Programmer Humor @programming.dev Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 11mo ago

This is clearly shaping up to be the pinnacle of this decade's technology

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Don't roll out your own crypto suite

Don't write your own game engine

Don't create your own OS from scratch

Don't build another multipurpose framework

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Whom am I kidding, go do all of that! Learn why you most probably shouldn't 😆
- Don't make an MMORPG as your first ever game with only you and your one friend as devs
  
  Oddly specific?
  
  What is this smell? Is that the smell of self experience?
  
  Oh, was it you who made Sociolotron?
- I want to learn how to write a physics engine.
  
  Those are easy, unless you want 128bit resolution, relativistic effects, collisions, or fancy stuff like that.
  
  PS: Bonus points if you write one without collision detection, then sell it as a game on Steam.
  
  PS2: Super Bonus points if you make it 64bit, then keep crowd-funding it for 10 years.
- Ew, knowledge and experience, pweh disgusting
- What if I make an OS that's also a game engine?
  
  Hear me out: a fully fledged desktop environment, like KDE Plasma or Gnome, but it's a 3D world - "windows" are just walls, the file explorer is just a bunch of procedurally generated condos, and you get a Gmod physics gun to move stuff around.
Making your own engine is worthwhile learning experience. The same as trying to recreate any of the foundational tools that you use. Might not be the fastest or best way to make a game but a good way to make yourself a better developer.
- Not the fastest
  
  This is my 4th Vulkan related "project" and 2nd attempt at making something other than a glorified tutorial workspace in 6 years, and it took me 4 weeks to draw this stuff with minimal technical debt.
  
  I could just use an existing game engine, but what's the fun in not manually sorting all draw commands by mesh>pipeline>material and hunting synchronization hazards by just looking at funny glyphs for extended periods of time?
  
  The best part is when your game just spontaneously closes. No logs, just some weird failure that's got something to do with graphics.
  
  Well, that's the OpenGL experience, anyway. Damn opaque state machines...
https://youtu.be/Z_1vfTkBq-k?si=NpJuy9WU7vxkeb36
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- Thank you! I haven't laughed that hard in a year or more. My sides hurt.
- Truly what inspired me to fight against Vulkan's complexity
GET OUT. OF MY CAR. NOW
- Why are you yelling at me?
Now do a camera that can be controlled
- Done, that wasn't the hard part - after that I spent a few days on normal mapping and passable light reflections
  
  What kind of method you gonna use for reflections?

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