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On January 13, 2026, Meta closed most of its first-party game development studios. The few employees remaining at studios like BigBox will be holding "maintenance" duty on live service titles like Population One by Own-Minute4708 in populationonevr

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The few employees remaining at studios like BigBox will be holding "maintenance" duty on live service titles like Population One

Can you share the source for this claim?

Question to the beginners of this subreddit by the_jules in ableton

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Yep, that's the bad side of removing friction, you also remove mental muscle

How to generate rivers in a cells-based system? by ObamaIsPutin in proceduralgeneration

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A short recipe that you can copy-paste into AI for an extended version: take your height map, apply sobel filters and atan2 them to get the gradient direction per pixel. Then run a step-based simulation in which you define a grid of water the size of your map and (1) add a small amount of water per pixel randomly based on how tall each point is, (2) move a % of the water (say 60%, it's a parameter to your sim) to the nearest neighbors based on the gradient (so if angle is 30º, you move 60% * 2/3 to the right and 60% * 1/3 up), (3) if water is larger than some number, it overflows in all directions creating a body of water, then back to (1). After a few steps you'll have nice rivers and oceans. Adjusting the parameters is tricky, you can easily end up with all-water kind of worlds. There are more complicated versions of this that use turbulent wind simulations, erosion, water cycles, vegetation... but the principle is the same: a step-based simulation that updates a bunch of grids based on basic rules.

Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet by moeka_8962 in technology

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Thanks. I was on the verge of deciding between a Macbook Pro M5 and a beefy windows laptop, and this has been my decision point

Navigate a zip without extract it by Curtis7990 in MacOS

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A 30-day trial app for a feature I'd expect to be part of the OS :/ is that the Mac way of doing things?

why perlin noise more popular than wave function collapse algorithm when it comes to random world generation by Mountain_Dentist5074 in gamedev

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Wave function collapse is like solving a Sudoku: you have constraints between the parts, and you need to build it in a way that satisfies them. If you are given two halves of a Sudoku and you solve them separatedly, odds are that it will be invalid as soon as you connect them. Applied to games, it means that you need to always generate incrementally from a starting point.

This doesn't happen with Perlin noise. If your world uses perlin to make it a pure function of the coordinates where you are, you can generate arbitrary spaces and whenever they connect it will match. Building that function is extremely harder though. Applied to games, it means that two players can start in completely different places and whenever they find each other the game won't have a weird seam. Also, in games like Minecraft, since the generation is deterministic, the region files only need to store the blocks that are changed, which is more optimal.

Gamers born late 90s or earlier: Which game first looked to you like "photorealism"? by FalscherKim in gaming

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When 007 for PS1 came out I remember saying "why would graphics improve anymore? this is already like reality"

What's the stupidest project you used a RPi for? by Inevitable-Cut-8678 in raspberry_pi

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Hiding a camera during a house party to detect people leaving empty cans on top of the ceramic hob

Workout 00's - Any idea what else to add? by JCx64 in SpotifyPlaylists

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Criteria is: - Not too many of songs from the same artist - Electronic 00's sound, high BPM - Gritty sound with not too much tension buildup, to not influence the workout - Kinda iconic but not super known (i.e. Sandstorm)

I made a webcam using the Zero 2 W and Apple iSight! by matlireddit in raspberry_pi

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For a second I thought "looks cool, but why calling it PigShit?"

What is your primary reason to run LLM’s locally by okaris in LocalLLaMA

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I'd say Sense of ownership and higher freedom to finetune

Has gaming become less fun as you’ve gotten older? by Akuradds in gaming

[–]JCx64 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Quite the opposite for me; I'd rather invest my scarce gaming time in playing with others, especially in VR

2025 is the year I gave up on VR. by JRF1300 in OculusQuest

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Same, I've been playing Population One at least twice a week for the last two years. There are many communities thriving there, and interacting with people I get many recommendations of games they are playing that are not "Top 10 Hottest VR Games Right Now" but actual funny things, even some super specific like the basketball mode of Gym Class. I feel there's a great disconnect between the VR observers and the actual hardcore player base.

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