Mason Wheeler

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bio	website	tech.turbu-rpg.com
	location	Seattle, WA
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A lifelong programmer who's been interested in gaming and game programming ever since grade school.

	578 reputation	bio	website	tech.turbu-rpg.com	visits	member for	2 years, 11 months
211 badges		location	Seattle, WA		seen	Jun 5 at 21:20

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Jun 5	comment	What are the benefits of binary format when storing map info? I would really not worry about this. Modern hard drives are big, and they're fast. Modern CPUs are fast too. You're not likely to take very long to load and parse a save file written in a textual format like JSON; what will take a long time is preparing the level itself. (Loading images and sounds into memory, building a representation of the level, etc.)
Mar 16	comment	An object twice as close appears twice as big? What does 3D perspective math have to do with viewing angels? ;)
Mar 2	awarded	Scholar
Mar 2	accepted	Why is forward=down mouse orientation commonly called “inverted”?
Mar 2	awarded	Nice Question
Feb 26	comment	Why is forward=down mouse orientation commonly called “inverted”? Awesome video! Never seen that before, but I'm glad I'm not the only one to arrive at the same conclusion.
Feb 26	comment	Why is forward=down mouse orientation commonly called “inverted”? Perhaps, but what I asked was if any historical documentation exists regarding the change in the way the default was viewed.
Feb 26	comment	Why is forward=down mouse orientation commonly called “inverted”? But they aren't pushing up. (Unless they're standing up and holding their mouse against a wall or something!) The mapping of forward to up makes sense on a 2D desktop, but not in 3D space.
Feb 26	asked	Why is forward=down mouse orientation commonly called “inverted”?
Jan 25	awarded	Student
Jan 24	asked	How to handle “weapon slots”?
Jan 24	awarded	Editor
Jan 24	awarded	Excavator
Jan 24	revised	How to model multiple “uses” (e.g. weapon) for usable-inventory/object/items (e.g. katana) within a relational database Adjusted formatting to improve readability
Jan 24	suggested	suggested edit on How to model multiple “uses” (e.g. weapon) for usable-inventory/object/items (e.g. katana) within a relational database
Dec 27	comment	Is there any game engine using a functional programming language? This is sort of a "right tool for the right job" problem. Functional programming is strongly focused on minimizing, and eliminating wherever possible, mutable state. That may work well for certain classes of applications, but it's completely antithetical to the way just about any game works.
Dec 27	comment	Is there any game engine using a functional programming language? If you look at Wikipedia's description, it quickly becomes apparent that GOAL was hardly a functional language, LISP ancestry notwithstanding.
Dec 22	awarded	Commentator
Dec 22	comment	Float or int for currency? Does Java not have a `Currency` type like Delphi's, which uses scaled fixed-point math to give you decimal math without the precision problems inherent to floating-point?
Oct 10	comment	Is there any relation between Game Theory and Game Development? Game theory isn't about actual games. It's about modeling human behavior and people's interaction with each other as if it were a game that everyone is trying to win (by providing mathematical definitions of "winning" and of the rules) and using basic mathematical and economic principles to draw sociological conclusions from it.