Dan Gant ⚡ 4D puzzle game TETRAFECTA in the works
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Making games & VFX 👻 PITCH BLACK for Unreal: https://t.co/MCsSgvOqh8 🏆 PurpleWave: StarCraft AI champion: https://t.co/YQoSyKnTGG 🦋 https://t.co/TIpwm20TgD
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Joined May 2009
"What's the purpose of the crystal ball?" I'm making a 4D puzzle game. You move normally in XYZ space, and use puzzle pieces to move in the fourth spatial dimension, W. The crystal ball is a direction indicator for the Anchor, which lets you return to its W-coordinate:
Crystal ball upgrades: - Add translucency & refraction, using Fresnel function to scale them with distance from center (it's glassy) - Replace normal with reflection vector as UVW source (it's swirlier) - Give each texture a different speed (it's parallaxy) - Emissive lighting
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@theogramme_dev Everything they make is outrageously gorgeous and they work at a million miles an hour. Goals.
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These things are both true: 1. Rigorously designed experiments can reveal non-obvious truths. 2. Almost every decision you make in life will be without rigorous experimental guidance. Judgment is a blade you never stop honing.
Man: "Children who can be taught to ride a bike at 3 or 4 can bike for fun and enjoy nature & increased mobility in the world, major childhood boons" Replies: "There's no longterm benefit shown in RCTs! They might get injured! Not all kids are able to ride!" Man: "???"
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@delaigrodela True first person is such a nuisance. I've had to triple the size of held objects and it looks absurd in shadow or reflection
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@muchtoocommon @kendrictonn This is my issue too. The statue doesn't imply anything about him or why we should even look at it. It's an overwhelming impression of "well, OK, so?"
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Kind of obvious, but never log in to websites via unsolicited email links. It has never been easier to make convincing phishing emails and landing pages. There is no one coming to save us from this. They will only become more common.
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Larva injections
@wasphyxiation Yes, the problem with Civ 7 is that it includes systems that exist solely for gameplay mechanics, without considering role-playing aspects or immersion. This is bad design and one of the worst mistakes modern developers often make.
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@Icehelmet That's awesome, I like it much more now that I don't prepare for each shot by dissociating and floating above my own head
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@kendrictonn I just don't engage with unconstructive stuff and see almost none of it. My feed is half makers half analysis which is probably why it's a direct line to Kendric goodstuff Take that for overpraise
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@cervixpiercer @morallawwithin Biden, almost Gore by a hair, Bush Sr., Ford, LBJ. Pretty high ratio lately IMO
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My baby saw another baby crawling today and now he's pissed off for greatness
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"But I thought you said she likes Dental Wrestling?" She does. She just doesn't like losing.
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