Game Development

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maniacgames.cognizer

"The cruelest differential equation" is when you're in the shower running out of hot water. You turn up the temp, which drains the hot water faster, making the temp drop faster until it's cold and there's nothing you can do about it.

A "moo" from Diablo II is the sound I asked VS to play when it finishes the compilation.

Woot! I finally have an Android-only Unity version of Skippy Fish out for beta testers!

yourgameideaistoobig.com

Github is offering Unreal Engine 4 (Among other things) for free if you are a student 13+ education.github.com/pack - @Pip @hasherr @grey

Disclaimer - statistically, I have more bad ideas than good ones. And I'm below quota for the week.

"Don't elect fascist nationalists" seems like an interesting lesson we could have learned once and been done with, and moved on to something novel instead.

sigh be nice to each other, or leave. Is the choice so hard?

I'm starting to wonder if SE will survive this mess

Anyone wants to complain politely and reasonably, feel free. Anyone want to insult or harass, you're out too.

yay... our game passed certification (MS store)... now beta testing begins...

My Brother: "Had my first glimpse into php today. Looks gay." - I'm so proud

wait, stars are a competition?

Ask for a star, get a star (to get a hat!)!

On a serious note. Sleep is important and should never be underestimated

You jump so easily to "I guess this means it's impossible" when all you can really conclude is "I don't like the first idea I thought of so far"

I love that story of a youngster seeing someone's old floppy disc and saying "Cool, you 3D printed the 'Save' icon?"

Hey folks I just wanted to stop by and say you are great people and you should know it

8900+ game assets for $5, which includes free updates for life

alright, Picross Touch is up for review on steam greenlight

The Summer Game Jam is over! GO PLAY PEOPLE!

This AI thing is fun, but it's taking a lot of time. My mind being bothered constantly with other non-work related issues does not help... :/

Okay. Chat has gone several years with much more lax moderation. Because of a few recent incidents, among other things, there's now a drive to enforce the rules more, and to do so more consistently. That means things that might have been ignored because they were borderline previously are now not going to get ignored.

@Josh I am not the most active member of the community, but thank you for all you have done here.

Oh that's standard, all graphics drivers link against libSatanicCurse

> The corona vaccine is almost ready to go. The only step missing is they haven't figured out how to make it cause autism yet.

#MickLH I am at war, hiding under dead bodies of comrades but trying to access wifi to be on chat.stackexchange.com

@Chris Hey there Mr. #1 seller on IGS.

Unity 5.4 has been released. unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.4.0

I admire the optimism and motivation of all those individuals with mmorpgs projects who also asks the most basic programming questions on GDSE. More power to them; Whatever the outcome it's a great learning experience.

jgallant.com/demo/Temp.html

So I'm working at a client and the computer they gave me is acting all crappy. Takes like 3 minutes to install a mouse driver. I checked the task manager to find that CPU and RAM weren't the problem though I was surprised that RAM was at 80% utilization because they said that it was a "pretty beefy machine." I checked the system settings to find this i.imgur.com/nBuNuBg.png ---- facedesk

Time was, there was a member of the research / dev group wrote some code. In said code, was mostly the expected sort of thing. The conspicuous exception were some variables with people names. I.E. instead of something like PatrollingAgent01 it was Alice. When asked about it, he said something like "I couldn't come up with a good name that conveyed meaning, so I tried to pick an obviously bad one to avoid leading others to bad assumptions about its behavior."

Again, if you're to solo dev on this project, it's fine. But if you're to work with some other devs, reducing the amount of WTF to 0 is something you should want.

codereview.stackexchange.com can help you improve your skills, apparently.