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Re: Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

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This is so much more interesting than it should be. The GIFs must have been a ton of work to put together. Fantastic.

    > This is so much more interesting than it should be.
Is this a sibling expression to "I laughed harder at this than I should have"? It's okay to find things funny and interesting, even superlatively so.

Like zombo.com says, the only limit is yourself.

Re: Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

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Great article. (Unfortunately I had to finish it in w3m because the gifs were so huge.) I remember doing lerp and projected-focus before I knew what they were called. It definitely has more depth than it seems, and as I was reading I was surprised at how much thought went into some of these decisions, especially Super Mario World where I had never noticed it. I suppose it's like UX design -- you only notice it if it'…

How does w3m compare to lynx?

Re: Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

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post #23

Great article. (Unfortunately I had to finish it in w3m because the gifs were so huge.) I remember doing lerp and projected-focus before I knew what they were called. It definitely has more depth than it seems, and as I was reading I was surprised at how much thought went into some of these decisions, especially Super Mario World where I had never noticed it. I suppose it's like UX design -- you only notice it if it'…

How does w3m compare to lynx?

I use it mainly because it defaults to http; I never took the time to actually compare the two.

Re: Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it mainly because it defaults to http; I never took the time to actually compare the two.

What's good in defaulting to http?

I suppose it wasn't as bad as I thought. If you type

    lynx news.ycombinator.com
it tries to "intelligently" choose the news:// protocol, which I have never used and probably never will. With w3m, it just goes to http no matter what the subdomain is.

Re: Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

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post #22
post #5

This is so much more interesting than it should be. The GIFs must have been a ton of work to put together. Fantastic.

> This is so much more interesting than it should be. Is this a sibling expression to "I laughed harder at this than I should have"? It's okay to find things funny and interesting, even superlatively so. Like zombo.com says, the only limit is yourself.

They probably mean "This is so much more interesting than somebody would expect based on a description."

If someone asked me "Do you want to watch a 52 minute talk on how they move the window on side-scrollers?" I would say no. That doesn't sound like it would even be worth talking about.

But it is, and I'm really psyched to watch this video.

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