prime31 - mike

Unity developer for pay, zig/rust gamedev for fun. Creator of the 2D framework Nez. Open source code available on GitHub user prime31.

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@playspine What if I like Mixtape?

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@dannymoerkerke I didn’t miss the point. I just see no reason to purposely choose to write a renderer in a language that can’t compile to native assembly + wasm. It just doesn’t compute for me personally, I would just use a language that isn’t throwing away coy cycles just because “CPU fast”.

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@c0nsumption_ @mrdoob Of course its the art, design, gameplay, etc that makes a good game. But you supported my point precisely with your examples of GTAV. That game has an amazingly well optimized codebase that would not be doable with JavaScript and still be able to hit the hardware targets they do.

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@mrdoob @c0nsumption_ I guess that is exactly it. I don't see JS as having any benefit. For game dev (at least for me personally) not having explicit control of memory layout makes it unusable. I really like 3JS a lot but I can't really use it for anything besides just playing around because of the JS

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@mrdoob @c0nsumption_ Free perf boost and unlimited platform support is a bad thing? 🤷‍♂️

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@Krytopsy @scully1888 You’re one step away from getting it! Every single thing they do is for personal gain. That’s the whole problem with it. This is a paid gig now not organic sharing like a decade ago.

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@JessicaJinxxx @Dr_Bekka_UK @PlayStation You must have missed that time the UK required biometrics just last year and used a third party for data that did in fact store the data AND they got breached within 2 weeks of going live.

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@ThePrimeagen My home state. We are killing it with this train. Almost 10 billion spent over 10 years and we have this much built so far 😂
https://t.co/yWXD8SuoTd

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@lisyarus As long as you avoid Dawn it sounds like a solid plan. It’s a good abstraction layer that isn’t as daunting as Vulkan and teaches the base concepts DX12, Metal or Vulkan require.

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@ightCheetah I throw that same hook when I panic 🤣 Even if it’s a bolt gun shooting at me from 150m away I fire it off when fight or flight turns into fight AND flight panic attack

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@ajmmertens @KenneyNL 1:30am on a monday. You really aren’t human! Beast mode! 😂

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@Invicta_D2 The art style is what made me try it. Gorgeous. Turns out the game is really good too. I never liked any extraction shooter until Marathon came.

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@aeterponis Happens to the best of us. I’ve been using Unity over a decade and have grown to really dislike the SO trap. If you use them as data only and never ever add code to them it’s fine but the instant they become “alive” with code it’s a spaghetti central graph of post launch hell.