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New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:55:06 +0000

I’ve been a Game Engineer for 15+ years and there are many things that can help improve your toolkit. Experiment, learn new tech, and selectively copy. Experiment: make micro demos and test out features and gameplay you think of, try and find the fun. Learn new tech: new tech is popping up every day and it can give you more freedom to make what you want. Copy: if you see something in a game, movie, etc you think is cool, try and copy it and see if it fits what you’re trying to achieve.

I’d recommend YouTube channel Game Makers Toolkit to learn about game design and mechanics and Mix and Jam to learn about recreating existing features from games.

Most of all you need to make sure you pursue what you’re interested in and have fun.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Why Tracebit is written in C#"

jbluepolarbear — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:28:52 +0000

What difficulties did you experience? I’ve upgraded many projects from ancient C# v2 and more modern versions. There are always some things that need to be addressed, but as long as you look at the changes from the one version to the next it’s easy enough to figure out what needs to be changed. Most modern IDEs will point out the issues in an upgrade report.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

jbluepolarbear — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:26:00 +0000

I know that a lot of companies (I’ve worked for and colleagues worked for) were asking Microsoft for an all-in-one solution like slack that would integrate with their office and share point systems. They didn’t like that Microsoft had similar products but as different apps.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

jbluepolarbear — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:16:13 +0000

What was the product? How did teams bundle kill your growth? Office already bundled Skype and teams was a natural progression for Microsoft in response to slacks and zooms growth in taking Skypes market share. I don’t think Microsoft is innocent in this, but still think it made sense from a business point and from what companies wanted from Microsoft.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Vision Pro Demand Dwindles as Customer Interest Dropped After Initial Hype"

jbluepolarbear — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:42:27 +0000

In my experience, VR is hindered by a new “boys club”: a group of people that aren’t game developers, but invested early in VR tech. Issue being that this group of developers can build decent VR controls and mechanics, but don’t know much, if anything, about how games should be made. Too many VR games are plagued with clunky controls, poor gameplay mechanics, and uninteresting progression. And to top it off these VR companies refuse to hire veteran game devs because they don’t have VR experience.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "C++ coroutines do not spark joy (2021)"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:17:13 +0000

IEnumerator is how Unity implements coroutines.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "C++ coroutines do not spark joy (2021)"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:53:19 +0000

In a case like Unity, low latency stuff can be moved to the job/burst system. Coroutines are generally for gameplay logic. Things that need to be done overtime in a single context.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "C++ coroutines do not spark joy (2021)"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:39:43 +0000

Where you getting this information that tasks and IEnumerator can’t be used for games? I’ve been using Unity for 10 years and tasks and Ienumerators are used as coroutines all the time. Recently worked on Hello Kitty Island Adventure and almost all game logic goes through an async coroutine library. Most memory worries are in graphics and object overhead, not coroutine stack allocations.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Why are most sofas so bad?"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:06:10 +0000

Buying preowned furniture can save a lot of money. I bought a 4 piece sectional couch, in great condition, for $600. The set originally cost $4500.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple"

jbluepolarbear — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:58:04 +0000

I have a lot of fond memories of Shoes and the project that spawned it Hackety Hack. I used shoes to make dnd character sheet creators, munchkin score cards, and guis for lots of board games. Hackety Hack was a fun way to learn Ruby and Shoes made it very easy to make simple guis.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Walmart in talks to buy TV maker Vizio for more than $2B"

jbluepolarbear — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:55:42 +0000

I have 2 Vizio tvs and neither is connected to the internet. I don’t use built in tv functionality because they all perform terrible and show unwanted content. I use 3rd party streaming boxes without issue. My oldest Vizio is nearly 10 years old and still works as well as I bought it and still on the same smart software from 10 years ago.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions"

jbluepolarbear — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:04:56 +0000

Sorry, no one is gonna prefer to watch flag football over full contact tackling. This is an absurd article. And the fact that the Olympics are holding a flag football event is a joke.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "He spent his life building a $1M stereo"

jbluepolarbear — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:51:35 +0000

The part where they had a poll was very unscientific, it left comparisons to random audio equipment on the listeners end. Results would be based on the listeners situation more than the source.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Bad NEWS, Emacs"

jbluepolarbear — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:00:56 +0000

The article says otherwise. It says that many concerns were disregarded during that time.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Bad NEWS, Emacs"

jbluepolarbear — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:43:12 +0000

That’s a bad process. The review of the feature should start before it’s merged into main branch, not after. It totally reasonable for people to be upset with a breaking feature in main branch without discussing it with the community at large. Changes merged in like this are how long standing tool lose community support.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes"

jbluepolarbear — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:20:50 +0000

My partner works for a company that uses thin clients to aws instances and they get about half of the hardware back. They don’t even attempt to get the monitors back.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family"

jbluepolarbear — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:56:02 +0000

I use Jellyfin on Roku and Apple TV and the Jellyfin apps work just fine. Sometimes the Roku app loses its credentials, but they’re working on these issues and the apps keep getting better. Although I only use Jellyfin on a local network.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "Data-Driven Development Is a Lie"

jbluepolarbear — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:00:53 +0000

Depends on the field, in real-time application and games it’s gonna mostly refer to data driven design more than domain driven design. Honestly haven’t heard domain driven design inside the games field since the early 2010s.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade"

jbluepolarbear — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:46:14 +0000

The new phones aren’t more compelling than the one I already have. I have an iPhone 11 Max Pro and it’s been great since 2019, the newest iPhones just aren’t compelling to upgrade, and I’m also not wanting to make that usb-c leap because all my accessories are currently lightning based.

New comment by jbluepolarbear in "What's new in C# 12: overview"

jbluepolarbear — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:39:22 +0000

So how would you solve the AOT (ahead of time compiling) problem without code generation? An entire ecosystem (Unity) that uses C# requires that code must be AOT for supporting IL2CPP (a low level translation of IL to c++). Dynamics and Reflection of non-AOT types are unavailable at runtime. IL2CPP came from Apples requirement that no JIT be run in apps and to get more performance; especially, for features like burst that allows writing C# that directly translates to high performance multithreaded c++.