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Elan Ruskin

@despair

3 years

Normalize checking whether things are true before believing them.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

Also from our #GDC19 tech postmortem: the transition into Fisk Tower in #SpiderManPS4 's intro mission. The interior space is much larger than the exterior envelope, and too big to hold in memory at the same time as Manhattan. So we use some careful camerawork to hide the swap!

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Elan Ruskin

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Matthew Gertz

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Please don't do this. Provincetown has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. As vaccination rates increase the percentage of cases that are in vaccinated people NECESSARILY increases.

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Elan Ruskin

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Visual Studio stalls for over two minutes whenever I accidentally clicked the "class view" tab, so I used ProcMon to find out what it was doing. It is doing a linear search over a 730GB file. Multiple times. Amazing.

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Elan Ruskin

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omg games do not need neural networks for any of this. You can do it with a straightforward rules database, procedural triggers, and a writer who knows how to operate Excel. I did a whole talk on it eleven years ago.

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this can be done right now by people like me without generative AI.

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Elan Ruskin

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9 years

The "Windows" section of every open-source project's "how to compile and install" file:

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

A teacher friend: "One of my students wants to know: what programs or tools do game designers use?" Me: "Microsoft Excel."

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

I liked this video so much, I decided to write up all the bugs in it. Maybe other devs can spot things I missed, or speculate likely causes and assignees. (I've omitted repro steps for 280-character brevity.)

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

This feels like the right time to mention an Easter egg that everyone's passed over so far: these guys don't work on Saturdays!

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Elan Ruskin

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1 month

This thread about banning new/malloc() reminded me of a really cool memory model I worked with on PS2. It gave us predictable footprints, fast allocations, leak-proof deletions, but was also easy to use for gameplay. Let's reminisce. 🧵

Elan Ruskin

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@imcolbyhall @pedrothedagger @MatRopert At 60hz all codepaths are hot! But also, for us: - Fixed footprint. Console has finite memory; must budget it it from the beginning. - Prevent sneaky implicit allocations. Lots of small under-the-hood allocs can add up to a surprising amount of time. 🧵👇

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

Not legal in California, labor code 2870-2872. You own any intellectual property you’ve made on your own time, unless it actually pertains to the work your employer does. This contact term is unenforceable if you live in CA.

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5 years

When EA acquired Respawn, @jonshiring (who’s a programmer) came home and told me about this. He’s not allowed to do ANYTHING without EA’s permission, including write a book or make music. Again, he was hired as a PROGRAMMER. It’s unethical. The games industry needs a union.

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Elan Ruskin

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8 years

Two moments in Mario level design that are mechanically the same, but psychologically quite different:

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8 years

本質的に同じであっても心理的に全く違う例。懐かしいなこれ

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

If you were wondering how the #SpiderManPS4 selfie mode animations work:

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Elan Ruskin

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11 months

@DaSkrubKing Department of Energy has looked at the general idea - that's the "Small Modular Reactor" program. Navy reactors in particular aren't suited to civilian power generation because they're optimized for compactness over cost-efficiency. They also need more highly enriched fuel.

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Elan Ruskin

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@DaSkrubKing They aren't uncorrelated though; the demise of smoking was causal to the rise of vaping.

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Elan Ruskin

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1 month

I like how the costume change animations in Concord tell a little story about the character in just a few seconds.

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

This seems a fun time to talk about one of my favorite literary subjects - the origins of cyberpunk, how its visual aesthetic began in Fascist and Soviet art, and its core allegory of power out of human control. To start with, I want to show you some architecture.

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Untitled Goose Game, but it’s crows. Instead of a to-do list of silly pranks, you have a list of grudges to avenge.

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Elan Ruskin

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7 years

Your team may have someone who claims that "Git is easy to use once you learn it." Do not let this person near anything customer-facing.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

My #GDC19 talk, "Spider-Man: A Technical Postmortem" can now be seen for free at the GDC Vault!

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Elan Ruskin

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1 year

Just hit me that this is going to be my 20th game.

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The Great Hunt Begins. We're thrilled to reveal the first-ever gameplay of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, coming fall 2023 on PlayStation 5! Watch the extended reveal on YouTube: #BeGreaterTogether #SpiderMan2PS5

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Elan Ruskin

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7 years

@Stephen_Linton @ChachiBobinks @missveryvery @Mr_February16 @lexa_baskin @AngelaHamilton3 Vigilante justice is what the person who put up those signs thought they were doing.

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

You don't want to know how much math it takes to put Spidey's hand in the right place for selfie mode.

Insomniac Games

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6 years

Check out Photo Mode, coming free to #SpiderManPS4 as part of our Day 1 Update! #BeGreater

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Elan Ruskin

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Meanwhile the program I'm using Visual Studio to write has a maximum response latency of 16.6 milliseconds.

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Elan Ruskin

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11 months

Can we all tap the brakes on the Godot dunking a little? A giant internet scold-storm is very discouraging to people volunteering work on a shoestring project for the benefit of the community. Escalating a convo about tech limitations into mass criticism is counterproductive.

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

Yes yes of course this is an exaggeration; they also use Word and Powerpoint.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

@OhNoSheTwitnt @fredriXfaith Criticizing Israel's current government isn't even anti-Israeli.

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

Peter Parker's posse! #e3 #SpiderManPS4

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Elan Ruskin

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Windows: "hi, I rebooted last night, all your work is gone lolz" <days later> Me: "Reboot now plz" Windows: "I can't, you ran Excel today and its ghost is still here."

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

I've put a quick PDF export of the slides from my #gdc19 talk "Marvel's Spider-Man: A Technical Postmortem" here:

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Thanks to everyone who let their PS5 upload a crash report. They really do help us track down stability problems.

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We just released version 1.001.003 for #RatchetPS5 that improves general game stability and addresses some known issues. You can read the release notes on our Knowledge Base.

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

Found in a middleware library. I guess we can call this the Marxist coding pattern?

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Yup.

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Did they just load a new stage in a hammer swing 👀

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Elan Ruskin

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@CortanaV @SwiftOnSecurity Machiavelli wrote, “men seek first to escape oppression, and then to oppress others.” Which I think explains a lot of human interaction.

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Remember, when you see a thread full of fascist claptrap or defense of some murderous authoritarian, it's because they *want* you to dunk on them in a quote-tweet, because it promotes them to a wider audience.

SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

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It feels good to quote-tweet idiots. Except, they want the quote-tweet. In your feeling of superiority over their ludicrous position, they get attention from that one follower of yours. That proto-deplorable who admires their flouting of norms and facts. And you connected them.

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Elan Ruskin

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8 months

Having criminals ransack your workplace: 0/5 stars, do not recommend.

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An update regarding Insomniac and Marvel's #WolverinePS5 .

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Elan Ruskin

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1 year

@jvalenzu The greatest achievement of my career is probably a highly elaborate bark system.

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Elan Ruskin

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Garbage collection, std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr, and std::wtf_else_ptr are all more trouble than they're worth.

harris commune resident 🥥🌴

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c++ programmers be like “gc is too slow and expensive for the Real Programming i do”, and then realize they can’t figure out ownership/lifetimes and put everything behind shared_ptr

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Elan Ruskin

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Windows: "hi, I rebooted last night, all your work is gone lolz" <days later> Me: "Reboot now plz" Windows: "I can't, Excel is running."

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

Facebook flagged a picture of Mars as sexual nudity.

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Okay facebook... if loving space is a crime, then I’m guilty 🖤

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

You can find our Spider-Man technical postmortem and a lot of other great behind-the-scenes talks on the GDC Vault:

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

Game dev secret: tall grass doesn’t get used as a stealth marker because it’s easier to model than other things; it’s because it’s an idiom that most players recognize immediately. Some games use shadow areas, but some players miss those and it doesn’t make sense in daylight.

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@imcolbyhall @pedrothedagger @MatRopert At 60hz all codepaths are hot! But also, for us: - Fixed footprint. Console has finite memory; must budget it it from the beginning. - Prevent sneaky implicit allocations. Lots of small under-the-hood allocs can add up to a surprising amount of time. 🧵👇

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

#TheOrville season premiere makes clear that @SethMacFarlane so loved the optimistic sci-fi of our youth that he built a career so he could make one of his own. And you know what, I admire him for it. The world needs positive visions of the future.

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

@Popehat That one has a noble history all the way back to Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure."

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

I'm wearing a bright red Spider-Man tee shirt and people keep asking me what I'm working on.

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

It's pretty much like this every day.

Insomniac Games

@insomniacgames

2 years

At Insomniac Games, our vision is to create games that leave a lasting and positive impact on people's lives. Watch our latest video to learn more about our studio culture... featuring two special guests!

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Elan Ruskin

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All this worked because of some very specific circumstances: programming in a custom-fit language, unified memory, PS2-sized game, designed around knowing all streaming combos ahead of time. Would be hard to do today. But I still think about how well it worked, back then. 14/14

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Elan Ruskin

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1 year

@C418 Well, there’s this:

Dominic Tarason

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Wow, my source at Unity just told me that they had a company 'town hall' meeting. It lasted only thirty seconds. Riccitiello came on, announced there had been threats against Unity HQ and they were evacuating offices in San Fran & Austin, then signed off. I hope everyone's okay.

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Elan Ruskin

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@thejb_stan Growing Daniel has a running gag where he posts obvious misinformation to see how many reshares it gets before and after community notes shows up. Most of his viral tweets are that.

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

@kevinbparry @Wertle I am mystified by how you were able to return the fruit to the exact same position and orientation every time.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

We’ve all gotten bug reports like this.

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Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

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Elan Ruskin

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After showing a stream of “El Paso, Elsewhere”’s references ranging from Die Hard (PS1) to Constantine to Sum 41, @WritNelson drops this reminder that should come at the end of every creative direction meeting. #gdc24

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

@BluesPetal @EllenBarryNYT @ClcpierceCarol Scientifically, the answer is to build a lot more housing, a lot more quickly, everywhere. Scarce things are expensive. It’s also very important to push back on destructive excuses people come up with to resist new housing.

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

Came across this amazing picture of a cancer scientist demonstrating epigenetic research by putting a plastic liver on top of a magnetic mixer.

Elan Ruskin

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3 years

5000 pounds of science

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Elan Ruskin

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@mgrviper If I deleted it I would just have an even longer stall while Visual Studio rebuilds it. I simply disabled the Class View tab; I don't need it.

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Elan Ruskin

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2 years

@PoorlyAgedStuff Same energy:

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Reference to Paperboy is very on-the-nose. Clear with Legal before shipping.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

They’re taking down the office network and Perforce tonight, so it’s literally impossible for us to work from home even if we tried.

James Stevenson

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5 years

We are closing down @insomniacgames until January 6th. It's fun to tell people "see ya next decade"

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

Oh hey, I'll be doing a talk about #SpiderManPS4 at GDC this year. It's an overview of.... well, basically how we programmed the game and its tools. Especially the mistakes. There's a lot of great talks by my colleagues too. Gamasutra writes them up:

Game Developer

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Swing by GDC and learn new tricks from the devs of Marvel's Spider-Man!

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Elan Ruskin

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4 years

@jennafranke @muppetaphrodite Every physicist dreams in their heart of being the science officer that saves the away team by improvising a gadget ex machina out of scrap wire and twigs.

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Elan Ruskin

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6 years

@a2_4am How does one successfully intervene in this situation? (This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm sincerely trying to plan what to do if this happens.)

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Elan Ruskin

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1 year

Some fun friends showed up at work today!

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

When writing an error message like “found 0 leaf nodes in polytree”, think ahead to the explanation you’ll give when someone asks you what this error means and what to do about it. Then just put that explanation in the error dialog instead. Saves everyone a lot of time.

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Elan Ruskin

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3 years

Swept collision queries are incorrectly testing vs the floor's render mesh instead of ground-plane collision. Assign to: me

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

And now in animated gif format for your enjoyment:

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Elan Ruskin

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For context, the PlayStation 2 gives you 32MB of memory and 295MHz of CPU to work with it. There is no room for fragmentation, slack memory, or leaks. And malloc/free() can chew up a big chunk of your 10 million CPU operations per frame. Destructors add up too. So... (2/14)

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Erm... like most graphics bugs, I have no idea. Assign to: render

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@StandUserLeon In context, that person was sarcastically ridiculing leftists.

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One common approach in 80s/90s console games was to preallocate fixed-size arrays of everything. You get 128 moving platforms per level, 64 enemies, etc. Very fast and safe, but inflexible. It'd be nice to have entities of different sizes. But how to do it fast and safely? (3/14)

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Elan Ruskin

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The advantage that 0x7ff8.... has is that it's a floating point signal NaN, both in single and double precision. Using it will give you an immediate exception if you have those turned on, and if not, bugs from math with NaNs are easier to spot than bugs from math with -6.2598e+18

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Best junk sentinel value to fill freshly allocated / freed / invalidated memory with:

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@tha_rami Perhaps insult to injury, here is how your tweet appeared in my feed.

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Elan Ruskin

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5 years

@hermit_hwarang @scifantasy San Francisco made it literally illegal to build multi unit housing - public or otherwise - over most of its area. Every time someone tried to put up a development, the neighbors showed up to stop it. And now here we are.

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4 years

@kairyssdal Naming US military facilities after defeated enemies is just bizarre. It would be like the British tank corps having a Fort Rommel.

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"Hey Elan, this thread is running slow, can you look at it in the profiler and see what's up with it?" Me: *opens profiler*

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A frustration of being an engine programmer is we don't play the game enough, so when a bug repro is like "go to the Talusian Falls on Dnephrasti after the Third Conjunction" I've no idea where that is. So a game set in NYC is nice; it's all "on Houston street in the Bowery..."

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Here's how memory worked on our PS2 open-world engine. Each zone (streaming segment) divided its memory budget across everything it needed. 4MB for textures, 2MB for models, 1MB for layout, 1MB for entities, etc. We knew which combos could be loaded, so we knew they'd all fit. 4/

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Very little of what you see in a reality show happened in the order you’re seeing it in. Cutaways to people reacting especially - every facial expression gets logged by an assistant editor and then spliced in where needed for the story.

SwiftOnSecurity

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I’m convinced the “5 minutes to go bakers” announcements the hosts say on cooking shows are filmed the night before with them just yelling at an empty set and this ruins everything

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A useful data point if someone bangs on about "free market healthcare" — we don't have a free market. Margins like this don't happen in competitive markets. It's regulatory capture and oligopoly. The "markets are good actually" point is just not relevant to the system we have.

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It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $12,000 in 2022. That’s a 17,142% markup.😳 That isn’t inflation. It isn’t supply chain issues. It is 100% corporate greed. #MakeInsulinFree

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@CooperDoyle1 tbf, the history of how a democracy dies is a lot more obvious than the details of how to run one effectively.

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@lostagainb @WritNelson @Rubi_ I connived for a year to get a specific minority into our game just so I could put in an Easter egg for the amusement of my parents.

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This feels like the right time to mention an Easter egg that everyone's passed over so far: these guys don't work on Saturdays!

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@ArmandDoma [For other readers:] This anecdote comes from "China: Alive In The Bitter Sea" by Fox Butterfield. I found it cited in "PRC: The Human Rights Exception" by Roberta Cohen ( , p.16 ) but a scan of Butterfield's original is at

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Games' increasing compute requirements aren't entirely about 4K resolution and GPU. As more CPU becomes available we use it to put more simulation in - more physics, more AI, bigger crowds, more objects, denser and more living worlds. All the work I do is CPU (and memory) bound.

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@SwiftOnSecurity

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There are only ~four tasks that will intractably suck all available computing power for the foreseeable future 1.) Cryptocurrency mining 2.) Next-gen VR 3.) 4K+ gaming 4.) Artificial intelligence Note all four of these are GPU-limited. Microsoft sees a last desktop bastion here.

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@SwiftOnSecurity "If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible." -- Johnny Mnemonic (by William Gibson)

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@hcetamd A StackOverflow comment from 2016 claims it's SQLite, but who knows.

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I know most people watch educational YouTube lectures at like 1.5x speed, so I figured I'd actually go at that pace to cover more ground and not waste people's time. Also, I was born in Manhattan. Badda-bing, badda-boom, baby.

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lol I just noticed that my programmer art made it into our State of Play video

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So: - Freedom to allocate variable-sized stuff from entity init - All allocs are contiguous - Unambiguous ownership of all allocs - Freeing an entity + its allocs is instantaneous - Freeing a *zone* and its contents is also instantaneous - No leaks, no slop, no crashes. (13/14)

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Screen-space overlay appears and vanishes abruptly when camera intersects sprinkler volume. Probable setup issue with ease in/out on the effect. Assign to: tech art

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@sam_d_1995 People have been complaining about students in college towns since Cambridge was invented.

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See, this is why you need quaternions.

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We did it by having _all_ of an entity's allocations be contiguous with the base struct in memory. Custom compiler enforced these rules: - Entities only referenced by handles (weak pointers). All gameplay code must be resilient to a handle resolving null. (7/14)

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Programming interviews select for people who can implement linked lists, but really what we want in game development is someone who can GET RID of linked lists.

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Bad spline points on scripted car path. I, uh, might have seen this one before: Assign to: environment art or design, depending on who owns that markup.

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- Entities are self-contained. They own all their allocations. All allocations live as long as the entity. - No pointers to entity members, ever. Only offsets from the entity's base. Therefore relocatable. - Entities allocate memory only once, during their constructor: (8/14)

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@SethMacFarlane Was that really Obama policy at work, or was it Congress preventing... well, basically everything?

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@NPR @muppetaphrodite I understand why it’s useful to do this research, but it’s also kind of annoying that it’s a surprise to anyone.

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Tree and van are re-snapping to spawn points after instantiation. Tree sometimes uses van's spawn point. Level markup or startup script issue? Spawn points might be tagged wrong in Houdini. Assign to: environment art, maybe procgen. Reassign to gameplay if it's a component issue.

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lolno The thing that the SSD gave us is the ability to do all our portals *without* trickery. When you bop the Blizon crystals, we're just loading the entire other dimension space on demand. That white flash is the whole airlock.

Grind To the Drill | Blizar Prime | Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart...

You will get this platforming section on the rails towards the end of Blizar Prime.-----------------------------------------Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart Game...

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Elan Ruskin

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With completely self-contained zones, allocating is easy — just copy from disk to RAM. Freeing is easy — just 0 the 'this zone is loaded bit' and stop referencing the memory. (Plus we had 'overlay zones' for stuff shared between segments, etc.) But... what about gameplay? (5/14)

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