#windows dev

[shrimpyjackal]

5 days `till any interraction between theese two make me mad all over again-

damn this redraw turned out much better then i anticipated-

[see-y0u-space-c0wb0y]

fuck labels my sexuality is just Dev Patel using his teeth to drive a knife into a mans throat

[computer-nerd-girl]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Teehee! (Spritesheets your Wangxian)

[werewolfetone]

Having ocs is not serious like there's some people in my computer and if I think about their relationships with one another too hard I get the urge to set things on fire

[cutiesigh]

「Demo WIP」 Can y'all watch my plant real quick? 🍈

[bogkeep]

i saw a Take some time ago that's been haunting me for days. something about how game devs misunderstand the "Can You Pet The Dog" twitter/meme/momentum and just keep thoughtlessly adding dog petting mechanics in games without realising it isn't about the petting of the dog itself but about environmental interactability within a game.

is it???????? i mean i guess????????? i've been trying to rotate this and figure out what it's trying to get at and maybe i just don't play enough 3d open world games to get it. the implication is that games should strive for everything within an environment to have unique animations or reactions to everything in that world, which doesn't seem Quite Right. i suppose that in an open world game that advertises itself on endless possibility of interaction, not letting you pet a dog is like, Cruel and Unjust, the ultimate litmus test of "does this game REALLY grant you true freedom". but i still feel like people really just wanna pet the dog

update: getting good Insights and Context from friends in the comments...! it really does help to just ask for explanations sometimes haha

[mistyjessart]

Medieval stained glass illustrations from a title sequence project

1 | 2 | 3 | Colour script | Storyboard

[macy-bee]

just finished one dark window and looking at fan art and im not sure what I expected… all these abysmally white Ravyns and Elspeths when Dev Patel and Jesse Mei Li are RIGHT THERE???

[allisonperryart]

A small study trying out a slightly different painting technique - what do you think? Stay tuned for the process video next week!

[genericdragon]

One of the devs in the server literally told me to draw catgirl Conly

[toxarts]

Worked with a couple of window styles for the new yes man ghost but I think this is the one I like best out of the mockups I did! Turns out you can make a shell very quickly when the focus is just on expressions. Hopefully gonna sit down and start coding after work today to get basic/ standards out of the way and we'll see what happens from there! ^__^

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wangxian goes to horse jail for their crimes against equines.

[utilitymonstermash]

Calling std::fs::metadata on a named pipe on Windows seems to manipulate pipe state. Now, windows named pipes don't have meaningful metadata, and the docs state that metadata calls GetFileInformationByHandle. And the normal way to get a file handle is to call CreateFile which mutates the pipe state, but the whole thing feels off. The way the abstraction is structured and describes seems to assume things that just don't hold with Windows NPFS (which to be fair has semantics that feel strange to me).

Calling std::backtrace::Backtrace::force_create on Windows contains a bunch of frames of backtrace doing its internal business and ultimately calling into dbghelp. On Linux is seems to prune these frames successfully. Now there are a bunch of docs that state backtrace is "best effort", but their best doesn't seem particularly good. It seems like the same approach to pruning on Linux could be done on Windows, but no one asked, does this work the same on all our tier 1 platforms.

The biggest of the bunch however is CRT selection. On Linux most binaries link to glibc, maybe musl in more exotic cases. But your debug binaries and your release binaries generally link to the same libc. On windows there are half a dozen different libcs (CRTs) for different use cases. CFLAGS can affect CRT selection. But rust libc basically chooses one debug crt and one nondebug crt. This quickly can become a problem if you are building a staticlib to link into a polyglot. I think in more recent versions they have moved the location of this selection into the toolchain itself, but as far as I'm aware they haven't solved the issue.

Something really rubs me the wrong way about rust and zig declaring Windows tier 1 targets. I guess they meet whatever criteria the projects use for tier 1.

But both these languages have large standard libraries full of Unixisms where it just seems much more common to hit Windows bugs.

Maybe it’s a sign of immaturity of the test suite, I don’t know. But I wish they were more upfront about not working as smoothly on Windows.

[dragonsongmakhali]

ouuuuuugghghggh ploogins 😭

[kinglyqueenly]

Who said the apocalypse couldn’t be fun?

DOOMSDATE: I Accidentally Summoned The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse And Now They Want To DATE Me??? is a short visual novel about getting to start the apocalypse alongside the four horsemen. You know, the ones from the Bible.

Get to know each of them, and choose who you want to spend your doomsday with now!

A kind of weird, not-quite-dating sim from Stratoswing (StormCat, squazz13, zephyreds). Play now on itch.io!

Made for the PIGSquad Narrative Summer Slow Jam.