17 May 2021/WEEKLY, GAMEDEV TOOLS WEEKLY

GameDev Tools Weekly - Issue 14 — May 17th, 2021

Originally published on The Toolsmiths.

Original URL: https://thetoolsmiths.org/2021/05/17/gamedev-tools-weekly-14/

Info gathering help from Alexander Pirogov and Victor Stepanov for the GameDev Tools Weekly.

GameDev Tools weekly made by Victor Stepanov

Technical Issues in Tools Development Roundtables

Announcement
Toolsmiths
GDC

Reminder that Technical Issues in Tools Development is on the docket for GDC 2021, as well as the Tools Summit, which in particular has some fun stuff in store! https://t.co/sPEUgtlrsw
— Geoff Evans (@gorlak) May 7, 2021

Tools Design Roundtables

Announcement
Toolsmiths
GDC

Join David Lightbown for the Tools Design Roundtables!

Tools Design Roundtable Day 1: Design

Tools Design Roundtable Day 2: Production

use AddressSanitizer to find bugs

Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects | C++ Team Blog https://t.co/3N7vj7jdU8 by @KevinCadieuxMS
— C++ LibHunt (@CppLibHunt) May 11, 2021

Narrative scripting systems

tools

👀 https://t.co/PbQUlO471U
— Yarn Spinner (@YarnSpinnerTool) May 13, 2021

header-only platform-independent utilities

Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities https://t.co/Nlr4I6Dcxq
— C++ LibHunt (@CppLibHunt) May 13, 2021

16M triangles model in the browser

An interesting scan by @prague360: https://t.co/nvqamv0Z9F

It's a 16M triangles model that you can view in your browser with smooth frame rate. Even on your phone! Check it out. It's hosted by @NiraOfficial.#photogrammetry #nira
— Dario Manesku (@dariomanesku) May 11, 2021

Dion Systems

Just came across a PL/IDE experiment, "Dion Systems" at @handmade_seattl : https://t.co/jTYTRBZaRf

The presentation is great, and shows what editing code could be like. Very cool stuff!

h/t @mksh_io for sharing it after I shared @rikarends' makepad!
— Sean Grove (@sgrove) May 12, 2021

Get your ticket

Nice one! We're not far from running out of early birds already. The pent-up demand is palpable😅
— Handmade Seattle (@handmade_seattl) May 17, 2021

History of the Tool Palette

This is actually something I spent a fair amount of time looking into recently. I think MacPaint is a key early step, and this is how they tell it, but I actually saw at least one other earlier example so perhaps a case of convergent evolution.

Source: https://t.co/GyVgR13cH0 pic.twitter.com/VUGyZ2pn0x
— David Cole (@irondavy) May 15, 2021

I've gone looking for this on numerous occasions and have sadly never came across anything comprehensive. However, this visual charting the evolution (or lack thereof) of Photoshop's toolbar over the years is worth a mention:https://t.co/RW73Inv1R1 pic.twitter.com/iYIHOLIgtx
— Molly Mielke (@mollyfmielke) May 16, 2021

Adaptive tessellation

editor

Adaptive tessellation. Still not completely watertight... but at least it isn't completely broken either! pic.twitter.com/iMxe4KfzKb
— Max Liani (@maxliani) May 16, 2021

This is just a Catmull-Clark subdiv. I am toying with a way to produce regularly spaced micro-polygons.
It’s on the line of what a REYES renderer would tessellate, but I am aiming for a watertight result without T-junctions.
— Max Liani (@maxliani) May 17, 2021

Box art tool

Man I really need to fix up the tool we used when setting up Hammerting. I call it unworstify because it removes the worst part of game dev. May not be entirely true 😅https://t.co/OV58BGM6tj

I believe it works but it desperately needs some documentation and UX.
— Anders Elfgren (@Srekel) May 12, 2021

Tiny Tools roundup

✨✨ it's done!! i've spent the last several months tagging 600+ open source, experimental and tiny tools towards joyful digital creation - and built a website for sorting through them:https://t.co/YR9vKhOeOL pic.twitter.com/ht0HcK0yAk
— everest (@everestpipkin) April 13, 2021

Scalable 3D GUI toolkit

Check out Seduce: https://t.co/hHiJbeLplH Its a immediate mode UI, that separates, time, events and graphics, and uses user provider void pointers as persistent ids. Been using the model for 10+ years and I love it. DM me if you want details.
— Eskil Steenberg (@EskilSteenberg) May 14, 2021

Collaborate in Blender

Ubisoft released a new stable version of their open-source collaboration add-on for Blender called Mixer:https://t.co/XGP7F5FTVR #blender3d #blender #b3d #gamedev #3dart #ub pic.twitter.com/n9VJUVkWO3
— 80 LEVEL (@80Level) May 12, 2021

Debug a C++ crash

Our Machinery

Choose your own adventure blog with @niklasfrykholm “A Debugging Story” #GameDev #TheMachinery https://t.co/4Ir4BTZv7l
— Our Machinery (@ourmachinery) May 3, 2021

Generating Primitive Shapes in C++

Source: Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 182 — May 9, 2021 by Jendrik Illner

Systems Engineer @ Telltale Games

Indy Ray posted in the careers channel

I have a role open too: https://twitter.com/ScatteredRay/status/1379154535462002690 Role can be adapted for more Senior or Juinor. Have tons of tooling work in Build or Animation.

Come work with me on systems on The Wolf Among Us 2 https://t.co/B0kHCulIHI Seniority and scope/focus can be tailored for the candidate. Have lots of work in Rendering, Animation, Tools and Build depending on interest! Happy to provide mentorship for more junior engineers.
— Indy Ray (@ScatteredRay) April 5, 2021

Senior Programmer - Tools @ Media Molecule

Amy Phillips posted in the careers channel

If you want to apply send a DM to Victor Stepanov

Software Development Lead - AR/VR Experiences @ The Walt Disney Studios

Nick Porcino posted in the careers channel

Igor Rafael de Sousa posted in the careers channel

My team at Tuque Games, currently working on D&D Dark Alliance, is open for hiring a new Sr. Tools Programmer. We are located in Montreal but there is plenty of time to move here while we are working from home. There is no job posting yet but I’m happy to talk about my experience so far. You can reach out to me or simply apply via our careers page: https://www.tuquegames.com/career.

Tools Programmer @ Ready at Dawn

Joe Ferfecki posted in the careers channel

#random

Quake postmortem

John Romero is giving a Quake postmortem at GDC 2021https://t.co/PVd0FhegnC
— Official_GDC (@Official_GDC) May 11, 2021

Origins of “mana”

On the Austronesian origins of “mana” in games:https://t.co/NsMiSoGeI5 pic.twitter.com/X7BYAsAhLJ
— David Cole (@irondavy) May 16, 2021

Direct Delta Mush Skinning Compression