Samir Sinha

You have to watch the whole episode, but for some reason this Twilight Zone Episode reflects some of what’s going on in this country (yeah, the Dennis Hopper one is good but too on point.) youtu.be/QguTzcxAxXA?...

What the heck is a “Force Multiplier” anyway?

I would also say that Lynch introduced Dune to many of my age group who then went on to actually read the book. And it’s nostalgia goggles but its visual design and mood felt so much more original and had more personality versus the modern version.

Bots are becoming a real issue on here. Haven’t really posted much in the past couple weeks and can’t really believe some of the new “followers” are really interested in what I have to say.

I’m proud that I convinced myself not to write my own scripting language + VM and instead just embed Lua… warts and all… in my game project (flirted with Wren but for reasons didn’t commit.). #gamedev

Any starter packs or lists with #gamedev folks who are either writing their own #gameengine or developing a game from scratch with frameworks ? No judgement about developers who value their time by using an off the shelf engine of course!

Writing a major game system can be fun, but also a reality check of whether you really want to develop a type of game or not. There’s a few days of prototyping and documentation that’s needed and I have to fight the urge to start writing code until the idea works on “paper” at the very least.

Writing GUI for a game involves a lot of the boring stuff, especially when not relying on a major engine. For example writing the imgui boilerplate (layout, 2D rendering) can be fun but it’s an exercise in delayed gratification. It helps to write just what you need as well.

You could take the script from American History X, change a couple events referenced to more recent ones and it would still have the impact and relevance if made today. It’s also a sad statement of how little things have changed.

Can anyone decipher what Joe Strummer is saying in the background during the refrain in Compete Control? It’s the part before he says “That means you!” None of the lyrics pages seem to agree or even make sense. And the AI transcription is a joke. Perhaps only Joe knew?

Programmer pixel art updates. I think I've elevated my skills to the portrait style from ca. 1991. From best to worst IMO with the last item being the guide/reference. DB32 64x64 (scaled up GIF to MP4.). Going to work on a few hairstyles, and male portraits next.

The skeets(?) about a flash flood warning in San Francisco this afternoon are yet another reminder of how Twitter was great for local breaking news (admittedly applies only to major population centers but still gives me some fuzzies.)

By my definition of a landslide election result in the US, the last time was in 2008 and that was barely one. Before that it was 1988, 1984 and 1980. The 80s were quite a bad time if you were the losing party (admittedly that was just losing the presidency and not Congress.)

Today I tried NVIDiA Nsight Graphics on Linux to diagnose some issues I’ve had porting shaders to OpenGL. I’ve been several years late using quality graphics debugging tools like this and debugging shaders the old fashioned way. Yes I’ve heard of renderdoc as well.

Does anyone remember the DOS game SimEarth from Maxis? Feels like it would be an extreme challenge to create something with that kind of ambition today (simulating plate tectonics, climate change, evolution, etc.). Haven’t seen anything quite like it since then.

It’s oddly satisfying to see fans of a game you worked on 25 years ago modifying or removing the embarrassing C++ code now released on GitHub you’d written at the beginning of your career.

For those who don’t know, Scratch is a 2D sprite based visual scripting platform targeted at an age group that’s not quite ready for modern 3D engines or writing any significant amount of code.

This 8yo kid of mine has turned into quite a game designer. Already created all of the assets and has a million ideas that he can’t wait for me to implement. Problem is it’s in Scratch which, uh, requires a bit of creative hackers to get anything beyond a single screen 2d game done.

My 8yo just rediscovered Scratch after a year break and it’s been amazing to see the difference is how he whips up simple games, understands control structures like if/then/events and comes up with solutions to problems he had the last time he was into it. Great coding too for kids.

Tolkien fanfic a second age series involving Celebrian as the brash elven warrior, with Maglor somehow being alive and trying to find some sort of salvation (just a little.). Sprinkle some golden age Numenor. Split the series into two major acts to allow for two human casts bound by one elven cast.

Something has happened recently that gives me the urge to reread the Silmarillion for the third time. Not sure why.

I guess for now it’s time to hunker down and listen to some Rush.