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Comment on Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Stop blaming developers. It’s management that doesn’t want to give the developers the time and money to optimize their game. Devs know how to optimize their game, they aren’t stupid. They can’t do shit if they don’t get the time to work on it.

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So, ports like Stellar Blade on PC are great for fans to see, and I’m hoping game developers and publishers can look at this as a template going forward.

Yeah that’s not how it works, you can’t look at other games and learn how to optimize a game. Every game engine and game works differently under the hood.

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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
to be fair i think most people mean “the studio” rather than “the actual programmers” when they say devs.

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who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
People often say “developers” when referring to development studios, which includes management. They don’t necessarily mean individual software developers.

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- SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Tell that to Gamers™ who harass the low ranking devs when a game comes out they don’t like.
  
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  - who@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I haven’t seen anyone here do that, and I am not willing to stereotype gamers based on a minority of jerks.
    
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    SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m not talking about gamers but capital-G Gamers™, those are two different groups.
    
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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s probably mostly true but optimisation is becoming a lost art from that some devs just don’t know.

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s a negative feedback loop.
  
  The less time you can spend optimizing games the less you know how to optimize games. The less you know how to optimize games the more time it takes to optimize games. Optimizing games becomes too costly for management. Goto 10.
  
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- apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.
  
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eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
devs are also given barely any time to do it and have to ship across more platforms than ever. In the age of early access viral hits, optimization is just something no publisher wants to put resources into before they know the game’s a success or not.

True story, a game I worked on at my last job shipped on Xbox One and PS4, the PS4 version was not even built until a month before shipping.

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