Dean Miller
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Dean Miller
@sonofdadkiller
eating a pizza rn
Brisbane เข้าร่วม Haziran 2015
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Working on a Runner enemy tha alerts other enemies to your position.
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For, uhm, reasons I've been looking at various C++ vector maths libraries and stumbled upon this post by @Reedbeta which quite amusingly aligns extremely well with my own thoughts on this: reedbeta.com/blog/on-vector…
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Some days I honestly do miss game development but then the recurring stress nightmares about deadlines, press junkets, meetings, and conventions have me like
GIF
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I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans:
Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5:
youtube.com/watch?v=K_sdN5…
Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!
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@TylerGlaiel @DanPaladin Surely they have looked at the metrics for usage and decided it is not worth supporting it? Maybe I am giving them too much credit.
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@DanPaladin its baffling that they apparently didn't notice the cultural relevance of all the recent stuff still being made with flash, Smiling Friends, Among Us, FnF, your stuff, our stuff. They seem to just be ignorant of what people are doing with their software
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Completely agree. Adobe's most valuable software hands down and they have no idea.
Tyler Glaiel@TylerGlaiel
We use Animate for art in Mewgenics. No other animation software works in quite the same way as flash does, which is accidentally extremely good for 2D art for games. Its the only part of CC that's irreplaceable to us. Guess theres no reason to keep paying them $600 a year now
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@gabby_on_E @despair It is certainly possible but can be difficult in many cases. They added DOTS for a reason, to make Unity code optimisable. GC spikes were a major problem for many games in the engine 10+ years ago, and they still are depending on what you're doing.
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@despair every unity game runs a garbage collector genuinely delusional if you think high performance isn't possible with gc
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A lot of people are dunking on this, but practically what matters is hitting 60hz. Even a ridiculously inefficient approach can fit a sufficiently tiny task into the space you’ve got.
Anyway the moral is you can’t perf good if garbage collection.
Thariq@trq212
Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine". For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then -> layouts elements -> rasterizes them to a 2d screen -> diffs that against the previous screen -> finally uses the diff to generate ANSI sequences to draw We have a ~16ms frame budget so we have roughly ~5ms to go from the React scene graph to ANSI written.
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@poetengineer__ @andy_matuschak Yep, interacting with the software is the point. Imo that’s the whole appeal of working in games as a programmer. The craft of making software is well alive, because the software interaction actually matters, rather than merely being a way to deliver the user their requested data
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@andy_matuschak another way to see it: non-game apps see users as friction-minimizing economic animals, focusing on efficient input -> output. games flip that: the output is the experience. there’s no other destination. the joy lives in the ui itself. that’s why games feel much closer to art.
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Confused: exciting new UIs seem rare in large part because inventing them requires both programming and imaginative design skills. It’s rare to find both in one person, and hard to coordinate in a dyad.
But then: why does this kind of invention seem more common in games?
If true, shouldn’t this be a problem in all design sciences, like architecture?
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@UV_Games_Roblox @stickyfr0gg Yep, that's how it works. Sorry for the confusion, we're gonna focus more on teaching this to the player, and making the beginning levels easier overall to help ease people into the game.
Thanks for playing!
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@stickyfr0gg @sonofdadkiller Does speed change your accuracy? Seems hard to hit things while moving, but that could be intentional.
Though it's very hard to TELL that movement is making my aim worse - it took me 3-4 times in the small hallway level to realize standing still was the only way to hit the shots
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SWAT God
Me and @sonofdadkiller 's new game.
This is a hyper fast shooter that aims to removes all limits. Moving with your mouse means infinite speed and precision.
The Combat Prototype is live now on itch. Play in your browser or download the EXE.
stranger.itch.io/swat-god
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@xpanda36 @stickyfr0gg Civilians are the blue guys. Soon there will be missions where you must rescue them and bring them to safety.
Thanks for playing!
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@stickyfr0gg @sonofdadkiller Cool game! Would you consider to add the functionality of only marking enemies when there is line of sight? Also other things like adding fleeing civilians you have to make sure not to injure etc?
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@YouAreRateLimit @stickyfr0gg I have deployed a hot-fix for this issue. Kindly try the game again if you like, and let me know if it is working for you now.
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@stickyfr0gg @sonofdadkiller The web version is really broken and keeps trying to move your character to the right if you let it take control of your cursor
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@stickyfr0gg Consider giving it a play at stranger.itch.io/swat-god and wishlisting on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/4293000/SW…
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Been having a blast making this with @stickyfr0gg for the past few months. If you like fast, skill-based games that wire you in with unique and intuitive game mechanics, give it a crack.
I will be posting more technical breakdowns of the game's systems and AI soon, so stay tuned
phil@stickyfr0gg
SWAT God Me and @sonofdadkiller 's new game. This is a hyper fast shooter that aims to removes all limits. Moving with your mouse means infinite speed and precision. The Combat Prototype is live now on itch. Play in your browser or download the EXE. stranger.itch.io/swat-god
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