Adam P. W.

Game Dev | VFX Artist

[Adam P. W. @apiotrw]

Flying through some magic space fog #VFX #unrealengine

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@XorDev What would you say is the threshold for when to choose a texture vs compute? Just profiling? I often heard that math is in most cases cheaper because memory bandwidth bottlenecks with textures are a bigger problem

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Marble Swarm Gaming 2

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@Franrekk Man, I would love a Townscaper-like minigame with your artstyle

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@AgileJebrim How do you handle something like player names? Fixed size char array?

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Marble Swarm Gaming

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@Friedemann_A Any specific time zone for Nintendo Switch? May 15th is already almost over for me lol

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@XorDev Hmm, I always associated your profile picture with it. I'm imagining a mix of your profile pic and something typical of shaders, maybe a UV gradient 🤔

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@JNavok I guess try joining Roblox dev studios (before the full ai game generator there takes over) or the Malaysia "vacation" lol

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@JNavok I guess I mean more which jobs in normal software you see. Wouldn't artists mainly be limited to UI work (isn't there already an overabundance of frontend workers)? 3D artists only for exact CAD models? Would writers just be copywriters (wouldn't that be just done with AI)?

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@JNavok Normal software and artists/writers? Isn't this even more risky in regards to automation than more artsy videogames?

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@JNavok "Game devs who can move into tech jobs should"
"Start working on world models"
Which game dev jobs specifically do you mean? Artists, writers and designers creating datasets for world models? Or do you mean only Programmers (becoming ML engineers)?

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@AmirahTheThe Are all the weapon moveset anims always kept already loaded in RAM or do they need to be loaded-in on demand as well?

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@timsoret What is the solution in your opinion? While you point out the US as the main example to follow I see so many complaints from them that they are also stagnating or getting worse, so being just more market driven seems to not be enough?

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@AgileJebrim How would you approach font rendering nowadays? SDFs?

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@AesirAesthetics Understandable lol

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@AesirAesthetics What if the open world would be essentially a huge Legacy Dungeon tho? Or would that just be Dark Souls 1 level design for you?
Other alternative could be the immersive sim style open city block

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@AesirAesthetics I'm afraid the next "trendy" game genre will also not be what we wish for

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@bonzajplc What are LTGM caches? Why vertical pixel sorting specifically?

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@GameOverThirty Somewhat related question:
Why are studios closed instead of just letting them go on their own if they underperform? Wouldn't this at least be better for the parent companies reputation, especially if this happens so often?