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1. TIL Dwarf Fortress Game Design Mar 19, 2023 gamedev gamedesign

   'Do not design for your experienced players' and some more tips from one of the most complicated games ever

2. TIL Breath of the Wild's many parameters Sep 09, 2022 gamedev zelda

   One of my favorite things to do is dig into how games are made on the data side.

3. TIL what a Shader is Sep 01, 2022 gamedev steam

   Modern GPUs are incredibly flexible. Developers use shaders - to program the GPU to perform effects and complex rendering techniques. Devs write code in a shader language from an API (such as OpenGL) and a shader compiler in the video driver translates that code into binaries that your PC's GPU can run

4. TIL a junior dev who programmed a World Heroes Genesis by himself Aug 03, 2022 gamedev history

   Yeah, World Heroes (even the original) wasn't anything to write home about. I had to squeeze 82M into a 16M cartridge. The source code was in assembly with absolutely no documentation. There were no testers. There was no one to help me port the artwork.

5. TIL Korok seed puzzle pattern Jul 27, 2022 gaming gamedev

   Why I love this is that the designers thought up a few puzzle categories, and sprinkled the open world with these. It creates a very effective piece of optional game play.

6. TIL High Resolution Time Jul 26, 2022 gamedev javascript

   The Date object is no longer the recognized method for timing events because it is very imprecise and can be modified by the system clock.

7. TIL about Oil in Game dev Jun 07, 2022 gamedev video

   It 'feels' wrong when Link gets stuck on a block. Nintendo is fantastic at 'oiling', smoothing out this process so Link automatically moves downwards when he hits a block.

8. TIL how Mass Effect did their Dialog Production May 20, 2022 gamedev voiceover

9. TIL about Edios-Montreal's dialog system May 19, 2022 gamedev tools

   These are the top-level goals the team needed to create with Codex. String IDs needed to be easily readable. Game scripts needed to be playable fast. Pain-free iteration. Ensemble recording. Fast audio importing. Easily provide context and error-checking for localization.

10. TIL these game design resources from Alex (@TychoBolt) May 18, 2022 twitter gamedev

    These two massive docs that contain a wealth of info.

11. TIL that Xbox has a accessibility Guidelines Mar 23, 2022 gamedev accessibility

    The guideline also provides `gamer personas', types of gamers who are affected by that specific issue and how your accessibility solution will help them.

12. TIL about 'chumps' in BioShock Mar 17, 2022 gamedev hacks

    In Bioshock Infinite, they have 'chumps' without AI, without the ability to pathfind around - just bodies looping animations with a few flourishes like voice lines.

13. TIL World of Warcraft had a Developer Island in production code Feb 03, 2022 gamedev hacks

    This developer island was only for devs, and was used because some bugs couldn't be reproduced on dev servers

14. TIL how competitive shooters make maps Sep 29, 2021 gamedev maps

    For multiplayer fps games a la counterstrike, use node graphs.

15. TIL how a dev cut GTA Online load times by 70% Sep 28, 2021 gamedev optimization videogames

    In all, t0st estimates that 1,984,531,500 checks take place (nearly two billion!), again taking up a ton of CPU time.

16. TIL Halo 2's smart autoload Jun 29, 2021 gamedev

    Autosaves were special.

17. TIL Creating save file versions and a update path Apr 15, 2021 gamedev

    Check save version. If less than current version, update the save data.

18. TIL Mar 21, 2021 gamedev hacks

19. TIL how Monster Rancher generates monsters Feb 23, 2021 gamedev

    In Monster Rancher, monsters can be generated by inserting any CD into the game system. How does that work?

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