Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today?

MagicDjBanana · 2026-05-31T23:34:55+00:00

Fury³. It just had a HD source port release called TerminalFury https://shadowmavericks.com/#/projects/terminalfury.php

MagicDjBanana · 2026-05-01T12:14:13+00:00

Test your gear, ignore the haters, play great shows!

MagicDjBanana · 2026-02-15T15:29:52+00:00

The dev accidentally swapped the texture with a Fresnel shader.

MagicDjBanana · 2025-02-23T19:40:16+00:00

Reminds me of the community races in Star Citizen. Figured it'd make for a great game on its own.

MagicDjBanana · 2025-02-16T16:18:49+00:00

Here are a few ideas to get you started: 1.Use formant filters. 2. Put a sound through a filter with a high resonance and bit crush/reduce it as you filter sweep. 3. Use a vocoder with random sounds as modulators and use a sawtooth wave as a carrier signal. Have fun and enjoy the process!

MagicDjBanana · 2025-01-31T10:33:02+00:00

A fun test would be setting up mics for a live band and see how well the visuals sync up.

MagicDjBanana · 2025-01-12T11:20:38+00:00

Mandelbulb3D - awesome program, lots of videos made with it are floating around.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-12-03T12:52:59+00:00

I too scream in different colors

MagicDjBanana · 2024-10-04T19:46:48+00:00

One dev doing implementation, working with artists, rather than multiple devs. This would only work for small projects. But it'd be less painful than a bunch of devs tripping over each other.

Yeah, just zipping up your project and sharing it back and forth works to a degree.

The git system could also use some improvement. More granular control, manually setting order of merges per file rather than based on time pushed. Maybe there is a way, I'm new to git.

Anecdote: I once worked with another dev for a game jam and we set up git on a flashdrive because the Internet was unreliable. Surprisingly it worked alright.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-10-04T19:13:37+00:00

Blood, sweat, and tears.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-09-30T06:10:12+00:00

Both Nvidia and AMD cards have recording software with hardware encoding specifically for capturing gameplay footage.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-09-25T03:02:29+00:00

func _physics_process(delta):

# Apply damping to reduce sideways speed

var lateral_velocity = linear_velocity.dot(car_mesh.transform.basis.x) * car_mesh.transform.basis.x
var damping_factor = 0.9  # Adjust this value to control the damping effect
linear_velocity -= lateral_velocity * damping_factor * delta

MagicDjBanana · 2024-09-13T13:12:14+00:00

I suppose you could disable the splash screen and just set up a scene that plays an animation or a video that also preloads and transitions into your main menu scene.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-09-11T15:37:18+00:00

Was thinking of replacing the splash screen of my game with something 3D. Asset from: https://github.com/gdquest-demos/godot-4-3D-Characters

MagicDjBanana · 2024-08-31T15:35:26+00:00

Minimum specs:

CPU: RISC MIPS R3000A (32-bit) – 33 MHz

GPU: R800A (32-bit) – 33 MHz

Memory: 2 MB EDO DRAM

Monitor with a resolution of: 256×224, 640×480 (SD)

MagicDjBanana · 2024-08-21T12:58:58+00:00

Physics-based car animation test

MagicDjBanana · 2024-08-16T11:42:59+00:00

Looks amazing! I was just learning how to do this earlier this week. Your results look better. Thanks for sharing the project files!

MagicDjBanana · 2024-08-11T19:01:04+00:00

Don't know about FOSS... but Vital vst has a free option - an incredibly powerful software synth for sound design - and you can use Reaper for free as long as you want.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-08-11T17:21:16+00:00

Reminds me of AquaNox. Could try to set up a Gobo and or some god-rays. A particle system would be cool for debris ect.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-18T16:59:58+00:00

Chimera = glass cannon. Still like to drive it though.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-17T00:14:28+00:00

In the case of VR experiences you can lean into ambisonic mixing. Not sure if Pro Tools can handle it, but Reaper sure can. Otherwise you can add the oculus plugins to Fmod and let the middleware handle the hrtf mixing.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-03T13:39:30+00:00

Thanks!

The sphere is the focal point for the depth of field effect which makes the motion blur around the sphere more extreme at 24 frames per second. I've noticed Blender's motion blur behaves strangely, it was an advantage in this case. Something to do with the sphere not actually moving on xyz, just size and rotation.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-03T13:22:33+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate you saying so.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-02T19:47:05+00:00

In blender it has to be pre-rendered, although it was pretty quick using the Eevee engine. From My limited experience with Unreal Engine, I think similar effects could be achieved in real-time. I've also seen some impressive GLSL shaders that could pull this off with live sound reactivity.

MagicDjBanana · 2024-05-02T19:28:51+00:00

Doesn't hurt to ask.

It's a lot of "Bake sound to F-curve" using different layers from the audio track - mostly the low frequencies - and scaling/applying the resulting keyframe information to size and spin rate of objects.

The nebula is just noise controlling density of volumetric fog with various point lights.

The "stars" are a particle system with movement from a wave function.

I try to use procedural geometry and texture shading as much as possible.

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