Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

Ok, "Boyfriend Dungeon: Date Your Weapons!" looks pretty cool. Backed! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitfoxgames/boyfriend-dungeon-date-your-weapons

@shanecelis @OneSadCookie hmm no idea. Maybe @mastohost knows?

@hugo do they just use markov chain generator to write the articles?

@Charon no, that's a full demo. Here's a product page: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=77399

@ludovic Found it somewhere in Spain. There are some on the internets, e.g. https://www.threadless.com/product/3998/freddie_mercury

"Number One / Another One" by Fairlight & CNCD from Assembly 2018 just blew my mind. Absolute masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyXwmt0EZig

Random list of demoscene PC demos over 1993-2018: http://aras-p.info/blog/2018/08/03/Random-list-of-Demoscene-Demos/

@merlyndmg here are some recent blog posts that talk about it (they talk about "compute shaders", but generally the same, especially branching/register/simd aspect applies to any shaders): https://anteru.net/blog/2018/intro-to-compute-shaders/index.html and https://anteru.net/blog/2018/even-more-compute-shaders/index.html

@merlyndmg any shader code needs some amount of "registers" to store various local variables/values. GPUs have some amount of registers available (hundreds/thousands), and if shader needs less registers, that means more shader "instances" (pixels, vertices, ...) can run at the same time on the GPU. Thus improving performance and capability to deal with high latency operations.

@merlyndmg mostly depends on what sort of register usage both sides of the branch involve. branch itself is cheap, but lower GPU occupancy due to register pressure of code behind the branch might not be

@_discovery @shivoa most (all?) console platforms these days use something like clang/llvm as their compiler stack, so doing this *should* be way easier than ages ago when every console used their own weird toolchain that no one else has heard about.

@shivoa hmm. I wonder what is level of “exaggerate for dramatic effect” in there. If none, then sounds like all the circles of hell combined

Disney has released full data set of Motunui island from Moana movie: https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/datasets

Matt Pharr has an excellent blog series on making pbrt better at rendering it. http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/16/moana-island-pbrt-all.html

@aggsol @pixeldev I guess I'm missing some context. Enable RSS feeds where?

@aggsol @pixeldev not sure what I have to do with this :)

@jakob yeah well Sutherland, Blinn & co have invented *everything*, so sure :)

Look at that. Nesting, variants, prefab mode. https://unity3d.com/prefabs