Damien Seguin dmnsgn

NFT Statement

Feb 26, 2021

I have decided to release a small set of single-edition NFTs on OpenSea.

I plan to place 100% of direct proceeds from the first sale toward the Bounty for More Eco-Friendly NFTs being developed by Artnome and GitCoin, and 25% of direct proceeds of each of the subsequent 9 artworks in this series toward the same fund.

You can bid/purchase/view the first minted artwork here, and the full series here. At the time of writing, I have only placed 1 artwork on auction, but will place the other 9 in the coming days/weeks.

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

This is the full Cloud Functions code explained in my blog post: How to schedule a Cloud Function to run in the future (in order to build a Firestore document TTL)

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

My team found it rather hard to determine which stage to use – or whether it would be easier to stay with a certain stage and enable some features specifically.

So I ended up with a table of postcss-cssnext features, their postcss-preset-env counterparts (where I knew the option name) and the stage for each feature.

postcss-cssnext features are from the feature documentation page
Deprecation infos are from the blogpost by @MoOx
Stages are from the postcss-preset-env feature documentation page
Option names are from @jonathantneal's comment

Here you go:

	//MIT License
	//Copyright (c) 2021 Felix Westin
	//Source: https://github.com/Fewes/MinimalAtmosphere

	//Ported to GLSL by Marcin Ignac

	#ifndef ATMOSPHERE_INCLUDED
	#define ATMOSPHERE_INCLUDED

	// -------------------------------------

	/**
	* Try to fix iOS lock on audio.
	*
	* By default, audio on iOS is locked until a sound is played within a user interaction,
	* and then it plays normally the rest of the page session.
	*/

	// Inspired from https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/blob/2.0/src/howler.core.js#L212

	export default class IosUnlock {

	let session = await navigator.xr.requestSession('immersive-ar');
	let rafId = null;

	session.addEventListener('selectstart', event => {
	inputSource = event.inputSource
	onStart(getEvent());
	rafId = requestAnimationFrame(updateInput);
	});

	session.addEventListener('selectend', event => {

	/* Quasi random point sequence
	* based on: http://extremelearning.com.au/a-simple-method-to-construct-isotropic-quasirandom-blue-noise-point-sequences/ */
	void r2(float x, float y, uint32_t i, float jitter)
	{
	assert(i > 0);
	assert(jitter >= 0.0f);

	float phi = 1.324717957244746f;
	float sqrtpi = 1.7724538509055159f;
	float a0 = 1.0f / phi;

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import SimpleHTTPServer

	class MyHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
	def end_headers(self):
	self.send_my_headers()
	SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)

	def send_my_headers(self):
	self.send_header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate")