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  • Procedural doesn’t mean random, just generated from a set of rules. These rules can have inputs that lead to different results and you get randomness by randomising those inputs.

    What’s Intresting is this this exactly how most random number generators work because computers can’t be random. They take a “seed” value and will always produce the same list of “random” numbers for a given seed. This means you can randomise all kinds of numbers in your procedural generation code but always get the same output if you give the random number generator the same seed.

    So in No Man’s Sky, for example, each planet basically has a set seed so the game will generate the same planet, on the fly, for everyone one who visits it in game. Which is why them tooting their own horn about having a whole galaxy to explore was a bit of red flag. All it meant was they generated a massive list of seeds which would have results limited by the tooling next to none of which they’d have been able to review etc.

    Which is a long winded way of saying they’ll basically create the world using procedural tools and save the inputs used so the game can generate the same fixed map for everyone that plays with out having to store/load a world’s worth of data.





  • They’re offering to reduce/wave the fee if you’re using other Unity services. Given this change has the biggest impact on freemium games that rely on free downloads to get a large install bases and which rely on the kind of services that Unity will give you a discount for using, well, it’s not hard to connect the dots. Especially when you remember Unity merged with a ad company recently.

    Other than that it might be a way to take a bite out of services like Game Pass or Geforce Now. The deals devlopers get for theses are potentially very low revenue per “install” so it’s possible this would make them more money than taking a percentage of the revenue.


  • Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call To Arms

    Its an EP not an album but it’s probably my single favourite record even if it is essentially just Streetlight Manifesto, one of my favourite band, covering of their own songs.

    If you don’t know much about Streetlight you should absolutely check them out as well as while it’s easy to say they’re a ska punk band they take a lot of inflance from folk music. And leaning into that side of their song writing is what the EP is playing with to the point you can almost feel these are the original/traditional version of songs their main band did covers of.

    They’re also just generally fantastic lyrical and musical story tellers and this EP brings all that into a perfect 20 minutes or so.