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This means I can spare my future kids all those old yeller knockoff twist endings. Many of my school friends got hit by Marley and Me back in the day and I am not letting them get away with that cheap tactic again.

My point is that an engine with easy onboarding and relevant functionality would address most developers' requirements and likely earn it a place in many companies' toolboxes but to address your second point, off the top of my head I believe that game would be the Sonic Colors remake.

There were certainly teething problems with the Switch version but I definitely think it's a good sign when people contracting for a company as big as SEGA are using it.

In that vein however, I ask this: O3DE is a fork of the Amazon Lumberyard engine. Amazon Lumberyard has not been very successful with only a handful of companies using it, mostly Cloud Imperium and Amazon themselves. How do you forsee O3DE changing this pattern?

O3DE requires "40-100 GB of free disk space" and a separate compiler.

Godot (3.5) on the other hand requires a paltry 72.6 MB. Even less if you go for older versions or recompile it without certain features. It comes fully featured with it's own scripting language (or C# if you prefer but that requires extra disk space) and pre compiled builds for distribution with the final product. You can still use C++ if you wish however I've personally never needed to.

Godot may not be the biggest and flashiest engine out there but I find that it uses what it has got very effectively. It's extremely easy for newcomers to set-up (Just click the executable and you're all set. It even has it's own IDE.) and comes pre-packaged with the majority of features that your average developer will need.

For comparison, I'd say that it's the game engine equivalent of "QBE" or "tcc" to O3DE's "LLVM". It packs most of the punch of the latter in a neat little package.

Yeah, they were a pretty early adopter from what I recall. I think it might have been as early as 1.1!

I'm quite infatuated with this project. There's a rich history of beloved RPG Maker 2000/2003 games and I'm glad people are putting in the effort to preserve them. Actually, people are still making them to this day!

IIRC: There's a similar project for XP as well

Ps. I think a lot of people are getting the wrong idea. An editor IS in progress but it isn't ready yet and most of the focus is currently on compatibility.

I'm glad that Red is getting back on track. I've always been keeping my eye on new languages that promise to go fully self hosted and there's just something I really like about red and it's accompanying red/system dialect.

Some day I hope to try this experiment myself with a goat in the background ...although it might be a little tricky to assess effectiveness without a control and the fact that goats flip-flop between photobomb and photogenic whenever they feel like it.

Microsoft Fine Artist is actually a very good educational tool.

Subtly teaching kids about vanishing points and perspective is genius, hats off to whichever team was responsible for it.

Scaling and rotating sprites definitely used to be overused but I don't think they're that bad considering they were featured in many classic consoles (GBA, DS, Sega Saturn, PS1 etc.) and too many arcade boards to count

I dislike lighting though (unless it's implemented tastefully) and I think normal maps look absolutely disgusting in any situation.

E: Also, overuse of shaders is discouraged. Especially non-pixel effects like blurring.

This has some pretty nifty stuff in it (not to mention all the cool interviews) but my favourite part is them describing the sensible soccer clone AI as that's one of the trickiest things to get right in gaming.

I have an further question. No pressure if you don't remember or it wasn't listed. (I'm really interested in anyone who can answer this)

Is there a term for when you believe that that "original ego" was killed by something else? Be it killed by "the world" or some serious life event or revelation or something.

Mindgeek was the proposed enforcer of digital age verification in a previous incarnation of this bill.

If anything, Mindgeek et al have a lot to gain from this.

Not a J2ME developer but I've heard time and time again that it had extremely poor cross platform compatibility and each different handset needed modifications to the source to get it to function.

This was back when there were a million competing incompatible handsets. Not a fun time!

I don't think I've seen any omnibus bills in the UK but there's still a lot of nasty euphemisms.

Not sure if there's a legal system that DOESN'T use nasty euphemisms though...

The ivory ads are probably the best.

"The drugs you consume fund an international racket of abuse. Why not display it with the abuse of animals?"

I've played a bit of this before around a year ago and was suitably impressed (even if you couldn't play a round yet and most items were just non-functional sprites you could pick up)

Looks like they've added a lot more in the meantime!

I am fully aware that these algorithms use reference points on your face. I'm still not pleased with that data getting passed around.

As for the part of my comment in parentheses; I'm graciously awaiting the facial equivalent of "passwords in plaintext on the server". It's rather uncommon these days but I can almost guarantee it'll happen at least once.

Don't worry. Many companies are already replacing it with a simple webcam image of your mug (Hopefully directly stored on a server somewhere so it can be used for identity theft purposes).

Chips are a good conversation piece because it's something invasive that people will call you crazy for claiming that they'll be mandatory and then when it's mandatory they'll say you're overreacting and it's not a big deal.

Let's be real though. If the UK decided to create a constitution it would probably be stupid stuff like "Guarantee of safety" (24/7 surveillance, most outdoor hobbies banned, more powers for the British Board of Film Censors) and "Freedom from hate" (Criticism of politicians and media empires illegal)

Hmm. Interesting.

I always assumed that these sorts of machines wouldn't be cost efficient and that it would be more economical to produce suicide bomber rc cars and flying bomber drones (both already in use IIRC)

I'm also unsure of why they gave this actual legs instead of tank treads (cost efficiency again and also less points of failure and less complex machinery)

I'm buying one because I have problems but I sincerely think there should be a cut down version. Especially one without a floppy drive (What if you don't actually have any old floppies and just want a cool embedded games platform?)

I mean, I'm not seriously expecting this to be the next big computing platform but I do think that a lower barrier to entry would help adoption.

I should have predicted this. I thought they were just going to brainwash us as usual.

I don't know whether this is better or worse.

Where are they planning to build their bases? Phobos?

They failed to do this with porn sites and now they want to do it with every site in existence? Preposterous.

Incompetence is common in the public sector and it's really the only thing stopping this sort of thing from happening. Political support for this is mostly unanimous among the local parties and the larger European sphere.

Every party will complain for votes and then proceed to re-implement it with a different blame figure.

"All gone now."

In a perfect world, maybe...

In one of my previous jobs? Nope! ...and no intention of replacing it!

I liked the job but wrangling that unholy cobbled together mess made me want to fly to America and commit seppuku in front of the Progress offices to express my displeasure.

I can only imagine the source code comments ...well, if EA even allows internal developers to ACKNOWLEDGE flaws in frostbite.

Red is kind of an exiting language. I'm really fond of it's whole "one language fits all" idea. I hope more visible updates come soon and I'm really looking forward to the day it becomes self hosted.

Sad but probably the sensible option.

Ever since I saw Minecraft running on Windows 98 a few years back I've sort of had an obsession with running things on obscenely outdated systems (that and I've a distaste for the bloatedness of modern programs) Minecraft is sort of lucky though as it's running on Java (although it still requires at least some modding effort to get it to run these days)

My personal "support even if it's a bit insane" programming bracket goes back to Windows XP because it's my favourite and I was pretty upset when MS discontinued it. (Especially with Windows 8 just released)

Don't forget the hardware divider and the DS's sound capabilities!

I don't think retro 3D is a bad idea though. Just do what the DS does (keeping it separate from 2D in the process) and I think it would probably be the greatest console ever made.