Filip Hausman

Shiny new thing in that case is not worth it

Love how head display changes between different states

Yeah this is really important when making a pixel art game. Only Vampire Survivors could afford inconsistent pixel size.

One year for me in a month.

I guess it’s believe that with 3d you can reach wider audience

Still lot to do, but at least got ImGui running on new rendering backend.

Interesting choice of tech. Wouldn't it only run on Apple devices due to Swift usage?

Yeah and how suddenly those hundreds of laid off people would find funding for their projects. Indie market is already oversaturated with games and it’s not like every gamer wants to even play indie titles. I guess overlap between AAA and indie audience is rather small.

Squeeze them out

Look at From Software, they retain their talent and produce hit after hit like crazy.

AAA gaming needs to reinvent itself and become more sustainable. It’s not like market for AAA games will suddenly disappear, it’s out there hungry for good games. Execs must understand that firing people left and right won’t provide anything good in long term.

I’m writing this with heavy heart, but indies won’t save anyone, there’s whole market of people that are only interested in AAA games and indie market is already overflooded with games. Competition in indie area is crazy, not everyone can make a living from it.

Not GameMaker dev, but I’m making my own little engine, some shaders might be posted along the way

Jest potencjał, ale to prawda, wykonanie na razie pozostawia bardzo wiele do życzenia. Optymalizacja tragedia, miasto wydaje się puste, a NPCe zbytnio nie grzeszą inteligencją. Trzymam kciuki że wezmą feedback ze Steama na poważnie i wyciągną to na prostą.

Those modern GPU pipelines are so tedious to set up. So many steps just to render simple quad. All SDL GPU API examples are written in C so I'm considering open sourcing my C++ abstractions over it, maybe I'll make someones life easier. But TBH I always feel shy to share my code with others

Super cool! Is it for your own engine or some system for existing one?

Yes and that’s the reason I decided to go for SDL as a underlying framework. AFAIK the GPU API isn’t ported for all consoles yet but they’re working on it.

So it looks like I need to rethink EVERYTHING. Even texture loading differs a lot. I thought having a high level interface and only changing underlying implementation will suffice, but architectural requirements break all that stuff. I’m glad that I decided to make that change now not at later stage

Jakieś typy co to będzie?

I don't mind the language, but working with shaders on multiple platforms is extreme pain in the ass.

I'm not really into doing this, but besides performance-wise aspects it'll allow me to use custom shaders, so it'll be a huge win.

Decided to switch to more low level SDL GPU API instead of using provided SDL 2D renderer which means redesigning whole engine architecture around rendering. Thought I can get away from this for a while, but after research it looks like it's better to do this sooner than later.

I’ll look into it! But even though, shouldn’t variant be kinda better performance wise than virtual objects spread around memory? I mean data will not vary that much between objects, only behaviour. So I guess it should still be upgrade? I don’t want to make a change if it’s only syntactic.

And maybe @tartanllama.xyz can help?

And use dirhering FFS

Też lubię bardzo choć dla mnie na równie z Korea Town na Mokotowie

I want to dump all virtual inheritance, but I don’t want to do ECS. Basically I need something generic to store objects data and call update and draw on them. Ofc behaviour will vary depending on the object but data remains the same. Should I go for std::variant?
@hanicka.net @rollbear.bsky.social ?

I get it, but it's stuff that is kinda obvious to have in more high level languages like C# or Python. My work sometimes requires to switch from C++ and I very often feels like I've been taken away half of the tools when I get back.

Hi #screenshotsaturday,

I’m making SDL based, small little engine tuned to the game I want to make.

If you see this post, engage with it somehow, it helps me a lot staying motivated and I’m looking forward to connect with other devs.

Yes, I feel it’d help me a lot to have more engagement with others but I’m still looking for community that’d be interested in what I’m doing.