What version of the api have you targeted? I remember really struggling with Vulkan in the past. Recently, coming back to it and making use of push descriptors and dynamic rendering I’ve found it way more pleasant

From my experience a mix of dislike and a vibe of “gonna have to get used to it I guess” from most people, some engineers using it for code but not a crazy amount. Technical leadership want to explore it but it’s not exactly the kind of gold rush behaviour we’re seeing from big tech orgs right now

The price of games hasn’t risen in ages and we had like 3 years of high inflation recently, I really don’t get your point here

And just to clarify, we were lucky enough to be able to afford it in the first place, lots of people didn’t move off the previous gen for a very long time, and that was fine! The games were still there when they finally upgraded

It sucks when we can’t afford to play a title we are excited about, sure, but this is just the reality of it. I still remember how expensive the ps3 was at launch, my family would exclusively rent games from blockbusters for the first few years because it was such a big purchase

The game is literally priced at $70 like any other headline release, or you can buy a month of game pass and play it in one go as if it were a rental. It’s arguably never been cheaper to play games. Games never got more expensive, consumers have just gotten a whole lot poorer over the past decade

I agree on your point about fidelity. But given a studio that clearly wants to make a certain game, I’m always gonna defend the choices of the developers in leveraging tech that helps them achieve their vision without burning everyone out and blowing out the budget.

No I really don’t, this is not like AI, you don’t have execs forcing tech leads to choose RTGI over other lighting techniques in the same way you have a top down push of stuff like generative AI. I can see the point you make but I think people fundamentally misunderstand how tech decisions are made

I don’t know a single developer at my studios whose workload gets reduced and they aren’t then excited about getting to use that time to make the game even better in other aspects. Yes there’s a profit motive, but workers want to make good products, stop framing us as not having any agency

Looking at the scale of the maps they aimed for in the dark ages, I’m pretty convinced you could not ship a profitable game using the workflow they did for eternal. The labor costs would just be too high. Besides, you think the devs would rather bake all their lighting still?

It’s not as simple as just giving the user a button to switch it off, games that have full RTGI do not have an alternative lighting model to fallback to, they don’t have baked light maps, this is precisely why it streamlines the development cycle and makes environment artists lives easier

Felt a bit like they had a cohesive script then got told Apple wanted 6 seasons so they panic developed a bunch of characters back stories that maybe they originally intended to be left opaque (like ms cobel, the rest of the gangs outies etc)

Time is just weird and not well understood in fundamental quantum mechanics, we have operators for measuring space, but it turns out if you try to define an analogous one for time the eigenstates would require an infinite amount of energy to construct

How was it a rant? I was literally just saying I don’t have problems with lifetimes in c++ because I opt out of the features I find problematic, I didn’t say a single thing about rust

I don’t recall saying either of those things pal

Tbh rust is really cool in a lot of ways, if I worked in anything other than games I’d probably make a concerted effort to pick it up but I just don’t have the time for another big complex language haha

I just don’t like objects as a concept at all, I find managing lifetimes of data relatively easy in c/c++, I just never use constructors and destructors.

Tbf I think they get overly hated, I think a lot of people just really hate having to debug anything inside an stl templated type

Oh don’t get me started on RAII haha

The C is calling

It’s funny because even if it became commercially viable on paper from a raw output standpoint. You’ve then got to figure out all the boring logistical stuff like how to deal with the tritium that just goes through shit and makes anything remotely porous radioactive too

hear him out, he knows spanish

yeah, I also just find all the social media algorithms are really bad at tech/software based suggestions, before I deleted twitter my for you feed was awash with that exact type of arrogant tech bro shit, despite me following mostly just indie devs and graphics people

I guess with Casey it’s also the overlap with the handmade network stuff, like if you’ve interacted with Abner much maybe the algorithm latches onto that

in all seriousness apple official fixer upper person is likely your best bet, the keyboards seem like a massive faff to change

naturally you gotta put out a bat signal to someone who has the US keyboard but wants a swedish one right?

Yes! If I remember correctly I had to source some gdb debug stuff myself but everything else works perfectly. Then all the 32 bit windows cd tools run fine through wine!