Chandan Singh

I live video games.

[Allan Blomquist @allan_blomquist]

Mega Man 2 has underwater parts that reduce gravity and increase jumping impulse as expected. The secret third part of the effect is that the whole game engine goes idle 1 out of every 5 frames. This slows everything down, even background animations and stuff outside the water!

[Ben Golus⚠️⭕ @bgolus]

“But Can It Run” through the years:
80: Space Invaders
82: Pac-Man
83: Thermo Nuclear War
86: Mario
91: Sonic
92: Wolfenstein
93: Doom
96: Quake
97: Unreal
99: Quake 3
04: Far Cry
07: Crysis
11: Crysis
13: Crysis
16: Doom 2016
20: Doom 1993

[Nyek - @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social @stupidhoroscope]

Programmer: We can do anything with code these days! Fully destructible environments. Impossible spaces that fold in on themselves. Entire solar systems!

Artist: Cool! How do I make this slightly transparent object appear behind another transparent object?

Programmer: *sobbing*

[Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert]

This is a great set of tips (by @jmechner ) and a process I’ve also followed naturally over the years. If you’re in game dev you need to embrace these. Ironically the only time I break these rules is when dealing with publishers 🤣 Let’s go through them one by one! (LONG POST)

[Mia Tang @Miamiamia0103]

Have you ever felt confused by all the Anti-Aliasing acronyms out there? What are they actually doing to reduce those jaggies on your screen? Here we look at some selected features of FXAA, SSAA, MSAA, and TXAA.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

🤯Regular reminder—REALITY is not what our brains actually reproduce.

Infuriatingly TRUE—nothing is actually. moving. Put a pen tip or paperclip at any point to measure.

[Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @BartWronsk]

New blog post! https://t.co/7MoH8ncKJ9
"Why are video games graphics a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithms" in which I aim to answer what could be the reasons why some brilliant technique doesn't get adopted, and difficulties when shipping new graphics research.

[Meta Horizon Developers @MetaHorizonDevs]

We're excited to share that Oculus now maintains its own fork of RenderDoc! This provides access to low-level GPU profiling data, opening up new possibilities for getting actionable profiling information from your #OculusQuest. Learn how to get started: https://t.co/ctJcLC9v4j

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*!

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

The important thing most people don’t realize is that the amount of dough in a donut scales with the cube of the donut’s length, but the amount of glaze scales with the square. So one big donut is less tasty than many smaller donuts of equivalent mass.

[morgan @CasualEffects]

Human latency

[Chandan Singh @psmyles]

Slides from my talks at #IGDC2018 - “Understanding light and color from a digital artist's perspective” and #UniteIndia2018 - “Understanding the human perception system: lessons learnt from prototyping and research for VR and AR” are available here: https://t.co/JekMLgmjob

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

It still feels slightly magical to me that I can stop a Kindle book or Netflix show, then seamlessly pick it back up on a completely different device. Not technically hard, but decades of tech experience tend to condition you to not expect things to actually work that well.

[Warren Moore @warrenm]

Real-time graphics programmers: “We built a custom gonioreflectometer rig to capture physically-accurate micrometer-scale material parameters”

Also real-time graphics programmers: “If something looks too harsh, just square it”

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

For a few centuries man has tried to make himself like a machine.

He's learned to arrive on time.

He's learned to repeat after teacher.

He's learned to do repetitious tasks reliably.

Machines are now better at being machines than man is.

Man must now relearn how to be man.

[Chandan Singh @psmyles]

@rimegame My girlfriend burst into tears after finishing Rime today. Thanks for making such a beautiful game!

[тιмonι weѕт (parody) @timoni]

Storytelling folks who are annoyed by VR because they 'can't control the camera' are in for a wild ride when they move to AR and realize they can't control the set either

[Klemen @klemen_lozar]

You can create a seamlessly tiling flow map by rendering the normals of an unwrapped torus and other objects. I use this all time, great for UV distortion. #UE4 #gamedev #indiedev