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This is clearly shaping up to be the pinnacle of this decade's technology (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (4 children)
  1. Don't roll out your own crypto suite
  2. Don't write your own game engine
  3. Don't create your own OS from scratch
  4. Don't build another multipurpose framework
  5. ...

Whom am I kidding, go do all of that! Learn why you most probably shouldn't 😆

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)
    1. Don't make an MMORPG as your first ever game with only you and your one friend as devs
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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oddly specific?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Yet depressingly common in MMORPG circles. People tend to vastly underestimate the amount of work needed to get an remotely playable MMO off the ground.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What is this smell? Is that the smell of self experience?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What if I make an OS that's also a game engine?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I want to learn how to write a physics engine.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Keep in mind that if you actually want to make a game, make a game not an engine. Too many video game projects get bogged down in the engine development stage and never make it to completion.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Do people even make their own engines anymore? If this wasn't a pet project I would have dropped the entire thing as soon as I started dealing with 3D models, and visited Godot's homepage.

    ...

    Perhaps I should get my hands on Godot at some point.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Usually AAA game studios has their own in house game engine

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    • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    https://youtu.be/Z_1vfTkBq-k?si=NpJuy9WU7vxkeb36

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    GET OUT. OF MY CAR. NOW

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now do a camera that can be controlled

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Done, that wasn't the hard part - after that I spent a few days on normal mapping and passable light reflections

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What kind of method you gonna use for reflections?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    For reflected objects none, that's too much effort - this thing only reflects light sources.

    Proper reflections require either too much effort, or me being smarter than I actually am.

    (Reflecting light sources is as easy as doing some tangent-space wizardry and a few dot products)

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