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Re:Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pa... by bob1029 on Sunday April 19, 2026 @03:58AM (#47822575)
Determinism isn't essential to achieve record/playback experiences. You could just record the transform of the player at some fixed interval and then replay it with interpolation. This is arguably more "deterministic" in a strategic sense of shipping a viable product.
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Re:Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pa... by magicalhippo on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:47AM (#47822815)
The player is just one entity, you'd need to do the same to any other non-trivial entity. And you couldn't use fixed intervals and naive interpolation, otherwise you'd have entities clipping the ground when bouncing etc.
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