Game Development

I did not expect a performance question involving GDI & Windows Forms to generate 1k views.

PSA: we now only need 3 votes to close on GDSE.

So I finished the game I was working on! It's not the planetary physics game—some things were't working quite right and I wasn't going to get that done in time. But the stuff that was working right was enough to make a non-planetary space invaders parody, and that's here now: Defeat Bolas!!

A big book of game math just went free to read online

People are volunteering their time to help you, so please put in the effort to be clear and specific with your questions. Otherwise, folks might get the impression that you're wasting their time.

Please don't star trivial messages.

I'm of the opinion that losing hours to a problem and sapping my motivation through frustration is more harmful than looking a bit naïve for a few minutes but getting help to overcome the issue faster. 😉

Every time I see star responsibly I'm tempted to star stupid shit. :D

It's not a "read these three books and you're done" kind of thing. Game development is a constant journey of learning and re-learning.

A nice listing of different gamedev tools I stumbled across

@DMGregory There is a small part of me that wants to be hyper-cynical and think that they had the new position already prepared and they went with the absolute most damaging position first so that any lighter one would be reasonably readily accepted.

The 2014 GDSE Summer Game Jam will take place on July 4-6th! Mark your calendars

I'm enjoying the design discussion on that question about dealing with players under-powering themselves by skipping upgrades. 😁

People shouldn't be dicks in SE chatrooms. They are intended to be a professional off-shoot of the main site.

GORB is now on Greenlight - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=752274066

Tallowmere, coming to Wii U on Sept 1: tallowmere.com/wii-u

Excessive worrying about realism will make your game not fun

Happy Pride!

Poor mobs. First they don't exist, then they are spawned in and get cut down by the "heroes". Sometimes they manage to defeat the heroes, but their world goes blank all the same.

#a11yTO Gaming went well today. I tried to livetweet it here, if anyone's interested.

Oh yeah, I'm speaking at a game accessibility conference this Saturday, if anyone's in Toronto and interested in checking it out. The code in the tweet is good for $20 tickets.

Please wash your hands. Thanks.

moral of the story: make your own game for fun. Make other people's game for money

...delete all your code.

Woot. My course with Lynda.com just went live, Advanced Unity 3D Game Programming

@Vaillancourt The shaders from the far realms show our mortal minds many things! Mwhahaha!!

You can't expect everything that Jon says to make sense, really

Remember that cryptocurrency doesn't create value out of nothing. It just attracts investment. So by mining crypto, you're not creating new money to donate to charity. You're just moving around existing value created in other ways. That value could be directly donated to charity without crypto as a step in between.

Well good luck & strong skill to everyone today whether you're putting in work or balancing your life with some recreation.

Just "making an engine" without a game that comes with it is meaningless. How do you know the engine is actually useful?

It's not at all necessary, but somehow it makes me happy when tools actually work and have fancy features.

This is stackexchange. No fun allowed.

SOMEBODY PURCHASED MY APP! OH MY OHMY! OHOMHOM!!!! MY FIRST "PLAYER"!!

I do not want to have to justify to the ethics review board whether my research meets an objective definition of "fun" 😂

Just a reminder, folks, to please leave a constructive comment when down-voting. When users' first experience with this site is suddenly getting a -1 on their question, it frustrates them, and gives them no guidance about how they can improve, so they're not able to fix the problem and might keep making the same mistakes.

I don't think people quit just because of one thing. It's always multiple things. But SE itself has delivered multiple things in a short time. Eventually it's critcal mass.

Hat season is back! winterbash2020.stackexchange.com

The game made by our studio was released today and is on sale for now: store.steampowered.com/app/339210

Please star responsibly.

Cognizer released on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/711690/Cognizer

jgallant.com/Gorb