Frank Chao

Game development firefighter｜遊戲工程師｜救火專精｜極度噪音過敏｜精神有病藥石罔效｜常常轉推獨立遊戲

[Ahwoo @Ahwoo_Official]

We've made BRUTAL, our free C# game framework, open source.

Already helping RimWorld move beyond Unity and powering Kitten Space Agency.

@rocket2guns shares why developer independence matters and what comes next.

https://t.co/4GfIBHMSty

[Amanita Design 🔧 Machinarium 2 @Amanita_Design]

Seventeen years later…
The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧

Wishlist NOW on Steam.

[marianne @tuakdotsol]

Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏

FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and still runs hospital residency matches and kidney exchanges today.

how it works:

1 | your preferences and dealbreakers build a ranked priority list
2 | proposers offer to their top pick. receivers hold their best offer and reject the rest. rejected proposers move down their list. rinse and repeat until locked
3 | the result is mathematically stable: no two people exist who would both prefer each other over their assigned matches. "the app never showed us each other" becomes impossible by design

the UX:
•⁠ ⁠⁠one match per cycle, zero infinite scroll
•⁠ ⁠⁠72-hour decision window
•⁠ ⁠⁠contact info revealed only on mutual yes
•⁠ ⁠⁠Singpass-verified, so everyone is exactly who they claim (told my husband I'm annoyed I can't test it. his response: most people sneak onto dating apps, and here you are openly filing a product research request 🤣 )

commercial apps need you to keep swiping but this app is designed to get you off the platform. Singapore built the first dating app whose success metric is deleting its own users 💀

(fun game theory note: Gale-Shapley yields proposer-optimal outcomes - meaning proposers get their best possible stable match, receivers their worst 👀)

public servants aged 21-35 only for now. interesting to see if state-sponsored game theory beats the free market (or rather, all the tinders and hinges out there) 🍿

[Figure @Figure_robot]

F.02 Decommission

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Here are some of the behind the scenes for the F.02 Decommission

To be clear: we actually trained our robots to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a vat of molten steel

[DK Liao @justdkliao]

Mold, my vector graphics library for Godot and Unity just hit full release!

Designed allow you to create beautiful looking shapes right within the engine, no need for image editor or modeling tools. (This gif was created using only Mold)

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #unity3d

[Frank Chao @aaefiikmnnnr]

@DanielcHooper https://t.co/zyH7JuPwCa

Just translated it into Chinese today. What a coincidence.

[伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4]

I did the blur effect in Photoshop one by one, by using Smudge Tool. That film rans at 30 fps, & since I applied that process to about 2/3 of the total frames, I ended up doing abt 3k frames by hand. Coz the existing effects tools only produced mediocre results.

[Funkamateur @FunkyStrong69]

I FOUND IT

[Joe Merrick @JoeMerrick]

To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th

What a picture. Absolutely stunning

[Kalan @kalanyei]

「待在這裡也沒什麼意義。」「別的公司會不會更好？」

踏入軟體開發第十年，待過五、六間公司，每次離職我都沒後悔過。但離職之前，你真的想清楚了嗎？

如果是因為不喜歡的事想逃，情緒、壓力、難搞的主管，那通常會在下一份工作陷入同樣的循環。任何組織都有資源分配不均與溝通摩擦，這些限制往往才是成長的機會。

真正該問自己的是：

・如果這些問題都解決了，我還會想留下嗎？
・如果答案是「會」，我有試著改變嗎？
・我有跟老闆談過加薪的依據嗎？有提過重構方案、並說服主管它為什麼重要 嗎？

我們很容易怪環境。但更該看的是「影響圈」，也就是你能靠行動直接改變的事。試過幾次都無法改變再走也不遲。

另外還有其他幾個體悟：

1. 在大公司累積的能力，可能只是前輩幫你鋪好的路。如果說不出「這件事是因為我主動推動才有改變」，那你可能只是被服務的客人。
2. 想往上爬，逃不過人與組織的難題。人際關係不是雜訊，而是工作本身的核心參數。
3. 雇用關係是資本遊戲，不是情感寄託。職場需要的不是真心，是把事情做成。
4. 成長必伴隨痛苦，但要分清楚：是能讓你成長的痛，還是單純內耗的痛。
5. 不玩職場遊戲是一種選擇，但選了之後又抱怨結果，就是另一回事。

最後，文章也有提到，如果有危險訊號出現就別硬撐：身心嚴重受影響、權限與責任不匹配、評價系統失調、辦公室政治、職權或性騷擾。

完整文章：https://t.co/x8f4aJ5Xyh

[DK Liao @justdkliao]

I made a vector graphics library for both Godot and Unity! It's for creating beautiful shapes procedurally right within the engine.

This is really big to me, please help me test it :pray: , RT appreciated!
(link down below)

#gamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot #madewithunity

[DK Liao @justdkliao]

I made a mini playable #OuterWilds universe!

Started out just messing with my Godot plugin's immediate mode, then gone down the slippery slope of recreating Outer Wilds, SOOO much fun :)

(link down below)

#godot #madewithgodot #madewithmold

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

Reminder: looking for feedback on ImDrawList improvements slated for 1.93, see post below. If you make extensive use of draw primitives and/or have dealt with careful positioning, pixel-perfect shapes, etc trying this in your project and reporting would be nice!

[Martin Mittring @MittringMartin]

Shader To Human V14
https://t.co/MgH18XegiD
Added Slang support (tested with Vulkan and one new DX12 example in Gigi), changed FLT_MAX to prevent warning with Slang it becoming inf, fixed warnings

Presentation video for the ones that have not seen it: https://t.co/R08f9Etw8o

[うしさ🐚 @fantastic_East4]

ミホちゃんにはこれからもっと成長してほしい

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

1/2
Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[小島秀夫 @Kojima_Hideo]

いずれデジタルデータでさえ、個人主導で所有出来なくなる。世界が、国や政府、思想や風潮に何か大きな変化と事故が起こった時、それらへのアクセスが突然、絶たれることもあり得る。愛してきた数々の映画や本、音楽に自由に触れることは叶わない。持たざる者となる。それが怖い。これは物欲ではない。

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

The SURPRISE is:

https://t.co/pn3jJHINVu

Order of the Sinking Star will have a free demo on Steam, for NextFest, Monday.

Because the game is HUGE, the demo is huge: it's bigger than most entire paid puzzle games, and you get to try it out for free.