Derek Traver

Husband, Father, Game Developer, VR Enthusiast.

[Derek Traver @derektraver]

@AndreTI "eat-back" calories are widely discouraged bc most available commercial fitness trackers are wildly innaccurate re: calorie burn. Also, cardio makes you hungry, so if your going to cancel it out anyway it is easier to just not do the cardio and not eat the burger.

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@robertgraham @filosophymajor

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@SoftEngineer No instancing here either, just raw dogging 200 skinned meshes with mecanim animators in Unity

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@Critical_Scribe Shadow of the Colossus is _actually_ the best game ever made, and it’s just Breath of the Wild with less to do, if we’re being reductive

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@bmfshow I think Cursed Echoes qualifies as a walking simulator 😅 and I definitely tried to push the limits of the hardware

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@David_Jagneaux @LittleNights @IconikHybrid Bakery for life! Praise be to Frank. I too use bakery volumes and bakery with baked specular (monoSH) in my game that came out yesterday on Q3 https://t.co/O3iOy2MbPx

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@bmfshow Sounds good! Just sent

[Interactive 84 (Cursed Echoes) @i84games]

Step into the haunted hallways... Cursed Echoes is out now on the Meta Quest store. #MetaQuest #VRGaming #IndieGames

https://t.co/6LyKHThGfy

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@CultOfRoyal @wildartsdevs One setting has accurate lighting and occlusion, the other you can see a bright specular reflection on the side of a vent that should be in complete darkness and the trash cans are just floating there with nothing anchoring them to the floor, no occlusion from the ceiling light

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@rotciVArt Ray tracing didn't take anything from you. Silent Hill 2 Remake is the same as the original, any narratively important mirrors (the opening bathroom, the room in the apartment with Angela) do fully reflective mirrors w/out RT

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@DaveOshry I will only accept vehicles that are actually hats

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@RJdoesVR @DiscussingFilm I feel like he’s channeling the Mega Man US box art

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@benz145 Except mouselook would work just fine in Myst? You’re asking the developer of Myst to add webslinging, and he just wants to make Myst

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@benz145 I mean, yes. Lone Echo and Echo Arena were AA/AAA and did ABL long before Gorilla Tag. But you have to design your game around it. It's not something you'd just be able to drop into, say, Half Life Alyx, or Blade & Sorcery. It'd make no sense

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@AntonHand The nickelback of microtransactions

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@LitLThomas @FinalGoblet It’s very common in many games to decouple the projectile visual, where you show a dummy come out of the gun and the “real” projectile, hitscan or otherwise, cast from the camera and have them reconcile after x meters, and just kill the dummy if a hit happens before then

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@thedowd They never show any other characters or dynamic objects in these splat environments because they know the illusion would immediately fall apart.

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@madis259 I also hope the takeaway is not “open world halo doesn’t work” because it absolutely could, infinite was just not a very good version of it