Nik 👽

He/Him | Programming and Games and Tools and Design | Senior Engineer at Day III, previously @StudioGobo, @RareLtd | DM's always open | Opinions are my own

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NO PLAYERS ONLINE
a full commercial game based on the original from 2019, built from the ground up

OUT NOW on steam and itch
https://t.co/13M4o5MVoe

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

You can tell a lot about a programmer based on how much code they write before making a repo

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Thinking about streaming dev as well, that could be fun

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Constantly torn between language / engine dev and making silly little games

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Whispers from the Deep

Made in 7 days for #screamjam using #GodotEngine

~1hr playtime

https://t.co/ZKviWbB92E

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

As my time at Studio Gobo has sadly come to a close, I'm looking for new exciting opportunities. Maybe within games, but I'm also broadening my horizons a little.

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Was working on some stuff for handmade wheel reinvention jam but time wasn't really on my side, so I made this instead

https://t.co/SKhmTjxOcX

[Mikulas Florek @mikulasflorek]

https://t.co/C4oiOZH5zD integration WIP. So far, super easy.

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@mikulasflorek I appreciate it! I'm taking some time right now to integrate it into some larger projects to really get a feel for things before I continue with any feature work, so I'll be updating the repo with some thoughts and plans soon

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Hey guys, remember that interpreter I posted about like years ago? I finally released it, check it out
https://t.co/xEQonsktvl

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

What's a good sample program to put in the readme for an embedded language? For no reason

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@ForrestTheWoods I wish we relied less on codegen in C++ and got reflection already, I'd much rather write a few lines of code to impl things than have a 1500+ line unreadable mess be spat out

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@TheGingerBill What's really insidious about reordering imo is that if you introduce intentional padding (eg to mitigate false sharing etc) you could eat a huge perf penalty cause the compiler is being "smart" for you

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Vulkan people - is there a cost associated with specifying a push constant range that's not fully used? Is it reserved?

I'm setting up a bindless thing and it'd be nice if I could reuse the one pipeline layout everywhere

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Fully dynamic rendering in vulkan is actually kinda nice, all that really remains is figuring out how to nicely move descriptors around

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

Hahaha descriptor set!!! Descriptor set!!!

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@wowitszero Yeah shader objects force you to use dynamic rendering - I was trying to use VK 1.3 wholesale where dynamic rendering is core but standard_validation stops reporting for me if i do 🥲

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

vk_ext_shader_object might have saved my life

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@wowitszero It DOES seem fine in nsight though so it's a tradeoff I'll take if I never need to see a pipeline or renderpass again

[Nik 👽 @Beariish]

@wowitszero I have no idea - but I'm not shipping this to anyone anyways so that's their problem

Segfaulting in render doc is the real downside 😭