Making levels in Blender feels a little backwards
Why? That’s a perfectly valid way to do it, and it’s generally the approach “power users” take. The feature set in an engine’s level editor can’t really compete with dedicated tools. For example, in Blender you can make use of geometry nodes for creating procedural content. Big (or at least funded) studios typically use Houdini.
For Godot, read through this section of the docs to leaen how to import collisions
This is good. A lot of projects from mega corps to indie devs would be in big trouble if SDL turned into AI slop.
The sponsor of this bill is Josh Gottheimer. Ballotpedia says the Democratic primary is on June 2, but doesn’t list any challengers. If you’re a local, maybe you know if he has a challenger?
In any case, do the following if you live there:
Add “fire Josh Gottheimer” to your calendar for both June 2 2026, and November 3 2026
Send him a letter/email explaining why this issue is important enough for you to vote Republican if it goes through, and maybe include a screenshot of that calendar entry just for fun
If enough people send a message like that, he’ll hopefully work to kill it.
If you don’t live in New Jersey, write and send a similar letter/email to your own representative. If you’re a Republican, say you’ll be willing to vote Democrat instead.
Regardless, what you shouldn’t do is bitch and complain on the internet to strangers on the internet.
Congress people are mostly tech illiterate and willing to eat whatever bull$hit big tech lobbysits feed them. They are not, however, stupid enough to ignore constituents who are angry enough to send them a letter. Why? Because most Americans only ever vote in presidential elections, so the population of people who will vote in a midterm (much less a primary) is very small. Going through the effort to write an email (or mail a physical letter) is a strong signal that you are one of those people who will get their ass out to the polls on election day and hurt their chances.
I recently tried playing it again, and I wouldn’t say it’s “trash”. Yes, they completely dropped the ball on the exploration part of their exploration game, but the meat and bones of a Bethesda RPG are still in there. It’s a good time for anyone bored of replaying Skyrim and/or Fallout if you get it on sale.
Also it runs perfectly on Linux
Brainlets are getting pissed off over the gender pronouns of a cartoon fox while the real thing to be pissed off about is that this mascot represents their intention to go all-in on shoving AI features into Firefox. Kit is going to be their Claude, Siri, “Hey Google”, etc.
Damn in that case I guess I’ll switch to Whatsapp /s
Idk but you should at least suck a dick or two as a courtesy.
but I mostly work with infrastructure and optimizing build systems.
Besides source code, games also need to compile source assets. An example of this is textures; a dev might store them as PNGs in their source control, but the texture will need to be converted to a different format depending on the target hardware. On mobile, that might be something simple like PVRTC, or maybe supercompressed KTX. Geometry and animations also need to be compiled, usually from something like FBX to whatever runtime formats the engine uses, not to mention all the other copious amounts of custom data needed for the game.
Shaders are a challenge because you can’t fully compile them ahead of time. They’re usually authored in some DSL (maybe HLSL/GLSL, but sometimes also an engine-specific custom language), and depending on the target graphics API they can be compiled to intermediate bytecode (eg SPIRV). However, that bytecode needs to be compiled by the user into the internal format needed by the graphics implementation (which can even change between driver versions on the same machine), which is why modern PC games need to compile shaders on first launch. Consoles with fixed hardware can avoid this problem.
Beyond that, the shader permutation issue leads to games requiring a shitload of shaders for performance reasons, exacerbating the issues described above, both for the developer performing a release build, and for the user launching the game. This article describes the issue well.
So add all that on top of the usual time it takes to (cross-) compile the engine and game code, which is often a massive C++ codebase of dubious quality, and sometimes also an outdated proprietary toolchain of dubious quality.
More devs need to start doing AGPL with other licenses available for a licensing fee. Or better yet, price it based on revenue with the LGPL/GPL/Apache version free for orgs under $1bn annual revenue, and everyone else has to pay up.
The OSI was a mistake. They were wrong, Stallman was right. How long until open source devs finally accept this?
What’s wrong with using Hammer? I’ve even used Trenchbroom before in Godot.
I guess the better question is: what do you consider to be sensible for creating video game content?