GDC Roundtable Mega Thread

[Mez]

Man @Drew, you really wern’t kiddin’ when you told me no rush on those requested topics I posted on the forum.

GDC'19 Tech Roundtable: Flowmaps

As you may have figured out by the title, during the GDC 2019 Edition of the “Technical Lens” Roundtable, the topic of flow map creation (like this example here) came about. It was requested that this topic was posted onto the forums to be linked in @Drew notes, for which I volunteered to create. … and … um. Ta da! Here it is! So Meta! I’ll update this topic once the notes are posted. TL;DR ( from what I recall ) - Some people use @Bruno Substance Filter to create a f…

GDC’19 Tech Roundtable : How to Learn Quick-Like (AKA The Whitepaper Talk)

At the GDC 2019 Edition of the “Technical Lens” Roundtable, I kicked off the session with a question about whitepapers. In particular I asked about what methods we use to decern information from these dense nuggets of knowledge. TL;DR (from what I recall); Ignore the math if you can, and just understand the concept or Google/Github. There is often someone who is already playing around with the concept that you can parse data from if the Whitepaper is too dense for your current knowhow. But! Di…

Oh and thanks for the notes!