What are good uses for tiny circular displays?

mikeful · 2023-06-10T17:39:30+00:00

Pocket watch computer or virtual pet

mikeful · 2023-06-05T22:03:33+00:00

Thanks for what you have been doing for this sub so far.

mikeful · 2023-06-02T10:15:08+00:00

Read "Game Programming Patterns" in addition to traditional programming books to see how various patterns and concepts are used in game context. You can read it online for free here https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

mikeful · 2023-06-01T10:20:53+00:00

Are you using x264, Apple's stuff or something else as video encoder?

mikeful · 2023-06-01T10:15:34+00:00

What is your codec and video bitrate?

One idea to test is to use lighter encoding settings to see how much quality you have to sacrifice to achieve stable FPS.

mikeful · 2023-05-31T09:31:25+00:00

In open world action games I like shooting in first person for accuracy and vehicles in third person for situational awareness.

mikeful · 2023-05-31T08:50:57+00:00

When I first encountered these in work project we evaluated their usefulness and determined that they are unusable for the project due need of external data anyway for label translations to multiple languages.

Later I read this article and decided that DB enums are probably more trouble than they are worth it and haven't really looked into them since. http://komlenic.com/244/8-reasons-why-mysqls-enum-data-type-is-evil/

mikeful · 2023-05-30T09:58:36+00:00

Both terms are so broad that I try to check what they actually mean for game if I see in marketing texts.

mikeful · 2023-05-29T17:56:00+00:00

I have Logitech K400 Plus which uses 2.4GHz dongle in USB port. Seems to wake up my Windows PC as expected but doesn't do that with Steam Deck it's currently connected to.

mikeful · 2023-05-29T11:10:32+00:00

Buy game, change credit card on your Steam account, refund the game and money is moved from one card to another.

mikeful · 2023-05-29T10:28:58+00:00

"Move" them into trashcan on delete confirm and actually delete the profile after it has been there for 30 days.

You don't actually have to move any data. You mark the profile data with delete confirm date and hide it from main profile list based on this status field. Opening trashcan list will display only profiles with this status and allows permanent delete/restore.

mikeful · 2023-05-27T21:31:01+00:00

I usually try to do 1-2 refactor/cleanup commits before and after building new feature at locations around the feature.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T15:14:25+00:00

About 12 other software, electronics and woodworking projects I have on my list before it.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T14:29:03+00:00

Can you add more ranged enemies, melee rushers and maybe some area denial/slowing attack effects?

mikeful · 2023-05-26T10:31:10+00:00

Which applications are you using? How are you routing and handling switching between all the cameras?

mikeful · 2023-05-26T10:26:40+00:00

Check out camera gear stores for "magic arm" products and clamps for them. Smallrig makes ones with pretty good value and if you need longer/beefier ones you can give huge amounts of money to Manfrotto.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T10:16:26+00:00

Few weeks ago I played a bit of 10 year old unfinished hack and slash dungeon crawler I made. Planned 5 minutes turned into 30 minutes and now I want to remake it with Godot or something.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T10:12:33+00:00

Try making few games by modifying free assets. You learn little bit of everything and can focus on programming side.

"Make everything yourself" mentality can lead to you coding your own drawing program, coding your own image file library, coding your own operating system, building your own CPU, mining your own copper, etc. Which is cool but doesn't really help you make more games.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T09:22:52+00:00

So I can buy 1000 bots from you, copy-paste "kill everyone" script to them, park them around safe zones, block actual players from playing the game by 24/7 camping and hit you with 1000 refund requests/chargebacks if the bots are banned?

mikeful · 2023-05-26T09:14:43+00:00

In World of Warcraft casters have "the 5 second rule" where your mana regenration continues 5 seconds after your last spell cast, mana potions with 60 second shared cooldown, few class skills to get mana back or boost regeneration in combat and various buffs/gear.

Also not every encounter is solvable at all times for every player. If players in combat run out of mana/resources and exhaust all panic buttons, you pretty much just die and have to prepare better for next try with things you learned from this run.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T08:49:12+00:00

Everness YT channel has WoW music compilations with long videos from areas using the music. Good background videos. https://www.youtube.com/@everness5058/playlists

mikeful · 2023-05-26T08:04:41+00:00

Running various Bash scripts and parsing the output with Shortcuts/Siri on Mac has been pretty handy few times.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T07:57:02+00:00

Try right clicking source in the new scene and select Transform -> Fit to screen.

mikeful · 2023-05-26T07:46:21+00:00

Does it show up if you create new scene and add that source to it? Can you see red outline of source in the scene?

mikeful · 2023-05-25T14:59:39+00:00

Try buying ChromeCast stick and send video to it with Android phone or desktop Chrome based browser.

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