The code cout << "Hello World\n"; is part of the C++ standard, and C++ has grown a lot over the years. For new streaming functionality, let’s start doing function calls with comma-separated parameters, like log("Hello World", 123);.
The world just dropped the frame, but I’m not in VR. That’s strange.
One downside of your game becoming extremely popular is that you might feel confined to the universe you created. Players will eagerly demand more content from that game—sequels, DLCs, and so on. Personally, I want the freedom to create multiple game universes.
🌸 Tue, Jul 9, 2024 🌸
Once John F. Kennedy said:
We set sail on this new sea of virtual worlds because there are new joys to be discovered, and new benefits to be won, and they must be won and used for the happiness of all people. For computer games, like all forms of technology, have no conscience o…
🌸 Tue, Jul 9, 2024 🌸
I like to contract words in my C++ code, e.g., cmd instead of command, args instead of arguments, but some words I am so used to typing in full that if I decide to contract them, it makes it slower for me to type, even though it is fewer keystrokes.
🌸 Tue, Jul 9, 2024 🌸
Hey! I feel one and a half days of rest helped. Let’s start another marathon!
🌸 Mon, Jul 8, 2024 🌸
I’ll take a break today from game dev. I was quite a good run about 7 weeks, every day for 12 hours, I had one day break, went to the camp ground. And now I’ve hit the wall. I assume just over the year my stamina has gotten low, hopefully next run would be longer.
🌸 Mon, Jul 8, 2024 🌸
Three weeks ago, I began working while standing, which has significantly alleviated my chest pain, likely a lingering effect of long COVID. However, maintaining an 85-hour work week as I had planned is proving to be unsustainable. Yesterday, I hit a wall and ended up spending the…
🌸 Mon, Jul 8, 2024 🌸
I am struggling with Visual Studio 2015 for almost 2 weeks. And I made up my mind: it is a piece of garbage.
In particular, I am trying to set up a new configuration in the configuration manager, and sometimes it just tells you it cannot do something for some reason, and then st…
🌸 Mon, Jul 8, 2024 🌸
I believe college in the US is a waste of time and money. I have an MS in physics and engineering, and I got it for free in Russia. And I recommend that way. College in the US is too expensive and does not provide enough knowledge and skills for the money and time you and your pa…
🌸 Mon, Jul 8, 2024 🌸
I really like the AD feature on Netflix. It is subtitles for blind people; they have an additional audio track that describes what is happening visually. And if I feel FOMO about some TV show, I can put it in the background and listen to the show and do some useful things that do…
🌸 Fri, Jul 5, 2024 🌸
Is the 1st Newton’s law of motion just a special case of the 2nd one?
🌸 Wed, Jul 3, 2024 🌸
Do you play online games? Why do you play online games? Do you use online features of the game? I’m asking because I’m trying to understand what’s appealing in online games. I play Overwatch and VRChat, but in WoW or Diablo, they’re technically online games, I play solo.
🌸 Mon, Jul 1, 2024 🌸
HTML5 was a bad idea years ago; it is a worse idea now. Let’s go native. Discord constantly eats 4% (used to be 15%) of one of my CPU core; it should be near to 0. I periodically need to refresh X.com page because it becomes super unresponsive over time. It takes forever to withd…
🌸 Mon, Jul 1, 2024 🌸
PureRef is a great little tool, but lately I’ve realized I just paste images directly into Blender. I use a plugin called ImagePaste. Plus, grease pencil.
🌸 Mon, Jul 1, 2024 🌸
The many-worlds interpretation implies that if you go and buy a lottery ticket, there is a 100% chance of winning the lottery. It’s just that you are most likely to end up in the universe where you did not win.
But I am wondering, should I go and buy the ticket just to make anot…
Aliens do exist. Today I met a family with two kids and a dog at an empty campground. There were about 40 spots, and maybe three spots were taken. The family picked the spot right next to me. The family had an older kid, a newborn, and the dog. The dog was barking non-stop. The d…
AIs sometimes gives very appealing ideas, but then you try to piece everything together to a coherent outcome, and everything falls apart.
I just got a message from Valve; they are not recommending going live on July 3rd because of the sale event and would not be able to promote my game, so I am discussing later release dates. The Steam page is live, though. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
I need to do proper scoping for the 3-month and 6-month long games. I know I can scope a game for what I can make in one month, so it shouldn’t be that hard to do for the 3-month game and eventually for the 6-month game. The same technique just needs to be scaled up by a factor o…
Just a reminder: I am doing a one-month game jam and at the end of this month, I am going to publish the game on Steam. Steam page is up: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
I’ve got it! Here is my rough outline plan for the next eight years.
I am going to make games. Currently, I am employed full-time, working 40 hours a week at my day job. However, I can dedicate an additional 45 hours each week to work on my games.
Step One: I will scope …
About half a year ago on a whim, I wrote a post about the development process. I thought a lot about how I can optimize it and came to the conclusion that just working solo, the outline of the process takes about 10 steps, each step int…
What is going on? I woke up and World War III and nukes are trending on Twitter. And also, I pulled my back and have diarrhea. Just keep swimming.
I am doing a one-month game jam, and I was stupid enough to commit to publishing the game on Steam at the end of the jam. The store page is live. Wishlist or not is up to you.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
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