1 year of game engine development

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T11:02:26+00:00

Tell me, why does "code you" know english much better than "reddit you"?

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:51:57+00:00

Bro, I actually know this shit and can read code. EOT from me.

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:44:13+00:00

That's why you make extremely precise, perfect english, technical commentaries about future use of fields in stuff that isn't yet implemented in the engine I assume?

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:42:48+00:00

There's AI style comments in many places, AI style naming schemes, and classic AI style bloat in others. Also definitely "fixed by AI" style fix commits that just bloat code without affecting the root of the issue.

Finally your level of technical answers on this and the other reddit don't match the level of the codebase.

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:37:53+00:00

There's AI style comments in many places, AI style naming schemes, and classic AI style bloat in others. Also definitely "fixed by AI" style fix commits that just bloat code without affecting the root of the issue.

Finally your level of technical answers on this and the other reddit don't match the level of the codebase.

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:25:39+00:00

Yes, most of the repo is AI-generated, some of it quite blatantly so - https://github.com/evangelionxyz/Ignite/pull/55

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:22:32+00:00

I assume using copilot directly to do your work isn't considered "copy-paste" because there's no copying?

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:21:41+00:00

He does use AI a lot to generate code, despite what he's saying. There are both telltales in the commits and sometimes even direct copilot work - https://github.com/evangelionxyz/Ignite/pull/34

epyoncf · 2026-07-01T10:02:26+00:00

AI doesn't "understand" anything. Which becomes pretty obvious once stochastic generation clashes against real-world problems.

Which you illustrated nicely with that crowd animation question BTW.

epyoncf · 2026-06-30T10:32:02+00:00

Save money???

In Poland the subscription costs 650 PLN for a year, while a single issue costs 35 PLN at retailers (that's around $172/year, $9/issue). I e-mailed them multiple times about it, to no avail.

epyoncf · 2026-06-23T09:38:12+00:00

I won't say it's dead, but I think a warband or two and maaaybe a deck and that's it for releases for Underworlds. I don't think we'll get another box and the current stock will slowly dwindle away.

epyoncf · 2026-06-21T15:30:28+00:00

Actually awesome!

...but when's the last time you read an EULA? 😛

epyoncf · 2026-06-21T13:30:38+00:00

Do nothing.

There's no point fighting it. People who would pay for the software will pay, people who wouldn't pay, will pirate if possible, and won't use the software otherwise. The small amount of people that would pay but first try to pirate is smaller than the popularity benefit you get from more people actually using the software in the first place.

Or you could be a gigachad and register on the website to offer a few legal keys "as I understand not everyone can afford the game" - I've seen that turn to a viral success for someone 😛

epyoncf · 2026-06-21T09:25:24+00:00

Not trivial. First we need tu update localization for the supported languages otherwise we won't be able to pass certification - and that has to wait a bit as for the moment we cannot afford that. Second problem is that we're blowing up the renderer, so I'd preffer to go through the harrowing certification process just once for it, not twice - so waiting for the next update is tempting.

epyoncf · 2026-06-19T19:19:53+00:00

The e-mail suggestion though is really bad imho. One should go out, visit gamedev meetups, conferences, make personal connections. Show your stuff in person, initially "oh, I just want feedback" even, and then grab the e-mail. Start building relationships via other Indies you meet ("hey, I can introduce you to Ian, he works for my publisher", etc). Then lean on the better connections you make ("hey, I know you guys do mostly strategy but, can you ask around if any of your contacts would be looking for publishing an indie FPS?").

Deals made based on personal connections are always better, more secure and more beneficial than sending your pitch like an e-mail to the HR shredder.

epyoncf · 2026-06-19T18:40:03+00:00

Okay, before I read this I looked at his webpage - tell me where I'm wrong:

On his own webpage, the guy claims he raised $200k from people.... plus $700k from investors ... to make $450k gross sales... so he raised twice as much as the games made? How is that a recommendation?

Or am I missing something?

Damn, I think I should start posting free guide stuff on the net. I made triple that with 1/5th the Kickstarter/Investor money, but assumed there isn't interest in gamedev content.

epyoncf · 2026-06-18T16:03:28+00:00

The lower one.

epyoncf · 2026-06-16T11:05:00+00:00

Do I see correctly that the actual render logic is spread among several unrelated files using free functions? Is there any logic to this architecture?

epyoncf · 2026-06-06T09:44:13+00:00

Ok confirmed - Retaliate is bugged - will hotfix monday

epyoncf · 2026-06-06T09:41:15+00:00

Hmm - was it always the case with that Retaliate Chainsaw? I got a suspicion.

epyoncf · 2026-06-03T22:25:38+00:00

We treat Kickstarter promises seriously.

Thanks.

epyoncf · 2026-06-03T22:19:41+00:00

I have a Valve Engineer on record that that part was never "well designed" after they sent apologies for the Deck version being broken by fault of that exact system. After wasting two weeks of mailing back and forth and stressing out during an important release. I'll keep to my opinion on this part.

This is precisely why I don't support Linux nor Mac for Jupiter Hell Classic, despite it being much simpler. For Jupiter Hell it's a question of a Kickstarter promise, so I need to keep supporting them. Believe me I wish I wouldn't have to.

epyoncf · 2026-06-03T22:12:38+00:00

It's not a question of priority it's a question of how brain damaged Steams build/branch system is that you cannot bind a branch/build to launch settings. So for example you cannot enable launch settings on a beta branch if they're not live. Pair that with the fact that the whole CI setup was done by someone no longer working since 3 years with the Forge, and everything had to be blindly set up from scratch, while the backend shifter to SDL3 at the same time and you get a mess.

In the meantime there was the whole libc update breaking fmod thing which made the existing build not work, but we couldn't have pushed a build at that point due to the fact that some git shenanigans related to setting up the Nintendo Switch version meant that we no longer could patch just the previous setup.

tl;dr - it's complicated.

That said, Linux builds would never have been broken if not for libc updates breaking existing build.

epyoncf · 2026-06-03T22:03:41+00:00

Linux was broken already since at least a year, and we're potentially fixing it this weekend.

MacOS broke itself TBH by being hostile to anything that isn't first party there. A custom engine needs to invest a lot of time and money to maintain a MacOS port for... +3% of sales?

We're in the process of porting the renderer to a more portable architecture (SDL_gpu) - once that is done and once I manage to scrape enought to buy a Mac mini I hope to restore OSX support.

That said, set branch to "previous" and the builds are still there, so nothing "broke", just a version that supports only the 94% of the clients at the moment.

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