Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

Tagged “gaming”

  1. TIL Korok seed puzzle pattern

    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.

  2. TIL Morrowind would reboot the XBox if it ran out of memory and hide it behind a loading screen

    One of my favorite tricks for Morrowind is that if you are running out of memory [on Xbox], you can reboot the Xbox without the user knowing. So if you had a really long loading time, that was us rebooting the Xbox.

  3. TIL about AutoHotKey

    When you're getting annoyed at running the same commands over and over again.

  4. TIL A server malfunction took down a whole MMO permanently

    This screams 'We didn't have source control or code management'.

  5. TIL Some fun dirty coding tricks in video games (2009 edition)

    This classic gamasutra article from 2009 about some of the hacks developers did to get their game out of the door.

  6. TIL how Atari's Pitfall generates over 255 unique rooms

    How it was done was by allowing code to generate the room, rather than mapping the room out and saving the data.

  7. TIL Load Bearing Tomatoes

    Game developer code

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