Juan Linietsky / is on Nostr

Godot Engine Lead Developer.
I specialize in all things game engines (rendering, physics, audio, scripting, networking, file formats, etc).

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2024-10-03 17:27:54

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Even getting people to agree in a FOSS project is incredibly hard, because most contribute their own time. Learning to build consensus is a very hard to acquire skill, otherwise in a week everyone would be arguing and go do their own project or engine the way they think its better.
Likewise is learning how to make sure that, with external contributors, code quality can remain top notch is another hard to acquire skill.
I don't know, maybe it took us a lot to learn these cause we are stupid 😅

2024-10-03 17:22:58

Getting #GodotEngine oiled up to the state it is now, where development speed is so incredibly fast and there is such good harmony with foundation, contributions and community took many many, _many_ years of refining processes for development, contribution, release management, moderation, etc.
I will do a talk about it at GodotCon in a week explaining parts of this process!
Pressing the fork button takes a second. Learning to do what we do takes a tiny bit more 😞.

2024-10-03 14:38:41

Will chill from Twitter/X until after the US elections. Almost all the hate Godot got over the weekend was pretty much people who had not a clue what a game engine is, what Godot is, or what a FOSS / community made project is. Most of the ones who did were the usual haters.
Checking profile of haters, majority pro-trump people with weird religious symbology, or people with avatars/obsession for anime little girls.
Sometimes I feel I am too innocent for this world.

2024-06-21 16:19:23

Who is the cutest little plushie? Order yours before they run out!
https://www.makeship.com/products/godot-robot-plush
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/655/514/637/739/592/original/876c38c52627d188.png

2024-06-14 10:57:24

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@npub1ujj…y9sn Thanks! I've saw a couple of projects like this, but they feel the level of complexity is huge in order to achieve this, so I am a bit more interested in more practical solutions.

2024-06-14 09:18:20

I've been toying with the idea of a determinist game engine that has zero rollback cost and the more I research the more interesting the whole thing gets, but I can see why nobody ventured into this land as its insanely hard.
Has anyone researched this topic? Anything to share?

2024-06-13 11:10:16

Nice to see that the usability of Mastodon has improved significantly the past months.
Feeling like using it again now. Are you folks still around?

2024-06-13 11:10:16

Nice to see that the usability of Mastodon has improved significantly the past months.
Feeling like using it again now. Are you folks still around?

2024-03-19 17:12:52

Heyo folks, I will be trying to upload videos weekly to Youtube explaining the Godot codebase in detail. Today is the first one, so make sure to subscribe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlEM2tJavo

2023-10-22 13:35:31

Some ideas for a GPU driven renderer in Godot. This is definitely 2024+ material, but does not hurt to start planning:
https://gist.github.com/reduz/c5769d0e705d8ab7ac187d63be0099b5

2023-10-11 12:10:11

I know this is unpopular opinion, but to me the idea of standardized tonemappers in games makes very little sense. Unless you are going for ultra-realism and want to achieve the same look as in film with the same physical lighting parameters (far most people don't) and physically captured textures (not art-generated), there is little reason to have this as a "standard" rather than just adjust to whatever looks good for your game.