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Solitaire these days has Xbox integration, XP, levels, achievements, collectibles, events, ads, payment system, subscriptions for making it ad free, cheats behind a paywall, … It’s a bit silly.
Next up: Lootboxes for Minesweeper.
Wait until you see the solitaire game I’ll definitely 100% make after I finish this class on C I’m taking this quarter!
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Yeah, I would never want to make a game in C when things like Python or Godot exist.
You’ll never fit the game in the boot sector of a floppy disk if you write it in python.
Oh no, how will we play it on modern hardware if we can’t put it in the boot sector of a floppy disk
The main problem with modern hardware is that it needs to have an abundance of resources because of sarcastic questions like this. There is no reason why memory-efficient programming should be considered outdated.
Yeah but pretty textures and detailed models are nice too. And maybe you want to use a scripting language for parts of the game to save a bunch kf dev time
That’s not the same as an unoptimized game. I have games running at triple digit fps that require more memory and disk space than 10 year old me thought possible.
Also unused memory is useless. Caching things is good.
Also unused memory is useless
Unused memory means:
- I can let updates continue in the background
- I can open a web-browser on a second monitor
- I can afford to buy less memory
- I can run a server on the same computer, instead of having to buy another one to become a dedicated server
I can let updates continue in the background
That’s used memory
I can open a web-browser on a second monitor
That’s used memory
I can afford to buy less memory
But I bet you don’t, because you look at your computer say it’s all being used - when actually a lot is being used for caching and is freed upon request.
I can run a server on the same computer, instead of having to buy another one to become a dedicated server
That’s, again, used memory
That’s used memory
That’s memory not hogged by a single program, making me able to use it for other stuff.
because you look at your computer say it’s all being used
You’re lucky you didn’t bet any material thingy on it. I wait for the OOM killer to fire up before saying, “it’s full”.
While I do have enough memory on my desktop, I only have 8GB on my laptop (the other 8GB one I bought, went bad early, or maybe it’s just the slot that has stopped working, it could be anything), making it hard to even use theclangtools on large projects.
So there is this game called “Endless Sky” and its high-dpi stuff is in another separate package.
If I install the high-dpi package on the laptop, it crashes before even completely starting, while it works perfectly well, on removing the high-dpi package.
