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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It was also really useful for the huge particle system textures, I think. I can’t remember if I wrote this or if Andy O’Neal did.

Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It tended to be most useful for vistas or stuff high up, where you could never put your face into the texture.

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I would have artists turn this on in places over on memory. If they never saw their textures, they should lower its resolution by 2x or more depending on the color.

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ugh right that inliner was so brain dead.

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

You mean the 3D minimal? Ted Chauviere

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Oh yeah the tip horseshit has gotten out of control. I went to one place where the option was to add “0%, 3%, 5% or 10%” on top of the already included but unremovable 15%

Ok well I’ll head to DisneySea and complain about Japan food prices :-) Vegas is a theme park by mobsters it ain’t America.

I’ve never seen you so worked up

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I got a sausage and egg bagel sandwich and coffee in Americatown for $12 today. You going to some fancy place in SF or LA?

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In Florida my school had a ton of them and I had one at home. We called them “Trash 80’s”

Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

When I was watching the ep and Freeman did the thumbs up, I actually thought to myself “well there’s the Ups and Downs thumbnail”

Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly @kiwitalkz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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I made a compilation clip from my Metroid Prime 20th anniversary interviews on what the former devs thoughts are on a potential Metroid Prime 2 Remastered. Thanks to Bryan Walker, Kynan Pearson @threewave.com and @jackmathews.bsky.social WATCH HERE➡️ youtu.be/7tuC1gNSjog

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Retro Studios Devs Speak About Metroid Prime 2 Remastered

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The shot from inside the console with them licking it off was absolutely hilarious.

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

There's parts of the world that are awake when the US sleeps?

Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Leaked Matt Gaetz House ethics report. With mushroom gravy.

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Bonus visor: Morph Ball Camera! This is pretty much a visor - instead of gun and particles, we have world shadows projected on the ball surface (RIP Andy O'Neal), a projected shadow under the ball, and a constant dynamic light. 7/7

Morph Ball in Metroid Prime, inside rocky cavern

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We also render with a white-to-black "fog" that also means we don't render far-away objects, and it's rendered at a lower resolution and blurred. 6/7

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X-Ray Visor (done by Ted Chauviere) also has combat and lets you see through things. Sort of. Only enemies and your gun are see-through. Everything else is pretty much the same, and "invisible" objects are just models turned on and off. 5/7

Omega Pirate viewed through the X-Ray Visor in Metroid Prime

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The thermal visor does have combat and particles. Where do we get perf? No static lightmaps. We turn off all world lighting, and the post-process filters are just a palette lookup. 4/7

Thermal Visor in Metroid Prime, looking at several Space Pirates

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Then we have the scan visor. It has the baseline, plus more UI, markers, a zoom window, etc. But it doesn't have the gun, projectiles, and their lights. All that perf goes to the visor. 3/7

A beetle in Chozo Ruins being scanned in Metroid Prime

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The baseline, of course, is the default visor. This is an unmolested view of the world, it has the gun, lightmaps, and allows for plenty of combat. It has to be the most beautiful, because it's the one you see the most. 2/7

Phendrana Drifts in the Metroid Prime combat visor

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Prime 2 Visor Post Incoming, bringing this from Twitter for MP1: #MetroidPrime Dev - 60fps Visors. I get asked a lot how we held 60fps with four visors. The short answer is to make one visor the "baseline," and make sure the others perform as well or better, with tech or design. 1/7

A composite of four screenshots from Metroid Prime 1, each showing a different visor view.

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A lot of people are saying "Period. Full stop." lately in the United States. Do British people say "Full stop. Full stop." ?

Rudolf Kremers @rudolfkremers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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Starter pack - Gamedevs aged like fine wine. I've been making games since 1984, professionally since 2000. I made a list of other devs with tons of XP, so I don't feel alone. :-) go.bsky.app/RHysHxR 1: Need more women on this list! Recs pls. 2: Other recs welcome! 3: Pls. Share #gamedev

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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Jack Mathews @jackmathews.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Oh wow haha. I wonder if that ever made it to HH’s tests and I never saw it.