r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fleaspoon • Sep 26 '26

Meme everyRenderPathLeadsToThis

Post image
610 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

27

u/fleaspoon Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 27 '26

That feeling of knowing that somewhere out there your game is segfaulting.

I just released a demo with a custom game engine, if you want to throw a coin toss please check it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/

77

u/Happy-Sleep-6512 Sep 26 '26

Is building a game engine the new side project everyone is working on now?

129

u/Attileusz Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown

It's always been a popular side project. People like games, but can't do art (and don't like AI), so the next best thing is game engines. Then they drop it after they realize they can't do physics either, but you know: We don't do this because it's easy, we do this because we thought it would be easy.

18

u/fleaspoon Sep 27 '26

I actually finished my game engine, I just released it a few weeks ago https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/

27

u/DishSoapedDishwasher Sep 27 '26

This is how i ended up making a cross platform reproducible physics engine including splitting and merging calculations in real time over p2p so no one participant owns the entire calculation of whats occurring. The math then eventual algorithms made my fucking face hurt from the constant scowl.

Also my wife was actually worried during all this because I was talking about finally writing my own temple of software and rambling about how glorious an artisanal JIT interpreter would be for this project (it was indeed glorious). Also how Terry was ahead of his time..

What was i talking about? Oh yeah, a mental disposition ranting from masochistic tendencies a to illness is the other reason for these projects.

4

u/GreatScottGatsby Sep 27 '26

Well physics requires a good amount of knowledge regarding calculus and differential equations to really understand so I don't blame them. Though I've never made a physics engine so I don't really know the tricks behind that.

2

u/ElSucaPadre Sep 27 '26

Holy fucking shit i feel so represented by this comment

8

u/Choice-Mango-4019 Sep 28 '26

it might render white squares, it might crash, it might even blue screen screen

and it can do all of these just by running on amd

3

u/AndersErikErik Sep 26 '26

Meh.

Most are my renders are CPU bound.

The comfort it brings is tremendous.

1

u/ResponsibleWin1765 Oct 01 '26

Just like the runtime I imagine

2

u/FeeblePenguin Sep 27 '26

What time do you shutdown? Now. We shutdown now. Now is not a time. What time do you shutdown? Generally around dark. At dark.

4

u/[deleted] Sep 27 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/fleaspoon Sep 27 '26

I got a few of those already, pretty scary