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Re:RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:17AM (#42642153)
Extremely clever concept
Re:How to draw an outline in a video game on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:00PM (#42597264)
A more modern example would be Dead Cells
VVVVV was released during the initial wave of indie game popularity. It may not be the most influential of that group- but it's more relevant than it probably seems from a present day standpoint
Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:22PM (#37691855)
No one in game and game engine development is using ChatGPT.

It doesn't even work, even if it was productive, as barely any problems the average gamedev faces on a day-to-day have been surfaced to the training data of an LLM.

Re:Getting into Pinball on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:22PM (#37586146)
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Re:Getting into Pinball on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:56AM (#37580833)
Attack from Mars is a good beginner table to learn ball control especially. There's basically a single shot up the center, but a lot of nuance in how you do it to avoid a drain.
Re:Getting into Pinball on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:55AM (#37580825)
They're complex and generally handmade. There's not too many of each type made and they rarely make more, so the price follows suit
Don't know if the index isn't complete, but the results with this are quite poor
This model isn't novel, there's been experimental engines using this technique for years now. They're just not practical at scale
Re:Async Rust Is A Bad Language on Saturday September 09, 2023 @04:10AM (#37443248)
What you've just described is basically every networked video game, the majority of which are happily running via c++.

(Plus some increase in content load over the network, which does exist ala runtime mod loading, streaming, etc)

Re:Water on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:07PM (#37028337)
Don't toss those- they belong in a museum
Re:Free database of 4,000+ AI tools on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:03AM (#36928324)
I'm guessing many of these aren't legitimate to start with. Two of those copy writing tools with different names are using the same promotional picture with the same lady.
Re:Show HN: 2x-4x faster strlen() in C on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:59PM (#36714335)
That's pretty bizarre optimization, how does this not get throttled by the thread calls?
Re:C++ is everywhere, but no one talks about it on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:58AM (#36652554)
Basically all game engineers use C++, regardless of they are working on the engine or the game. It's wildly perf focused.
Re:Langchain Is Pointless on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:14PM (#36648853)
I get this feeling too "maybe I'm not the target audience" This feeling is followed closely by "Who is the target audience?". Some abstract concept of an audience doing complex LLM work to accomplish... something?

The value in statistics analysis for LLMs is clear, the value in chaining responses is very unclear.

Re:Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on Saturday June 24, 2023 @01:49PM (#36460938)
The ferengi, despite being over-the-top capitalist, do have their moment of shine when they coyly remind humans their homeworld has yet to have a single war.
Re:Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:30AM (#36378350)
Didn't expect to see this here.

I heard this rumor a long while ago (15+ years) while still in school. I did it to my headphones but learned that it pretty dramatically increased sound leakage. I'm not sure if was the exact same models of senns, but the trick has been around awhile.

Re:IUP – Cross platform C GUI library on Thursday May 25, 2023 @01:05AM (#36067211)
It appears to be a requirement that all C/C++ UI libraries have old, crusty looking visuals.
Re:Show HN: This Job Does Not Exist on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:57PM (#35145108)
I made an account just to ask how you made a site featuring only text this slow