michael bosley

programmer of things, part-time amateur woodworker, ignorer of unbalanced positions. Santa Monica Studio, formerly id Software, Obsidian, and others.

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

#cplusplus #compile thread, so I don't have to try to link them together in some horrible fashion

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

Want to get into the game dev industry? I made this (clickbait) mistake, too.

Also, you’re never too young or old.

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@DustinHLand I AM DRAMA FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

[Noelle Webster @NoelleWebster]

Still laughing at this 12 hours later 😂

#GodofWarRagnarok

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

Stumbled into this and I am amazed. I won’t be able to unhear it and it’s kinda the best thing.

[Joanna Fang, MPSE @_Foley_Artist]

Among my favorite moments working on God of War Ragnorak: creating bloody (but vegan) source with the Bob Ross of Gore @schapps, crafting harmonic overtone source for Mjolnir using Jeff Darby’s axe blanks from GOW 3. Our global Foley efforts don’t belong to any one person… (🧵)

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

I know I haven’t been posting much for a while, but I just gotta say… best team ever. Last night was a blast (and I’m sure I made a fool of myself, but That’s Okay!)

[Tim Ward @Trailer_Tim]

I've been waiting 4 years to tell this joke.

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@opal_inkcosplay @SonySantaMonica You both were amazing last night!

[Jonathan Burke ➡️ 🟦☁️ @IridiumGameDev]

12 years ago! Have many good memories of working on New Vegas. Learned a ton and made many good friends along the way.

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

We are thrilled to announce that #GodofWarRagnarok has gone gold!

On behalf of SMS and all of our partners, thank you to the fans for supporting us over the course of development. We’re almost to launch and can’t wait for you to play on November 9! 💙

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There is a general perception that C/C++ is only for peak performance cases, so API can be ugly — if you wanted easy and clear, you would be using a different language. I think that is unfortunate. It is possible to make “joyful API” in C.

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@FlohOfWoe whether I design top down or bottom up depends. for heavily user facing things, top down. for performance critical internals, bottom up. for most code, I use an iterative approach. create the minimal set of functionality needed for each step and refactoring as I go.

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@IridiumGameDev I did that last night!

by accident...

and then I cried a little...

but I'm better now!

mostly...

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@SauceMeta @TheJackForge honestly, don't really worry about it. when you can recognize this kind of stuff, you've already graduated beyond it into a whole new level of "crap, I _really_ don't know anything..." :D

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

I don't know, I think this is some pretty advanced fixing, if I do say so myself.

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

11.09.22

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Get a glimpse of the dangers Kratos and Atreus will face in the new Father and Son CG trailer for God of War Ragnarök.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Behold, a god’s hammer. God of War Ragnarök Jötnar Edition comes with a 16" replica of Thor's hammer.

Watch the full video, plus pre-order info: https://t.co/DWZheHa119

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

11.09.22

[michael bosley @virtuallyrandom]

@IridiumGameDev Yep, totally.

Oh wait, did he mean _playing_ them? 😝