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by ginsweater 13y ago
I wrote one of those once! It was a nightmare morass of one-pixel errors. Maybe there was some clever simplification I missed that would have made it all easy, but these days I use the libraries. :P I know that's how stb_truetype'
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by ginsweater 13y ago
I like stb_truetype myself. It's C so you'll have to bind it if you're using any other language, but it's a lot simpler than Freetype. (Less features too, but it'll take a .ttf and return a bitmap, which sounds like
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by ginsweater 13y ago
The geometry may be flat, but relationships between objects are still arbitrary, so light can still hit things from any angle. Try as you might, you can't escape curves. ;) That article's a classic; definitely worth a read for any
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by ginsweater 13y ago
Whoops, yeah, you caught me. As I handwaved in the post, there's a little bit of implementation detail in the real code that I removed to clarify the algorithm. Fixed now, thanks.
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Matthew "The Oatmeal" Inman raised $20,000 for charity in 64 minutes(indiegogo.com)
18 points by ginsweater 14y ago|3 comments
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Traditional C "Hello World" working in NaCl(groups.google.com)
59 points by ginsweater 14y ago|25 comments
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The Great Demoscene Sourcecode Giveaway(displayhack.org)
3 points by ginsweater 14y ago|0 comments
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by ginsweater 14y ago
ryg has been at RAD Game Tools for a while now, and mentioned yesterday on Twitter that he's been doing contract work on Valve's hardware experiments. [1] [1] http://twitter.com/#!/rygorous/status/190907866037760000
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Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine(github.com)
270 points by ginsweater 14y ago|66 comments
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Experts Forecast Global Catastrophe of Death and Disease From Asbestos Use(mesothelioma.com)
1 points by ginsweater 14y ago|0 comments
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Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim(rachelmarone.com)
301 points by ginsweater 14y ago|176 comments
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by ginsweater 15y ago
Especially of interest to HN readers is Part 3, which is about the economics of streaming anime - the ad-revenue numbers they present are shockingly low.
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by ginsweater 15y ago
Yeah, this article seriously rubs me the wrong way. The tone throughout is "Rich Nerd Buys Cool Toy." And in that context a lot of the talk about the clock's "greater purpose" comes off as bootlicking. If I were Bezos, I'd be particularly u
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by ginsweater 15y ago
It's not just that - even when we're talking Warren Buffett here, the scale of the US govt is totally different. Buffett's entire fortune ($50B according to Wikipedia) would only cover a few weeks' worth of borrowing and then we're right ba
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by ginsweater 15y ago
This is the article that introduced me to monofur, which I dearly love even though it seems fairly unpopular. Take a look[1] and you'll either think that lowercase L is a terrible idea or exactly the thing to distinguish it from the number
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by ginsweater 15y ago
Uncharted uses a DSL for gameplay scripting. The compiler is implemented in Racket. You can see what it looks like in Jason Gregory's 2009 presentation: http://www.gameenginebook.com/gdc09-statescripting-uncharted... The compiler is writt
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by ginsweater 15y ago
That doesn't match Amazon's behavior. If they thought they could optimize prices for the benefit of app developers, I would expect them to offer the option. "Is setting your price a headache? Let our team of specialists do it for you!" Over
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Insomniac Games's new editor and tools run in the browser(insomniacgames.com)
2 points by ginsweater 16y ago|0 comments
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by ginsweater 16y ago
The distinction I'm trying to make is between parsing the text once (using a compiler-like utility which is separate from the game runtime) then shipping the "compiled" binary format, versus shipping the text file and parsing it every time
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by ginsweater 16y ago
But using JSON would have required parsing text in order to load the file. That's fine in a lot of domains, but games often have to load megs and megs of data in a very short time. To speed things up, lots of games have this sort of externa
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by ginsweater 16y ago
This always makes me think of Isaac Asimov's classic essay, "Forget It!" in which he gets a hold of a hundred-year-old math textbook and writes about what's in there that isn't taught anymore. (A lot of stuff about computation using long-fo
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by ginsweater 16y ago
A good university is the best place in the world to meet other programmers. Go to the best school you can - once you're there, you'll be shocked how fast you improve when you're surrounded by other young hackers. The classes are a bonus - y