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So the solution is to build applications around less of a common base? I don't follow the logic, with respect to Zed. I get what you mean if there's a first-party UI solution in yo…

I haven't worked on screen reader support, yet. Support for alternative text input is built into SDL. UI size scaling is a feature I plan on adding eventually.

In 2020, I started working on a (C++) game engine. Since the only decent open-source UI option was Dear ImGui (which was obviously a bad choice for consumer-facing UIs), I ended up…

I transitioned from a "normal" keyboard to a Glove80 last year. I immediately didn't like using the standard layout, so I switched to Colemak-DH which I've found pretty comfortable…

I've heard The Audio Programmer discord is a great resource for this sort of thing. Worth checking out: https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/

For 25-player lobbies and some persistent state, I can't help but feel it's over-engineered. Certainly many games (including popular mmos) have been made with much less. This seems…

I made a video series on networking theory for virtual worlds that has been well received: https://youtu.be/0wOZusuMIIM I've also been working on an engine for the past few years i…

I've thought a bit about how I would add text-based procedural generation to my virtual world engine (I would love to have an "edit a book to change the world" experience, like Mys…

Popular games switching from pub servers to matchmade 5v5/6v6 bums me out. It feels like it was just done to chase esports money, and it's such a worse casual experience. Way more …

Man, the negative sentiment on this site towards C++ is pretty alien to me. C++ is (I'm guessing) currently holding up an order of magnitude more applications than whatever you thi…

In the other direction, the "all fields at default value serializes as size 0 message that you can't send" behavior has been an unending annoyance since switching to proto3.

That's a really good idea. I've been thinking of what I could do as the first little reference project after I split up the engine and project code. I think a small world with text…

I'm speaking mostly to the design of our virtual worlds. New tech is certainly interesting, but I feel we're trying to build a roof before the walls. For example, compared to comme…

All credit to https://kenney.nl/ for the art. These free isometric assets have been invaluable during development, and they look great! Good point about the sprite editor. I've bee…

It's worth saying that, by far, most of the processor time goes towards the networking (serializing, compressing, sending, receiving). Specifically with the game loop though, the i…

Hey all, Net_ here. Virtual worlds are really important to me. They've helped me through a lot of tough times, and I think they're a necessary part of our future. Unfortunately, th…