you guys talk about traps of learning game dev like certain youtube videos. I think a fun topic to hear about would be what is a better “roadmap” for someone interested in game dev with no prior knowledge. love the pod have heard it all on spotify. expected it to have a lot more views haha keep it up the good work anyways 👍
Yeah I can't watch anything and get stuff done either. Although I will say sometimes it's helpful to watch people being productive if I'm not feeling like working because it can motivate me. Also on the topic of UA-cam stuff I think It can be helpful because it gives you a recorded history of your development which allows you to go back and see how you got to where you are. which can actually help with the development side of things.
DOTS is Unity's implementation of data-oriented design, the killer feature is the Burst compiler which lets you write better-optimized code using a smaller subset of C#, access native (outside of managed, garbage collected part) memory which improves RAM operations and gives you tools for easy multithreading. You can easily get more than 50 times increase in computation time on common repetitive tasks like moving tons of small objects or doing simple collision detection. They also have ECS which is built on top of that and it's more of a framework that introduces specific workflows to better utilize the new features. Many games are GPU-bound by design so it's not useful in all projects, but many genres like automation games or anything with hundreds/thousands of objects benefit from it a lot.
you guys talk about traps of learning game dev like certain youtube videos. I think a fun topic to hear about would be what is a better “roadmap” for someone interested in game dev with no prior knowledge.
love the pod have heard it all on spotify. expected it to have a lot more views haha keep it up the good work anyways 👍
thanks dude super appreciate it! Also great idea for an episode
Yeah I can't watch anything and get stuff done either. Although I will say sometimes it's helpful to watch people being productive if I'm not feeling like working because it can motivate me.
Also on the topic of UA-cam stuff I think It can be helpful because it gives you a recorded history of your development which allows you to go back and see how you got to where you are. which can actually help with the development side of things.
DOTS is Unity's implementation of data-oriented design, the killer feature is the Burst compiler which lets you write better-optimized code using a smaller subset of C#, access native (outside of managed, garbage collected part) memory which improves RAM operations and gives you tools for easy multithreading. You can easily get more than 50 times increase in computation time on common repetitive tasks like moving tons of small objects or doing simple collision detection. They also have ECS which is built on top of that and it's more of a framework that introduces specific workflows to better utilize the new features.
Many games are GPU-bound by design so it's not useful in all projects, but many genres like automation games or anything with hundreds/thousands of objects benefit from it a lot.
oh okay, yeah I could really see this for automation style of games
this has been an F tier procrastination
I'll miss Maxy 😢