BRO YOU PUT THAT SHIT IN A COMMENT BLOCK OR IN A SEPARATE DOCUMENTATION FILE. THERES NO NEED TO REDECLARE EVERYTHING LMAO
Of course people should push for IP reform, show me where to sign.
You should post the properly EQ'd audio
This is interesting, because, like, I can see the logical throughline there, but if I were in his position, I'd probably still insist on trying to make something more beautiful and scalable, maybe something that checks the actual 2D space in the cardinal direction selected from the center or origin point of the selected button, breaking exact ties with preference to the higher index of those selected, etc, if for nothing else but because I like coding. If you resent what you do, that resentment will bleed into the work you produce, and here's a great example.
Holy shit, I looked at his "coding" in that video, besides this huge array stuff. He just has shit like
if (options_state == 0)
All I can figure is that maybe Game Maker is forgiving enough that he can get away with initializing the array-to-be as an int of some sort, and also that it's so idiot proof that any time you try and assign a value to an index that exceeds the array size it automatically appends?What gets me the most is the for loop being hardcoded to go from 0 to 1,000 rather than just using the length of the array. I don't even know what that'd do. I'd imagine in C it'd seg fault but maybe the GML compiler is smart enough to just stop at the end of the array?
I'm also not sure what global.storyline_array = 0 is supposed to do. Is that an attempt to set every index of the array to 0? I'm a bit rusty but I believe the "name" of an array is just a pointer so setting it to zero should just clobber your pointer in any language that doesn't have training wheels on it. I'm tempted to try compiling this in C just to see how many compilation errors I'd get
I can see this entire thing slowly scrolling upwards at the beginning of a Star Wars film.
Maybe, but I checked the GML docs for arrays and it doesn't say anything about initializing an array like that. Only the typical my_array = [0, "fizz"] stuff.
Yea I have no idea either, I'm guessing something like that must be happening or it'd probably just crash. Maldy is truly in uncharted territory.
It really goes to show that, even if he's somehow not lying about that, what "X years of experience" really means depends on the person and how passionate they are. I've seen people six months deep into a hobby outstrip people who've been in it for a decade or more, and it really comes down to how much you give a fuck and whether you actually like the thing you're doing. It's really not hard to get to a point of functional subsistence with a lot of jobs, but when that's true, real mastery is reserved only for the people who love the thing enough to pursue excellence for its own sake.
God, I hope nobody's watching Jeetahar anymore. That pedo-adjacent faggot really needs to fuck off back to India already. DO THE NEEDFUL, SAHIB.
The thing is, it doesn't actually matter if your game's code is retarded, as long as it runs well for the people who buy it.
I'd say it does matter when you make your code so retarded that it's practically impossible to actually make any real progress in finishing your game. Imagine having to code his "16-32 routes per interaction" with his system
The really fun thing about his Big Gay Notch Filter™ is that you're never going to pull those mid frequencies back into existence with EQ. Those fuckers are just gone
oh good, we all know how great a game that has infinite dev time is. just look at duke nukem forever. it was in development for 14 years and that totally helped it be a great, successful product.
