#computer game development

[prokopetz]

Console game developers can get in trouble with the console vendors for failing to patch known show-stopping bugs, which is a problem for me because I think you shouldn't be required to fix bugs that are objectively funny. The game crashes if you manage to die under very specific, improbable circumstances? That's built-in commentary.

[canmom]

The game I've been working on for almost two years is now in open beta if you wanna try it out!!

Boom Boom Hamster Doom is a VR game about commanding teams of hamsters fighting across a completely destructible island. If you want an X-meets-Y description, it's much like Worms, but at tabletop scale. It's toyetic as hell - you lead them around on leashes with your little crab claw, and pull back like a catapult to aim missiles or boxing gloves, throw an airstrike like a paper plane, or fly them around in little jetpacks.

I've worked on pretty much every corner of this game - in particular, shading, animation, UI, gameplay and the procedural generation of the islands. And like, you know me, I want to tell you all about it. I'm writing a whole lot more diving into how just about every aspect of the game was built, from voxel meshing and networked physics to ocean rendering, bot AI, and obscure DOTS optimisation headaches... which will all be appearing right here. I'll keep you updated.

We'll be moving into full early-access soon, but you can already jump in the beta here, and play against other people or bots in the forest and ice biomes. You'll need to have a Quest 2 or Quest 3 headset - but if you have another headset, don't worry, we are planning on a Steam release down the line. I'll keep you posted.

All feedback is extremely welcome! I'm nervous/proud/excited for the game to finally see the light of day.

[a-blue-mask]

I'm just a man.

[omeletcat]

i got an old laptop from my grandpa and was googling about it, and the wikipedia page for the micro-soft acer aspire has an image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page....

[futureheartzs]

dev process of my submission for hackapet by hack club!!

drew all the assets, wrote all the code, consumed all the energy drinks xD

overall an incredibly fun experience!! learning pixel art and ignoring my psychology tests were the biggest highlights :3

now onto the final push to submit on time >:D

[thoughtsroamguy]

New skill acquired: animation!

A simple turntable for Eve. I had to do this in an image sequence, turn down the pixel size by a lot and overall quality, and it still took five hours and some change to do, but y'know what? I'm proud of myself for getting it done. It's another thing I can say I'm capable of.

[vgprintads]

'RollerCoaster Tycoon 3'

[PC] [AUSTRALIA] [MAGAZINE] [2004]

"Making a sequel to a hit game is tricky business. If you simply rehash the original, fans will complain that it's more of the same. But if you change too much, you risk losing what made the original special. The RollerCoaster Tycoon series stands as good evidence of these potential pitfalls. The first game quietly debuted in 1999, only to become a huge success that spawned countless imitators. But the series stumbled with RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, which was deemed by fans to be too much like the first game. That brings us to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, the newest game in the series. In many ways, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is the sequel we've been waiting for--the one that updates the gameplay and graphics to modern-day standards. Yet while RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 delivers on those promises, its potential is undermined by some glaring bugs." ~Jason Ocampo, Gamespot

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Source: Hyper, December 2004 (#134) || Internet Archive; Bobinator

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout Release Date: October 10, 1997

On October 10, 1997, exactly 26 years ago from today, the first Fallout was officially released!

Happy 26th anniversary Fallout! And thank you to all the developers who have worked on the series as a whole to create something we all cherish! 💜

Here are some excerpts from the development team leading up to the game's release, from the old Fallout website!

You can read more about the first Fallout here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout

[blorbo-hellspace]

currently thinking about Ace being a tech nerd in modern au. idk whyyy but it feels so right to me somehow?? i think he'd really enjoy programming and would probably choose to do stuff in (indie) game developers it just feels very him to me... also the idea of him being veryyyy frustrated by people being stupid as fuck about tech is real and funny. sporty outdoorsy guy who is super into working with tech. yea.

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

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[prokopetz]

I fully understand that the problem is corporate-mandated crunch time, not "programmers being lazy", but at some point it became acceptable for games to spawn a popup on start scolding you for not installing it on an SSD rather than implementing a texture caching pipeline, and I don't care for that at all.

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[makeitrealfromfictional]

Other

Playable version made of Burger Boss, the game Bob plays in Bob's Burgers

Link leads to itch.io.

[ijexdev]

“Game Development can’t be that hard”

Game Development:

[insert-game]

in a lot of ways i feel like i should have gotten a different degree because i feel as an adult my interests are much more creatively driven. but the culture insists that you decide your fate at age 17-19 and then have to stick with it for the rest of your life

[xtekker]

This picture contains 4 GB of data.

Back in the 1930s computers were gaint machines, they worked on "punch card programing" and was mainly used to solve complex math problems, it wouldn't be until the 1950s that the one of the first "hard drive"s were invented by ERA, then called the "mag drum drive", IBM than brought ERA and refined the technology further.

This picture represents 4GB of data stored in punch card format, each row is 15 pallets long, stacked 2 pallets high, 45 boxes to a pallet, 2000 punch cards to a box, each card held 80 characters making this picture represent 4.3 billion characters of data.

Oh how far we've come in 93 years..