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    Which programming language did you choose and why?

    If we’re looking for other things to argue about, I’d be interested to know what any devs are doing with character classes. I started with a simple inheritance hierarchy, Character -> HumanoidCharacter -> PlayerCharacter or NPCHumanoid, but already I’m getting some headaches and I think it’s...
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    Which programming language did you choose and why?

    I agree that singletons lead to tight coupling which leads to future design pain and difficult refactoring. I use Unity with the Extenject dependency injection framework which is an elegant alternative to singletons. You get the best bits of singletons - only one instance, initialized exactly...
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    Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

    The one on the left as it looks more like an actual tree.
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    Game News Monomyth Beta Released

    Looks great, I’ll give the demo a go.
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    Posting for the discord

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    Breakdown: Building a RPG on a years+ worth of free time and $6,000

    Thanks for the detailed post mortem, it was very interesting. Congratulations on progressing to Steam Early Access. Good luck with the release of this game and your future games.
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    WTF was that?

    In C# 7.0 you can use a ref return property as an argument to a method that takes a ref parameter. It makes the code a lot cleaner and more performant in some cases: ref T Value => ref _value; One of the C# compiler developers said it was one a frequently asked for feature...
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    WTF was that?

    I see that the newer versions of C# allow you to get properties by reference rather than value. Good move.
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    Indie Friendly Development Tools

    That is good news. The Visual Studio Express versions were getting strangely fractured - e.g. you developed a C++ game in the VS2013 Express Desktop version, but you could only use the graphics debugger from the VS2013 Express Windows version. Will be good to get the graphics debugger in the...
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    Indie Friendly Development Tools

    Yes, that's a good effect. He calls it a "burn out shader" in the comments. Haven't come across that before...
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    Indie Friendly Development Tools

    I think that video is a good example of both "looks being mostly about artist's skill" and "C4 has technical features that are probably not being exploited fully by its demos". The developer is using a high-end modelling tool (3DS Max) and a global illumination via ray tracing plugin (V-Ray)...
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    Indie Friendly Development Tools

    It might be because the creator (Eric Lengyel) concentrates on tech rather than art. It probably has all the tricks of other modern engines (e.g. displacement mapping, post-processing, fancy AA, etc), but it doesn't look like he has created or acquired the art to show it off. Also, all of the...
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    Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

    Cool, looks good. Although maybe it's necessary because of the resolution, but it kind of looks like George has nipples on his back.
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    Vapourware Trying to learn programming from ~0, realistic goals naturally help needed.

    Yes, sorry, I thought the latest goal was a C++ text adventure - I understand it's a C# something now? Anyway, I'd agree that there are few uses for 64-bit variables, outside of using the high resolution timer for example. I'd misread Perkel's question to be about building an x64 executable for...
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    Vapourware Trying to learn programming from ~0, realistic goals naturally help needed.

    VS2013 Express is perfectly fine. The "flat" WPF UI takes some getting used to, but given VS is the #1 IDE for game development, you should get used to it. Microsoft insist on eating their own dog food, if nothing else. There is no need to pirate the professional version of VS. You'll get...

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