It was reasonably popular and got picked up by a publisher and perhaps you have played it, but I won't talk about that. The problem with your original assertion is that you have ignored the virtual world player types as…
A statement befitting the co-author of an unpopular online game.
The most popular "how to synthesize" article series is Synth Secrets which ran in Sound on Sound Magazine over a period of years. You can find those online. Regarding what tool to use, a modular like this(albeit in…
Sometimes a "tool" is as simple as agreeing to enter a certain kind of conversation. For example, when martial artists practice, they mix the study of technique with its application in a competitive setting. This…
I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though. The output of the effort put into technology is a new process or workflow, rather than raw "tech stuff". It's a multiplier to a different input, some other…
Intel has more of the existing partnerships with OEMs, and that isn't going to reverse immediately with a strong showing from AMD. The new Ryzen Mobile notebooks are low-to-midrange entries and groundbreaking in their…
There's so much history in between that it's easy to cherry pick your favorites: * New economic and political philosophies(merchantilism, Machiavelli's works, Magna Carta) * Theological developments(Islam,…
I recall seeing a comparison of DX7 vs dexed patches on Youtube that mostly found audible differences in envelope lengths, not timbre. That seems like something more straightforward to fix, though there's always the…
Scope variance is actually really common in mobile games as well as RPGs and simulation. All of them share the same kind of design goal of bending time to fit a certain play session or inner/outer game loop length. More…
I don't exactly agree. While the internal hardware does tend to receive less emphasis now, the physical build quality has increasingly been given a scientific treatment, and for good reason: it's the part that matters…
Gravity Falls was a big hit with older viewers(grand supernatural mysteries plotline underpinning various family drama). There's also a new Ducktales - I've only caught the premiere of that but it looks like a fitting…
As a baseline recommendation try this: turn some of the apparently unfactorable pasta code into a large inline function and then start factoring from that point. Usually an opportunity will appear to realign the code in…
It's the race for core counts that we've been expecting since the mid 2000s - just a lot later than anyone expected since we detoured into GPU and mobile computing. Our software still isn't really ready for it, but I…
FWIW I believe it helps to run ordinary fans in the room in tandem with a filtration unit to combat the airflow issues.
"Forward+" is the typical term for the newer style of forward rendering which includes a special pass for optimizing large numbers of lights(the most appealing part of deferred).
It comes and goes in phases according to the available technology. The first Quake was all muddy brown and gray. Quake 2 and Unreal both introduced color lighting and looked like a disco on Saturday night. Mid-2000s…
The Silicon Valley Suicides - Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto? (2015) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil... Contemporary schooling in the US can vary…
Feedback. Speed and clarity of feedback trumps effort in honing a skill. Note that parent didn't say "no work" but "no homework". Most forms of homework give unclear feedback to the student with few ways to check work…
Every local newspaper comments thread is basically like this. It's 4chan for old people.
Join three instances and check out their local and federated timelines. They're all different in size and character and your hit/miss rate goes way up by putting in a bit of "pavement pounding".
Twitter has to do everything itself - sales, marketing, customer support. This means that its vision is limited by what the executives can see, and they're going to look at traditional business factors for ideas. The…
Just the other day I replied to a Reddit thread, and told a gamer who experienced periodic frame drops in CS:GO to check the other system processes. He protested that he had nothing else running, but elsewhere in the…
The essence of it is in good application of macros. Macroassemblers were essential tools for software that wanted all three of complex, high-performance, and fast to build on hardware of that era. Although it's a bit…
The problem tends to stem from misplaced feedback, not intentional badness. In this case the scenario is set by copy-pasting the dev cycle of previous games onto a new one. The game gets designed from the…
You've got the strategy I've started using. After years of frustration from cheap laptops that get hot and have poor battery life and can't really be upgraded I recently switched to a computing strategy that seems to…
It was reasonably popular and got picked up by a publisher and perhaps you have played it, but I won't talk about that. The problem with your original assertion is that you have ignored the virtual world player types as…
A statement befitting the co-author of an unpopular online game.
The most popular "how to synthesize" article series is Synth Secrets which ran in Sound on Sound Magazine over a period of years. You can find those online. Regarding what tool to use, a modular like this(albeit in…
Sometimes a "tool" is as simple as agreeing to enter a certain kind of conversation. For example, when martial artists practice, they mix the study of technique with its application in a competitive setting. This…
I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though. The output of the effort put into technology is a new process or workflow, rather than raw "tech stuff". It's a multiplier to a different input, some other…
Intel has more of the existing partnerships with OEMs, and that isn't going to reverse immediately with a strong showing from AMD. The new Ryzen Mobile notebooks are low-to-midrange entries and groundbreaking in their…
There's so much history in between that it's easy to cherry pick your favorites: * New economic and political philosophies(merchantilism, Machiavelli's works, Magna Carta) * Theological developments(Islam,…
I recall seeing a comparison of DX7 vs dexed patches on Youtube that mostly found audible differences in envelope lengths, not timbre. That seems like something more straightforward to fix, though there's always the…
Scope variance is actually really common in mobile games as well as RPGs and simulation. All of them share the same kind of design goal of bending time to fit a certain play session or inner/outer game loop length. More…
I don't exactly agree. While the internal hardware does tend to receive less emphasis now, the physical build quality has increasingly been given a scientific treatment, and for good reason: it's the part that matters…
Gravity Falls was a big hit with older viewers(grand supernatural mysteries plotline underpinning various family drama). There's also a new Ducktales - I've only caught the premiere of that but it looks like a fitting…
As a baseline recommendation try this: turn some of the apparently unfactorable pasta code into a large inline function and then start factoring from that point. Usually an opportunity will appear to realign the code in…
It's the race for core counts that we've been expecting since the mid 2000s - just a lot later than anyone expected since we detoured into GPU and mobile computing. Our software still isn't really ready for it, but I…
FWIW I believe it helps to run ordinary fans in the room in tandem with a filtration unit to combat the airflow issues.
"Forward+" is the typical term for the newer style of forward rendering which includes a special pass for optimizing large numbers of lights(the most appealing part of deferred).
It comes and goes in phases according to the available technology. The first Quake was all muddy brown and gray. Quake 2 and Unreal both introduced color lighting and looked like a disco on Saturday night. Mid-2000s…
The Silicon Valley Suicides - Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto? (2015) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil... Contemporary schooling in the US can vary…
Feedback. Speed and clarity of feedback trumps effort in honing a skill. Note that parent didn't say "no work" but "no homework". Most forms of homework give unclear feedback to the student with few ways to check work…
Every local newspaper comments thread is basically like this. It's 4chan for old people.
Join three instances and check out their local and federated timelines. They're all different in size and character and your hit/miss rate goes way up by putting in a bit of "pavement pounding".
Twitter has to do everything itself - sales, marketing, customer support. This means that its vision is limited by what the executives can see, and they're going to look at traditional business factors for ideas. The…
Just the other day I replied to a Reddit thread, and told a gamer who experienced periodic frame drops in CS:GO to check the other system processes. He protested that he had nothing else running, but elsewhere in the…
The essence of it is in good application of macros. Macroassemblers were essential tools for software that wanted all three of complex, high-performance, and fast to build on hardware of that era. Although it's a bit…
The problem tends to stem from misplaced feedback, not intentional badness. In this case the scenario is set by copy-pasting the dev cycle of previous games onto a new one. The game gets designed from the…
You've got the strategy I've started using. After years of frustration from cheap laptops that get hot and have poor battery life and can't really be upgraded I recently switched to a computing strategy that seems to…