David AmadorSkyrim small tables are actually shelves buried. If you can't see it ...
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
In Jak and Daxter if by any chance the Area/assets ahead aren't fully loaded the game will make you trip to give it more time to fully load. #gamedev
In Super Mario 64 to achieve the infinite stairs effect, Mario gets teleported back. Also the reason why Speedrunners can glitch and skip it using the backwards jump trick. #gamedev
There was a memory exception in Wing Commander on exit, because of the deadline they left it but change the error message to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" #gamedev
This #gamedev trick is from Undertale, to prevent NPCs to walk on pits, Magic glass.
In Fallout 3 the Trains are actually a character wearing a train model as a hat. Engine didn't allow for vehicles, so this way they could reuse NPC movement code. #gamedev
Jono@djlink this is my personal favour it’s, I don’t know why it resonated so much with me.
@jono ahah that's great
@djlink here’s the full thread, btw
https://twitter.com/SteveGaynorPDX/status/1073624811107016704?s=20&t=Yeh_SpEcqB1SX5V_RliHoQ
Steve Gaynor on Twitter
“please share your most embarrassing game dev crimes. Mine: all the scripting in Gone Home is contained in 2 gigantic uScript graphs, bc I didn't know about interlinking many smaller graphs at the time. It's only 2 bc the first one started running too slow to navigate. Your turn.”