[Ep390] Smoke and Mirrors
Coffee with Butterscotch: A Game Dev Comedy Podcast
English - November 23, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MB - ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Business video games games game development gamedev games industry gaming business entrepreneurship comedy advice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, we talk about management no-nos, government restrictions, and developer limitations. A responsive, immersive world is a game developer’s dream, but when you build tons of AI and add large numbers of things to the game, optimization becomes a nightmare. You have to ask yourself, are we looking at the right problem? The most powerful lever to pull is a good design.
00:21 Intro
00:43 Thanks to our supporters! (https://moneygrab.bscotch.net)
06:56 Musk Watch
10:21 Video games in China
Questions answered (abbreviated):
25:29 Fraser: CL2 sounds really ambitious. Have you run into any performance limitations working in GameMaker you can't optimize your way out of?To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.