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Game developer since 1996. Many shipped games. Some did very well, some did not-so-well. Strong opinions about the Right Way. -tom!

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Sep 10	comment	Version control for game development - issues and solutions? My experience with AlienBrain is that the authors do not get game development. It is not a robust source control solution. Some of the features are nice for some of the team, but some of the coolest advertised features aren't implemented in such a way as to be useful (e.g. the staging interface, where someone can check in their assets "for review." Unfortunately there's no way to know what is for review and what isn't, and when you sync you get it anyway). Plus it caches nothing, so a sync requires testing every single file. This is slow with many gigs of assets. :)
Sep 10	comment	Version control for game development - issues and solutions? Regardless of bigfile support, if two people edit, say, a Maya file at once, one will check in and the other will have to redo the work. With Perforce, at least, you can know that someone else is editing the file (and also automatically have a lock on that file).
Sep 10	comment	What Version-control systems work best with games? @Tchalvak - how do you propose synchronizing the backup system with the version control system? What backup systems do you know of that allow for multiple people to sequentially revise large binary files, and go back to any version in the past along with the appropriate version of all of the other files in the project? (Sounds like the requirements of a source control system to me.)
Sep 10	comment	How much longer should I support iPhone 3G? Wow, you can buy apps that won't work on your device? +1 for Android Market...
Sep 9	answered	Solidworks (3D model) import help
Sep 9	comment	Random Ghost Behavior in PacMan Clone Not Random? Ah ok. I don't know C# and guessed that maybe the Random object was being initialized to the same thing each time it was brought up.
Sep 9	answered	Random Ghost Behavior in PacMan Clone Not Random?
Sep 8	comment	How do you decide when your feature list is long enough? It's worth noting that some studios adopt another step on a process like this, which is to evaluate each feature request for how well it helps achieve the core goal of the game. If it doesn't directly support the core goal, then it is cut.
Sep 8	answered	How do you decide when your feature list is long enough?
Sep 7	answered	What is a good book to start programming a 2D C++ game?
Sep 7	comment	Best 3rd Party DRM Solutions @Cyclops I didn't say that but it's pointless to argue against logical fallacies.
Sep 5	awarded	Nice Answer
Sep 3	comment	Efficient structure for representing a transform hierarchy Thanks Neverender.
Sep 3	revised	Efficient structure for representing a transform hierarchy added 103 characters in body
Sep 3	revised	Efficient structure for representing a transform hierarchy Method to build the transform "array".
Sep 3	comment	Efficient structure for representing a transform hierarchy @tenpn- the idea is that you have a purpose built buffer. The whole point is to avoid extra allocations; you can't specify the array size because you don't know how big it'll be. After you write num children, you write into your child array, but then the next Transform starts after the child array ends. (This is why you need to use byte offsets and not indices for this structure; you don't know how big each entry is, but it is still efficient to traverse and is self contained so it can move as a unit.)
Sep 3	answered	Efficient structure for representing a transform hierarchy
Sep 2	comment	Best 3rd Party DRM Solutions None is not a valid answer in this case, because some are clearly worse than others. I suspect most would prefer to not have their machine rootkitted by software when they install it. Since some are worse than others we can see that some therefore must be better.
Sep 2	answered	Should larger Unity Projects use Visual Studio
Sep 2	comment	Best 3rd Party DRM Solutions Fair enough, although the question was "which DRM is 'best'", not "should I use DRM" or "which DRM should I use."