Interesting Game Development Stuff

[vtheofilis]

 

[Tony Corvus]

 

[Norshgaath]

Seamless transitions between single and split screen gameplay in multiplayer:

A New Approach to Local Multiplayer / Splitscreen Perspective With Raytracing

Motivation

ph3at.github.io

This is a short video showing a basic implementation of this idea.




As you can see, the scene starts with a shared perspective, and when the two spheres (controlled by the two players) move further away from each other, the screen is smoothly split into separate areas for each of them.

The most interesting part is what happens in the “no-man’s land” between, where space appears squished as the camera parameters are interpolated.

 

[captain kal]

Age of Empires developer confirms the game is mostly written in low-level Assembly code

 

[Norshgaath]

SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games

SAG-AFTRA signed an agreement on Tuesday with Replica Studios, setting out terms for the use of AI voices in video games.

variety.com

Το συνδικατο των ηθοποιων στην Αμερικη συμφωνησε στη χρηση ΑΙ generated voice-overs αρκει να υπαρχει προτερη συγκαταθεση με το αζημιωτο.

 

[nitro912gr]

Age of Empires developer confirms the game is mostly written in low-level Assembly code

τελικά η Ensemble Studios ήταν Assembly studios? Η Creative Assembly είναι ξάδερφος;

 

[captain kal]

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

Piracy, preservation, and the devs who don't mind if you have to pirate their game

 

[Admiral]

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

Piracy, preservation, and the devs who don't mind if you have to pirate their game

Πω πω, πέρασαν 40 χρόνια από το Elite, γεράσαμε. Υπέροχες αναμνήσεις, να βλέπεις Star Trek στην τηλεόραση και μετά να ζεις τις δικές σου διαστημικές περιπέτειες στο Elite. Σε αυτά τα απλοϊκά wireframe γραφικά η φαντασία σου συμπλήρωνε τα κενά και στα μάτια σου έμοιαζαν Unreal Engine 5 και RTX. Δεν θα άλλαζα την σημερινή εποχή και τις ευκολίες της αλλά είχαν και εκείνα τα χρόνια την γοητεία τους. [/παππούς mode]

 

[Tony Corvus]

 

[lucinos]

To 2023 ήταν η χρονιά τής godot. Δεν θα μπορούσε να ελπίζει καλύτερα. Τον μάρτη βγήκε επιτέλους η έκδοση 4.0 κάτι που έμοιαζε να παίρνει μια αιωνιότητα. Μια αναβάθμιση που από πλευράς δυνατοτήτων την ´κάνει άμεσα ανταγωνιστική στην unity και ενώ πηγαίνει καλά γίνεται το δράμα με την άδεια τής unity και εκτοξεύεται το ενδιαφέρον στην στρατόσφαιρα (ήταν τρομερός χρονισμός αν δεν είχε βγει η 4.0 δεν θα μπορούσε να εισπράξει το ίδιο όφελος)

 

[Adhan]

 

[lucinos]

Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API

With development work ongoing for SDL3, some recent exciting improvements include a Vulkan Render backend and a camera API.

www.gamingonlinux.com

και λίγες μέρες πριν:

Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins

Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.

www.gamingonlinux.com

 

[Norshgaath]

 

[Norshgaath]

The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda

Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost spills the beans on his conversation with Nintendo.

www.theverge.com

Mark Frost logged onto X and casually dropped a bombshell that lit up two totally different but equally passionate fandoms. “Anybody ever play this?” he tweeted in response to a story about how Nintendo’s Game Boy classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening was inspired by Twin Peaks. “I met with them about it and gave them some ideas, never tried it myself.”

 

[Norshgaath]

Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer

Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction. Last week I stumbled on a magic trick of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Al Leonardi’s Ace of Aces, a paper …

paxsims.wordpress.com

 

[Tony Corvus]

 

[Adhan]

Πολύ σημαντικό

 

[Norshgaath]

LogLog Games

This article is in large part inspired by our struggles while working on NANOVOID and Unrelaxing Quacks, as these projects were unburdened by the lack of knowledge of Rust that we had while working on BITGUN initially. These projects also had the benefit of trying most of the Rust gamedev ecosystem on more than one occasion. We tried Bevy at more than one occasion, with BITGUN being the first game we tried to port, and Unrelaxing Quacks being the last. During the two years of developing what would become Comfy the renderer was rewritten from OpenGL to wgpu to OpenGL to wgpu again. At the time of writing this, I've been programming for roughly 20 years, starting with C++, and moving through all sorts of languages, spanning PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, Python, Go, C#, and having released a game on Steam in Unity, Unreal Engine 4, and Godot. I'm the type of person who likes to experiment and try all sorts of approaches just to make sure I'm not missing something. Our games may not be the greatest by most measures, but we have thoroughly explored the options available with the hope of finding the most preferrable solution.

I'm saying all of this to dispel any ideas that there wasn't enough effort put into trying Rust, and that the article isn't written from a point of ignorance or not trying the correct approach. The #1 argument I hear people say when someone points out issues with Rust as a language is, jokingly, "you just don't have enough experience to appreciate this". We repeatedly tried both more dynamic and fully static approaches to doing things. We tried pure ECS, and we also tried no ECS.

 

[Hellion]

Βγήκε προτεινόμενο στο ΥΤ αυτό το βιντεάκι με τον Al Lowe να περιγράφει ένα θαυματουργό εργαλείο για voice-overs της παλιάς καλής Sierra, το οποίο φέρεται να χάθηκε πλέον.

 

[Hellion]

Ο Σενπάι μιλάει.