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Sep 25, 2023 08:32
Either way - what an interesting time to get back into games programming.
Sep 25, 2023 08:31
But I don't know what the landscape is these days. I have this feeling that Unity being so ubiquitous (and then the presence of component stores across Unity and Unreal) has probably negatively affected some of the outcomes where people would have developed their own toolsets from scratch. But that may also be -- far too cynical.
Sep 25, 2023 08:29
But I officially originally noped out of Unity once David put the EA dude in charge - and the one time I checked it out again (a friend was doing some digital twin type stuff and insisted Unity was the best tool for the job) I was quickly reminded why that was the right decision.

My hope is that now some more people get involved in engine development again and/or some of the projects that have been languishing for ages start taking off again.
Sep 25, 2023 08:26
@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.
Sep 25, 2023 08:25
Hahh - my first message also matches my last message 1053 days ago. It kind of hit me that I hardly use SO/SE anymore. But yeah - I'll try and remember to pop back in at some point.
Sep 25, 2023 07:43
How's it been
Sep 25, 2023 07:43
My job/s is bringing me back around into game dev stuff again. So I was just popping in to see how things are going here
Sep 25, 2023 07:39
:o
Nov 6, 2020 18:45
:o
Jul 12, 2020 08:13
That allow downloads? I think IndieDB is still relatively popular
Jul 5, 2019 21:03
@GDSEMeta Hmmm
Feb 13, 2019 17:00
Very much
Feb 13, 2019 16:56
We should have moved over but the changes were poorly implemented, so they didn't take.
Feb 13, 2019 16:56
Nah the imperial system is almost entirely arbitrary
Feb 13, 2019 16:55
Oh yeah no totally
Feb 13, 2019 16:55
I mean that particular example has to be an extreme edge case
Feb 13, 2019 16:55
ofc this could also just be because I was raised here and I have to do translations to C instead of thinking of like my body temperature and other things as it.
Feb 13, 2019 16:52
Most people are pretty sensitive to minor changes in temperature as well - like around some of the people I work with 72F is considered minimal ok working temperature I generally like being around 65-68F

I guess on the low end it's about the same, but on the high end a 4+ degree change would have to be expressed with higher precision?
Feb 13, 2019 16:48
Fahrenheit gives a wider range for expressing say air temperature - which is what most people are on average concerned with.

Overall Celcius is likely better especially for anything that has to deal with water (or cooking, and general measure)

I just mean as a subjective indicator of comfort
Feb 13, 2019 16:47
Nor the general ambient temperatures that you can experience in most climates (outside of some ecological event)
Feb 13, 2019 16:46
The range between the human body temperature and the temperature that water freezes at seems to not really capture how wide that is
Feb 13, 2019 16:45
@Josh I'd honestly prefer a more Seattle like setup where it rains all the time but then there isn't a ton of snow.
Feb 13, 2019 16:45
Spending some time thinking about it - as a human I think I quite like Fahrenheit as a temperature measure - it does a much better job of telling whether or not you'll be comfortable to a reasonable level of precision without decimal places.
Feb 13, 2019 16:39
-40C to 50C would mean it's time to move lol
Feb 13, 2019 16:38
In the span of a day or so
Feb 13, 2019 16:38
-40C to 10C | -40F to 50F
Feb 13, 2019 16:35
The best part was right after the -40 feel days we got a 50 degree day, we live in interesting times
Feb 13, 2019 16:34
That week wasn't ice, it was just wind and snow flurries was luckily all powdery so easy.

Yesterday my car was covered in an almost complete sheet of ice, that was extra fun.
Feb 13, 2019 16:32
Well, the actual temperature was like -20? Windchill took it the rest of the way, and yep, went to work.
Feb 13, 2019 16:32
Made worse by an explosion at one of the local gas companies, so they asked everyone to turn their heat down, because we faced outages.
Feb 13, 2019 16:31
I think last week, maybe two weeks ago it was -40.
Feb 13, 2019 16:30
It's snowing a ton and super slick but as far as Michigan goes still only in the "This is irritating" phase.
Dec 25, 2018 20:02
@GabrieleVierti Not bad - just all the working
Dec 24, 2018 02:05
This is the most empty I've ever seen this place. Crazy.
Oct 18, 2018 23:20
The fastest way I can think of doing this though, is to pop up your loading image while the level is being loaded in.
Oct 18, 2018 23:20
Ask a question let people get them fake internet points!
Oct 18, 2018 00:34
Yeah - figured I should be pro
Oct 17, 2018 23:38
Oct 17, 2018 23:34
What's the code?
Oct 17, 2018 23:34
Always the worst - I wrote a card game system that managed the deck and hand with bitwise operations. Had to throw it all out.
Oct 17, 2018 23:33
Alternatively I could just be all work, and not worry about the life part. Or maybe just work / work
Oct 17, 2018 23:33
Super unbalanced - but if I ever wanna get to just standard work life balance I've gotta have that second work.
Oct 17, 2018 23:32
Trying to get better at work, work, life balance
Oct 17, 2018 23:31
Hey
May 21, 2018 21:37
I love sketchup, use it for simple 3D prints (kinda). Property Development evals, and level white boxing
May 10, 2018 16:23
Giving the user explicit write access didn't work? That's what I used to do in those cases.
Apr 20, 2018 19:47
Miraculous Lady Bug?
Mar 15, 2018 17:14
Yeah, really liking the overall style.
Feb 27, 2018 21:05
You've gotta deal with input, rendering, collision
 

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