Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 10, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let's delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Gary and I didn't have Puzzle Dependency Charts for Maniac Mansion, and in a lot of ways it really shows. For this article, I'm going to go with Chart.

Puzzle 147

Puzzle Culling Game Design Game Designer 147

Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 9, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let’s delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Gary and I didn’t have Puzzle Dependency Charts for Maniac Mansion, and in a lot of ways it really shows. It’s Sunday. Let’s build one!

Puzzle 130

Puzzle Culling Game Design Game Designer 130

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I'm not talking about your unit tested sort routine, I'm talking about complex puzzle logic and odd UI uses. The first is that it uses a very large library of mine, most of which is not used in this engine, so I'd have to go though and cull out all the cruft, not to mention all the proprietary console crap.

Code Release 133

Code Release Code Engine Engineering 133

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

I’m not talking about your unit tested sort routine, I’m talking about complex puzzle logic and odd UI uses. The first is that it uses a very large library of mine, most of which is not used in this engine, so I’d have to go though and cull out all the cruft, not to mention all the proprietary console crap.

Code Release 130

Code Release Code Engine Engineering 130

Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We are lucky that despite the culling of thousands of 5-star reviews, only a handful of people rated the game 3-stars or lower and so our average is still a respectable 4.92 Instead, 13 days after our release, we have 25 fewer reviews (622) than what we had on the first day. but even so, the question of Why? burns in our minds.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Culling Content Writing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Rendering, while mostly a sequential process (GPUs are sequential), can be parallelized in a few places, like frustum culling and (in modern APIs such as Vulkan, Metal or DirectX12) creation of command lists. The idea behind this technique is not to alter the sequence order, but to make every stage as parallel as possible.

Render 52

Render Collision Engine Engineering 52