Agentlien

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by Agentlien 7mo ago
As someone with a similar background (graphics programmer) it sure seems like a fun problem. I honestly found the lack of multiplication instruction quite surprising. I did not know that!
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
This was so much fun to read! Very neat solutions using spherical coordinates and logarithms. How did you get the actual idea to do this in the first place?
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I want to second this. I'm 38 and I used to do some debugging and reverse engineering during my university days (2006-2011). Since then I've mainly avoided looking at assembly since I mostly work in C++ systems or HLSL. These last
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
There's a lot of truth to that. I actually bought Disgaea 5 confident I would love it based on a review which did a really good job describing what the game is like, even though the reviewer didn't like it at all. I also used to l
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
This was a really weird ramble and I find myself disagreeing completely. As a lifelong gamer, it rings false because I've read many pieces of game critique and reviews which perfectly capture a game's soul. As a game developer, I
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
Thank you, that's very nice to hear. :) Every time I hear someone likes a game I contributed to I feel quite happy. After all, giving joy and escapism to people who need it is why I always wanted to make games.
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
Right, which is why I wrote "It wouldn't work well in our specific games." There's an obvious appeal to sim racing for those who want realism and My Summer Car for those who... Well, it's an interesting project whic
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I had a discussion with my son son about recent (2015-2019) Need For Speed games I worked on. He asked why we didn't include keeping track of fuel and actually stopping to use the gas station like in real life (in game you just drive t
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I don't think the idea of realistic scale for video game locations is very attractive. You can have vast worlds with huge procedurally generated towns. Daggerfall did this and to me it just felt like boring filler. As did its enormous
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I mainly want to learn even more about what I've already been working with. I want to deepen my understanding of the AGC API and finally take the time to teach myself Vulkan.
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I have a few blog posts which have received only about ~250 upvotes across different communities, plus a GitHub project with just 30 stars. Still, both of these were really interesting to my future colleagues (not the recruiter) who intervi
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
My parents reacted in just the same way and the lackluster response really took me by surprise.
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I just finished reading this article and I'm really impressed. The author has learned a lot in a very short while. And is able to explain parts of it quite well. This is the kind of stuff I always feel I should be able to do, yet it ne
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
As a graphics programmer this doesn't ring true to me. Using more readable names definitely helps during development. I think the cause of this is twofold. First, there's a lot of equations used in graphics programming where the c
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
Interesting that Half-Life: Alyx exclusively in VR wasn't enough, then. I love VR and that game is the best VR experience I've had.
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
The more I hear about other developers' work, the more varied it seems. I've had a few different roles, from one programmer in a huge org to lead programmer in a small team, with a few stints of technical expert in-between. For ea
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
At least to start. Microsoft strongly encourages all Xbox games to also come out on PC, though they sometimes release later. I cannot find any game developed originally for Xbox Series X|S where this hasn't happened eventually (and the
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
There's been quite a few games in recent years where I notice some system and think "ugh, do I really need to bother with this, too?". Especially crafting or skill point systems which feel slapped on. Some games make them a f
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by Agentlien 11mo ago
I really hope they release something as well, because I loved their research papers on analyzing how Claude thinks[0] and how they analyzed it[1] and I'm eager for more. [0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/at
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by Agentlien 11mo ago
I'm someone living far off in remote Sweden, could you explain with some examples?
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This game is to Sim City what My Summer Car is to Need For Speed. That's delightful!
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I always get confused around this and it seems to depend on specific keyboard and software. It seems to mostly be Alt, sometimes Alt Gr, and sometimes the Windows key. But I do remember using Meta to mean Alt when I was setting things up in
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by Agentlien 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key But, the meta key already exists and on Windows it is the Windows key. We're going around in circles.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
> it's usually more "cost efficient" to write normal fast-to-write code that isn't maximally effective, let the compiler do its magic, and call it good enough. For the last six years my full time job has largely been
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This is exactly what I've been doing when optimizing games for the switch.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
It should definitely be possible already using CUDA or computer shaders. From a theoretical view computer graphics is signal processing but with a signal consisting of up to four color channels across two dimensions. This is the view taken
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Yes, this sounds great and very Ikea.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I understand where you're coming from. From the perspective of someone with no knowledge of Swedish that's a clear distinction. From my perspective as a Swede, however, making it sound Swedish is the same as making it sound Ikea-i
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I think sort would be even better because it's less Swenglish. It's the base for sorting in Swedish (sortera) after all. Sört does really bother me since it sounds so wrong (almost like the u in blur). Sårt use closer to how Swede
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This was actually a really neat refresher. The name feels like such a near miss though... Kvick (beyond being my surname) does mean quick and I see they changed to it from kwick to make the title "more Swedish". Great! But sört? T

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