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"Valve is being sued for a Steam agreement that forces developers to list the same game prices on other platforms, possibly eliminating competition.":https://screenrant.com/steam-lawsuit-monopoly-pc-game-store-ubisoft-cdpr/ Person
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Every few months a dev claims "I wrote the fastest C++ hash map". Hmm- let's see. For me, inserts and finds on hashmaps that have been pre-initialized with reserve() are
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What is the worst game you've worked on? Nearly 20 years ago, I was dropped in to firefight on a Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX clone called "Toxic Grind" for the
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A key texture/image compression tip:How you compute PSNR/SSIM is *crucial*. Check, double check, and then triple check that you've done it right. If you're doing it on the GPU, implement
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One of the key issues with Source 2 (ten years ago): They needed new hires (with fresh perspectives) to push the engine forward. However, the new hires didn't understand how
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If you've used personal computers long enough, you learn to recognize high level trends. You also learn how to recognize/predict when you're on the wrong side of a very strong
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I've seen multiple entire successful commercial game studios in the US and CA built from the ground up with *zero whiteboard interviewing*. They conducted a bunch of 2-3 on 1
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Porting vanilla (minimal external API usage, no SIMD, no threading) C++ code to work in the browser with emscripten and WebAssembly is amazingly simple now. The Emscripten docs are excellent,
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On Source Engine 1 you would see mountains of ancient code that nobody understood anymore. No one human understood the whole thing. It was impossible. Adding major new graphical features
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Licensing software, especially to the video game industry, isn't sustainable unless you stay extremely small. Even then you will just survive. The only way to thrive and be sustainable long
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Single pot method for 48 hour probiotic yogurt:1. In a clean pot, add .5 gal of milk+6-8 tablespoons of sugar per .5 gal, bring to boil2. Immediately remove heat, very
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LZ=virtual machine driven by compressed opcodes (match or literal usually). Basisu/CRN=Basically same thing, just different opcodes, with static dictionaries, and with the encoder aware and the opcodes tuned to output
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