vertexmachina

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by vertexmachina 6mo ago
They have a very complicated and robust pipeline that generates all of those LODs automatically. The artists aren't manually creating them.
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
In my experience, Chinese people are thrilled when non-Chinese people speak their language (even poorly), probably because it's pretty rare. But yes, the tones are the hard part. The grammar is straight forward and similar to English,
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
For a job at a small new game studio, first there was a slightly technical but mostly informal chat with a Director of Engineering where he asked me about things from my resume and my website (I keep a blog where I write about side projects
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
A lot of what this article talks about rings true in a presentation I watched recently by the team at Weta Digital which did the VFX for The Batman They talked about, among other things, how they had to: - digitally replace the stunt man&#x
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
I'm in the middle of this book at the moment and I have mixed feelings on it. It's definitely well-written and you can feel the love and care that went into producing it. But I think it would have been stronger had Nystrom skipped
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
A detective game that actually makes you feel like a detective. That means gathering clues, using deduction, and making accusations. Game Maker's Toolkit has a really good video on why it's difficult: https://www.youtub
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by vertexmachina 4y ago
I long for this as well. I adore the first few hours of the original Metroid Prime where you wander an alien planet discovering new things for the first time: new plants, new animals, strange Chozo artifacts. Some of them want to kill you;
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by vertexmachina 6y ago
I'm currently playing through the old Zelda games that don't provide an in-game map. This looks like it could be useful.
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by vertexmachina 7y ago
I think he/she means by using amzn.to you are hiding the fact that the links are affiliate links.
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The Fear of Inadequacy(austinmorlan.com)
1 points by vertexmachina 7y ago|0 comments
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by vertexmachina 7y ago
I agree. I still very much consider myself junior but someone I know with less experience than me just recently got a job with "senior" in the title. I have seen senior job postings that say something like "3+ years of experi
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by vertexmachina 7y ago
Fantastic book. I learned everything it covers in college, but the way it masterfully connects them all together is incredible and made connections in my brain that I didn't have before. There's also something satisfying about see