JustAnotherKay

JustAnotherKay, 23 dni temu

New phone, who dis?

JustAnotherKay, miesiąc temu

Do you not need to store that state to pause the game anyway? How else would you end the menu loop?

JustAnotherKay, 27 dni temu

I feel like I’ve seen a “Time since last save:” line on enough games to find it hard to believe that “paused and saved” is difficult to check for lol

These are variables that already exist in most games, it just needs one more line of code to check them

JustAnotherKay, 26 dni temu

I think we write our code in different enough ways that we’re not seeing eye to eye.

Tracking the state of the game being paused, when the menu is open and when the game is saved can all be a single match statement on a current “game state” variable which just holds “running/paused/paused and saved/exit” and when it becomes exit, it checks the save time. Only 2 lines of code and adding an enumerated state to the variable to add this functionality. Since the variable is enumerated, it’s really difficult to mess it up when refactoring because if you can’t pass the wrong code or else your game doesn’t save or close

JustAnotherKay, 26 dni temu

Complexity being added at updating also feels wrong to me. Let me pseudo code some rust (just the language I know best off the top of my head right now) at you, cause it feels like maybe I’m just not understanding something that’s making this seem easier than it is.

<span style="color:#323232;">Enum Game_State
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Paused
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Paused_Saved
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Running
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Loading
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Exit
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">///Technically you could make Menu() part of the enum but I'd probably leave it elsewhere
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Match Game_State
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Paused </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Menu()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Paused_Saved </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Menu()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Running </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Main_Loop()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Exit </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Exit()
</span>

And then your other functions always return a game_state. You’re right that adding that return would be a huge undertaking if it’s not handled in the initial building of the game, but it’s a QoL for the user that’s easily maintainable and is therefore worth doing IMO. But these two things, defining the possible game states and then always routing decisions through that game state, makes this kind of feature relatively doable

JustAnotherKay, 25 dni temu

My point was “are state machines really that complicated? Isn’t it just something like this pseudo code and a return value from your functions?”

Basically I feel like this is a 2 step process but you seem like you either know more than I do or have a different philosophy about how this would be implemented, so I want to understand what I’m missing

JustAnotherKay, miesiąc temu

I watched Markiplier play this game years ago and totally forgot about it, unless I’m misremembering. It’s cool to run into the dev on Lemmy!

JustAnotherKay, 5 miesięcy temu

Not quite “just works” but I’d be willing to bet that your computer defaulted to the iGPU instead of your dGPU because you didn’t specify as such in your launch options

JustAnotherKay, 5 miesięcy temu

No extra steps

So you don’t download your GPU drivers? That’s more steps than adding a launch option

JustAnotherKay, 5 miesięcy temu

Unless you care about their use of Denuvo

JustAnotherKay, 5 miesięcy temu

This screenshot made me long for NMM. Spending hours curating mods to create the perfect look and feel, then spending less than half the time playing the game lol