Slashdot Mirror


User: alteveer

alteveer's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
33
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 33

  1. Re:Unreal 4 on Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    P.S. anonymous reader: you don't know what you are getting yourself into. I wish you luck, but honestly unless the exercise is academic, at least use Monogame (http://www.monogame.net/) if not a real, fully integrated, third-party engine. Seriously, then you will actually get to do game programming and game design.

  2. Unreal 4 on Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My advice, as a professional game developer, is "don't write code unless you need to."

    If you must write C# you should take a look at Unity, but honestly you would be remiss if you overlooked Unreal 4. It is the newest version of the Unreal Engine, and it includes most of the most important features of a game; behavior trees, navigation, user interface, physically-based rendering, animation state machines, multiplayer replication, etc. You can do most of what you want to in Blueprint (a visual scripting language), and if you really need to, you can edit the source code (the license is a full-source license) and make what enhancements you need in C++.

    Writing most of this shit from scratch will take you years, just get down to the actual MAKING of the game, and use someone else's engine. The terms are fair ($20/mo, 5% gross revenue for PC platforms and mobile), and the engine is extremely well curated.

  3. Gemstone 4 on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    www.play.net/gs4 -- 30 day free trial, this is the best MMO ever created.

  4. Games, duh on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make a Computer Science Club Interesting? · · Score: 1
  5. EA is the game company on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that Disney deserves.

  6. don't do it on DARPA Tackles Machine Learning · · Score: 0

    inb4 skynet

  7. This won't be good... on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 1

    ..until I can paste images into it, and paste into lists. I hate to say this, but Microsoft Outlook 2007's compose email is pretty much what I am looking for =)

  8. I still use ActionScript, just not Flash on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    http://www.nme.io/ cross compiles to most desktop and mobile platforms and has additional features like UDP sockets.

  9. Freecell on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    ..it's still awesome!

  10. Shots build character on Polymer Patches May Enable Effective DNA Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Life is pain. My five-year-old doesn't even cry anymore when she gets her shots -- she is brave as hell -- and when we are done, we go get ice cream. I can see this as good for preventing infection at the site of the vaccination, but shots aren't that bad once you get used to them.

  11. Re:A bit late for this. on Why JavaScript Is the New Perl · · Score: 1

    So I guess Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter aren't large scale enterprise deployments?

  12. Re:Game Developer on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 1

    Linear algebra, matrix math, and set theory are pretty much pre-requisites to any serious graphics implementations, not to mention physics engines. Sorry to go anecdotal, but my web/art background prepared me for making models but certainly not rendering/shading them.

    ...and to be clear, I don't mean "game design."

  13. Game Developer on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 1

    Any creative math major can be a game developer with some CS. Education masters? Serious games: http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/

  14. "Former" being the keyword on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 1

    The most basic user story:

    1. go to www.google.com.
    2. search.

    is really how people are getting shit done. I can see niche search, like Wolfram, or maps.google.com, or Amazon for products, but social search is bs.

  15. This is fine... on Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    ...so long as they tax violent movies and television first.

  16. Re:But wait on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    ...or Psonics!

  17. Re:Game programming is complex on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? · · Score: 2

    +1 to this, start small with simple mechanics in a 2d space. Flashdevelop is a great, free tool that is easy to setup and use.

    If you want to try using a Flash game framework, try something like Flixel.

  18. Microsoft wants the emails on Microsoft Just Can't Quit Yahoo · · Score: 1

    They are still trying to beat everyone at their own games instead of coming up with something interesting themselves. An infusion of 273.1 million faithful users from the second largest email provider would help them lock people into their Windows Live! infrastructure (email, phones, OS, cloud services)

  19. Well, at least we know IE is safe... on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    Wait...

  20. I think Sun Tzu said it first: on Security By Obscurity — a New Theory · · Score: 1

    "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." Or "all war is deception"

  21. Great! on Brazilian Spider Bite May Become the Next Viagra · · Score: 1

    Good to know they are working on the important stuff =/

  22. Re:Better Analogy: Beer Snobs. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    ...and then there is the guy who buys the used Subaru (uni-body Macbook with Windows 7 on it) and just drives to work, not worrying about his investment or what other people think about his choice of vehicle.

  23. Yawn. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    ..seriously? Who fucking cares is their hardware is tied to their software or walled gardens or whatever. There are too many choices in this market to start branding Apple of all people as "evil". If you don't like it don't use it. I personally use a mix of Apple and other technologies but only what I want to use and what makes me productive and happy. Much like my own religion, to extend the metaphor, there is no one between me and salvation, it is mine to make for myself, on no ones terms but my own. Let's talk about Comcast, or the shitbag, satan-worshippers in the recording industry who are actually, actively trying to create a monopoly where they can perpetrate evil. This other discourse is yawn city.

  24. Re:What if my "PC" is an old VAX on Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe · · Score: 1

    Lynx on VAX is probably pretty safe (does it support https?) compared to some more recent browser versions that will remain unnamed.

  25. Re:Yes, but can it run Pitfall? on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 1

    I was at the SIGGRAPH talk and it was really interesting to watch that chip function (obviously a bit slower than what it would natively). The speaker went through how they laid out all of the circuits based on the different chips they had stripped and photographed, and then he showed it in action. He started by filling and emptying single registers and then he started doing some ops on it. I wish I could provide some video of it in action, but I have a feeling SIGGRAPH wouldn't like that very much.

    Download it an try it for yourself, it is really hypnotic to watch.