Joe Valenzuela

Enough time has passed since leaving Insomniac that I feel safe sharing the story of both my greatest triumph and secret shame. A thread. CW: bathrooms

Coming to Unite Barcelona? Don't miss our many roundtables and labs! Today I'll spotlight the Sustainability in games roundtable, where we'll discuss how to turn the positive environmental impact of energy savings into a competitive advantage. Register: unite2025roundtables.splashthat.com

@icculus For what I remember about SimCity it might have taken 26 years to finish linking

I love that sdl12-compat is not only a drop-in replacement for SDL 1.2, it's also focused on _game preservation_...Jamestown (15 year-old binaries)? SimCity 3000 (TWENTY SIX YEAR-OLD BINARIES)?!? github.com/libsdl-org/sdl…

@kenpex @despair Opiates are medicinal at the right dosage. Best to avoid all temptation.

@despair Templates - used with care - are also useful. Same with operator overloading and a few other conveniences. Classes are ok-ish albeit the syntax and defaults are teeeeerrible - if you did not have them the code would have no problems at all, so in the end they are a wash.

Useful: - classes - vtables - end-of-scope cleanup - debuggers - profilers Not useful: - std containers - streams - memory allocation - exceptions - syntax

@StephanieRct Trump does kind of remind me of Captain Bateson from Cause & Effect: stuck in the past and likely to blow everything up

Humans don't have/use/need money in ST universe. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Money There would be no such thing as a Donald Trump.

@lucasmeijer I did and I do

Didn’t think I’d have unite fomo but here we are.

Going to Unite 2024 and need moar DOTS? See Anne van Ede and Daniel Kierkegaard Andersen present "Connecting the DOTS: Let's make a game with Entities" unite-registration.com/flow/unity/uni…

“Spock isn’t Vulcan!” — Trump

I will be joining the devs of Diplomacy Is Not An Option on the Unity Twitch channel later today to talk about the game, and their use of DOTS ECS. Pretty excited! twitch.tv/unity

@seanparsons @david_nix It's weirder than that, Meta had a process to coach people through their own tech interview

@david_nix I remember someone telling me that the big US universities have training to beat these tests. So someone with an existing job, kids and other responsibilities has to do a puzzle test and they're up against 21 year old graduates who have trained on a bunch of similar puzzles.

A driving force to leave 9-5 is I'll never have to endure a tech interview again. The industry has gone mad. They don't care about your experience. I've built distributed systems that process many billions of data points a day at near 100% uptime. Doesn't matter. We need you to live code the game of Connect Four. (I'm not kidding. That was a real interview I had last summer.) But now I don't care if the industry changes or not. I don't want to win the game, I want to leave it.

@JamesStevenson such a flex

Honestly just getting closer to childhood Arcade at home dreams

Finished our new DOTS Animation system 2.0 for Diplomacy is Not an Option (2) last week, 100k skinned animators with blending, simple IK, layering. Mix of Burst, Jobs and compute shaders.🧵(1/3) #unity #unity3d #madewithunity #dots #shaders #animation #urp youtube.com/watch?v=f3ioLD…

Join @icculus and I on a reddit AMA! reddit.com/r/gamedev/comm…

Rewatching Discovery and noticed their mycelial network equations are cribbed from windows.h I guess the writers really don't believe in the no-win scenario

I'd like to thank Squiggle on the decks and Kenny on the rhymes

Not bad but I feel like I can do better next year. @NicholasBritell

@okonomiyonda The problem is they all prefer open source and GNU/Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh man, the tiny tapeout FOMO is so damn real. Someone way smarter than me should do a proper version without the open source tools and without the Linux requirement. But for those of you that get to do it, keep the posts coming. I must live vicariously through you :)

Finally figured out what teen spirit smells like. Weed. It smells like weed.

@c_nich @okonomiyonda yes thank goodness for reasonable alternatives like <checks notes> msbuild

@okonomiyonda It truly is hard to imagine a more user-hostile language and system than make.

So close to agreement. Cmake is indeed so aggressively bad, but let’s not forget the scourge on mankind that is the massively user-unfriendly makefile.