Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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Digital Ephemera

JUNE 19, 2022

All template functionality still works, but the code is no longer beholden to Underscore.js, a library which no longer seems to be used or updated as much as it was years ago. Code sandboxes and pseudo-global properties. However, it was, in 2014, the only way for any code an author might add to be run. In Snowman 2.0,

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Cocos

APRIL 3, 2023

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). This will allow creating custom renderers or plugging custom code during the rendering steps, which is very useful for custom rendering techniques or post processes. Sandbox style simulations. That said, Godot 4.0 Scene job system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In Godot, a Button has the full inheritance chain implicit: Node -> CanvasItem -> Control -> Button -> Behavior Script. I find this makes code simpler and easier to maintain and optimize (a testament to this is how tiny Godot's codebase is compared to other game engines, while providing similar levels of functionality).

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