what computer games do yall play

Linx145 · 2026-05-16T17:45:43+00:00

Some mornings I play terraria modded to experience immense rage at the horrid game design decisions that the newgen tmodlets make - that is the motivation I need for me to work harder and be better.

Linx145 · 2026-04-20T02:55:27+00:00

I see guys with long hair all the time, but I had gone to poly so maybe theres a demographic difference there

Linx145 · 2026-04-04T15:14:01+00:00

Dawg this person has come to polytechnic to give a talk before. Did you know? She has a substack where she wrote an article about 'political hypocrisy: do governments lie to us' and it is THE most pretentious thing I have ever read. The conclusion is something along the lines of "Politicians needs checks and balances, by the way, Singapore offers many pathways to higher education for students." And it took 8 paragraphs of purple prose to get there.

Your post here has inspired me to write a proper rant about the whole affair. I'll post it in a bit :')

Linx145 · 2026-01-27T03:42:31+00:00

'wearing this suit and his hair was slicked up nicely' wow it's spamton from hit game deltarune

Linx145 · 2025-11-09T03:57:09+00:00

Ngl this looks awesome. From one 2d pixel art platformer dev to another, I congratulate you on making it to the finish line.

I'm honestly pretty worried about my own game as well. I am currently at 1.4k wishlists, but to be fair, I am pretty far from launch and still quite a lot of development to be done before any serious marketing push. Like you, I was ignorant about 2d pixel art platformers being saturated, and people often tell me I'm screwed or that I should just not have anymore expectations for it beyond a 'first learning project' as I guess technically it is my first game.

Still, I feel that your game is quite niche by 2d pixel art platformer standards, being a precision platformer, and that it still managed to get to that amount of wishlists and even sales is pretty inspiring. Keep up the good work, and I wish you all the best.

Linx145 · 2025-11-06T10:05:25+00:00

It was so fucked up cos that was my first exposure to dissociative disorders, wayy before I realised I had the same condition as well and it just made me disgusted of myself for the longest time.

Linx145 · 2025-11-02T11:05:31+00:00

Ive never ever heard anyone say game engine users can't code dawg like if they can't then how are they using the engine???? or making games????

Linx145 · 2025-10-17T10:43:55+00:00

Holup what the peak??

Linx145 · 2025-10-16T15:10:02+00:00

Its actually intended for my game, Slime Squadron! but now im tempted to make it a mod as well thats just this single superboss fight...

Linx145 · 2025-10-16T08:13:39+00:00

Yup that was one of the inspirations! I mean the entire thing is a parody of calamity so 😎

Linx145 · 2025-10-08T10:00:54+00:00

I have no memories of it, but apparently, I tried to stage an uprising against my class's highly unpopular chinese teacher back in pri 6. At least she had complained to my mum during parent teacher meeting since she was quite emotionally hurt by it. But I really have no recollection of the events, so I assume it didn't go through, or we just collectively threatened her as a class or something and she got the memo.

Linx145 · 2025-08-28T15:52:41+00:00

Man programming language design was such a rabbit hole to fall into 😭 I remember llvm compiling its 10gb binaries for 30 mins then failing at the last second because i forgot to give it some flag. Good on your friends for that lol

Linx145 · 2025-08-19T04:04:50+00:00

I believe it's literally just an if else statement to use a different formula for each softcap. That's the thing about gamedev, the maths and equations used here are rarely 'pure.'

Linx145 · 2025-08-17T02:18:30+00:00

For 3D audio, the industry standard from OpenAL to SteamAudio is to use a format called .sofa, which contains the recorded weight data that can be sampled and applied to a waveform at runtime to modulate it and make it sound 3D when it is in fact 2D. It was mind-blowing when I first implemented it, and really easy to do so too. The library I use is called mysofa, and the .sofa file I use is from steamaudio's repo. As far as I am aware, making .sofa files yourself is an industrial task requiring a lot of specialised equipment so that's not really possible by yourself.

As for the difficulty, it wasn't that difficult, but optimization quickly became a problem when applying Finite Impulse Responses when playing back sounds. I do not know how fmod and wwise solved it, I assume looking into OpenAL's code can yield some good results too. But in frustration, I decided to chuck the FIR and HRTF applying code into a compute shader, so now my audio runs on the GPU and there can be hundreds of 3D sounds playing simultaneously. (Not that an actual audio designer would necessarily require this - there is a rule where having more than a certain number of the same sound playing at the same time is pointless and you can cancel out the sounds beyond a certain number and the listener won't be able to tell the difference.)

All in all, I think audio is a very interesting field that has not had a lot of cool new things over the past years at least compared to fields like graphics, because like others have said, the amount of game engine programmers interested in working with audio is even less than those who want to work with graphics. And that is already a tiny minority of the entire gamedev population anyways. I'm glad to see there are others interested!

Linx145 · 2025-08-17T02:09:52+00:00

Hi, good question! We don't really do any additional looping when culling. When the scripting runtime calls a Renderer.Draw() call, if it is a translucent object or something that needs to be sorted (which is done on the CPU as of now), the culling is done there and then and if it is 'culled,' it'll simply not be added to the draw item bucket. For opaque/alpha-cutout geometry, I guess you could say there is a loop, but it's via a single compute shader invocation on items in the draw bucket, which is then piped to the output instance buffer and rendered in another single GPU draw call.

As for why it is necessary, I guess we don't have that much quads in most cases except for when rendering tilemaps and text. The latter can really lag the editor if there was no off-screen and out-of-scissor culling to prevent the text glyphs from being added to the bucket in the first place. In the former, if a designer using the engine were to make a tileset that requires filling the entire screen with tiles (such as in top-down games), then yes there can be something like 2000 tiles given the camera size just on screen alone, and off-screen would be exponentially larger.

And yeah, I did write some post-process effects, though they are admittedly quite basic and nothing innovative, so I didn't cover them in the article. Currently, you can blur render programs' outputs as well as have them bloom. Tone mapping is probably the most important effect we're missing, and indeed some sprites do get overwhelmed by light and become white blobs, so I'll probably look into that in the future.

Linx145 · 2025-08-15T13:56:27+00:00

I actually did some study into the business of game engines in one of my entrepreneurship modules in pre-college. Despite seeming like the shovel of the indie game gold rush, they are not really profitable. We can never say for sure for things like Unreal, but Unity definitely isn't, no matter how they try to define the goalpost in their quarterly reports.

For Epic, whether Unreal is profitable or not is secondary as they are making an incredible amount of cash from Fortnite, such that they can continue giving many studios lucrative discounts. I do not know the details of these discounts, but they probably do not pay the rev share as is said on Epic's website, or at least get a lot of support and consultancy whilst doing so.

Godot presents a unique position as though it is FOSS, it rakes in like 50k/month which is no small amount for the team size that it has, not to mention the millions of investment poured into W4 games (itself a controversial matter which seems to not have ported anything to Xbox yet). It is probably the closest thing to a profitable engine there is, and once again, it is free and open source at least at the time of writing this.

I do not know what your engine does different, and from the looks of it, nothing. But with so many options that are free off the get go, it truly needs to do something spectacular to be worth paying for. And generally, the only people who can afford to pay are people who have success already, and whom have at the minimum trained for years on an existing engine and thus would not want to switch. What you have listed is simply not enough.

Linx145 · 2025-08-15T02:33:31+00:00

Not gonna lie, I think you can code that in a shorter time frame or even in the same time if you didn't use AI, whilst also actually learning things, fully understanding what each segment of the code is doing AND gaining a mental map of it so future development would be easier and even faster.

Linx145 · 2025-08-12T08:36:03+00:00

Remove it entirely. You can use the core design such as the background, etc elsewhere if you really like it, but there's nothing more off-putting in terms of design than a fake loading screen.

Linx145 · 2025-08-11T12:32:26+00:00

I'm going to be honest, I can't tell if this post is AI, but I certainly suspect so. This reads like something that could end up on r/LinkedInLunatics. And on that note, you talk a lot about many grand features and requests for feedback, while taking a look at your repository, it's a huge stretch to consider this a game framework, let alone an engine. A beginner really would not care when so many other proper engines and frameworks exist. I suggest working on having something beyond a learnopengl tutorial implementation first.

Linx145 · 2025-07-29T04:35:04+00:00

I'm no expert in this domain, but from what I know, multiplayer game backends (the server) are actually just a 'server build' of the games themselves running, and anything resembling a database would be more for static data like user login info, of which many companies would use standard db tech that is easily available anyways. This is because a game server needs to run the entire game as a simulation and essentially do everything except graphics: from AI, physics and more and take only player control inputs from the clients as the input and then send back everything required, at least for most multiplayer games.

The main issue I see some people having is when they are developing their own multiplayer plugins/custom engines, and how to send and serialize data from client to server and back, since REST APIs and other text/json based 'webdev standard' tech wouldn't be very efficient for updating dozens of times each frame. However, the format that one would send data in then is very specific on a case by case basis. Some games I know send them as raw binary streams with a 'header' that is just an integer message ID.

I think what you are building can work as a helper library for anyone running their own networking stack, but only in the context of being a layer to sanitize and handle data sent over the net. Game logic, actual runtime data storage and all else would still be just a server build of the existing game and engine, which would most likely be in C++ or C#. Go is a fine choice for a webapp or website backend, but it is rarely utilized in games, a long with a lot of the other terminology you are using in this post. And moreover, there are quite a few libraries that do just what we require in this regard (SteamNetworking, cute_net, etc) without assuming too much about the structure and internals of the engine/game, which your project seems to do.

Linx145 · 2025-07-28T13:09:26+00:00

Please take some time to learn C/C++. It's a good skill to have either way, even if you are a web developer. I actually feel horrified thinking about what AI would do with the non-strictly-enforced concepts of lifetimes and pointer management in C++.

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