GameDev Tools weekly made by Alexander Pirogov and Victor Stepanov.

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Applying Design Thinking Process in Tool Development

• UX

A blog post by Irene Zhu with a deep dive into a Tools Design approach developed by the Nelson Norman Group. We are currently talking about this blog post in the Vault Club channel of our Discord server

New Blog post by Irene Zhu
"Applying Design Thinking Process in Tool Development"https://t.co/9jtVUzsCB1

Join the discussion in our Discord!
(invite link here: https://t.co/k5fv1Ud8XY)

— The Toolsmiths (@thetoolsmiths) March 30, 2021

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history of Nintendo’s creative tools

• history

Source: Dave DeSandro

Here's the recording of Part 1, where I tour all of Nintendo's creative/authoring tools leading up to WarioWare DIY. Had a lot of fun putting this together. If you were touched by Mario Paint as I was, there's a lot of rich context and legacy to uncover. https://t.co/oRPhNAo7BO

— David Cole (@irondavy) April 2, 2021

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Docker + .NET + Rider

• .NET

Let @buhakmeh guide you through a new workflow in @JetBrainsRider...

🐋 Generate Dockerfile for .NET Applications

Add Docker support for Linux/Windows to new and existing #dotnet solutions 👉 https://t.co/qZVn6AfqVs

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) April 2, 2021

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Rider Unreal Engine Editor integration

• UE

UnrealLink/RiderLink plugins in #RiderForUnrealEngine enable advanced integration between JetBrains Rider and Epic Games’ #UnrealEngine Editor. The plugin allows you to manage your game right inside the IDE https://t.co/thg7hDhEsQ Join the preview https://t.co/WmZD723Pnq pic.twitter.com/mitj4VVxwP

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) April 3, 2021

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UV unwrapping smooth shapes

This tiny patch is the first successful unwrap with my new boundary algorithm. It should revolutionize how well I can control how smooth shapes gets unwrapped and packed. Doesn't look like much but I'm very excited about this. pic.twitter.com/jE5153NiCV

— Quel Solaar (@quelsolaar) April 2, 2021

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How C++ resolves a function call

• C++

Long but good read: "How C++ Resolves a Function Call" https://t.co/9FtX4o4F50

— Kostas Anagnostou (@KostasAAA) March 30, 2021

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Fixing bugs in open-source softwaretools

• Blender

Your Blender live development fix with Sergey starts soon: https://t.co/SySObJZUMB - get your headphones ready #b3d #ASMR 🐞

— Blender Developers (@BlenderDev) March 29, 2021

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Are you using unit tests for documenting?

• unit tests

Of course, in this case, there's another solution as well. ASCII graphics! pic.twitter.com/RIm4ljBxue

— Anders Elfgren (@Srekel) March 31, 2021

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Have you considered Nim for game scripting?

• engine

checkout Nim

Hotreloading works (in the editor at least, not sure why it wouldn't in a game).

Someone in the Nim community has made bindings, which seems like it'd be a good match. I think game scripting would work well in Nim. Looking forward to see where that goes.

— Anders Elfgren (@Srekel) March 31, 2021

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Property Grid in imgui

• imgui

Decided to play around a bit more with my editor tooling and imgui. There's been some pain points but I'm making progress...

Trying to rebuild my property grid atm... pic.twitter.com/qdVeeKbDHv

— Bobby Anguelov (@Bobby_Anguelov) April 4, 2021

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You can setup Compiler Explorer locally

• C++

Obligatoryhttps://t.co/yUqeB2YDTB

— Jason Turner (@lefticus) April 4, 2021

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Upcoming update for prop placement

• UE

Hey Friends we know we've been quiet, but it's only because we have been working hard towards a bigger update for all of you! In the meantime here is a little snippet of one of the free features coming soon. Subscribe not to miss! 😍 #gamedev #gameart #UnrealEngine #3dart #3D pic.twitter.com/S2z2DUc2u5

— Promethean AI (@PrometheanAI) April 1, 2021

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Capture iOS/Andriod log errors in Unity

• Unity
• LiveOps

Building a game on iOS? Find errors before your players do. Check out this short how-to video to see how Backtrace integrates into the Unity editor to help you ship better games, faster. #gamedev #unitydeveloper #iosgamedev #indiegamedev https://t.co/TSUjAO1jwC

— Backtrace (@0xCD03) April 2, 2021

Backtrace’s automated crash & error reporting ensures game quality to help stop player churn. Watch this video for a look into the process of integrating Backtrace to the Unity editor for your Android Games. #gamedev #unitydeveloper #androidgamedev https://t.co/aWqfv22bsz

— Backtrace (@0xCD03) March 31, 2021

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How to get File Size in C++

• C++

tl;dr It’s easier with C++17 std::filesystem

How to get File Size in C++? https://t.co/azrFMk0RRo

As usually, we have several options in C++ :)#programming #cpp #cpp17 pic.twitter.com/BF0wwrE5y6

— Bartlomiej Filipek (@fenbf) April 3, 2021

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Encode/Decode C strings

• C

Made this little helper page for encoding and decoding C strings. You can type or paste in either pane:https://t.co/FS4C2Dmzp0

(It only supports \n and \t escapes, because those are the only ones I use.) pic.twitter.com/7gkfj2MCQ5

— Niklas Gray (@niklasfrykholm) April 2, 2021

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hot-reloaded .c plugins in TheMachinery

• TheMachinery

For my hackday project yesterday, I implemented a .c plugin for #TheMachinery. It let's you add .c files to a project and compile them to DLLs (using zig cc from @ziglang). You can double-click to edit the file and every time you save it is recompiled and hot-reloaded: #gamedev pic.twitter.com/DdgOcIXxqj

— Niklas Gray (@niklasfrykholm) April 2, 2021

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Help with getting started with Clang-Format

• C
• C++
• C#

Are you trying to get started with Clang-Format?

Find the best format style for your code with the #Clang Format Detector. #llvm #devtools #cpp #csharp #objectivec #javascripthttps://t.co/QbxxStgJcE pic.twitter.com/srhJqY3ity

— Clang Power Tools (@ClangPowerTools) March 30, 2021

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Memory optimization problems are not going anywhere

• performance

Thanks Eric! ❤️

I like to think it's all 100% relevant today still (latencies different, but proportionally same).

"Memory optimization" talk audio/slides video here:https://t.co/HNzCG94Wt1
PPT downloadable here: https://t.co/OomCgTxppp https://t.co/IAdezRdrzO

— 🙊Christer Ericson (@ChristerEricson) April 2, 2021

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Crash course on allocations

• performance

Introduction to memory allocators and arenas https://t.co/dYuZmliNoy

— C++ LibHunt (@CppLibHunt) March 31, 2021

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Riot Games Tools for investigating problems in the wild

• LiveOps

#RiotTechBlog 🖱️
Follow the treasure maps and check out Riot's one-stop-shop console for developers who operate services. https://t.co/CAygqWzRow

— Riot Games Careers (@RiotCareers) March 30, 2021

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The Toolsmiths updates:

• New discussion of Irene Zhu’s blog post Applying Design Thinking Process in Tool Development in the Vault Club

• The Toolsmiths finished migrating the conversations from Slack to Discord

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      • GDC Tools Roundtables

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Notable Releases and Updates

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The Machinery 2021.3 update

It’s #TheMachinery ‘s year anniversary in Open Beta and we’ve got a new release out. You can check out the notes here #gamedev https://t.co/Osltv3dfYe

— Our Machinery (@ourmachinery) April 1, 2021

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miniaudio update

• audio

miniaudio version 0.10.33 has been released. Get it here: https://t.co/GHzupG7Uiz

— David Reid (@mackron) April 3, 2021

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#random

Using Scratch to emulate a CPU

Wow... a 6502 CPU modelled in @scratch as part of a full BBC Micro emulator! #RetroComputing https://t.co/2BS6OlJ27T pic.twitter.com/4kxztWGj5E

— Dominic Pajak (@DominicPajak) April 3, 2021

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New episode of No Diagnostic Required

• podcast

The year is 2021 and C++ is still the most popular language for gamedev. It’s crucial to understand it’s ecosystem and NDR reall helps with that

No Diagnostic Required. The podcast and YouTube show for C++ Annotated,
a commentary on the C++ ecosystem from @jetbrains. Check out Episode #4, March 2021. Featuring recent articles by @fenbf, @herbsutter, and a talk by @SeanParent: https://t.co/wNbZbmj11B #cpp #cplusplus

— No Diagnostic Required (@ndr_cpp) April 3, 2021

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