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by cclogg 11y ago
"The decline soon after? That’s the Chomp search update followed by iOS 6 and the card app store layout. So sad." Man, I do find that quite sad... the app store still has some major issues with regards to discoverability. It'
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by cclogg 12y ago
Yeah I suspect you are right about post-processing. Good to read your points though, thanks for the response!
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by cclogg 12y ago
Darn, looks like I can't edit my post anymore, and HN formatting screwed it up lol. First link is for 300, second one is for the sequel. I guess it is quite subjective, but what makes the second one look better to you? For me the first
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by cclogg 12y ago
I find it's still really noticeable in the skin tones and highlights. You can find lots of comparisons online; once you see film beside digital, the difference can be pretty huge. Some people in Hollywood still really care about it...
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by cclogg 12y ago
I think the truth is that if you're making a free game, you have to put an incredible amount of consideration into replay value and how to keep people playing for long periods (and then how to extract money from them :/ ). Otherwi
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by cclogg 12y ago
Last spring I went through a lot of different techniques including the one you mention about subdivision. Was working on tower defense path-finding so basically the challenge was to compute every waypoint-set's path at game-start and w
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by cclogg 12y ago
With iOS development I've typically had the interviews that you are seeking. I show them my apps over coffee and then I do a few hours (or a feature) of contract work (paid) for them and it usually works out and I continue onwards :) I
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by cclogg 12y ago
Great read! "In Angband, any monster that drops stuff can drop pretty much anything. Monsters have a level, and if they drop loot, it just randomly picks any item near the monsters level." -> (RPG related) I felt like this was
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by cclogg 12y ago
"From the old world of unprocessed rolls of C-41 sitting in a fridge 20 years ago" Hey I still do that! :( I wonder if my (or anyone's) film photos on Flickr are completely useless metadata-wise. Because they are all scanned
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by cclogg 12y ago
I go through that quite a bit lol because I've made the conscious decision not to drink ever (I don't care to spend the money on it nor do I care for the taste). But my vice is drinking soda heh... darn sugar!
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by cclogg 12y ago
An iPad could be a good stepping stone. For me it was Nintendo as a kid that then got me into computer games, which then got me into making my own stuff, which then made me into a programmer today heh.
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by cclogg 12y ago
I find that I've gotten to a point too where my mind subconsciously blocks out ads, even the ones at the top of Google searches. I also don't believe I've ever clicked on a banner or display ad (purposely) since I've bee
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by cclogg 12y ago
Yeah totally, having some experience with 3D motion tracking and green screens, I was thinking: wow, it's so smooth and so perfectly tracked, AND cuts between player/grass so well. I know how finicky it can be to key out elements,
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by cclogg 12y ago
Speaking of RTS, I really miss the 90's/early-2000's. It was basically like a golden era of RTS's lol. But they don't really work on consoles (needed for AAA these days), and with mid-sized developers vanishing, the
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by cclogg 12y ago
Whoa I did not know anything about this story until now >< On a related note, I also just noticed that the "Arecibo Radio Observatory" was in Goldeneye!
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by cclogg 12y ago
Oh man, I've definitely felt this pain many times lol: "The samples will be missing lots of implicit information such as how to install the necessary libraries and how to deal with missing dependencies and version conflicts. Trans
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by cclogg 12y ago
Oh man yeah... UIWebView's have been left in the dust for a while now lol (and Apple probably has a reason for it unfortunately).
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by cclogg 12y ago
Haha, I wonder how many of us came here because we couldn't push or pull commits, so just taking a HN reading break... and boom the top post is about Github!
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by cclogg 12y ago
Okay wow the meta-joke on these games is getting to pretty intense levels lol. On a technical level though, I found this game extremely hard while using space-bar, but very easy with mouse clicks. It seems to jump differently or something.
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by cclogg 12y ago
That's really interesting to hear (I live in Vancouver too). I think it maybe also speaks to our North American culture of drive to work, stay at work, drive to home, stay at home... though I've heard that Vancouver is quite decen
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by cclogg 12y ago
Yes, regarding the scanning, this is true... I will say though that I've tried photographing (digitally) my own negatives to see how similar it was to a drug-store scan, and it was pretty close color-wise. However, I would have to disa
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by cclogg 12y ago
Regarding no filters, I've been shooting on 35mm film for the last year and been really enjoying it, almost never have to color correct, and the photos look so damn good! (especially skin tones) I just do develop + scan at the drug sto
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by cclogg 12y ago
Haha oh man so true. This is why I've found it hard to really get into modern FPS's, especially the console ported ones... the perfection we tasted from HL1 is very tough to match.
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by cclogg 12y ago
In many RTS peer-2-peer games like Starcraft or Age of Empires, they use a lock-step model, which can stop the majority of cheating. Every player uses a tick-engine (ie tick every 0.1s) that performs the same commands on the same ticks. Whe
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by cclogg 12y ago
But let's say I want to 'go outside' in Tokyo or Dubai, without having the money to actually travel there...!
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by cclogg 12y ago
I wonder if someday we can get to the point where StreetView is a continuous flow... like instead of tapping the arrow and waiting for the next slide to load, you would just smoothly walk forward or backwards along a track using up/dow
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by cclogg 12y ago
Let's admit the truth to ourselves... we were already playing it when we read this post... :( It's interesting to see this list though... the things that really tick with HN heh.
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by cclogg 12y ago
This is really cool but it actually brings up a question I've had for a while: Is Firefox super slow with graphics? This was incredibly jittery on Firefox for me (my main browser), so I downloaded Chrome quickly to test there... and it
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by cclogg 12y ago
It really depends what type of game in my opinion (which sounds like your opinion too). I've found that RTS can get away with TCP. We used Apple's Game-Center matching for our iPad game (Stratosphere: Multiplayer Defense), and use
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by cclogg 12y ago
Oh yeah man I'm totally with you on that. My unproductive side takes over on those days: "Hmm could work on that project... na feeling a bit sleepy, how about some video games... just a bit..." ;)

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