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« Three years of modeling on the Obra Dinn timelapsed into 50 minutes.
WARNING - THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS! »
WARNING - THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS! »
@scalzi (23 déc. 2018) :
« Honestly, why the fuck is every video game "update" something like 15 goddamned gigabytes? Did you guys fuck up the original release so badly I have to download the equivalent of a new game every time? Signed, a person in the boonies for whom your "update" takes six goddamn hours »
@codemonkey_uk (23 déc. 2018) :
« Since the 90s games have been working around slow OS file systems by basically writing their own ones.
File systems are complicated and show so game developers started putting most of the game assets (sprites/textures/meshes/etc) in one huge file, keeping that file open to seek and read from to load stuff. It’s much much faster then opening and reading individual files. It also lets you do compression across assets.
Now big file compression is interesting. But a consequence of how it works is a small isolated change to the source content can result in a radically different compressed file out the other end. So how games were built was optimised for fast loading, patching wasn’t a thing in the 90s, and we are still building games like that.
Add to that, building huge asset sets into game ready content can be very slow, so asset build pipelines tend to be heavily use concurrency to spread the load and that often means the pipeline is non-deterministic. That means even with 0 actual content changes, two concurrent builds of the same game could produce radical different WAD files (just based on chunk order compleation).
DLC/Patching is usually implemented as replacement whole files. But even on PCs where you can patch bytes in files, the diff for a small change (or even no change) could be almost as big as the whole game.
And that’s how you end up with a 15gig download to fix a spelling mistake. »
« Honestly, why the fuck is every video game "update" something like 15 goddamned gigabytes? Did you guys fuck up the original release so badly I have to download the equivalent of a new game every time? Signed, a person in the boonies for whom your "update" takes six goddamn hours »
@codemonkey_uk (23 déc. 2018) :
« Since the 90s games have been working around slow OS file systems by basically writing their own ones.
File systems are complicated and show so game developers started putting most of the game assets (sprites/textures/meshes/etc) in one huge file, keeping that file open to seek and read from to load stuff. It’s much much faster then opening and reading individual files. It also lets you do compression across assets.
Now big file compression is interesting. But a consequence of how it works is a small isolated change to the source content can result in a radically different compressed file out the other end. So how games were built was optimised for fast loading, patching wasn’t a thing in the 90s, and we are still building games like that.
Add to that, building huge asset sets into game ready content can be very slow, so asset build pipelines tend to be heavily use concurrency to spread the load and that often means the pipeline is non-deterministic. That means even with 0 actual content changes, two concurrent builds of the same game could produce radical different WAD files (just based on chunk order compleation).
DLC/Patching is usually implemented as replacement whole files. But even on PCs where you can patch bytes in files, the diff for a small change (or even no change) could be almost as big as the whole game.
And that’s how you end up with a 15gig download to fix a spelling mistake. »
« this project was my personal nexus of nightmare hours, inept management, industry realisations and heroics achieved with a small team under unreasonable conditions, so it's an odd feeling to see it surface eight years later without context, credits and with a joke title sequence
it exists because @SanatanaMishra and I had delivered the Castle of Illusion prototype that was maintaining the studio
A producer we trusted asked us if we could make a 'polished gameplay prototype' for an internal Golden Axe pitch in about two weeks to land a second project
we agreed because we were assured management wanted us to develop it 'our way' (ie another miracle please) but did mandate a darker, bloodier Golden Axe, with splatter and decapitations and two button combat
So we tried to combine all that with the spirit of the original game
this would have been a difficult line to walk at any time but we had two weeks and no time to iterate
So we made do, just really attacked the design knowing we wouldn't be able to course correct much, but luckily we had a talented team of artists, animators and sound designers
much less luckily we also had the lead designer who thought he was designing it, and sometimes @SanatanaMishra would have to physically block him from reaching my workstation or he'd start explaining insights he'd received playing the mobile port on the train on the way to work
he took to inventing arbitrary challenges like "management want to see an attack animation playing in game by the end of the day or they'll think the project is in trouble" while I was busy coding enemy ai and the soft lock combo system simultaneously
a week or so in, the lead campaigned for branching the prototype and making a Streets of Rage pitch concurrently because to him they were the same game
It took me sending a 2am email to the studio head and a "lets go for a coffee and a chat" the next morning to get that stopped
but the biggest gut punch came a week and a half in - combat was working, it was all on track! I was called for a meeting in the big room, so I put the latest build on the network and went to see what was up. All of management was sitting around the big table
I showed the game
grave faces
There was a pause
"where's the wow factor" someone asked
The lead designer once again complained it wasn't a God of War-like 3D brawler like he wanted
Someone said maybe it'd have been better to have made a prerendered video where the barbarian fought a monster
I experienced a moment of clarity
Either they couldn't see what was in front of them or wanted me to feel bad because it's the only way they knew how to manage
I was 'the guy who makes playable prototypes', I had over delivered and if they didn't want that, THEY had screwed up
I had been working 14 hour days but I went home on time that day
I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling. They didn't want it. They wanted something else entirely
I came to my conclusion - they didn't matter, I would continue doing exactly what I intended to do and try to deliver what @SanatanaMishra and I had planned in the beginning
So I did
Effects and polish was added. More sounds implemented. Combat timings sped up and input windows widened to make combos executive friendly
The finished build was revealed, and the same management team that negged me earlier lined up to tell me how good it was now
I felt dead inside
Not just because of a couple of long 7 day work weeks and start of the RSI in my right arm that would go on to jeopardise development of @AndroidCactus , but because I had no trust left in the people who ran things
from the Steam Page:
"Golden Axed may be janky, may be buggy, may be an artifact of its time, but it offers a unique glimpse into the prospect of a project that could have been"
go fuck yourself, parasites »
Pour référence : https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-some-free-stuff-on-steam
EDIT : https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/10/15/sega-releasing-a-cancelled-golden-axe-prototype-stirs-unpleasant-memories-for-some-of-its-makers/
https://twitter.com/SanatanaMishra/status/1316636383818125312
it exists because @SanatanaMishra and I had delivered the Castle of Illusion prototype that was maintaining the studio
A producer we trusted asked us if we could make a 'polished gameplay prototype' for an internal Golden Axe pitch in about two weeks to land a second project
we agreed because we were assured management wanted us to develop it 'our way' (ie another miracle please) but did mandate a darker, bloodier Golden Axe, with splatter and decapitations and two button combat
So we tried to combine all that with the spirit of the original game
this would have been a difficult line to walk at any time but we had two weeks and no time to iterate
So we made do, just really attacked the design knowing we wouldn't be able to course correct much, but luckily we had a talented team of artists, animators and sound designers
much less luckily we also had the lead designer who thought he was designing it, and sometimes @SanatanaMishra would have to physically block him from reaching my workstation or he'd start explaining insights he'd received playing the mobile port on the train on the way to work
he took to inventing arbitrary challenges like "management want to see an attack animation playing in game by the end of the day or they'll think the project is in trouble" while I was busy coding enemy ai and the soft lock combo system simultaneously
a week or so in, the lead campaigned for branching the prototype and making a Streets of Rage pitch concurrently because to him they were the same game
It took me sending a 2am email to the studio head and a "lets go for a coffee and a chat" the next morning to get that stopped
but the biggest gut punch came a week and a half in - combat was working, it was all on track! I was called for a meeting in the big room, so I put the latest build on the network and went to see what was up. All of management was sitting around the big table
I showed the game
grave faces
There was a pause
"where's the wow factor" someone asked
The lead designer once again complained it wasn't a God of War-like 3D brawler like he wanted
Someone said maybe it'd have been better to have made a prerendered video where the barbarian fought a monster
I experienced a moment of clarity
Either they couldn't see what was in front of them or wanted me to feel bad because it's the only way they knew how to manage
I was 'the guy who makes playable prototypes', I had over delivered and if they didn't want that, THEY had screwed up
I had been working 14 hour days but I went home on time that day
I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling. They didn't want it. They wanted something else entirely
I came to my conclusion - they didn't matter, I would continue doing exactly what I intended to do and try to deliver what @SanatanaMishra and I had planned in the beginning
So I did
Effects and polish was added. More sounds implemented. Combat timings sped up and input windows widened to make combos executive friendly
The finished build was revealed, and the same management team that negged me earlier lined up to tell me how good it was now
I felt dead inside
Not just because of a couple of long 7 day work weeks and start of the RSI in my right arm that would go on to jeopardise development of @AndroidCactus , but because I had no trust left in the people who ran things
from the Steam Page:
"Golden Axed may be janky, may be buggy, may be an artifact of its time, but it offers a unique glimpse into the prospect of a project that could have been"
go fuck yourself, parasites »
Pour référence : https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-some-free-stuff-on-steam
EDIT : https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/10/15/sega-releasing-a-cancelled-golden-axe-prototype-stirs-unpleasant-memories-for-some-of-its-makers/
https://twitter.com/SanatanaMishra/status/1316636383818125312
La page Steam est down mais le jeu est tjrs installable.
https://bayonetta.fandom.com/wiki/8-Bit_Bayonetta
https://www.protondb.com/app/567090
EDIT : Erf, dommage Shaarli transforme le lien steam en lien http. Du coup -> steam://install/567090
EDIT² : https://steamdb.info/app/567090/
https://bayonetta.fandom.com/wiki/8-Bit_Bayonetta
https://www.protondb.com/app/567090
EDIT : Erf, dommage Shaarli transforme le lien steam en lien http. Du coup -> steam://install/567090
EDIT² : https://steamdb.info/app/567090/
« This is a collaboration work with my favourite souls-like game youtuber VaatiVidya, who is an absolute beast on in-game lore and references. »
https://twitter.com/VaatiVidya/status/1315679827307819008
https://displate.com/displate/3882809
Ça rappelle un peu ce qu'a fait itspear avec FF7 et les consoles
https://twitter.com/_itspear/status/1247636502248595457
https://www.instagram.com/_itspear/
https://twitter.com/VaatiVidya/status/1315679827307819008
https://displate.com/displate/3882809
Ça rappelle un peu ce qu'a fait itspear avec FF7 et les consoles
https://twitter.com/_itspear/status/1247636502248595457
https://www.instagram.com/_itspear/
Même tweet pour Cloudpunk https://twitter.com/ionlands/status/1314651790609207296
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443430/Rogue/
(ou un simple "sudo apt install bsdgames-nonfree" 😶)
(ou un simple "sudo apt install bsdgames-nonfree" 😶)
« Also, I suspect in this case a Vulkan bug may impact the Stadia build and it's in their interest that their game is fully API compliant. »
C'est ce que j'ai pensé aussi. Ce qui du coup, ne changerait pas ce que je pense de Larian (et pourtant je demande pas grand chose, juste une comm officielle sur le support ou non de Linux et pas faire comme si les joueurs et joueuses sous Linux n'existaient pas cf https://links.nekoblog.org/?ZWFUSA )
C'est ce que j'ai pensé aussi. Ce qui du coup, ne changerait pas ce que je pense de Larian (et pourtant je demande pas grand chose, juste une comm officielle sur le support ou non de Linux et pas faire comme si les joueurs et joueuses sous Linux n'existaient pas cf https://links.nekoblog.org/?ZWFUSA )
« Run Loki Games and other Linux classic games on modern systems with Docker. » https://github.com/lutris/asgard/