l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

I.e. a layer of meta-specialization is desirable that produces a uniform struct with some parameters and puts everything else in specialization constants.

Add push constants and embedded constants for high dynamic range of constantness 😅

Although I see a familiar problem where there’s a spectrum between fully static and fully dynamic parameters 🤨

I love #vulkan (spir-v) specialization constants! So much better than mashing strings or macroing defines. Just write your ubershader and let the driver fold, prune and unfold producing a fastest smallest program without sweating a brow at optimization.

#gamedev

Tried to design a non-violent game with #ChatGPT. It is suprisingly an uphill battle.

I understand that majority of the games are quite adversarial, but can’t it just pin it somewhere, that, no “defending against monster hordes” is still “combat”?

#gamedev

That’s why we’re starting Adept: we’re training a neural network to use every software tool and API in the world”, and furthermore, that they “believe this is actually the most practical and safest path to general intelligence”.

Blink twice if a basilisk is torturing you now or in the future.

Implemented a 9-patch sprite slicer to make fancy viewport frames.

#Haskell #gamedev

All the pieces so far:

• Dynamic tilemap.
• A minimap view synced to it (using 1px tile atlas for colors).
• Draggable viewport.
• Some animated sprites in world-space.
• Screen-space (yellow) and tile-space (blue) selection boxes.
• Status frames for sprites caught in selection.
• The window is still resizable (tilemap re-center appropriately and minimap sticks to its corner with a small padding).

#Haskell #gamedev

The first Haskell Tiny Game Jam is now open!

Your mission: make #Haskell games in 10 lines. https://github.com/haskell-game/tiny-games-hs and the #haskell-game chat room await your entries. Good luck!

Animating all you can eat sprites by cranking just one field in uniform. iGPU chews through 10k jumping things at full FPS while remaining responsible (i.e. not CPU-chocked) up into 100k.

(Dynamically updated tilemap chugging in the background.)

#vulkan #haskell #gamedev

Undecidable #Factorio