I was just thinking what was the first game I wrote, and it was actually a project for a class that was 1000% not game related.
The project *requirement* was, "write a Windows GDI application". IIRC GDI stands for GodDamnIt /j
What I *delivered* was a from-scratch pinball machine game engine.
I later found that the college put it in their, "good previous student projects to build things on" directory.
Kinda gutted to realize that baseball actually is the most quintessentially human game.
Throw ball hard.
Swing stick hard.
Run.
Statistics.
Professionally I've focused on networking, performance, and build infrastructure, but also projects in large scale data processing, containerization and orchestration, video streaming, bootloading, and machine vision.
In the DDA project I've also handled, mentoring, community management, cross-platform build, release and support, translation infrastructure, license analysis and compliance, platform support analysis, and too many areas of software specialization to remember much less list.
Looking for a "Senior Software Engineer"-like position, based in Seattle, WA, remote preferred.
20+ years in role, the majority is in C/C++, but I've done server and Android-hosted Java, Python, Bash Perl, etc.
Outside of work I've led the open source game development project Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead since 2012, I grew it from a single contributor (me) to 50+ active contributors, not including ancillary teams like translation and art production.
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Grudging thanks to all the LLM pushers bouncing off my repo ALSO being insufferably argumentative to make banning them pleasant.
Wow I got:
It's fine as long as it's not plagarism or copyright infringement
It's unenforceable
You might not like it but LLMs are here to stay
Don't be a luddite
I think that's a full LLM apologist bingo.
Peak gamedev thinking
Linuxy question. I'm running a Nvidia RTX 3000 on a laptop with Nouveau, and hoping to use a mini DisplayPort to drive several displays with a MST. Does this Just Work or are there things I need to be aware of, particularly when buying a MST?
Sources indicate it's supported in general, but you know...
Side note, the <DO NOT MERGE> tag that was automatically added on submission was due to our very advanced "AI check" of "is the string 'LLM' present in the PR description".
The bigger CoC in question.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/88990
I run a Very Professional Project.
Oh and bonus WTFery I dredged up looking for screenshots. See Caption.
Emerging wireless stuff, once that's done I'm pretty set unless installing grub has issues.
Still haven't picked a WM. Probably either notion or i3.
Like if you asked 100 game developers if we should have done things the way we did with respect to graphics handling most likely 100 of them would have said something like, "No! What the actual fuck? Why?"
But you see the internals are a total nightmare and impossible to work with so who's to say?
The results however are... wildly inconsistent...
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Yet another iteration of HOW is this the same game???
EDIT: Several people asked "what game???", sorry I *occasionally* stop thinking about it so people not knowing about it is an alien concept to me, see https://cataclysmdda.org to begin your descent into madness. Or not I'm not your supervisor.
Help I'm downloading a gentoo iso in 2026
Notification: You have no future...
Me: ok maybe true but rood.
Rest of message: ... appointment with <medical provider>
Me: So I have to... call them? Can we go back to the other thing?
If you are cooler than your moist surroundings you may be entitled to condensation.
As a long-time moderator I've seen this, "it's only a slur if certain criteria are met" argument and ooooh boy you are NOT in good company when you use it.
FINALLY cleared a 30s bar hang. It's been uhhhh holy heck only a month?