Profiling & Optimization Expectation: -clever algorithms -SoA -hand-written SIMD Reality: -rewriting totally retarded stuff that makes no sense and either quadratic or exponential -removing unneccessary abstraction and polymorphism -adding reserve() / resize() -removing Log()

Webdevs discovering, how floating point work.

You may not like it, but this is what peak video game UI looks like.

Look mommy, we rewrote a 24yo open source lib, skipping all the accumulated technical debt, compatibility, and some of the featureset, and it’s faster! Shocking, really!

If your servers die with just 250 users, you kinda need to fire your whole backend and infra team.

Since the main use case for Zig programs are using an empty main, this is a very important benchmark

Lol, Hungary is one of the safest countries in Europe, worst case you could get ripped off in a shady restaurant if you are careless, or pickpocketed, if you are drunk.

Total BS. The tech costs to make the server available is a super small fraction of prod costs. They just don’t want to lose control and their way to enforce planned depreciation. They will be forced to make better games, as otherwise ppl will just play the old ones.

raylib is the best way to start C programming. Kinda reminds me the old C64 era, when you could have quick and visible results as a newbie, with minimal coding. Now also comes with software rendering, so you can run it on some shitty dev board and render to some small oled :)

Reminder that it’s totally retarded to ditch people bc they don’t remember the name of some shit you can google in 3 seconds..

Witnessed a true miracle! I saw a cool rendering paper, tried to read it, felt like I’m the guy in the meme. But when I wrote to the author, I got back a reply within a hour, with a wall of text explanation plus link to source code (which is actually readable by regular humans)

Very True. But while you are at it, you can fucking create a proper string builder as well, instead of doing retarded strcat like a fucking animal from ‘89

I assume you never had a MacBook. You can remove the plug from it, and plug in a 2 pin C7 power coord to the transformer. So it's like your usual laptop power supply, but you can actually replace the fucking cables on both ends in case they get damaged.. Also, you can use various lengths for various scenarios.

Ouhhh… Husbant… Now We Are Homeress!

What the actual fuck. Right now, I’m doing an interactive simulation with half bazillion small thingies, and trying to fit certain parts of it into 2-8ms (aka multiplayer gamedev). Meanwhile, retarded web devs be like:

The boxing scene from scary movie 4 become reality from parody at this point.

Thanks, I’m good

Issue is most ppl think C is bad bc they mix up C with -80s-90s coding style -their own programming skills in the 80s-90s in C -available sophisticated C libs in the 80s-90s And mix up C89 with C23 :) Even bigger issue is, some C codebases kinda also stuck in the 80s-90s 😅 How many ppl are there still locking their code to C89 instead of at least C11? Why the fuck gets is still a problem for you, it was deprecared 10+ years ago!

Most modern "UX" and "design" is fake to make things useless for the users, but shiny for the retarded mgmt. We reached peak UX around Windows98 / Final Fantasy VII

wow, the gamedev sector is really dying hard.

But nooo, that is super complicated, use cmake combined with other obscure brainfuckery.

Because a playstation is a lot more cheaper, in case I wanna play games.

A normal person would've just learned how to fucking program, but no, he created a whole fucking language around his skill issue. (just to abandon it for yet another shitty lang)

Don’t be like this. Always deref length outside of the loop cond, at init.

I think not marrying retarded women kinda solves the “problem”. Get someone that could puzzle out the complex relations between “slacking off around the laptop” and “we have money”. But still, it doesn’t hurt to do some welding outside to stack some man cards, time to time.

Dude should lick that bottle clean

Let me educate you on the topic a bit. In eastern europe, in case of major financial losses, your creditors will kill you, put you in your car, make it look like a suicide and pay some police officials to confirm that. “Don’t jump, people will throw you anyway” 🤣

void* is an amazing tool that simplifies ALL scenarios. No thread needed.

I mean, that would just multiply our GDP by 5, the nice beach is extra :D

It’s scary to see people in C and asm groups think like this… Completely ignoring the existence of debug builds, among other things…

@elonmusk an ironic, but effective way to get rid of AI bots

The list is fake, it’s missing McGregor and Jones 😅😅😅

Exactly. They tought of a fucking big ass cannon, not some shitty pistol.

Cowards.

Game engine development is not rocket science. It’s actually a lot more fucking HARDER than rocket science.. according to ppl who did both 🤣

Where does this pointers are faster then arrays bullshit comes from? AMD optimization manual recommends array notation instead of ptr since like forever (I learned it as a kid, and that was 20+ years ago, earliest AMD64 platform opt manuals I found are from 2004 and they already have it. Does pointer aliasing ring a bell? Be honest, when was the last time you opened your main dev platform’s optimization manual? Page 47, 3.2 Use array notation instead of pointer notation when working with arrays. C allows the use of either the array operator ([]) or pointers to access the elements of an array. However, the use of pointers in C makes work difficult for optimizers in C compilers. Without detailed and aggressive pointer analysis, the compiler has to assume that writes through a pointer can write to any location in memory, including storage allocated to other variables. (For example, *p and *q can refer to the same memory location, while x[0] and x[2] cannot.) Pointers make it difficult for compilers to detect the presence or absence of aliasing—with possible ambiguous access to a block of memory. The compiler sometimes must assume aliasing in the presence of pointers, which limits the opportunities for optimization. Array notation makes the task of the optimizer easier by reducing possible aliasing. amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/d…

Hotter take: WTF, people work as video game designers without ever designing a tabletop game? That’s disappointing, sad, and tells a lot.

Dear autistic child prodigy programmer friend. Bad news for you. If you haven’t figured out women at least by your late 20s-30s, you are not really that smart, actually.

Retarded C++ people be like:

I mean, 1050 and 1060 are just top20 GPUs in FUCKING STEAM HW SURVEY. Why the fuck a GAME engine would support them? Unreal is cancer, Unity is.. I don't even need to explain. Open source engines like Godot and this are ran by retarded people. ROLL YOUR OWN FUCKING ENGINE!

Rich parent’s company > rich parent company 😅

I think mass-reporting on the location of private jets is, in fact, more reasonable then ever.

Breaking news, C++ ramges are retarded shit and solve no problems (while creating many new ones)

Most retarded take of the week

He fell into multiple syringes full of HGH and Testosterone?

I saw clever guys writing engines In Rust and Odin perfectly, No games ever shipped Write in C

Problem with CS PhDs and FP guys, and type theory / proofing guys, is that they think that Dijkstra and dudes like him are kings, while in that era, REAL programmers were kinda busy putting men in the space, on the moon, and shit like that..

Where’s Bella when people need her? 🤣

Name one C++ feature and your use case and I will tell you why you are fucking retarded.

Calling C complex is the reddest of the red flags. No one forces you to do complicated shit in it.

Never tought that CryEngine and “runs perfectly well on any modern system” will be in the same sentence ever😅

Just hard manual labor, rubber banding and shit.

Pretty sure that the broadside of a man-o-war they recommended had more shots than a shitty glock til a reload.

Don’t worry hon, I just bought a cnc mill for $10k so now I can make it from alu! Really good investment!

Suggesting them the actual single line would be more helpful, then a shame-retweet ;) (or do both)

Life sentence over street trash does not worth it

Hot take: Dijkstra stole most of his work from railroad clerks and engineers, INCLUDING the algorithm named after him (also semaphores and shunting yard, which are 1-1 from railroad, obviously) His own words: “We take inspiration from railway practice for managing concurrent access to resources.” I mean, his semaphore paper is literally how railroad axle counters work, with ZERO citation to actual railroad engineers who invented the actual fucking thing. His contribution to the topic was just scientific circle jerk and snake oil salesmanship, programming imaginary “computers”, while his peers were kinda busy dropping man on the moon. Dijkstra is the most overrated computer sciencist, EVER. This is a hill I will die on. Justice to all the uncredited railroad ppl, who built “computer science” 100 years before computers were even a thing.

these comparisons make a lot of sense, because most rust ppl usually never go above this level of complexity in their coding career :D

If he had the balls for this, he wouldn’t be in this situation to start with :)

Lambdas are a very retarded way, to make already dangerous concept of callbacks more attractive to the unskilled and naive programmer, while introducing even more subtle bugs. Mix it with the ref default capture (kinda implicit/subtle again) and threads for a compete disaster.

I really start to think half this “modern startup infra” starterpack is actually made mandatory by VC or some secret management cabal and mostly about embezzling investor money and dripping it back using your nephew. I mean, we just fucking have a server in my room, works fine and run all these services for free, and it took like a day to set up tops.

most diff tools (including github) and editors will have hard time parsing thru large files. Same for humans, btw :D

Well, congrats to those who become dependent on some random uni student’s hobby as million dollar companies… If you are dependent on oss, at least have your own crew for it.

Hi Gamedevs! There was some page with all various curves you ever need in gamedev for proc animation damping / spring / bounce / etc. Kinda like the ones you see in Overgrowth talk, but there was like a huge collection of them somewhere, with the equatations - pic of curve - use case. Any of you happen to remember, where I could find that? Thanks!

Many times asking "what are we actually trying to achieve?" annoys people. Asking that question makes 80% of the modern tech stack pointless 😅

Could we please stop calling video games made by 50+ppl "indie"? We had less ppl at Crytek Budapest Studio... #indiegame

I would.

That’s a common mistake, the protagonist with a penis is called Link, not Zelda.

More like 1000x faster…

That’s the power of rewriting anything, that was already written by someone else, using 24 years of accumulated knowledge, while leaving out most of the featureset and anything related to 24 years of compatibility and technical debt.

Don’t forget the part where no one gave a fuck about his work, until he was long dead and some people pushed his work very aggressively, to make a living of his legacy.

That was the largest scam. Glass vs plastic is no-contest, even the taste / freshness is night and day. A seales glass of water is ok, even if left out on a summer day.

Even women who CAN pull it off, are more pretty with long hair. But most can’t pull it off to start with. Like her.

If your answer to this it not “google fastest level order travelsal”, I will not hire you. I don’t need monkeys trained to solve interview trivia. And I really don’t need people who try to solve well-solved problems using their own lame way in a stressful, time constrained situation.

When trolling bad programmers (eg: rust fanboys, OOP/CleanCode crew) my fav question is: “What is the actual, real-world problem you are trying to solve?” They can never give a proper answer, they just write code for some abstract bs scenario. Pisses them out all the time 😅

They did. Plot twist: gimbal lock.

From time to time I figure out a nice C++ solution to some problem, and sad that I can’t do that in C. But then I always realize that in C, I wouldn’t even HAVE the problem to start with 😅

It’s not about culture, more like the lack of it :)

You made the first mistake when you assumed they even read your profile.

The industry is so new, that anyone who claims he knows what he's doing, is dumb. This is not maths, but science. We just throw shit into the computer until it looks good, and of that happens, we assume that's the correct way to throw shit. Kinda like physics 100-200 years ago.

Development on Mac after a long-time Visual Studio user is like cutting off one of your testicles. Dev on linux is like cutting off both :D

Spot-on article about 22yo “experts” I see many “gamedevs” writing PAYWALLED blogs about gamedev, without a single title they every worked on.

I noticed this pattern, that the smartest and most knowledgeable guys usually reply super quickly, and they are always very happy that someone is interested in their work, and happy to help way beyond what could be expected.

Any tips on strategies?

Most common contenders after 200hrs of play I experienced: -save game corruption -your char/party is now not competetive for the final boss, and you have to start over -you died, and just realized that it’s permadeath 😅 -horrible plot twist / very lame plot near the end

Graphics twitter, what’s the best / mostperformant way atm to render cute, cartoonish fur on animals/ monsters? Especially on mobile? Bonus if it kinda moves as I move the character somehow, like some basic movement vector / wind vector. @SebAaltonen maybe you have something on this?

Young men are turning right because they don’t want to be losers.

In all seriousness, why do you use pointers, 64 bit indices, or even worse, GUIDs in your game runtime? I assume sloppy/lazy programming. 99% of the time, a 16 bit ID is more then enough. For an entity ID in a very generic engine, 32 bit is more then enough too.

I assumed their prio is shipping stuff fast too. But if it’s just being retarded, then I guess they are on the right path.

$250 shitty drone swarm go brrr into the rotor..

I mean, it’s a fucking pitbull without a muzzle.

Hey, gpu guys like @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes why do rendering guys usually wrap 3d apis at low level in engines, creating some generic mid-low level API? My 3d engine have a few super high level functions for stuff I actually do, and the rest is totally up to platform/api specific code. Unless you go with some super generic game engine (bad idea on it's own anyway), 3d engine should be also just specific to the use case.

“I do, too bad she’s quite boring in the bedroom.”

~1024x increase in storage size in the last 10 years be like

Wtf you are talking about? Michelangelo did hard fucking work, from like age 6, helping his stonecutter “stepfather”. He got his sculpting skills there. He started apprenticeship at 13 and was already making a living from art by the age of 14 He’s not some fucking entitled art major…

Maybe raping everything in the process and taking random people to gulag were not the best PR moves.

I don't think furries will play it super straight.

That’s idiotic. Sex work is legal in Netherlands and some other places in the west. Borders are open in EU. So criminals from eastern EU are trafficking young girls to do sex work, with fake promises like love or some normal work, take their passports, and force them into sex work.