GameDev Weekly 31 - 2018/09/30

一不留神就漏了一周…

Game Design

Realism and Legibility in Open-World Level Design

• http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JustinReeve/20180919/326814/Realism_and_Legibility_in_OpenWorld_Level_Design.php
• Mental map : In behavioral geography, a mental map is a person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction.
• paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks
• 塞尔达用mental map里上面这几个要素来设计整个大陆
• 但原本从city design来的手法用在landscape上导致了不必要的人工感

Art Production

Procedural house tool in Houdini for Unity

• https://polycount.com/discussion/203089/unity-shanty-town
• 如题，关键是breakdown很详细，适合对houdini制作过程有兴趣的

Fostering a Progressive Team Culture Model

• https://80.lv/articles/fostering-a-progressive-team-culture-model/
• Culture of Shared Creative Ownership acquired by several cutting-edge game studios
• 有不少鸡汤嫌疑www
• 虽然大部分算是中小工作室日常，不过个人觉得这种讨论方法论的资料还是挺珍贵的

Programming

Entity Component Systems & Data Oriented Design for junior/future engineers

• https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/1044656885100675072
• 如题，Aras给Unity内部讲课用的貌似
• 前半讨论了OO的不足，后半介绍了ECS，示例代码是Unity但主要是基础和概念

Introduction to Turing Mesh Shaders

• https://devblogs.nvidia.com/introduction-turing-mesh-shaders/
• RTX宣传的差不多了最近全都是Mesh Shaders和Variable Rate Shading，官方的图就是赞

Misc

Unity attribute [SelectionBase]

• https://twitter.com/docky/status/1045253973643612162
• 可以用来保证在Editor里可以直接选中Root而不是children

[JP] UE4 Tracing Profilerを使ってChrome上でプロファイリングを確認する

• http://unrealengine.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/09/24/194712
• 貌似UE4.20更新了profiler，还能export json在chrome里打开…

Re: I got laid off at Telltale

• https://twitter.com/Binkysaur/status/1043263777477517312
• None of my sleepless nights or long hours on weekends trying to ship a game on time got me severance today. Don’t work overtime unless you’re paid for it, y’all. Protect your health. Companies don’t care about you.