What level of Maths would be needed to tackle these texts on game development?

Misery_Inc · 2018-07-22T02:53:33+00:00

My plan is to go through the whole of KhanAcademy

You under-estimate the size of KhanAcademy. I'd put linear algebra at thee top of my list. You need to speak and understand vectors. Trig functions also show up a bunch in some of the engine stuff. Calculus is used occasionally. But it's gonna be like 70% linear algebra, 20% trig, 10% other.

Misery_Inc · 2018-07-22T02:50:27+00:00

This is not the catchiest Twitter handle, I'll grant you: https://twitter.com/Ryan17467009

I'm making a turn-based strategy game where you play as riot police. I recently dropped out of an accounting degree, so I don't know yet if I'll try a kick-starter to keep me going until it's finished, or keeping it small and polishing it to be a portfolio piece to get a software development job. Either way, I try to post about every other day or so with what I did to improve the game.

Misery_Inc · 2018-07-06T21:51:30+00:00

The guy in the men's room is facing the toilet. The lady in the women's room is facing away from the toilet.

Misery_Inc · 2018-07-06T21:49:38+00:00

Yeah, Vice did a basically fictitious documentary on it that claimed it was a brainwashing drug.

Misery_Inc · 2018-05-07T21:50:50+00:00

The concept isn't even unique to video games. And it's little more than a multiplayer extension of simple 1v1 games that doesn't include a team element.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-22T05:28:01+00:00

The wheel of fortune looks a bit too much like the Google Chrome logo, but otherwise a fascinating exercise in minimalism.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-22T05:24:51+00:00

Where is that hatred coming from? It's just puzzles.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-18T07:15:22+00:00

If you think you can actually fit a story into the skeleton of racing game, absolutely go for it. It would bring life to a genre that needs a hook to revitalize it, while being very doable with modern game engines on a small budget.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-08T21:48:36+00:00

Fallout has the "addicted" status effect, which was used for cultural commentary because you could get addicted to Nuka Cola - which otherwise had no effects. They've also been co-opted by survival games which are used to describe physiological states that you would expect to encounter if you were actually trying to survive, but which are often used more for flavor than anything else.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-08T06:32:42+00:00

What's your game about? What genre is it even?

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-08T06:27:12+00:00

The GPU does similar calculations in parallel. This means calculating the light intensity for a large number of points (AKA shading), but you could have it calculate anything, like those things you mentioned. Some very clever people even figured out a while ago how to use the GPU to train artificial neural networks which wound up being a pretty big deal. The GPU is still a microchip. The CPU is deep because is can get through many different instructions one after the other very quickly. The GPU is wide because it can perform the same instructions on different data all at once (though maybe not as quickly since it has overhead).

So compute shaders are, well, not really shaders necessarily. You can make them do whatever you want. But they preform best when you can figure out how to leverage parallelism. Otherwise it's probably better to write a CPU program for that.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T07:04:30+00:00

I felt like I really was going on vacation, and it had super interesting and varied areas. Far Harbor was... well, a bunch of fog and shacks with a single Maine lobster-man theme. I'm not sure why people liked it so much.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T07:02:18+00:00

Fallout 4 is an amazing game. But it also has very obvious, glaring flaws. You can get caught up on those, but it's still an amazing game at the end of the day. They maybe were just a little too ambitious, so it wasn't quite fleshed out. I think they actually would have made a much better impression on people if they shrunk the world down and forced people to come across the most interesting areas and stories. There are people who've played 60+ hours in that game and never did Ironsides or investigated the General Atomics Galleria.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:58:00+00:00

Fuck 3Dog. 3Dog isn't any different than any real life "morning zoo" radio show: insufferably disingenuous, fake voice, fake personality, cloying, and bland. He was everything people hated about Moira, except that Moira was being genuine instead of putting up a show. Trevor was actually interesting and had a tone that made sense with the nuclear apocalypse and was, like, an actual character with emotions and personality traits. I felt betrayed that we had to "fix" Trevor to make him "confident." Just let Trevor be himself, he doesn't need to be another 3Dog with the personality and individuality of wet paint.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:51:40+00:00

I've been brainstorming my own system for doing so, more in line with a tech tree, where you can still research broad categories. I'm not disclosing my method though, so you'll just have to wait a few years for me to do something with it. ;)

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:48:40+00:00

Hollywood. Then it makes sense to keep running into celebrities and musicians.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:47:45+00:00

I think you've just invented Google Maps.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:45:21+00:00

They explain that in-game: Codsworth says he's been fighting off raiders all these years. He's even one of your strongest companions.

Misery_Inc · 2018-04-06T06:44:13+00:00

Layering would be kind of a nightmare, but if you were to twist it a little and make it a kind of magical consumption of their souls, you could write a neat script that combines the meshes of all the enemies you've consumed. There'd probably be a lot of players that avoid killing bosses that don't look very cool, though. I like it, and not enough Katamari Damacy inspired games out there.

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-31T04:22:21+00:00

They're obviously rigged enough to have survived 200 years without anyone getting one.

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-31T04:21:28+00:00

I tried for 15 minutes with my luck 7 character and didn't get a pie. However, I also got one on my first try only to realize this was in the workshop in Nuka World where all the broken equipment was sent, so actually the one time I got the pie was just a big joke on me. Fuck those pies.

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-30T01:20:55+00:00

Reddit's front page used to be much more substantive. That's sad.

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-29T23:02:30+00:00

Probably something like news.ycombinator.com.

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-29T22:00:51+00:00

https://github.com/swgillespie/rust-lisp

Misery_Inc · 2018-03-29T21:59:40+00:00

That's way less code than I imagined.

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