Game Development

Stephane Hockenhull

1:48 AM

Where do you find the number of users on gamedev.SE ?

user4704

2:32 AM

Total? Ever?

user4704

Count how many appear on your version of gamedev.stackexchange.com/users

user4704

multiply by (last page - 1) from the nav bar below

user4704

and then count how many appear on the last page and add that

user4704

Or run an SEDE query to do the same.

user4704

Another view on the data is to look at stackexchange.com/leagues/13/week/gamedev and sum up the results there; these exclude non-active users.

Pikalek

3:09 AM

Is there a way to determine how much my impact has changed over a given time period?

Stephane Hockenhull

4:25 AM

@JoshPetrie So about 77,500 with the first method and 85,000 with the second method. Good enough for me... but that's one heck of a margin of error :D

Garan

8:11 AM

Does anyone know of a city-building game that doesn't snap to a grid/tiles?

I get the idea that Cities:Skylines might be one but alas I do not own it and I don't think it will run on my computer anyway.

Chris McFarland

8:26 AM

yea Cities Skylines is not grid-based
dunno of any others

Garan

How does it manage the lack of grids? I still see many people creating very even cities.

Chris McFarland

Splines and curves for calculations

Might have a snapping tool too, can't remember

PearsonArtPhoto

11:47 AM

So I guess I did get a few votes for best game of the District Arcade. Hmmm...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Nice :)

PearsonArtPhoto

@DukeZhou I don't see your game on the list, interestingly enough. Wonder why...

Almo

2:17 PM

"The troubles facing Toys 'R' Us aren't just about competition from Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) and Walmart (WMT). A lackluster summer at the box office might be hurting the entire toy industry, which depends on hit movies to drive sales of licensed toys."

Shaun Wild

Interesting

PearsonArtPhoto

3:05 PM

Watching a video on Unity Profiling.

I think I now realize why my pathfinding is so slow...

Shaun Wild

y

PearsonArtPhoto

The short is, my pathfinding has a very large object for each node.

I need to have that be much lighter weight.

I'm adding 1.3 MB of data for GC every frame...

I'm working on shrinking that by having a lightweight tile function that contains only the bare essentials.

Shaun Wild

3:49 PM

Dont you just need, x, y, weight?

IIRC tht's what my objects had

PearsonArtPhoto

Well, that's what I'm moving to.

Shaun Wild

Also, doesn't unity handle path fidning?

What do you have currently?

PearsonArtPhoto

The problem is, I was using the entire tile object, that has quite a bit more than that.

There is a pathfinding system in Unity, I haven't figured out how I can adapt it to my needs.

My pathfinding allows for asymmetric applications.

PearsonArtPhoto

4:09 PM

Well, my first order pass, that is far from complete, reduced the memory usage by 75%!

Still not good enough, however...

Shaun Wild

Nice

PearsonArtPhoto

Actually, I really need to have a standardized test so I can tell if the stuff I'm doing is actually making a difference...

And that will have to wait...

I have an idea of how to do it, but...

Free Internet Points

5:01 PM

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Q: How game designers design vibration patterns?

I am curious about creating and implementing vibration patterns for console controllers. (For the PS4 controller, if it makes a difference) There is a delay and motor speed parameter right? But also we can fade from left motor to right, or make them work together.... Is there a standardized way...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

5:18 PM

@Almo Is Toys'r'us having issues?

PearsonArtPhoto

Going bankrupt.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Oh :'( Where will I go dream of buying my LEGOs now?

Almo

@AlexandreVaillancourt they're doing a restructuring bankruptcy

they'll still exist.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

5:34 PM

Oh!

Nice!

I won't buy my LEGOs from them though...

They're expensive there, compared to some other places..

Alexandre Vaillancourt

6:23 PM

This is odd...

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Q: MD Abu Daud. SD

iam SD Life is game play Now Love is Life catch Now It's a real life... You are "All In All" Trust No One,Kill Anyone,Be Onlyone.... ........ SD.......

android

user4704

6:46 PM

Yep.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

We don't get that much of these...

Bálint

7:30 PM

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Q: How game designers design vibration patterns?

I am curious about creating and implementing vibration patterns for console controllers. (For the PS4 controller, if it makes a difference) There is a delay and motor speed parameter right? But also we can fade from left motor to right, or make them work together.... Is there a standardized way...

controllers patterns playstation4

I think stuff like this is behind and NDA

So even if someone knew how people do it, they can't tell

Almo

You can't control those things like he wants to

Like you can trigger a rev up, but not slow it down

games that connect audio to it do it at a very basic level

like Rez did the kick drums on the heavy one and the hihat on the light one

but not to any degree of sonic accuracy

Bálint

7:48 PM

I found that the PS4 dualshock controller has 1 bytes values for the left and right rumble strength