Wookash Podcast

Hey! Every time I talk to Sander, I'm amazed how much passion & and positive energy he has :) I love to hang out with him, and was a lot of fun to finally sit down for a podcast with Sander! We talk about his rocky studies, programming, audio, working on movie sets, organizing BSC & more!

https://x.com/SanderSkjegstad

See his BSC talk here - incredible spectacle, best talk IMO!

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

https://sparkburst.net/

Wookash Podcast

Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss

X: https://x.com/wookash_podcast

Chapters

TODO

Hey! Jonathan Blow joined me one more time to talk about Order of The Sinking Star as well as jai and more! Wishlist Order of the Sinking Star here!https://store.steampowered.com/app/499170/Order_of_the_Sinking_Star/https://x.com/SinkingStarGamehttps://x.com/Jonathan_Blowhttps://twitch.tv/j_blowWookash PodcastShow links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-scigaSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8YgdApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71wRSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rssX: https://x.com/wookash_podcastChapters00:00 Welcome!03:53 Order of the Sinking Star07:37 Dev Team Structure17:50 Same Game, Different Version?27:53 Why the Game Had to Change?31:52 Tooling Decisions36:50 What OotSS Is About47:31 Editor tooling - Water50:27 Materials & Visual Systems55:20 Escaping Dependency Hell01:10:40 The State of Jai01:20:20 Metaprogramming & Jai01:28:58 Why Jai Exists01:31:03 How Metaprogramming Shaped OotSS?01:48:22 C++ vs. Jai02:01:05 What Jai Will Become02:18:20 Order of the Sinking Star release02:26:00 Not a Puzzle Game?02:28:55 Social Media Presence02:33:20 His Thoughts on Blue Prince02:40:38 See You Next Time!

Hey! GingerBill - the author of Odin programming language - has joined me for a live coding session. He designed AsyncIO module for Odin, and we talked about how you can do it on various OSes, as well as more stuff like coloring functions (for the case of async / await features of some langauges). Enjoy!https://odin-lang.org/https://www.gingerbill.org/Wookash PodcastShow links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-scigaSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8YgdApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71wRSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rssX: https://x.com/wookash_podcastChapters:00:00 - Sync vs Async10:37 - Async in various OSes23:31 - SDL asyncio case study27:39 - live design commences59:10 - why Bill doesn't like async/await1:14:34 - live design continues1:22:37 - goodbyes! :)

Fabian Giesen

X: https://x.com/rygorous?lang=en

The Ryg Blog: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/rygorous

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRaa0AcYX32c0m8wJJHNWg/videos

Fabian’s addendum:

This is a 500kV switch disconnecting under load

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMbN9nb3qykand

this is why it was filmed:

https://capturedlightning.com/frames/longarc.htm#500_kV_Switch

Note especially this section near the end:After this event, it was determined that both SF6 switch bottles in the affected phase had sustained permanent damage. The bottles were sent back to the manufacturer for analysis to determine why the interrupter failed. Loss of pressurized SF6 gas inside one of the interrupter bottles was determined to be the root cause of the initial switching failure. When the SF6 became depleted, the internal arc (created when the breaker tried to open) could not be extinguished. The circuit remained connected, through the internal arc, triggering the fault and incredible display. As impressive as this huge arc may be, the air break switch was NOT disconnecting a real load. This arc was "only" carrying the relatively low (about 100 amps) magnetizing current associated with the line reactor. The 94 mile long transmission line associated with the above circuit normally carries over 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power between Boulder City, Nevada (from the massive generators at Hoover Dam) to the Lugo substation near Los Angeles, California. A break under regular load conditions (~2,000 amps) would have created a MUCH hotter and extremely destructive arc. Imagine a fat, blindingly blue-white, 100 foot long welding arc that vaporizes the contacts on the air break switch and then works its way back along the feeders, melting and vaporizing them along the way.A bit less sobering, this shows the raw signal from a mechanical switchwithout debouncing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-kc04jSE4

I said it wrong in the podcast, this happens in both directions, and as you can see it takes extra processing to get rid of it.

Wookash Podcast

Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8YgdApple

Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss

X: https://x.com/wookash_podcast

Nicolas Lopez - engine architect at Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed)

X: https://x.com/Nicolas_Lopez_

Anvil Rendering Architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcYq18bkvyU

Rendering Shadows in Assassin's Creed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj5pYktC3X8&t

Lots of talking points revolve around latest Assassin’s Creed Shadows: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3159330/Assassins_Creed_Shadows/

Wookash Podcast

Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss

X: https://x.com/wookash_podcast

Chapters:

00:00 Let the Journey Begin

04:00 What Makes a Game Worth Building?

07:54 Perforce: Friend or Nightmare?

13:25 When Mono-Repo Actually Works

16:07 Shared vs Separate Tech

20:47 What Should You Build Yourself?

27:35 Reality Check: Game Tech Edition

30:27 Rendering Pipeline

36:17 Should You Abstract the Renderer?

43:03 Testing Graphics

48:11 Planning for Multiple Platforms

51:32 Where the Bottleneck Really Is

53:10 Enter Sharpmake

58:22 Modules vs Packages

01:02:42 Tools That Actually Help

01:06:48 The Editor Question

01:13:41 What You Want to Work On

01:19:56 Communication: The Real Complexity

01:22:07 Engines

01:22:31 Final Thoughts & Games You Play

Welcome to our chat on profilers! What's a sampling profiler and what's an instrumentation based profiler? Which one is better and when?

Dennis Gustafsson, the original author of RAD Telemetry profiler (!) and Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma, who is making Superluminal (!) have joined me to discuss these tools! Highly technical, in-depth discussion on profilers from the people closest to the matter! :)

Dennis:

https://voxagon.se/

https://x.com/voxagonlabs

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1167630/Teardown/ (Dennis' game!)

Ritesh:

https://x.com/rovarma

https://superluminal.eu/