Amazing.

@Grump The Horrible I'd like to see a game console that uses ROM cartridges where the mask ROM containing graphics data is VERY close to the connector, with the position of the GPU on the board being very close to the cartridge slot.

@ebowden does upside-down land have regional specific shit for games like Europe does?

or is it the same as the US

Not sure.

@Grump The Horrible Just in case you didn't know, one of the major performance bottlenecks with gaming GPUs is the RAM.

yep Australia has PAL

same a Europe

North and South America have the same

The idea with this console design would be having the graphics components of the mask ROM pull double duty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY

@Grump The Horrible, ^

The hunter call of the wild has been fun

@Grump The Horrible Wolf 2 was my GOTY for 2017

What's Wolf 2?

Wolfenstein

Ah, ok.

Do you guys know of any "indie" developers of racing games? I kinda want to send someone the ideas I have and maybe get a job with that.

I've already worked in the gamedev side of things, not a rookie.

Yeah, ideas are cheap. VEEEEERRRRRRY cheap. What you need for such a job is skills.

I have worked as a tester and consultant in a PS4 game.

A rather sizeable one.

Consultant?

What did you do when you were a consultant?

Yes, I helped them make the game closer to reality by relaying rules of the real rulebooks regarding the competition.

Both about the vehicles and about the routes.

It was baffling how they did not know basic rules even non-hardcore fans of the race know.

Ok. Well, consultants are almost never creative directors or people who write the design docs, so you still need more skills.

The team was rather happy me but the game did not sell well enough so the company downsized quite a lot.

The studio was rather small even when I came in, around 40 people. They're currently at like 18 and almost nobody is working fulltime, most have sidejobs.

Well, being a consultant and tester on an unsuccessful game will be even less valuable on your resume, you definitely need other skills.

It wasn't my fault, there was a huge setback because the game changed engines rather late in development. It went from Unity to Unreal and that fucked the whole product quite a lot.

I didn't say it was your fault.

The main tool for a racing game is the vehicle-making tool, right? Imagine making a game with a broken tool because it is mostly incompatible with the freaking Unreal engine.

It also does not matter that it isn't your fault, it is still less valuable on your resume, like it or not.

Have you ever found a game so broken that a joke object or similar becomes a major almost-OP weapon? Well, that's what's happening with Trials Rising and the freaking BMX.

Is Trials Rising supposed to be about motor bikes?

Exactly, an exaggerated version of the actual motorcycling discipline.

trials is supposed to be a super hard physics based motorcycle game

i havent really heard anything about rising cuz i havent given it any thought

Well, now you know that the BMX is sometimes the best vehicle you can have on the harder sections. 😂 It's funny but I hate it because I know that this is proof they failed at doing a good job.