Notices by Anders Stenberg (sonnybonds@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@slembcke It's the worst.

@sinbad Yeah. Drawing, layout and overlap queries iterate but in tree order like you say, which may or may not be linear-ish depending on how the tree is created.

Continuing my UI experiments but in C++ land now.

Experimenting with an ECS-ish structure with data stored in separate arrays identified by id. Not sure it makes sense since most interaction with the data is not linear iterations, so I don't know how much data locality matters.

Currently putting the data in maps and I don't love having to worry about hash lookup being a cost. Could use array, but that comes with other issues.

Maybe should just go back to pointer tree of heterogenous objects.

@sinbad I haven't worked directly with games in 15 years, and when I did I first "just" worked on middleware and then on some not so fantastic online games and some cancelled stuff. I still feel like I used to "work with games" but I also feel like there is a big asterisk to it. 😬

@jwz @codinghorror I say I'm a big fan, but honestly I'm mostly into the two pre-Beautiful albums.

Beautiful Garbage has a special place in my heart for reasons very loosely related to the songs on it. Musically I don't hate it and it does have some songs I really like. World feels like a _very_ Beautiful-era song to me though. But I like it, it's really... extra.

The albums after that I've mostly listened through out of duty.

@jwz @codinghorror Tiga's phaser license should be revoked.

But are we just straight up posting hype music right now?

@jwz @codinghorror SORRY CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE FATAL SOUND OF BROKEN DREAMS

@jwz @codinghorror I'm a Garbage fan but "A View To A Kill" and "The Living Daylights" though.

The year is 2024. You want to write a cross platform desktop UI (not command line) application. What language and frameworks do you use?

Electron or otherwise browser based options disallowed for this particular hypothetical.

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