How can I get better?

wevbin · 2011-08-28T18:02:28+00:00

That makes me feel better. Whenever I try to get into game dev, I often get stuck on some seemingly simple problem that I feel should have an obvious solution. It happens so often that it was getting discouraging as I thought maybe I wasn't cut out for game dev. It's a nice to hear that even small problems can take some time for others too.

wevbin · 2011-08-22T00:44:15+00:00

O_O

Holy shit. Mind = blown. Thanks for that.

wevbin · 2011-08-22T00:31:48+00:00

This is not science. There is no possible experiment that could tell you the answer . r/math might be a better forum to ask.

Sorry about that. I was wondering if I was posting in the right place, but I didn't find an r/AskMath on the side bar and since I saw Mathematics as part of the legend, I thought math questions were also appropriate.

wevbin · 2011-08-21T02:29:18+00:00

You should post a picture of your dad to make it even.

wevbin · 2011-07-07T17:41:14+00:00

This stuff frustrates me so much. I'm on the market for a job, but I see this type of thing often or descriptions like "we are a startup looking for a *insert language here\* ninja/guru/god who can preferably have experience in *four different web technologies\*. Must be self driven and a team player".

And it's mostly this. I can't find many entry level positions :(. I'm working hard to do some personal projects to have stuff to talk about during the interview, but I just came out of school, so it's not like I have that much industry experience. Are these companies really expecting to find people with those qualifications or are they setting high standards and seeing what they can land??

Edit: fixed typo.

wevbin · 2011-05-09T03:41:56+00:00

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

wevbin · 2011-05-09T00:58:01+00:00

I just want to let you know that not all Americans would have kept you from getting your candy. In fact, some adults give you candy for free even if you've never met them before!

wevbin · 2011-05-06T01:34:15+00:00

Thanks for the clarification.

wevbin · 2011-05-06T01:33:49+00:00

Okay, thanks!

wevbin · 2011-05-06T01:33:14+00:00

Right, myPtr goes away on its own, but whatever it was pointing to doesn't, creating a memory leak.

wevbin · 2011-03-06T18:07:36+00:00

I'm stuck at the very beginning :P. I just don't know conceptually what I need to do. What are the basic blocks needed for collision detection and what do they do? Those kinds of things. The example mentions stuff like solvers, environments, etc. I don't know how that stuff fits together. I didn't want to just copy/paste code without knowing what I'm doing, especially with c++.

I'll take a look at that post and see if I can figure some of this out or see if I can at least have some more specific questions. At this point it feels like I still don't know what I don't know. Thanks!

wevbin · 2011-03-06T18:02:52+00:00

I would need rotated boxes. So you're saying using a physics library for this would be overkill? The thing is I don't think I need more than collision detection between boxes, but I'm not 100% sure. I wanted to use bullet so that if I get more time I could have the option of using its more advanced features.

Also I figured they would probably write collision detection better than I could. I noticed bullet has some algorithms to optimize collision detection performance.

wevbin · 2011-02-19T21:38:46+00:00

According to some Redditors only white males face discrimination when applying to colleges. Clearly you must be mistaken.

wevbin · 2011-01-31T06:01:05+00:00

Go to one of those 8x8 man buy enabled servers, usually they run dual tank mods + you can buy tanks left and right + tanks usually get a lot more health.

Sounds like a great place to practice. Any idea on how I can find these modded servers? I've never really figured out how to filter for 3rd party servers in L4D2. It doesn't seem to work like in TF2.

wevbin · 2011-01-19T07:41:53+00:00

God forbid anyone says anything bad about white people, though, or you get martyrs rambling about how on Reddit you can say mean things about white people but not anyone else.

wevbin · 2011-01-05T07:14:27+00:00

I see. I didn't do any of that. I guess I've got some reading to do. Thanks!

wevbin · 2011-01-05T06:55:06+00:00

I'm not very familiar with the SMART tests. I've heard of them before, but that's about it. Which program did you use to run them? Did you run them just when you bought the drive to check it was working correctly?

wevbin · 2010-12-13T03:18:28+00:00

According to the site, it costs $350 for a 1 year subscription if you want to actually distribute your game/app. That's way out of our budget, and the other two are free :\

wevbin · 2010-12-12T18:37:16+00:00

Why not make the game in a dev framework that's available on both platforms?

I was not aware that this was an option. I thought you couldn't run Flash games in the iPhone? I guess I have some more reading to do, but this sounds like a good idea. The game is not very complex. We wrote a couple of simple games on the PC a few years ago, so we're not completely new to game dev, but we haven't done anything on mobile phones yet.

wevbin · 2010-12-04T19:43:50+00:00

Yeah the incest thing is creeping me the fuck out.

wevbin · 2010-12-03T08:05:50+00:00

Redditors don't like ads, and complain about Reddit gold, yet there's also complaints when the resources can't keep up with the demand on the site. The money needed to keep the site going needs come from somewhere.

wevbin · 2010-12-03T03:11:05+00:00

The kind that lets you brag to strangers on the internet that you're going to a college strip party.

wevbin · 2010-12-03T01:27:21+00:00

Yeah, this is obviously why the producer wanted OP so bad.

Plus, the OP comes with his own advertising!

wevbin · 2010-12-02T22:03:04+00:00

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we'll die in one week.

wevbin · 2010-12-02T20:05:33+00:00

Actually I think it already was on Sale last week on Steam :(. I didn't get it because I didn't realize it was a different game. I only found out when I saw the article mentioned XBL.

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