 points by shinymark 9y ago|0 comments
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by shinymark 9y ago
Device support is a nightmare from a game development perspective if you're coding in C++ and using the GPU directly. Figuring out why the black box shader compiler is crashing on a particular device is not fun.
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by shinymark 9y ago
I'm a 35 year founder of a small company in San Francisco. I had never heard of Venmo until recently. The dividing line among my team is around 30 years old. Below 30 -> use Venmo all the time. Above 30 -> never heard of it.
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by shinymark 9y ago
That may be true but tech-wise no casual game I'm aware of needs Metal so the logic doesn't follow. (Specifically casual games that I've played are not pushing performance so a more performant low level API doesn't help.
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by shinymark 9y ago
PAL vs NTSC perhaps?
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by shinymark 9y ago
This description made me chuckle. It reads to me like someone was intentionally concocting the most complex and least efficient method of programming a computer. I come from a game development background and my view on things is admittedly
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by shinymark 10y ago
Agreed. This is why single player game AI can be made fun with simple FSMs and logic models.
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by shinymark 10y ago
Isn't the hosting the commodity part of the equation and the creation of the game where the valuable IP is?
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by shinymark 10y ago
You'd need to contact Disney. They own the IP now.
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by shinymark 10y ago
The price is under NDA but I can say that there is separate, special devkit hardware for PS4 and it costs more than a consumer unit.
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by shinymark 10y ago
Are you confusing the Unity and Unreal engines perhaps?
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by shinymark 10y ago
One counter argument I've considered is industry excitement (I'm a game developer). No one in my network was excited about 3D TVs. No one in my network was excited about the Kinect. Both seem to have failed. Almost everyone in my
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by shinymark 10y ago
I was the producer and an engineer on Grim Fandango Remastered, a remaster of one of the first games to use Lua (2.5, later 3.0 alpha). And the lead engine programmer on the original game in 1998, Bret Mogilefsky, added coroutines to the Lu
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by shinymark 10y ago
In case anyone here hasn't heard of Fig they are crowd funding equity investment into videogames. More info on their site here: https://www.fig.co/
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by shinymark 10y ago
CoD seems highly likely. I can't think of any other idtech 3 engine descendant that is still going in year 2010+.
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by shinymark 10y ago
One funny side effect of this was that dev kits for the PS3 were rack mounted 1U (?) units. As a game developer this was ridiculous because we each had one of these on our desks, usually with a tv sitting directly on top of it. Thankfully t
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by shinymark 10y ago
Yes, it is awful. I've spent significant time in Japan and can't believe how quiet the trains are - including the high-speed bullet trains - compared to the awful screeching of the train I grew up riding: BART.
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by shinymark 10y ago
If it exists anywhere it would be in third party publishing deals where the developer takes an advance on royalties with the possibility of more royalties if the project is profitable. I've been involved in a few deals like this and al
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by shinymark 10y ago
We're using rclone for a nightly offsite backup to Backblaze B2. It's working well for us.
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by shinymark 10y ago
Great question! Perhaps tech related to mp3 compression and miniaturizing storage. I can't name any specific contributors, however. While thinking about this it made me feel like that is an example of a powerful force of history - &quo
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by shinymark 10y ago
I find Mercurial so much easier to use than Git. Many of the concepts are similar but the hg interface feels much easier to learn and use.
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by shinymark 10y ago
If Slack's desktop client was written in efficient C++ using platform specific UI framworks it would likely be one to two orders of magnitude more efficient across all important metrics. Unfortunately the desktop app is basically an en
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by shinymark 10y ago
I've used Scaleform a good amount. It's not 100% compatible with stock Flash but it's pretty darn close in the use cases I've been exposed to. Scaleform has a complex code base but clearly it is possible to reverse engin
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by shinymark 10y ago
Hi, I'm Mark Cooke, CEO of Shiny Shoe and project lead on Merica Match. Our goal with Merica Match was to do a Colbert-esuqe lampooning of the election within the context of what we believe is a high quality casual match-3. In the game
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Show HN: Merica Match – we made a game about the American presidential election(mericamatch.com)
4 points by shinymark 10y ago|1 comments
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by shinymark 10y ago
In the case of DotT a significant amount of the original game code was re-used. Both the C run-time as well as all the original SCUMM code, a domain specific language invented by a team at LucasArts for creating adventure games. On top of t
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by shinymark 10y ago
Nice write-up Cheese! And good work on the Linux port. I'm Mark Cooke, CEO of Shiny Shoe and producer on both the Day of the Tentacle and the Grim Fandango remasters. If anyone has any questions about the production of the remasters I&
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by shinymark 10y ago
Agreed. It seems likely Unity is on the IPO path.
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by shinymark 10y ago
I have no proof for this but I'd guess they are making a lot of their money from their video ad network. By making it super easy to integrate into mobile games built with the engine they get a lot of ad publishers on board easily and c

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