Build Your Game Engine
@byge.bsky.social
I'm a Senior UI Programmer for AAA games, and I'm writing a step-by-step guide for creating your own game engine in C++!
I just published chapter 3 of my book, which is all about adding external dependencies: cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
Chapter 3: Adding external dependencies
Now that we have our main loop, it's time to add external dependencies to our project. Although I've marketed this book as writing a game engine "from scratch," I really mean that we're going to outso...
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February 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I just published chapter 3 of my book, which is all about adding external dependencies: cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
I worked on this game four years ago. It was a baffling project, even back then.
I played some of Skull & Bones and what can you even say about this. I am baffled, genuinely
February 24, 2024 at 6:01 AM
I worked on this game four years ago. It was a baffling project, even back then.
I've never liked the taste of alcohol (nor what it does to you), so I've been killing this challenge for almost 35 years!
Very much enjoyed this @rcmacleod.bsky.social joint on keeping Dry January rolling for however long: aftermath.site/dry-january-...
You Could Just Keep Doing Dry January - Aftermath
Dry January gives people a chance to explore sobriety. For all the month's flaws, that's a good thing.
aftermath.site
February 3, 2024 at 8:47 AM
I've never liked the taste of alcohol (nor what it does to you), so I've been killing this challenge for almost 35 years!
It's finally time! ✨ I've published the first two chapters of my book about making a small game engine from scratch in C++: cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
January 28, 2024 at 2:19 PM
It's finally time! ✨ I've published the first two chapters of my book about making a small game engine from scratch in C++: cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
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So frustrating that there's things we could do on a society-level to help with not just Covid but all sorts of tranmissible illnesses. People shouldn't just accept that work and public transport makes you ill all the time!
Also having literallly any way to get a booster in the UK would be nice.
Also having literallly any way to get a booster in the UK would be nice.
I dunno, I can get frustrated with exaggerated claims of COVID risk and impacts on here but on the other hand it's wild that we're not seeing any movement toward paid sick leave, better ventilation, free tests and better booster rollouts. Plus the bizarre gaslighting of people with long covid.
January 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
So frustrating that there's things we could do on a society-level to help with not just Covid but all sorts of tranmissible illnesses. People shouldn't just accept that work and public transport makes you ill all the time!
Also having literallly any way to get a booster in the UK would be nice.
Also having literallly any way to get a booster in the UK would be nice.
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Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point.
Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.
Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.
January 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point.
Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.
Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.
One more week until I release the first two chapters of my book about making your own game engine in C++ as blog posts and three chapters as a PDF and epub! 🫣
January 21, 2024 at 6:51 PM
One more week until I release the first two chapters of my book about making your own game engine in C++ as blog posts and three chapters as a PDF and epub! 🫣
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
January 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
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made this to explain my path from associate designer to game director
August 9, 2023 at 10:59 PM
made this to explain my path from associate designer to game director
Oh okay, the giant pot of soup at Substack only has a few nuggets of shit floating in it. That's fine dining, I guess!
The Substack founders leaked details of their meeting with @caseynewton.bsky.social to another Substack publication and appear to have gone from “we have nazis here and we accept them” to “actually they don’t exist.”
January 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Oh okay, the giant pot of soup at Substack only has a few nuggets of shit floating in it. That's fine dining, I guess!
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My #gamedevpaidme
Creative Assembly, Character Art Intern - £18k
Creative Assembly, Character Artist - £24k
Ubisoft Montreal, Character Artist - $45k CAD
Ubisoft Montreal, Senior Character Artist - $60k - $72k CAD
Respawn, Senior Character Artist - $120k CAD + RSU + % bonus
Creative Assembly, Character Art Intern - £18k
Creative Assembly, Character Artist - £24k
Ubisoft Montreal, Character Artist - $45k CAD
Ubisoft Montreal, Senior Character Artist - $60k - $72k CAD
Respawn, Senior Character Artist - $120k CAD + RSU + % bonus
January 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
My #gamedevpaidme
Creative Assembly, Character Art Intern - £18k
Creative Assembly, Character Artist - £24k
Ubisoft Montreal, Character Artist - $45k CAD
Ubisoft Montreal, Senior Character Artist - $60k - $72k CAD
Respawn, Senior Character Artist - $120k CAD + RSU + % bonus
Creative Assembly, Character Art Intern - £18k
Creative Assembly, Character Artist - £24k
Ubisoft Montreal, Character Artist - $45k CAD
Ubisoft Montreal, Senior Character Artist - $60k - $72k CAD
Respawn, Senior Character Artist - $120k CAD + RSU + % bonus
I've put up the first two chapters of my book as a Super Secret Draft Link 👀
January 3, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I've put up the first two chapters of my book as a Super Secret Draft Link 👀
The energy I'm taking into 2024 is that every game is someone's favorite. ❤️
January 1, 2024 at 7:55 AM
The energy I'm taking into 2024 is that every game is someone's favorite. ❤️
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I love this little meme and self reference it often
December 29, 2023 at 1:49 AM
I love this little meme and self reference it often
As a 34-year-old, the only RPG I finished this year was eight hours long (the excellent Small Saga)
Every games writer is spiritually obligated to write this exact op/ed when they turn 30.
December 29, 2023 at 12:56 PM
As a 34-year-old, the only RPG I finished this year was eight hours long (the excellent Small Saga)
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An ancient holy banger
December 24, 2023 at 4:05 PM
An ancient holy banger
My introduction post on Cohost immediately blew up! 😊
I will be releasing my **free** book about making a game engine from scratch in chapters starting next year.
cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
I will be releasing my **free** book about making a game engine from scratch in chapters starting next year.
cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
December 23, 2023 at 6:19 PM
My introduction post on Cohost immediately blew up! 😊
I will be releasing my **free** book about making a game engine from scratch in chapters starting next year.
cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
I will be releasing my **free** book about making a game engine from scratch in chapters starting next year.
cohost.org/BuildYourGam...
I played the demo of The Invincible at the time, and while I love love *love* the aesthetic of it all, I don't think I actually liked playing it.
Sticks with you for a loooong time, though
Sticks with you for a loooong time, though
I played The Invincible for review a little while back, and the page is now live! Lovely and compact, well-delivered first-person sci-fi romp. Best new aesthetic this side of Cyberpunk, Alien Isolation, and even Starfield's thing (ugh..."nasapunk")
gamecritics.com/joshua-tolen...
gamecritics.com/joshua-tolen...
December 23, 2023 at 7:53 AM
I played the demo of The Invincible at the time, and while I love love *love* the aesthetic of it all, I don't think I actually liked playing it.
Sticks with you for a loooong time, though
Sticks with you for a loooong time, though
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Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
May 11, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
UI: We've finally collated all necessary data from the backend to display "Splorg Multiplier +3" in the inventory!
Backend: SplorgeItemsAPI v3 is deprecated; use MasterItemsAPI v22 with authentication and backend microservices instead
Game designer: Splorg is now Zoink, and also outdated
Backend: SplorgeItemsAPI v3 is deprecated; use MasterItemsAPI v22 with authentication and backend microservices instead
Game designer: Splorg is now Zoink, and also outdated
Game dev is simple
Game designer: I addressed that edge case you pointed out on that design. it's now a completely different design.
Narrative designer: but what's the STORY behind these darkness shards that can be exchanged for malfeasance fragments?
Artist: [crying while drawing 53 hats]
Game designer: I addressed that edge case you pointed out on that design. it's now a completely different design.
Narrative designer: but what's the STORY behind these darkness shards that can be exchanged for malfeasance fragments?
Artist: [crying while drawing 53 hats]
December 13, 2023 at 2:44 PM
UI: We've finally collated all necessary data from the backend to display "Splorg Multiplier +3" in the inventory!
Backend: SplorgeItemsAPI v3 is deprecated; use MasterItemsAPI v22 with authentication and backend microservices instead
Game designer: Splorg is now Zoink, and also outdated
Backend: SplorgeItemsAPI v3 is deprecated; use MasterItemsAPI v22 with authentication and backend microservices instead
Game designer: Splorg is now Zoink, and also outdated
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i love you all but please..... please stop asking me to get into a super annoying and complicated legal case aftermath.site/please-stop-...
Please Stop Asking Me To Sue James Somerton - Aftermath
James Somerton is (was?) a YouTuber who covered queer issues in cinema. Thanks to a video by HBomberguy, we now know he was a plagiarist.
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December 5, 2023 at 6:48 PM
i love you all but please..... please stop asking me to get into a super annoying and complicated legal case aftermath.site/please-stop-...
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I've been thinking about "if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" for twelve hours straight now.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.
December 3, 2023 at 4:24 PM
I've been thinking about "if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" for twelve hours straight now.
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I think hbomb's theory on why plagiarism happens is right: it's because you hold art and the people who make it in contempt, all of it is beneath you
December 3, 2023 at 8:28 AM
I think hbomb's theory on why plagiarism happens is right: it's because you hold art and the people who make it in contempt, all of it is beneath you
I've been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition for over seventy hours with no end I sight and finished Small Saga in just over eight. One of these RPGs is a tedious drawn-out slog and the other is a tight narrative experience I would recommend to anyone.
how to tell game PRs that word count is not a measure of narrative quality in a game, just a measure of how the industry is obsessed with padding out play time, false ‘value for money’ over play experience & other such capitalist nonsense that doesn’t apply to any other medium that actually edits
December 2, 2023 at 3:13 PM
I've been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition for over seventy hours with no end I sight and finished Small Saga in just over eight. One of these RPGs is a tedious drawn-out slog and the other is a tight narrative experience I would recommend to anyone.
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how to tell game PRs that word count is not a measure of narrative quality in a game, just a measure of how the industry is obsessed with padding out play time, false ‘value for money’ over play experience & other such capitalist nonsense that doesn’t apply to any other medium that actually edits
December 2, 2023 at 6:43 AM
how to tell game PRs that word count is not a measure of narrative quality in a game, just a measure of how the industry is obsessed with padding out play time, false ‘value for money’ over play experience & other such capitalist nonsense that doesn’t apply to any other medium that actually edits