Posts by Skjalg

  • Unity 5

    Quote from blackdog

    Yeah the naked eye can immediately see that Unity is cheaper in the long run, but I guess the cost is justified. And shouldn't the total amount due be less than the traditional publisher cut? Who might not cover all your running costs anyway(?).

    Speaking of running costs, do you know if Steam/App store/etc and engine licensing are deductible costs from taxes?


    In curious, why Unity is better on mobile (atm)? Is it the tools, performances…

    Performance I think is kind of like Unreal, I guess.

    Unity shines in being made with a cross platform approach in mind. Its basically their #1 goal. Creating a build for ios, android or windows phone is just a click of a button. (This is not entirely true as all third party integrations like facebook, twitter, flurry, in app purchases, ads etc all needs to be worked on per platform). Other than that the tools for creating a fully fledged ios app is superb in unity (thanks to third party integrations for mostly anything).

  • Unity 5

    I think unity is way better for creating games for the mobile, but if your main target is PC and you are in no way interested in creating an ios app then I'd go with unreal. Yeah unreal can target ios, but not as easily as unity.

  • What have you watched recently?

    uh what? The strain has some really bad acting, the story is super cliche (at least the first 4-5 episodes, I havent seen more), and the monster is hilarious. I mean, after he bashes the guys head (that part was cool) in after sucking all of his blood he runs down the corridor like zoidberg woobwoobwoob

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    hahah fucking ridicilous

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  • Question about levels and old school level designers.

    Yeah I agree that de_dust is not his best work, I only mentioned it because its what made him kind of a big deal.


    But the real reason why I think he is the best is because he replicated the success with dust2 and cbble (and I thought aztec, but today I learned that he didnt create aztec, so I guess that just leaves those three very good maps

    Oh and he also made one of my favourite hl sp called ETC and ETC2

  • Sleep

    I was always a night owl myself. I would literally spend hours upon hours at my desk building maps, watching series/movies or browsing mapcore But if I stayed up intil 3am, I would usually sleep until 12-2pm. Often missing school because there was no way in hell I'd wake up at 8am. After graduating college (no idea how I managed to do that), and started at my first job, I started noticing that everyone else got up at 6-8am fine, while also having done stuff at home after 10pm. After a few months of having to go to bed at 7-8pm in order to get up at 8am, I started wanting to do more shit in the after noons. Like working on Pirates of New Horizons with warby. But then I overslept at work, because sitting up until midnight fucked me hard the next day.


    So, I felt so bad about how much I slept I ended up going to the doctor. My symptoms at the time were;

    I slept way too much.

    Always tired (but I thought it was just how life was).

    Snored loudly.


    The first thing my doctor told me to do was to pen down the hours I slept. If you are having trouble sleeping, in any way or form, this should be your first step towards fixing that problem. Because without knowing exactly how little/much you sleep and at what times, you can't really figure out what to do about it.


    On an average day I was sleeping about 12 hours. Now Furyo probably already know whats wrong
    The doctor scheduled me for a sleeping analysis. I went to bed with something looking like an oxygen mask as well as numerous sensors attached to various places on my chest and arms. The results were conclusive, I was not breathing properly during the night, and as such I was never reaching REM sleep (deep sleep). This is called Sleep Apnea. Research I've read indicate that as many as >10% suffers from it. My mother always told me I have a "tungt sovehjerte" (heavy sleeping heart). Which means that I just sleep really well or like to sleep really weel. Neither was the actual case, its just so normal that people dont think that theres actually something wrong.


    Because what happens is that my muscles relax so much that they close the airways. Then my brain stops receiving oxygen so it panics, "wakes me up" without me noticing it, so that the muscles in my throat opens up the airways again. Then this happens like every other minute. And as you might know, reaching REM sleep usually takes 30 minutes or so.


    So I was referred to surgery. They took out my toncils, which hurt like a mother fucker for 2-4 weeks, but all of a sudden I could sleep 6-8 hours and feel fucking fantastic!

    tl;dr if you sleep too much, get checked for sleep apnea.

  • Blizzard "resetting" Titan...

    I think Destiny factored heavily into this decision, but also the fact that blizzard was kind of trying out new territory here and trying to create something new. And surprise, that costs a lot of money if you dont prototype heavily first with a small team until you know what you want.


    Just speculation of course.


    If I were to guess, then most of the people on titan is now working on Heroes of the Storm.. Because that game is standard Blizzard practice. You take what is already out there (Hon, Lol & Dota) and improve on it with the blizzard oomph!

  • What have you purchased recently?

    I've been doing a lot of work on the appartment lately.


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    using
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    made the skirting work I did look really awesome. (I I also put up a shelf over the kitchen counter with some LED lights underneath, which turned out real nice

    I also got a nail gun
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    Its battery driven, so I dont have to lug around a damn compressor. Made the work a lot smoother.

  • What's going on with your life?

    What kind of renovations are you doing? Any chance that she can do it while you take care of the kids?

    I know its sounds off, but it seems to me that an underlying cause here to you not being happy is because she is not happy. She getting something to do besides cradling the kids 24/7 will be good for her. As well as you getting some alone time with your kids. Which is equally important. I know that feeling you describe. The feeling that you really really want to do something creative. Its really fucking hard to not think about a project once you start planning it in your head. I've actually been thinking about implementing quests for trolls vs vikings all day even though I have been home with the wife and the kids.


    But if you all of a sudden have two kids that you, and only you, must take care of for the next few hours because your wife is away or in the next room working on the kitchen or whatever, then it wont be that long before you no longer think those thoughts about that project that you feel an urge to do. Mainly because you dont have the time to sit down and worry about it, because you are to busy running after the kids.


    Does your wife have any friends nearby btw? Does she attend anything sociable? Like dance class, martial arts classes, swimming etc? Any place she can meet other poeple and just relax or do something besides the kids? She should definitively do that too (as well as the kitchen remodeling). You get to see awesome people every day at work, remember. She probably doesnt..