timknauf

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by timknauf 15y ago
Yeah, iOS device GPUs support lossy texture compression in the form of PVRTC. There's no lossless texture compression support, as far as I know. (I'm talking in-memory here, obviously, not on disk as PNG or JPEG or whatever else.)
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by timknauf 15y ago
100K is the salary for one developer at a large game company in North America. There are tons of us indies around the world running a lot leaner, so to speak.
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by timknauf 15y ago
I believe the idea is that the Wiimote will continue to be used alongside the new controller in e.g. local multiplayer games. At least, that's what they had set up in some of their E3 demos last year.
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by timknauf 15y ago
Well, Netflix still isn't available to most of the world (even with its recent international expansions), so I wouldn't say that everyone is happy just yet. And I'm sure it's not technical issues that make going truly global so difficult
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by timknauf 15y ago
And, at least for the foreseeable future, there are going to be people for whom it is very difficult to pay for the content rather than pirate it (e.g. kids, teenagers, folks in countries without an online payments infrastructure etc.).
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by timknauf 15y ago
Yep, that option was added after I posted.
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by timknauf 15y ago
Agreed. As a New Zealander I guess I would technically fall into 'Asia/Pacific', but I can't bring myself to choose that because NZ has next to nothing in common with any Asian nation. Consider providing the regional option of 'Australasia'
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by timknauf 15y ago
But how are those log messages, transcripts and large tables all that much better off under the current system? If a console is only 80 characters wide, they're still going to either disappear off the right edge or (as with most consoles I
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by timknauf 15y ago
I'm curious about this: please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about 74 characters or so How come word-wrapping is left as a task for humans here? Is there a technical/stylistic/cultural reason why lines can't be wrapped
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by timknauf 15y ago
I think the big deal is supposed to be the incredible level of detail apparently achieved without being all that taxing on the hardware (though the jury is out on whether it's some sort of trickery - it sounds too good to be true). Edit: Th
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by timknauf 15y ago
Their polygon-to-voxel technology is a sideline, I believe, and it doesn't sound like it's realtime.
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by timknauf 15y ago
I can see how animations might be difficult, depending on what sort of data structure one uses to store the voxel data. But why would you not be able to see the same object from different angles?
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Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine(gameinformer.com)
119 points by timknauf 15y ago|89 comments
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by timknauf 15y ago
I'm surprised at the piracy entitlement too, and as a content creator, I don't condone it myself. But please understand that this kind of situation - new Arrested Development only available to US citizens - is incredibly frustrating for t
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by timknauf 15y ago
The only exception? How about the billions of us living someone else in the world other than the US?
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by timknauf 15y ago
That didn't stop them making a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
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by timknauf 15y ago
And they even have a few customers outside the USA. ;)
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by timknauf 15y ago
We're just across the Tasman from you, and have experienced the exact same thing with our games startup. When my (admittedly modest, even by Kiwi standards) co-founder was over at E3, he reportedly initally caused great confusion amongst Ca
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by timknauf 15y ago
For the first three or so I could de-select by clicking elsewhere, but then it no longer worked. My Google Chrome version string is "14.0.835.202 (Official Build 103287) m". I'm currently on a Windows machine.
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by timknauf 15y ago
The original Words With Friends app was, of course, developed before Newtoy were acquired by Zynga. Fortunately, the social DNA (and polish) of the game has remained intact.
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Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period [2007](techdirt.com)
1 points by timknauf 15y ago|0 comments
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by timknauf 15y ago
But isn't that a much more active way of enjoying music than just sitting listening to it? Rock Band, Guitar Hero and their ilk have imparted an active sense of rhythm, at the very least, to millions of players. And in the case of the Pro E
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by timknauf 15y ago
MacBook Pros have substantially better GPUs than straight MacBooks.
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by timknauf 15y ago
Not that I downvoted you, but is it because no-one else is able to spot any errors?
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by timknauf 15y ago
You're doing fine. Just don't panic about downvotes so loudly -- that's one thing that is considered bad form, if I remember correctly.
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by timknauf 15y ago
Glasgow may have a self-deprecating culture similar to that here in New Zealand. We've had to learn the hard way to be -- by our local standards -- incredibly pushy. Hopefully my business partner won't mind me quoting an article he wrote fo
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by timknauf 15y ago
You must have a keener eye than me: where were these errors?
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by timknauf 15y ago
Edge Magazine tends to be keen on these at-first-glance-misleading pun headlines.
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by timknauf 15y ago
True, although my impression is that in most startups the folks putting in long hours actually own company stock and are hoping for a huge pay-off eventually.
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by timknauf 15y ago
Don't underestimate the power games have to give a platform staying power. The prevailing sentiment in past discussions here has often been that games are interchangeable distractions, but there's a big portion of the public that is incredi

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