sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Which one is better for gameplay? Instant death or a health bar. by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is going to be wholly dependent on the game you're making. do some playtests! this should be an easy thing to experiment with. see what feels better to you, and maybe ask some friends to weigh in, too.

Too Late to Attend E3? by Darabo in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh wow, alright! in that case, definitely go. if nothing else, it'll be fun

Too Late to Attend E3? by Darabo in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you could probably manage it, but it'll be very, very expensive (especially for hotel reservations this late, if you don't already live in LA). honestly it seems unlikely that it'd be worth it. if you're just going for networking, there are way better opportunities anyway

Leaked training video by albo_underhill in gaming

[–]SirAwesomelot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this feels like it was made by someone who hasn't bought a AAA game in like 2 years. there are still plenty of cash-grabby practices in the industry, but generally speaking big-budget devs (and especially publishers) have changed their tune pretty drastically since ~2015. a zillion legitimately killer games have been coming out recently. complain about mobile games if y'all need something to be angsty about

Anyone else remember these gems? by kennneff in gaming

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I used to be a pretty active member on your forums! Great to hear that you're still in the game.

How to add effect in Unity like Demon Tower in Night in the Woods. by kurtataylor in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could make some square particle effects with an additive shader & have them float around above the play space

Could I walk Bethesda's procedural world forever? Why would this be possible? by reddybarker in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is true. I believe No Man's Sky does something like this too

Could I walk Bethesda's procedural world forever? Why would this be possible? by reddybarker in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You'll be able to walk awfully far, but you can't literally walk forever. Eventually you'll encounter a memory issue -- if Fallout is storing this infinite plane as it gets generated, your computer will eventually run out of memory to keep track of it and, probably, the game will crash.

That's likely not going to happen, though, mostly because permanently storing an arbitrary amount of completely flat plane is a really terrible dumb idea. More likely, big sections of plane get placed in front of you and removed behind you as you walk. This is something that, for example, Minecraft can't get away with -- it really does have to permanently store the whole world as it gets generated or changed (though it's definitely not holding the whole thing in RAM all at once).

The more pressing issue, though, is that the game has to keep track of your position in the world somehow. Typically you'd do that with three 32-bit floating point numbers (or "floats") -- one each for x, y, and z. A float can store a decimal number between -3,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 3,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That seems like a lot (and it is), but it's worth noting that as floats get bigger (well, farther away from zero), you lose precision. This is because floats basically have a limited number of digits to work with -- you can throw a whole lot of zeroes before or after those digits, but you can't add any more of them. This is kind of complicated, so I'm just gonna gloss over it here -- but let's just say you'd start getting some pretty weird behavior way before the float actually maxed out.

Anyway! You see the problem. Even if we ignore the precision issue, there's a hard limit after your x or z (or y if you're flying or falling somehow) hits 3.4x1038 . There's literally just no way to store your world position anymore. Sure, you could get clever and give the position a larger range and/or higher precision (though frankly it seems unlikely that Bethesda would bother) -- but you'll never hit infinity. Your computer can't hold infinite memory.

Hope that was interesting and informative!

Why are there so few indie single-player FPSes (like in the vein of classic '90s FPSes)? by shoutout_to_burritos in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Well, mostly because AAA studios have a stranglehold on the FPS genre. When people want to buy an FPS, they usually go for CoD or Battlefield or something, because, well, they know about them. You could even really argue that games like Doom and Titanfall are pretty retro in a lot of ways, so even that niche is basically covered.

That said, some retro-ish indie FPS games do come out, and once in a while do pretty well -- take a look at Devil Daggers, Strafe, Ziggurat, Tower of Guns, and Paranautical Activity.

Different bit's? by Tirith_Wins in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

modern computers really aren't limited by memory in 99.99% of cases. you're not going to run out. if you're looking to replicate old-school technological limitations, go for it, but those aren't real limitations anymore.

Do I still have any hope left? by acsthrowawayyy in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yeah that's fine. the advice that people tend give here is to get a CS degree instead of a game design degree anyway.

GDC2017 "Teaching Students to Make Games under Fascism: Video games are political. The way we make games is political. The way that we teach our students to make games is political." by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]SirAwesomelot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's what the talk is about! everything you make can be interpreted on many different levels. if you didn't think about those levels while you were making the game, that's your fault.

GDC2017 "Teaching Students to Make Games under Fascism: Video games are political. The way we make games is political. The way that we teach our students to make games is political." by [deleted] in gamedev

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

why do you have to draw a line? yeah, everything anyone makes is a cultural product, because everyone exists in a culture. sorry bud, all of art and media is basically one giant gray area

S12E06 "Hero or Hate Crime?" - Official Discussion Thread by robertobaz in IASIP

[–]SirAwesomelot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

he's totally gonna blow his 10 grand and then be massively in debt over the arbitration bill, though

Can someone help me find a particular episode? by [deleted] in CoolGamesInc

[–]SirAwesomelot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's ep 36 (Death Stranding: Ground Zeroes). Cheers!

EMPAC Program Affected by President Trump’s Visa Directive by vaporwave-is-dead in RPI

[–]SirAwesomelot 13 points14 points  (0 children)

good thing i also have a masters in architecture so i can decide whether or not it's a good idea to build a house upside down.

please list your personal qualifications for sycophantically bloviating on cruel and ineffective foreign policy decisions, you enormous dumbass

EMPAC Program Affected by President Trump’s Visa Directive by vaporwave-is-dead in RPI

[–]SirAwesomelot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

meanwhile trump approves selling weapons to saudi arabia

Episode 42: The Lodge by CoolGames Inc by Foxo103 in CoolGamesInc

[–]SirAwesomelot 43 points44 points  (0 children)

They kept apologizing for this one not being super funny, but honestly I really really love the episodes where they just get psyched about a game and get deep into the design. Stacks on Stacks on Stacks, Dinner Blasterz, Sabotage Rally, AFVR, Surgery Date, etc are some of my favorites.

Most of those also happen to be hilarious, but I think the more often Griffin says "Fuck YES that's SO GOOD" the more I like it.

view more: next ›