Viewing profile — mguillemot

4.5 jô (= size of a tatami), which is the unit of surface most commonly used for apartments in Japan. 1 jô = a little less than 2 m^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami (section…

I'll keep that in mind! (I'm sure there will be many mistakes on the road ^^') In the meantime, my Twitter is in my profile, and I'm pretty sure I'll post a few snaps here and ther…

In 2017 I want to move my digital electronics skills from "patching together 30 years old ICs on a breadboard while playing with devkits" to "designing a simple board with modern c…

I have tinnitus and headphones (especially noise-cancelling ones) are living hell to me.

Well... The consensus is that RethinkDB is technically superior (and much more pleasant to use), but unfortunately that doesn't prevent it from being in a hard position business-wi…

In my experience (10 years living in Japan) it's actually extremely easy to do bank transfers, so easy that actually many people use bank transfer to pay for online purchases. It d…

I think you refer to this video: https://youtu.be/BBbv1ej0fFo?t=3m40s (bookmarked at the start of the talk about system programming)

I am a very happy user of Phoenix myself, and also a MMO game programmer, and unfortunately I can say with confidence that you won't implement a real-time MMO FPS on top of Phoenix…

As a "bilingual Japanese/English engineer who has startup-compatible risk tolerances, is comfortable working in a bicultural environment under a minimum amount of supervision, can …

I'm working on a PC game and spoke to a lot of potential investors, and this is spot on. "Funding an original game that has already proved itself by actual sales, on a proven and s…

We are launching our MMO Gangs of Space on Game Boy! https://www.gangsofspace.com/en

SEEKING WORK - Tokyo (Japan) - remote possible French developer living in Japan. I have 10 years of professional experience in game and web development (and 10 more years of playin…

I think this is a common issue when reading materials not in your native language. I can read a book written in French at least twice faster than the same book written in English, …

This is where I make my obligatory comment about the game I've been developing on my own for 2+ years: Gangs of Space. It is heavily inspired by EVE Online, more arcade-oriented (b…

Well, if you take lessons from your failures, you end up in a better position after each one. So it's definitely not like flipping a coin with independant outcomes.

https://www.gangsofspace.com/en It's an action-oriented shmup/MMO which feels a bit like EVE Online on steroids. It is cool because all the game industry AAA developers have been p…

Any PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) sold in the last 5 years should be fine (might want ~600 Mb free RAM when a lot of players play at the same spot, but that's all). Up-to-date graphic dri…

Shameless plug: if you think you'd enjoy EVE but are put off by the time necessary to get "into" it, or are just curious about alternative MMOs that are not WoW clones, I encourage…

My craziest bug was a Java clock issue. If you had some specific model of motherboard, calling System.getCurrentTimeMillis() repetitively could actually make your system clock run …

I agree with the author, but I think you need to look a bit further behind the common advices for their reason to be. People tell you to make small games because they've seen so ma…

Distributed systems, I think.

I did way better than I expected last time for my first entry in the contest, with my Legend of Epikouros ( http://tenseconds.npng.org/ for the curious). Now I feel that I cannot t…

The Legend of Epikouros - a Zelda-like Relay Marathon http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I made this in 30-ish hours for the compo. Client is made with…