Gamedev, amateur sailor, builder and painter of miniatures, player of video and tabletop games.
Joined September 2018
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Ryan Alban retweeted
> do anything in git many times faster
Support an 800 person team of coders, artists, and designers on a project that's 1TiB to clone and has 100TiB of history.
Ryan Alban retweeted
To follow this up BrandShield has tried to blame the victim here.
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Ryan Alban retweeted
I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @OriginalFunko because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
I keep seeing social media posts calling Balatro a roguelike and I don't see it. What makes Balatro a roguelike? Where's the procedural world generation and grid-based gameplay? Does the game have some kind of HP or mana system that I didn't reach when I played it?
Ryan Alban retweeted
The two most educational things in any new environment:
- run the project in a profiler
- run the project in a debugger
it sounds silly but just singlestepping through the whole thing anwers so many questions
Ryan Alban retweeted
PSA: if you are experiencing performance issues in Stardew Valley 1.6, remove all hats from pets. We will address the problem as soon as possible
It only happens when I'm typing or someone else is typing...?
At some point in the last little while, Discord has decided to use most of a CPU core and 50% of both my integrated and dedicated GPUs while it has the focus. What is happening here? Last time this happened it was an ad, but I can't see any ads now...
Ryan Alban retweeted
Its unfortunate that pure ECS has taken much space in e.g. game programming classes & discourses.
Most projects don't need it. A more loose, flexible and balanced approach would be more constructive to learn & build with than a very defined concept which people try to stick to.
Ryan Alban retweeted
paying thousands of dollars to attend uni for literature and then not actually do any of your own writing is crazy work
Avoid putting resource cleanup code in Update() methods (in whatever engine you're using) unless you can guarantee that the Update calls won't be throttled. It may seem like cleaner logic sometimes, but if that update can be throttled or suppressed, so can your cleanup code...
Ryan Alban retweeted
The junior dev asked the senior dev “why are you pushing this code with no abstraction? What if you want to change it in the future?”
The senior dev responded “then I will change it in the future”
In that moment the junior dev was enlightened
Ryan Alban retweeted
Reminder adding 100ms accounts for a 3.8 billion dollar loss.
I understand not everyone is working in this kind of domain but we’ve all worked in a project where having a poor >p75 _did_ hurt a lot of companies revenue.
