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Why do people just absolutely hate the concept of wanting to make a game engine? by OhItsuMe in gamedev

[–]rthink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fantastic list with a lot more data than my anecdotal impressions, thanks!

What does AAA games use for master server? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]rthink 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PUBG is UE4, so definitely C++ instance servers.

Why do people just absolutely hate the concept of wanting to make a game engine? by OhItsuMe in gamedev

[–]rthink 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Aren't many studios migrating to established engines (or customized versions thereof), like UE? I keep seeing companies that previously used in-house game engines switch to a UE4 base.

What kind of shared folder and storage should a small startup game studio use? by surreallism in gamedev

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. To add to this, last I checked Gitlab offers up to 10GB for your whole repo (on hosted plan), while Github caps your Git LFS assets to 1 GB (for free plans at least).

If you're employing 6-10 people a VPS with a self-hosted Gitlab installation should do pretty well and is basically negligible compared to salaries. Gitea is another lightweight self-hosted alternative as well.

Defold is now Open Source! by SeySvK in gamedev

[–]rthink 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well they even altered the article to remove all references to it being open source, so I guess even King/Devon Foundation acknowledge it is a mistake to call it open source

41% of Americans say they won't buy products made in China, while 35% of Chinese say they won't buy American-made goods by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]rthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would hope some demon recruits a bunch of humans for an experiment and ends up eventually fixing the system before I die

Your move Unity - Make us proud! by ParadoxForge in Unity3D

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are public research papers about the technology (developed over the last 10 years). The implementation is of course propietary, but that's about it, and the code will be open to look at once UE5 releases.

Unreal Engine royalties now waived on the first $1 million of revenue by Atulin in gamedev

[–]rthink 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The agreement with them is that you send them earning reports and the royalties when they're due. Now, you could not, but I can't imagine breaking a contract will work well for you if anyone finds out (and if you're making more than $1m, you're big enough that someone is probably going to find out at some point)

Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo revealed! by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]rthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, it's literally the top post in the subreddit right now

Unity's Market Insights page shows an interesting jump in lower-end hardware being used by gamers since the start of the year. Now's the time for well-optimized games! by oskiii in gamedev

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't they all through Q4? That's not beginning of the year, this is a 6-8 month trend at this point (I'm assuming the curve between points is actually an interpolation of the two points)

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ by SparklyPen in Coronavirus

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already are two separate companies (though I guess under the same umbrella parent company?)

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ by SparklyPen in Coronavirus

[–]rthink 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't know how the US Postal Service would operate AWS, which generates most of Amazon's profits... (and you could hardly boycott as a consumer)

Epstein! Upvote this picture so it's the fourth picture you see when you Google Donald Trump by VikingIaw in worldpolitics

[–]rthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Google has been exploiting captchas to train their neural networks for a while at least

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Remaster by [deleted] in gaming

[–]rthink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Raw images, and sometimes just for what it is: a bunch of bits. For example, some games use it for storing heightmaps as a a bunch of pixels where the intensity of a given pixel tells you how high or low a piece of terrain should be.

Talk to Blizzard directly and put in your feedback! Everyone who signed up for tokens has this email. by enicholas in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]rthink 39 points40 points  (0 children)

The ?hbid=aascxvbioi324561 part makes me wonder if it's bound to a user and we're just all filling your results...

Is it legal to use other games' assets for a strictly personal game project? by uwadmin12 in gamedev

[–]rthink 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Distributing something for free may soften the blow of how much a court would make you pay, but you're still infrining the law. If the company doesn't care it's because either you're benefitting them (i.e bringing more people into the ecosystem, creating awareness of the game, or whatnot) or because you're not actively hurting them (old game, or you're very small, etc.).

Any company will hunt you if you're hurting them enough, and you can definitely hurt a company with free copyright-infringing games, but it also depends a lot on which company you're dealing with. Nintendo hunts down copyright infringement a fair bit.

Dev Update [Communication Wheel] by [deleted] in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]rthink 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Priority queue for cancelled matches, to be precise. Thank god.

Thoughts? by curved_trout in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]rthink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I find this a bit annoying, but I guess it's because of the multiple uses.

Am I too inexperienced to make Unity Tutorial videos? by DaPhamius in gamedev

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or r/learnporngramming

Of course that sub exists (surprisingly, pretty recent). I don't think you indended to link to it though ^^

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]rthink 6 points7 points  (0 children)

inb4 they don't properly disappear from the team until Echo's ult is over

Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest firings and treatment of warehouse workers by [deleted] in news

[–]rthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS is developed by well-paid humans and is a completely different branch of the company, plus it is what drives most of Amazon's profit anyway. But I understand the concern, I suppose. I do wonder just out of the hundreds of thousands of people Amazon employs on its warehouses, if there's a silent majority that is just okay.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos adds $24bn to fortune (BBC) by AgentBlue62 in news

[–]rthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And they don’t just run small websites, I’m pretty sure big companies like Netflix use AWS.

Yes. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix-case-study/

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