Game Development

In game companies, are there hard time limits for R&D? For instance "your team has 5 months, no more' to build the best destructible environment that achieve at least feature x"?

Almo

it's not usually hard limit

usually you either extend the time, or reduce the scope of the feature

(or work a ton of OT, depending on the company)

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Yeah, OT is not that good for R&D I guess, but I get the picture!

Almo

6:47 PM

:)

Jon

If you are working for Tim Schafer, there is literally no limit to time

Just money

Almo

and those games are oddly unpolished

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Well if you have unlimited money...

Jon

I'm actually quite annoyed with the shit remake that is Day of the Tentacle

Its clearly a -- "oh we've done two other classics already, let's half ass this one for more money"

SECONDLY. if you are going to remake a maniac mansion game, remake the godamn first one you imbecile (He doesn't own the rights to the first one)

Ron Gilbert made that one

Ron Gilbert knows how to stay classy

Ron Gilbert is the man.

Hitman : Ground Zeroes

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Jon

7:23 PM

quite frankly, i do not understand why dunkey is so popular

his videos are shit

Icy Defiance

he's the only person on youtube funny enough for me to go back to his channel every so often and check for new videos

I guess you just have to like that "absurd" humor

Jon

Some videos are decent

but shit man, most of his new ones are really really really bad

OMGtechy

custom build going down

any comments?

Chris

@OMGtechy I hate my Asus monitor

and the Asus mobos I've owned always break

OMGtechy

Is it that same one? I've had a good experience generally, but ya never know

Almo

7:33 PM

no cherry blue mechanical keyboard

OMGtechy

thanks for the input though :D

@Almo IKR

Almo

:D

Chris

@OMGtechy nah not the same model. Yea I know, each to their own hehe

OMGtechy

I didn't plan on getting the 6700k because I won't notice tbh but a friend dangled the carrot and I was like awww but aww but ok

Chris

lol

OMGtechy

7:34 PM

"friend"

bastard more like

Chris

Faster compile times are all good imo

Almo

i gotta get a better monitor

OMGtechy

true, although they're typically I/O bound

@Almo why?

is it black?

Almo

24 inch dell 1080p. connected to a puter with dual cards that can run 3 4k monitors

it's a great monitor

but the resolution is showing its age

OMGtechy

what cards you got?

I like 1080p :P

Frankly anything above that and I get annoyed that apps don't scale properly

Almo

7:36 PM

Dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics processors with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM each

I think

OMGtechy

ahhh workstation

serious powa

Almo

yeah it's a macpro trashcan

OMGtechy

ahaha

I quite like the design tbh

Almo

yeah, it looks awesome, and it's nearly silent

just the one big fan at the bottom

and when you move it, the back lights up to show you the ports

nice detail work

OMGtechy

nice

how much is it?

what model?

Almo

7:38 PM

I got it with an upgraded SSD in early 2014 I think.

$3800 CAD at the time.

ouch

yeah

lol

I was worried about that, until I unpacked it and turned it on.

then I was like yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Jon

then every single breaker blew

OMGtechy

7:39 PM

mind you if you've got dual D300s that's probably a lot of the price

Almo

yeah

which is why I need better monitor

make use of it :)

OMGtechy

that makes sense

Jon

naw

OMGtechy

I'm just a wee 1080p kinda guy

more than that is usually wasted on me

Jon

sense, none, it makes

i have 1080p too, YEAH MAN

OMGtechy

7:40 PM

I mean I can see the difference, but I am happy with 1080p

Almo

OSX el capitan has lightened the fonts, so the text looks pixellated

Jon

1080p for life bro

OMGtechy

YEAH MAN

@Almo YOU CAN FUCK OFF WITH YOUR 4K

Almo

:D

Jon

you can eat brocoli man

user4704

7:40 PM

I don't see the text looking pixelated?

Jon

with his fucken mac

OMGtechy

I like broccoli @Jon

Jon

yeah, well we are peasants, we have to like broccoli

when you hit 4k, you eat filet mignon

OMGtechy

and I also did not observe pixelated text in El Capitananan

that was on a MBP 15"

@Jon ahahaha

Jon

man, 4k porn is downsampled on this pc

OMGtechy

7:42 PM

It's all about Oculus Rift Porn

user4704

Text is gorgeous on my iMac, to the point that i basically can't program on my Windows PC sitting next to it any more

Jon

soon, we won't have to have sex with woman anymore

OMGtechy

mmm iMacs

Almo

iMac is a retina screen though right?

user4704

Yup

Almo

7:43 PM

right

Jon

i hate the name

Almo

my monitor is 1080p

user4704

It is beautiful.

Jon

imac... sounds so lame

Almo

so the text looks pixellated on it

Jon

7:43 PM

what are we, the 90s?

OMGtechy

iMacs ... pretty screen ... less wires ... so big ... so sexy ... so ... mmm

user4704

I can't see it. shrug

Almo

but you're on retina

OMGtechy

also so pricey sadly which is why I'm not getting one

Almo

you can't see pixellation on those

the ppi on mine isn't that high

user4704

7:44 PM

Oh you're not?

user4704

Ah. I get it.

user4704

sucks to be you then :D

Almo

hahah :D

OMGtechy

retina don't even have pixels bro they're like little pixies moving around

Almo

:D

Jon

7:44 PM

bro

OMGtechy

bro

Jon

listen bro... shut up with your 5000$ setups

i'm running on shit

OMGtechy

I'll go all broforce on you bro

Jon

i'll go mansiere on you

remember int he 90s, people would say "Im gonna get medieval on your ass"

I'm getting medieval on your ass

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here is the source

OMGtechy

people still say that

not knowing the film though

Jon

7:50 PM

pump fiction.

something like that.

OMGtechy

I don't remember it being in pulp fiction

David Freitag

@Jon lol, that movie

OMGtechy

but it is apparently

Jon

Duke Nukem Line - Im Gonna Get Medieval On Your Asses

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this was referencing pulp fiction as well.

Free Internet Points

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Q: problem with setProjectionMatrix

setProjectionMatrix is supposed to help to resize an app on different device. If i comment it on my program it works well, also if i comment viewport.update(width, height); in resize. but i d'ont understand why i have a blank screen if i use it ? thanks @Override public void create() { ...

libgdx

Jon

7:53 PM

WHOA 100 POINTS OMG OMG, CLEAR MY SCHEDULE

Chris

lmao

Jon

Anyone here have a nintendo 3ds?

they apparently are gifting pokemon picross

OMGtechy

My other half does, will tell

ta

Jon

not sure wtf, but I got it for free the other day

and i was gonna buy it

it just appeared after a system update

and it is pretty good too

i'm playing link between worlds right now though -- :)

Honestly, i love that they re-use the link to the past map

That is so awesome... its like I know where I am going, but I don't

ON DEMAND!

WELL I'M BORED

i just put socks on my dog

she's not moving... she's literally waiting for me to remove them

i'm not removing them, this is her new live now.. socks every day

David Freitag

If you have a cat you should try scotch tape on the paws. Causes no harm but a cat with no traction is quite hilarious.

OMGtechy

8:09 PM

@Jon @DavidFreitag your petty antics have made my day

Jon

bad pic, it was sunny

OMGtechy

that's a cute dog

I wanna cuddle it

Jon

she loves cuddles

David Freitag

I find that dogs are more ok with things on their paws, however cats freak out like "OMG WHAT IS THIS TREACHERY?!"

OMGtechy

I have/had (lives with my mother - and of course I moved out some time ago) a cocker spaniel

Jon

8:11 PM

lol

she hasn't moved

OMGtechy

I still feel like she's my dog

and aww

I wonder how long she'll stay

Jon

i kinda feel bad now

user4704

They also don't like things on their head.

user4704

Or butt.

user4704

instagram.com/p/9rQlQqrA8N/?taken-by=tovahlin

Jon

8:12 PM

lol

OMGtechy

I put a police dog outfit on mine

she acted like it wasn't there

had cuffs and everything

hobbled along

David Freitag

I love it when animals totally play long with their owner's antics

heh

8:14 PM

here's another of my dog

David Freitag

@Jon Big huuuuge smile on her face

OMGtechy

@Jon diseased

David Freitag

"Yuuuuup totally worth it"

Jon

no she was not smiling here, lol

OMGtechy

white blob disease

Jon

8:14 PM

she was going in the bathtub

user4704

is that...bath time?

David Freitag

That looks like snow, is it not snow?

Jon

it is snow, lol

this dog would die without human intervention

David Freitag

Pretty sure that's the same for most breeds of dog

Pip

Holy crap Stardew Valley was written with XNA

Jon

8:33 PM

so?

Terraria was also written in xna

this was kinda freaky

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I'm questioning the leadership of Jean-Luc Picard.

Jon

Picross touch.. first android build

OMGtechy

congrats

Jon

8:48 PM

that is old.

David Freitag

@Jon That's very odd, the thumbnail in chat is 90° off, but the full-size image is right...

@Pip Yup I found that out when I installed that game on linux

Jon

yeah weird.

Pip

9:02 PM

@Jon nice!

Jon

9:44 PM

tanks

first image I can find of it

lol

oh man

Alexandre Vaillancourt

She needs a paper bag. The guy also needs one.

David Freitag

@AlexandreVaillancourt And so do I

shudders

Alexandre Vaillancourt

10:31 PM

Just downloaded Blender 2.77... What's blenderplayer?

DH.

11:09 PM

@OMGtechy Don't be like this when choosing the parts of your PC imgur.com/Hnk1Uy8

OMGtechy

11:32 PM

ahahahaha

i did almost exactly that

resisted the 980 in the end though

and dropped the 6700k to a 6600k

twas a comprimise

@DH. just contacted their sales team with a "pretty please money off" type message

oh I forgot the cpu cooler (there is not stock)

Chris

please, sir, i am but a poor working man

OMGtechy

something like that

I know they can and do do it

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