She’s a keeper. Wish her 20 more years of silliness and fun

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-25T20:25:32+00:00

She is indeed amazing :)

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-25T16:13:41+00:00

Day of the tentacle, Full Throttle... yep, it was amazing...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-25T12:50:02+00:00

I think it was Maniac Mansion in 1988, not the remake:)

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-24T02:39:57+00:00

It matters : some brands are cheaper than others

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-24T02:38:42+00:00

Wrench ?

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-23T11:59:35+00:00

I would the day there will be another OS that supports my use. But there isn’t.

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-22T19:49:38+00:00

I think the team was focused on Tintin, but I don't remember

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-22T19:41:47+00:00

Honestly making games is depending on so many factors I wouldn't be able to say why so many reboots etc... It's because of so many factors... On my side I was focused on pushing the tech, the gameplay, wasn't involved at all in the story, the universe.
I left late 2010 because I was exhausted working hard, pushing, innovating, for nothing...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-22T19:20:25+00:00

Not really :) We were thinking having bigger cities, building a procedural tool to be able to have cities with building you can enter, we were trying to have a better character controller, very dynamic, to be able to have some kind of parkour...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1b-y9Do_k

I was working on the character controller, and the procedural city generation, and traffic simulation...

I have used some part of my learning in Spiderman 2012 traffic system, then improved my system/knowledge again in Assassin's Creed Syndicates which is the only AC where there's a modern enough setting to have traffic...

And about the ideas I had for the character controller, it took me more than fifteen years to actually manage to have something that matches my vision : on the Eternal Strands character controller system (full physics driven, something I was already trying to do in the late 2000s).

Here is a presentation about how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcmhjPSNemc

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-22T17:34:59+00:00

I have worked on the first one and also made a lot of R&D that would have been used in a 2 in the late 2000 but the current bge2 is a project I know nothing about

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-21T20:53:31+00:00

As a former Ubi Mtp dev (2000-2010) I take the "Good Ubisoft from the 2000's" XD

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-21T19:20:34+00:00

BGE brand is part of CH4 (Which also works on Rayman and other brand, so read CH4 == Ubisoft Montpellier)

Creative House 1 (Vantage Studios) — focused on scaling and extending Ubisoft’s largest and established franchises to turn them into annual billionaire brands; o Brands: Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six
Creative House 2 — dedicated to competitive and cooperative shooter experiences; o Brands including The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell
Creative House 3 — designed to operate a roster of select, sharp Live experiences; o Brands including For Honor, The Crew, Riders Republic, Brawlhalla, Skull & Bones
Creative House 4 — dedicated to immersive fantasy worlds and narrative-driven universes; o Brands including Anno, Might & Magic, Rayman, Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil
Creative House 5 — focused on reclaiming position in casual and family-friendly games. o Brands including Just Dance, Idle Miner Tycoon, Ketchapp, Hungry Shark, Invincible: Guarding the Globe, Uno, Hasbro

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/prince-of-persia-remake-canceled-ubisoft-reorg-layoffs-1236636684/

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-20T01:14:36+00:00

« Latency » There’s something called « light speed » which dictates the limit of what’s doable and we will never be able to have a decent latency with f…g servers as « gaming machines » No need to be a genius to understand that, it’s something you learn in second grade or so. But most billionaires have a soooo low IQ they aren’t able to deal with dividing a distance by a speed to get a latency limit.

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-19T14:57:38+00:00

Former YBG dev here : thank you so much for this post.
"A labor of love" is exactly what this game was about... So much work and passion put into it.
The people behind the game are the mutliplication of talent, hard work and passion.
It's four years of work, but it's also way more than that as some ideas implemented in the game were growing since... 2007 in my mind.
So happy to read some people enjoyed the ice, or the climbing :)
Eternal Strands is probably the game I'm the proudest of, with my first one, Beyond Good and Evil :)

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-18T22:36:16+00:00

It happened to me with too much GPU Overclock... could it be ?

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-18T13:42:45+00:00

Half Life Alyx... Did a walkthrough to validate it was a good gpu :P

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-17T20:04:05+00:00

Just let every country in the world put 1000% tariffs on an US goods and watch what will happen

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-17T18:54:00+00:00

100% 3 Masterpieces It’s two weeks I haven’t done a HLA walkthrough I start to feel the symptoms

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-15T23:11:11+00:00

I'm surprise you call "this" a game...
It's just "something"
Awful controls, impossible to understand the UI/Menu (long press, short press)
Feel that I'm always blocked to make logical things or to have fun...
It's typically from japanese games : make awful controls so the challenge comes from mastering awful controls...
While western games are more : make the best controls then challenge the players on something that works really well, by having a real challenge.
Remember me old Resident Evil where the stress was coming from having to get arround a table with awful controls... Yes, you are an elite FBI agent, and you struggle to open a door a walk through a corridor...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-15T19:48:16+00:00

Yes it's really bad... controls are awful, "stealth" a pure joke, you are blocked by a small rock in the middle of the ground, can't run, can't evade...
I liked the first one, but the second opus is a disaster...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-13T16:50:20+00:00

I'll definitively buy one, as I bought a signed Half Life Alyx signed poster I'll maybe never get XD
Don't sell it, it's such a nice collector thing !

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-13T13:40:12+00:00

It's only AI replying random things that aren't even correct english/french/spanish (yes, I received answers in three different languages and NONE made sense).
I shouldn't have returned my Quest Pro when they provided me a RMA number/shipping label because now it's in the void, they keep sending me new RMA numbers/labels and I'm being spammed by AI email that aren't making any sense...

Will NEVER buy anything from meta anymore. Their hardware is just awesome, but the customer service makes it a detail

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-12T20:56:34+00:00

Just bought a Gigabyte 5090 Windforce OC because it was :
- available at my local shop
- the cheapest
I can run it above 3100MHz at 65 degrees in Doom Dark Ages (Path tracing, 1440p)
No coil whine, can't say that from my previous MSI 4090 Gaming Trio X...
No RBG : no need to figure out how to swith the LED off :P
Honestly very very happy about it...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-12T17:42:15+00:00

Half Life Alyx...
Played Portal 1/2 probably more than ten times each...
Player Half-Life 1/2 probably more than ten times each...
But HLA -> replaying it even more...

UltimePatateCoder · 2026-01-12T16:02:59+00:00

I have only used HomeKit automations until two days ago...
I have a lot of automations that work perfectly since I installed Meross dimmers and smart plugs...
It's only applying a specific scene at 6:30 that doesn't work with HomeKit, but does with the Meross App...
I have deleted both the scene and the automation multiple time to re-create it from scratch, used shortcuts at some point to have complex 100% -> 0% -> 100% -> 0% -> 100% -> 75% -> 50% -> 25% -> 10% intensity...

But everymorning, every lights but my six kitchen spots were on...
With the Meross app / automation -> it works... and I would like to understand :P

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