Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop)

idk what will happens with this but i'll started to cooking something with PixiJS

Not perfect but I really like an idea... how to use webcam with treejs and your hands as controller -> stardust-ashen.vercel.app

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood. Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat. Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream. So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget. Then the gatekeepers showed up. When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls. Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day. $8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%. The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

@brianorca @davepl1968 If I remember correctly, Unreal Engine 1 back in 1998 had something similar. They called them INI files, and while they looked like standard INI at first glance, they weren't fully compatible. So it's likely there were some others like this

@davepl1968 INI files don't deal with repetitive records and parent-child relationships easily. XML did that best until JSON came around. The redundancy of names in the closing tag is good error detection, but unnecessary in most cases. XML has a more formal definition for interoperability.

Back in the 90s, some of the Windows team drank the XML Kool-Aid. It was going to solve everything, and everything would be XML. I never got it. To me, an XML document is an INI file with structure. I frequently derided it as such, which made me one of those who "didn't get it". Sure, it's a handy abstraction, but it doesn't enable anything you can't do with INI files and a validator. I still don't get it.

This isn't really a generational story. It's about meaning, work, and purpose. Some people find their path. Some just flow - and it works. Some already made it. I can see the destination through the mist. Still don't know how to reach it. @monalazzar/millennials-and-gen-z-will-die-the-most-horrific-deaths-in-modern-history-d4ae9d371bb6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@monalazzar/mi…

I didn't knew that nanny for IT specialist is a thing :| qr.ae/pCVFsB

Linux running in a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator compiled to JS

I have mixed feelings about this... DNF has the DLC The Doctor Who Cloned Me, which-maybe not on the Duke Nukem 3D level, but is still genuinely good. It also came out later than the base game, and it's one of the few cases where a DLC is actually much better than the main game... It shame that many people didn't tried it instead base DNF game... it's like 2 different Duke Nukem...

Duke could absolutely be relevant today, but not the Duke we saw in Duke Nukem Forever, which was an alt-universe silly version of Duke that was not like the version of Duke we established in Duke Nukem 3D. I strongly fear that any revival of Duke will miss the mark in the same way DNF missed the mark, because getting Duke right is actually really difficult. It's far too easy to make him a petty potty humor idiot, a babe brained bore, or a dated macho male moron. Duke only works teetering a super fine line: He's never humorous on purpose. He's not stupid--he's actually quite brilliant. Duke is raw bravery and he'll do what's needed at any personal cost, and that's still needed in today's world. DNF lines like "I'd still hit it" do not belong in a Duke Nukem game. And I'm afraid if a new Duke game is made this is exactly the type of Duke we'll get--a cornball, low-brow, idiot version that gets more groans than laughs, and doesn't come close to capturing the magic of Duke 3D. I'm not sure what current game studio could pull off a new Duke Nukem game properly. Take-Two now owns the IP, so I expect they're giving this some thought. And I wish them luck because it will not be easy assuming they even try!

Sometimes I wonder why some good gaming francises like Midtown Madness died for no reason at all instead reinventing themselfs like f.e. Far Cry did

I really like some reflections on why people think they succeeded. It's not always directly applicable, but it still provides useful insights #gamedev pentadact.com/2026-01-08-15-…

IRC may be old, but in some ways it’s still better. Kinda wild that Discord became the industry standard while having many of the same issues as MS Teams. Will we ever get tools for trivial things that focus on speed and real convenience, not just looks or familiarity?

@jlist maybe... if we ever get sequel...

Would you date a girl like Claire from the Gleipnir anime? J-List has all the best 2D waifus from Japan in stock. You should make an order during our New Year Sale! jli.st/3MOaGR6

If playing video games is a waste of time so is watching tv. Literally any hobby is just a waste of time, people need to let other enjoy what they want

It's strange that many these tech failed big names has pretty similar things in common... :/ youtube.com/watch?v=YPy-GJ…

Sadly there much improvements but in gamedev mandatory overtime is still somehow a thing because of shitty managers wccftech.com/naughty-dog-in…

Is this FPS that we are still waiting for? :D

yeah... probably with this combination you can do much more... but I think in today's world, JavaScript and Python would be the combination that opens the most job opportunities.

If you can only learn two languages, they should be: Python C++

Didn't thought that day would come when I see #nodejs deb installer broken by itself

Reminds a church from RTS game