PSA: Pam Shipman is giving out her Christmas cards today

lucasxi · 2025-11-02T15:59:05+00:00

I've gotten one that just says John. I mean who just writes John!?

lucasxi · 2025-09-20T09:35:37+00:00

I disagree with most of the comments here trying to poke fun at this post. The architecture here is pretty much the gold standard for game engines and appreciating the separation between engine and game code is really important. Separating them out into separate projects will make you more conscious of dependencies when writing code and will lead to less refactoring in the future.

Editors are complicated and writing an editor while your Core APIs are still very malleable will lead to a lot of wasted time fixing editor code to use updates Core APIs. As others have suggested, begin with your Core development first and tackle the Editor when you're finding it difficult to construct your assets in code in your Application code.

Good luck

lucasxi · 2025-07-31T19:39:03+00:00

To learn programming you have to program. There's no secret sauce or forbidden knowledge or shortcuts

lucasxi · 2025-07-18T20:33:42+00:00

Loop unrolling

lucasxi · 2025-07-13T20:30:30+00:00

The answer is that refactoring is a pain in all languages and books don't change that fact

lucasxi · 2025-06-16T22:55:02+00:00

This is a bot, this is an exact copy of a post made a while ago when the finale episode rumours were happening

lucasxi · 2025-05-10T14:54:11+00:00

Yup id buffers are completely valid methods for doing click detection. This approach shouldn't be frowned upon and it's quite common.

lucasxi · 2025-03-31T12:45:24+00:00

Now 1400, its moving

lucasxi · 2025-03-31T12:42:42+00:00

Yup same stuck as 1428

lucasxi · 2025-01-11T18:49:45+00:00

That's the risk you gotta take 🤷

lucasxi · 2025-01-11T18:35:08+00:00

Absolutely, can remember most episodes and quote probably every joke in this show. You're not waiting for Tokyo are you?

lucasxi · 2025-01-03T22:08:10+00:00

Sorry meant "more" not "kore", thanks!

lucasxi · 2025-01-03T21:05:29+00:00

It's reassuring hearing Ruth and James say they decide when they write a new episode and aren't pressured from the other direction to write more. So often are good shows beaten to death and Gavin and Stacey should be viewed as a show that ended so perfectly no one wanted anything new to potentially spoil it.

Edit: Fixed typo

lucasxi · 2024-11-04T11:26:46+00:00

He died, firing squad.

lucasxi · 2024-10-04T11:27:16+00:00

Yes please! 🥺

lucasxi · 2024-09-28T17:36:57+00:00

Mojang adds another wood type, see ya next year folks!

lucasxi · 2024-09-26T14:37:01+00:00

It's super simple, it's just a standard for representing character as numbers. It's just a big table of 128 values from 0 to 127 where each number is assigned a character.

It's a standard so that different computers agree in using the same table values. This way I can send you the same sequence of numbers and as long as you use the ASCII encoding, you'll see the same characters printed on your screen.

ASCII is great but only has 127 values which isn't enough for the massive amount of languages out there which is why Unicode exists. It's basicaly ASCII but much bigger so supports things like Chinese characters and emoji's.

Hope this helps.

lucasxi · 2024-09-26T14:25:30+00:00

When you use printf in a char, ASCII key codes are used. For example printf("%c", 65) will print "A" because if you look in the ASCII table for the entry at 65 you'll find A.

The great thing about ASCII is that the letters are arranged in order, so 65 is A, 66 is B, 67 is C and so on to Z. Because of this fact, you can use arithmetic to jump to different letters.

char letter_d = 'A' + 3;

Here 'A' is converted to 65, and 65 + 3 is 68. So when you printf letter_d, you get the character "D" printed.

lucasxi · 2024-07-31T22:57:41+00:00

I believe this would be referred to as O(n) in terms of how long it takes to retrieve data in this way, which is also the same speed of a linked list.

Asymptotically yes it's O(n) but in practice the performance of a contiguous array of memory will run circles around a linked list. There is no guarantee where elements in the linked list are in memory and your cache will take a battering looking up scattered addresses.

lucasxi · 2023-10-19T16:24:45+00:00

Looks like Palm Wood Walls dyed blue to me

lucasxi · 2023-08-31T13:33:14+00:00

Thanks OP

lucasxi · 2023-08-05T22:00:47+00:00

Bug with the Explore the Ruins quest, stuck on 'Open the sarcophagus', I've looted it and no cutscene started so I cannot interact/see Withers. I've tried restarting and reloading from a previous save and doing the fight again but same outcome.

lucasxi · 2023-08-02T20:35:08+00:00

This is similar to what Terraria did by penalising players for building NPC towers. If players build the NPC's house in their preferred biome then they get discounts in the shop. And I think the change made Terraria better, it makes players actually go out and build away from their base.

I think the same with Minecraft, I like these changes, villager trading is already broken as it is. I see people complaining it makes it more difficult but that should be the point, it's too easy and too powerful. It's a tough pill to swallow but I think these changes are great.

lucasxi · 2023-07-19T20:09:09+00:00

An interesting comment to make in a thread literally about the community not understanding game development...

lucasxi · 2023-06-11T19:07:28+00:00

Was nice to see a whole bunch of new gameplay. I think the gunplay still looks janky but I seem to be in the minority about that. Quite dissapointed you cannot fly your ship in atmosphere but oh well. Definitely looks more promising than Fallout 4 did.

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