Sometimes while working on a programming issue you realise that not only have you seen other games grapple with this exact problem, but you have also seen very strong indicators that they solved it with the same stupid solution you came up with. It's very validating.
there she is
- she/her
- binarypartitioned.space/
— hitscanner apologist ⚡
— tired trans woman ⚧️☣
— not always grumpy, she just looks like that 💀
— level/environment designer 🔨
— Current work: Skin Deep (at Blendo Games) 🐈
📍 Adelaide, Australia
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in reply to @trashbang's post:
It makes me feel that if it's good enough for [prestigious game company], it's good enough for me
Attempted (unsuccessfully) to do outdoor spaces in idTech before and got a similar feeling of sympathetic pain when I saw how some of the buildings in Dishonored 2 and Deathloop were arranged.
the urge to tell gamers "engines don't matter" versus the urge to wax lyrical about all the telltale rough edges you recognise that are characteristic of a specific engine