Intern Department

Advice for game programming interns. The intern department knows all.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

This holiday season, sit around the fire, and reminisce about the first time someone told you real-time ray tracing was the future.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Really exciting new possibilities for hard to debug race conditions announced today

[DirectX 12 @DirectX12]

We’ve just released an exciting preview Agility SDK which introduces Work Graphs, a way to enable more GPU autonomy by allowing shaders to dynamically generate additional shader workloads! This release also includes Wave Matrix and accelerated AV1 Encoding https://t.co/iRd25aWGVL

[Intern Department @InternDept]

we would like to enter negotiations with Microsoft to buy us for 7.5 billion dollars

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Really, it’s criminal that Epic isn’t helping the world realize the dream of rendering 20 million Steam storefronts in real-time

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Can’t wait to read the reddit thread blasting Epic for not putting the UE5 demo on Steam

[Obsidian @Obsidian]

Hello friends! We have some fantastic news to share with all of you! For the first time, Obsidian will be offering an official summer internship program! If you want more news regarding this opportunity, visit our website here:
https://t.co/k7dpNyA99U

[Intern Department @InternDept]

IMO it's pretty messed up that we're letting audio use an entire core when we don't even have our dev kits plugged into displays with functioning speakers. As far as we know, the game doesn't even have audio!

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Pay your interns: https://t.co/MZlbaeiNgC

[Tyler Glaiel @TylerGlaiel]

imagine thinking "I bet you think UNPAID INTERNSHIPS are bad too" is a gottem moment

[Intern Department @InternDept]

The most horrifying part of using source control is finding out how many years it has been since the unsafely multi-threaded code was checked into production

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Galaxy Brain: try multiplying by PI, just to be sure

[Eric Arnebäck @erkaman2]

Small brain: work through the derivations, and figure out why the math doesnt work.

BIG BRAIN: Swap x with y, then z with y, and so on, and try randomly negating some values, until it works

🔥🔥🔥EXPERT GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING🔥🔥🔥

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Whoever added the code disallowing a depth buffer to be bound for both read and write at the same time is a coward

[Intern Department @InternDept]

An important reminder to any new summer interns: quality of office chair is the best predictor of seniority within a studio.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

We're looking forward to other throwbacks to university learning beyond "Ray Tracing in One Weekend," perhaps "Software Rasterizers in One Weekend" and "Discovering all the unmentioned edge cases in that paper you were supposed to implement for your final project in One Weekend"

[Intern Department @InternDept]

@Icetigris Triangles? We thought everyone was switching to SDF's

[Intern Department @InternDept]

100% more authors for Real-time Rendering 4th edition, but unfortunately we must announce that "InternDept" will not be one of them
https://t.co/lN2tefGDRn
https://t.co/IHu5qNbj6n

[Intern Department @InternDept]

@InternDept @pointinpolygon @inversepixel @renderwonk we'd be willing to come on board as co-author

[Intern Department @InternDept]

@aras_p we can only assume that for some young interns, possibly attending their first GDC, today was that day.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

"Real-time ray tracing – the holy grail of graphics, considered unattainable for decades – is now possible for video games." https://t.co/3e9Jyt4hsN

[Intern Department @InternDept]

This holiday season, sit around the fire, and reminisce about the first time someone told you real-time ray tracing was the future.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

@solid_angle we didn't have a clear vision of what the future of raytracing would look like, but then we kept shooting more rays and the artifacts started to go away.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

Good to see the addition of DirectX Raytracing. We expect it to fit very well into the pantheon of DirectX features, just like geometry shaders and dynamic tessellation.

[Intern Department @InternDept]

@okonomiyonda please request the interns get added as well. we will bring extra resumes to pass out.