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It’s also worth noting that the EA studio that makes FIFA has been continuously doing so for over twenty years. It’s not being handed off between studios and rebuild operational ex…

Claire makes a good point about standards improving require people complaining about their faults. Those gripes affect the discourse!

I send around 20 a year. Checking the mail is relatively monotonous for people, so receiving one is like a lucky gacha pull in today’s world. Since they’re so memorable, it’s usual…

I think the big reason they get such good framerates is their conservatism with shader counts. A staff member mentions that in an interview with DigitalFoundry for Doom: The Dark A…

You’re certainly right, especially for the AAA games coming off the presses, but it’s not always true with certain indie games, especially if they’re doing a physical print run lon…

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If that were the case, I think we would have already seen a turbocharged AI fork of Godot by now. Or, if the machine-generated programming is that good, it shouldn’t be prohibitive…

> In my opinion, disc based games have been a ridiculous way to sell modern games because they are physically incapable of storing the amount of game data required for modern AAA g…

I don’t have a horse in the race and I’m speaking from ignorance, but I noticed that Valve’s offering only requires 300W of power. That sounds very appealing for the sort of games …

This is often win-win as the junior ends up with a robust list of resume bullets that help push their career forward.

Reconciling is my least favourite part. It always feels like everyone’s checkout is a unique blend of local files and permissions you have to fix up now and then. It can be hard to…

I remember the Wii U browser’s MP4 playback being surprisingly helpful. Running the `http-server` npm package, I was able to get video from my laptop to the TV in a pinch. Adding i…

I’ve seen bounties for re-adding C# to web exports to Godot 4. [1] It’s something that’s had some technical roadblocks for the engine’s developers, and looks like it might take a b…

I don’t have diabetes, but I’ve heard from people with T1 that Welch’s work well for the reasons you mentioned. When I browse the candy aisle at the store, I often wonder if certai…

I’ve noticed something similar with vibecoded game rendering logic submitted by peers. Sometimes it will be peppered with extraneous checks for nullptr, or early returns on texture…

Please elaborate, poopmonster! What sort of skills are required to expertly use an LLM?

Yeah, I’m quite surprised at this comment. Commercial video games are mass-produced products, and as much as I dislike designers being bogged down in technical minutiae, having a s…

I’ve been using COSMIC on a spare laptop, and enjoying it, but I’m stuck on 22.04 until their Iced rebase finishes and have IME working. [1] Making a new DE plus compositor is a lo…

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “organized criminals”? I hope you’re not poisoning the well! I ask this as someone who has no love or support for the Liberals.

I’ve only seen that movie on an old MacBook about a decade ago, but I can certainly believe it’d be a treat seeing it the way you mention. Funny enough, I want to see a version of …

My unfounded hunch for the computing bit is that home computers became more and more commonplace in the home as we approached the 21st century. A Commodore 64 was a cool gadget, bu…

Super Mario 64 is a video game that’s had a lot of rereleases, both official and unofficial. I sometimes wonder if the most people who have experienced it did in a way that wasn’t …

Can you elaborate on the “partially correct” bit? I’d like to understand the programming of the ROM better.