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are any of the main characters dragons? asking for a friend

pandora's box has been opened and the sooner we set the precedent the better

my first thought that I saw the original incident was that whoever was responsible for this should serve jail time. my second thought after seeing this response is that whoever was responsible DEFINITELY should serve jail time

i cant tell if this implies "so bad it's funny" or "so bad it's just bad"

the best game movie adaptations (usually) get away with it because they stick closer to the *feeling* of the game they're based on than the mechanics

sometimes there's overlap (the mario movie) but usually the ones that flop could be any other movie with a coat of paint that looks like some game IP

Major performance improvements Given some recent experiments with sprite atlasing and conversations with Juju Adams, I decided to have a go at using GameMaker instances as a broadphase for collision detection, rather than something...

the aforementioned performance improvements I've been talking about have been implemented. checks vs the rest of the collision world are up to 10x faster, and a bunch of individual shape checks have also been improved noticeably

dragonite.itch.io/collisions/d...

although at least in my test world it appears to be more accurate, culling out more stuff from the visibility region, so if you have a lot of large vertex buffers or have to do multiple passes over your scene i guess it can still turn out to be better

frustum culling on GameMaker instance worlds doesn't scale as well as quad/octrees, due to the need to loop over the ds_list of gamemaker instances and convert them into an array of collision objects

oh yeah should have crossed out the Draw event or something, which is separate from this

A month or so ago someone told me they found a crash in 3D Collisions but I can't remember where the conversation happened and I don't remember the specifics, except for it having to do with raycasts. If that person happens to be here, could you tell me what the specifics were?

if m$ is going to keep breaking stuff i'm going to keep reposting this

of course it's a banana split

might have just given about a 10x speed up to 3D Collisions. will post an update as soon as I look into a few other bugs

#GameMaker

@gretchenmcculloch.com I seem to remember you enjoy curating these

My headcanon is that that one employee tells their boss "you should put someone else on my team so that I can retire before I die" every year or so and their boss says "yeah sure I'll do that eventually" and then completely forgets about it

Half of the steamworks backend is really nice, and half of it feels like it hasn't been updated since about 2005... this is one of those things that feels like it hasn't been updated since about 2005.

I wrote a blog about some cool perks Flash has as a game engine in 2026:
kupogames.com/2026/02/07/f...

you'd think "having a launcher that isn't absolute ass after 10 years" would be the easy part of making a steam competitor, and yet here we are

is this Bim in an alternate universe where he becomes a woodcarver instead of a wizard

and more importantly, does this version of Bim still wear an oversized hat that comes down over his eyes

*bookmarks for later*

in lieu of nothing my favorite [citation needed] way of clarifying the pronunciation of a thing is when they use it in a pun that only works if the word is said in a specific way

Hello, Caitlin here, Sandy’s wife. With a few of his good friends - Michel, Jesse, Spencer, Mike, Russel, Stuart, we have put together Sandy’s last message as he would have liked to send it to you… | ... Hello, Caitlin here, Sandy’s wife. With a few of his good friends - Michel, Jesse, Spencer, Mike, Russel, Stuart, we have put together Sandy’s last message as he would have liked to send it to you all...

It's with a very heavy heart that we share the news of YoYo Games founder and original CEO, Sandy Duncan's passing. GameMaker would not be where it is today without Sandy and our hearts are with his family at this very difficult time. Rest in peace.

www.linkedin.com/posts/sandyd...

All of the patents related to mp3 expired by 2017, but at this point ogg or other formats usually provide better compression/quality anyway.

60 seconds has passed and i already feel like this was supposed to be the lead-in to some other joke and i already cant remember what it was supposed to be

stupid wednesdays >:(

does Flash 2015 pre-date the DRM (or do you just have an... alternate edition)? i'm kind of amazed they haven't issued a kill switch for all of their old software by now

ahh yes the "pants" modifier

me: a skyrim let's play may be long but at least the editing should be easy

also me: let's add english captions to every single line of dragon language dialogue in the game

hey man he's gotta make sure he grows up big and strong (citation: fanart)

ahh yes the "annoy random let's players" pack