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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Client’, page 4:

Game Graphics 101: Static 2D (Vectors/Rasters, Color Spaces, 2D Anti-Aliasing, etc.)

posted August 8, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems”
Another Quote:	“Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8×8 pixel blocks.”
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posted August 2, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“you MUST NOT edit any of intermediate files directly”
Another Quote:	“How will I implement automation?”
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posted July 18, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“as much as iOS is a device identification nightmare, Android is a device identification paradise.”
Another Quote:	“Everybody makes occasional mistakes, cheaters/abusers included.”
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posted July 11, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“NEVER EVER use IPv4 for long-term bans”
Another Quote:	“If using MAC addresses to identify devices, you SHOULD gather stats on repeating MAC addresses within your DB”
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posted February 22, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“You can still use HLAPI despite its shortcomings”
Another Quote:	“If you’re using one of the engines above (and not your own one), and your game requires Client-Driven Development Flow, you may want to start with a single-player Unity 5, or with a single-player UE4.”
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posted February 1, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In practice, for most classical RPGs you can get away with simulating each of your PCs and NPCs as a box (parallelepiped), or as prism (say, hexagonal or octagonal one)”
Another Quote:	“Mathematically speaking, without Interest Management, the amount of data on our servers will need to send (to all players combined), is O(N^2). Interest Management reduces this number to O(N)”
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posted January 25, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“For fast-paced games, there is one big problem with the flow shown on this diagram, and the name of the problem is “latency” (a.k.a. ‘input lag’)”
Another Quote:	“No, better bandwidth doesn’t necessarily mean better latency”
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