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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the player's point of view, however, the changes are so minuscule to the point where one would ask oneself "is it worth all the resources the game needs to produce this?". In some games, i had to squint really hard to notice any difference with some options enabled and disabled.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a tremendous effort, one that i'll always have high respect for.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the engineering point of view, it's amazing what developers do and achieve with their know how, and i love watching that unfold. Even as someone who works in the field, i do know and understand what gets done and how it gets done to accomplish these results.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These days it's become a race for the most hyperrealistic visuals the game can offer to the audience. The question is, when does this reach a point where it becomes a hindrance rather than a feature?

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And the beauty of that all is that those same limitations forced developers to be much more creative at what they were doing.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It may sound unfair, but that doesn't mean it's untrue. If you take a closer look at what developers did back then when storage media was severely limited compare to what we have today, you'd quickly discover that they were working with various workarounds to circumvent those limitations.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not necessarily. I was thinking more about compression algorithms that would offer a great deal in asset size reduction. Although, all that comes with a cost: longer loading times, higher RAM usage and et cetera. No need for a data removal in this case.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, i'd like to agree with all this but part of me still thinks that all those assets could be downsized even more than they already are, and i know for sure it is possible to do that up to a certain point, with some unavoidable caveats.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's pretty impressive what Cyberpunk 2077 could achieve and what Source Engine games couldn't.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Otherwise, i agree with the part where some games tend to include so much cosmetic content inside that it easily inflates the overall size of the games. That's a fact.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm not convinced by the arbritrary number you've given here. Could you back that up by giving a reference to an article or citing a paper that confirms or denies this?

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Younger me had no idea at the time that The Sims 3 (with all expansion packs) installation size of ~30GB was only a foreshadowing of what would one day become the norm in the video game industry. Such a shame.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I find it beautiful what developers of the past could achieve with the limited hardware of the time. So much content that's both compressed and works optimally on all targeted devices. Nowadays, optimization is like a lost art.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can't quite tell from the clip what kind of meshes you're rendering, but have you tried rendering the same scene with the same number of meshes that are more complex than this? I have a feeling one way or another you'll end up using multithreading due to the bottleneck of using a single thread.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How long did it take you to develop the first working prototype?

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What a funny coincidence! I also happen to use those two for developing a game engine of my own. I tried to do something using Vulkan at first but ended up working with OpenGL instead because it's more familiar to me and less manual than Vulkan.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's mighty impressive! What tech stack are you using to develop this?

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That's why i'm not looking forward to playing any games that contain AI-generated content. I want to see a developer's vision, not someone else's. I'd rather see an attempt at creating something interesting rather than what a machine would generate out of the collected data.

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sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

AI tools have accelerated and revolutionized certain aspects of the software development. However, that doesn't mean that organizational structures and people themselves have suddenly changed to reflect the reality we have today.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

3. Nature of development - most of the open-source projects are being developed and supported by volunteers from all over the globe who work on these projects in their spare time. Outside responsibilities - they can severely impact the pace of development.

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2. Money - hosting, manpower, storage, tools and et cetera - some of those things are not for free and must be paid for one way or another. No money - no new features. Simple as that;

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1. Management - in most companies nowadays, there're layers upon layers of management that dictate how and what will be included in the product. Every decision is filtered through all that, and there are not so many ways to bypass those layers;

sapientlion.bsky.social @sapientlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Blaming software engineers for all the shortcomings of modern software development is rather blunt and unfair. I dig your frustration but you haven't taken into account the following things that influence the way the modern software development works: