I think it's important to note the distinction between "game engine" and "rendering engine". This really is just a rendering engine tech demo. A "next-gen" game engine would consist of a bunch of new tools that allows developers to do all sorts of things harder, better, faster, stronger.

The game we pushed to the amazon market for this actually works like that. If you've bought it on the amazon store before, it's the same app and so you'll already own it.

I actually only just started playing D3 when they released RoS, and got the expansion after getting to 60.

I've come to realize that I am unable to decide if people with big smiles have attractive faces or not, and by extension I actually think big smiles are really, really ugly.

The high cholesterol due to eating cholesterol is a debunked myth afaik. Does the process of making the tea egg add more saturated fat to the mix rather than a regular boiled egg?

I don't see anything there that implies irresponsibility. Perhaps you're misinterpreting the "not" in the last sentence to be connected to "responsible" (which it isn't). Although, I agree the grammar of it is... unfortunate.

Nah, I generally just don't talk to anybody. But yeh, you're totally right.

I guess for some programming it counts, but I was recently rewriting the core code of a 2D platformer for the third time in a row, and we're doing some completely counter-intuitive things physics-wise which just end up being perfect. No robot would try that.

Can relate to the first case, and the advice is solid. I recently had a fling for the first time in... what... 7 years? Didn't last too long, but I did realize I couldn't really have a relationship if I hate myself. I can love the other, but I won't let them love me back.

That second option seems weird to me. I mean, going after people you find unattractive kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise, at least when it's about hooking up with someone. If it's about friends, then sure I can get that, but I've never really had a desire to be around other people. Maybe I'm just weird :P

That's the easy part. The hard part is figuring out why everybody had Palmer on the us side of the "us vs. them" that's going around with Facebook these days, and if that "us vs. them" is even a thing statistically, or if it's a vocal minority among backers. They should do a poll and see how many backers are really…

Because he couldn't sell it back when he didn't have the community he has today. Now he can.

You can see it most clearly around 0:44. Right next to the pillar on the left side, there are bright sections in the perturbations on the water surface, which are likely pixels of the rendered pillar in the foreground. The compression doesn't help, obviously

Absolutely. I think the increase in specular influence between objects is most impressive a difference between previous rendering methods.

Yeh, I'm not sure exactly how their pipeline works, but I've seen similar things caused simply by rendering the water after the set of all diffuse objects, which causes things in front of transparent water to still be part of the "background" render texture. The only reason it shows up at all is because they're using…

I've been looking for better information about the whole PowerVR thing, but there's really not much beyond a handful of articles (which appear to mostly be reposts) and some really shoddy on-scene footage from trade shows, where they often show off things in a very non-PR-savvy way, with tech demos that show very…

It means we're still using parlour tricks because of a lack of hardware performance, or the necessary technology to do it more effectively.

Although light propagation is handled really well by this, there's still the issue of the pillar being refracted by the water that's behind it, which is an artefact of cheap approximations of light refraction. Can't wait for ray traced lighting solutions to become viable. There are some hybrids currently in operation…

Yeh, I've been making 2D games with Unity for over 5 years now. Not always a pretty picture, but the ease in porting once you're done more than makes up for that (if you can sit it out). Most of the games we do end up costing about 100-250 thousand to develop depending on complexity. We tend to spread this out and…

I half-expected you to end that last anecdote with a titan landing on top of both of you. That would be a hilarious ending to a moment like that.