Notices by Calicoday :gamedev: (calicoday@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad yeah, that's what I'm noticing watching your and others struggles. It's like a lot of the foundations are diff, cousins not sibs. Tbh I'm finding that with a lot of UE subsys. There's an awful lot of opportunity for a massive refactor! 😿

@sinbad I appreciate this advice! I'm guaranteed to go multiplayer but I put it off as long as poss so I can have as full command of other aspects as I can. Then when I make the jump and am slogging thru one of many nightmares, I'll know that's NOT bizarre, I was warned! 😹

@sinbad I have OG and use it everyday. This would be a massive update, IF it's not massively heavier (the Steam Deck is not a handheld but a small laptop -- won't someone think of the children and other smallish people?!). I'm cautiously optimistic! Wish they'd open their dev access so people can tinker but that's a HUGE step for them -- like embracing the internet, which they did 10 years after everyone else and weirdly. 😹

@sinbad Haha! I know what torch means but I read it while still half awake and my mind pictured a blowtorch just vaguely near the phone caused it to panic and cough up the lint like a hairball. 😹

@pluralistic I admit, the "smell of the age" is not something I'm keen to return to but I'll stand it for the rest. Wishing you the best for this new work! 😸

@sinbad I've tried to leave myself notes, sometimes very detailed, with stuff that seems REALLY important to get down while I can and is in fact totally useless to me later. 🤷 Very happy Forgetting Season to you, too! 😹

@sinbad Please do, if you find the time! If others then are inspired to further refine, so much the better. But finding anything at all on many topics is such a struggle these days. 😿

@sinbad Love this, both the occlusion cutout and the behind geometry outline.

@sinbad I love the littering. It's nice for the player to see they've had impact on the world -- though you might want some bins for people who find it uncomfortable. But also, littering give the chance to later add some surprise scavenger, why some messy areas are less messy when you come back.

@sinbad Awesome! 😹

@pluralistic What really disturbs me about the media's fear of bias is it's based in a simplistic, binary view of stories. The news we most need often has more key dimensions than that.

Jay Scott wrote reviews for The Globe and Mail I got great use out of for MANY years, even though it was clear that he and I liked almost none of the same movies. But he wrote his one opinion of a film and detailed why and from that I could tell quite reliably whether it would be for me.

@sinbad WAY worse than a blog post (tho sometimes illustrations are essential). Wish the auto transcription weren't so crap.

@sinbad I REALLY need Epic to make a bold, aggressive move to fully support not-Windows. Linux and Mac would be best but at least one that shows they're not just going with the flow! I wake up everyday wondering if that's the day I have to move to PC or abandon gamedev. 😿