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Maddy the Android: Out of Character

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Just a page for stuff I wanted to share, which would be super out-of-character for Maddy to share as a character.

I am an autistic game developer and music producer, who is living the genderfluid experience. I really love airplanes, hard sci-fi, orbital mechanics, and purple is my happiest color!

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boscillator
@boscillator

Is anyone else here delusional enough that when don't understand something about the game engineer your using, you think "this would be easier if I just wrote my own engine."

I know that's not true at all, and it a great way to never get anything done, but my brain keeps telling me to write my own engine.


boscillator
@boscillator

And obviously writing my own engine involves writing my own scheme interpreter with JIT, because I'm not going to script my engine some kind of existing battle tested language like LUA. What if I end up shipping a single line of code that doesn't get executed? It could be a disaster.


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in reply to @boscillator's post:

all the time! i think where it comes from is if you assume your own engine had more or less feature parity, and it was just this one thing, you'd be correct; the difficulty is achieving that feature parity. absolutely still worth it as at least an exercise if you have the time and motivation imo, just not really practical if you want to finish a game :p