Math for Game Developers - Explosions! (The Remap Function) @JorgeVinoRodriguez

Jorge Rodriguez Let's make some explosions! They get bigger as time goes by, so we create a Remap() function to help us figure out how big they should be now.

Find the source code here: github.com/BSVino/MathForGameDevelopers/tree/remap

Question? Leave a comment below, or ask me on Twitter: twitter.com/VinoBS

updated 11 years ago

Math for Game Developers - Explosions! (The Remap Function)

Jorge Rodriguez 2013-04-04 | Let's make some explosions! They get bigger as time goes by, so we create a Remap() function to help us figure out how big they should be now.

Find the source code here: github.com/BSVino/MathForGameDevelopers/tree/remap

Question? Leave a comment below, or ask me on Twitter: twitter.com/VinoBS

How To Get A Job In Game Design - Part 5 - Behavioral Interviews

Jorge Rodriguez 2022-09-27 | Get Mentoring on ADPList: adplist.org

Questions? I will answer them in a future video! Ask them either below in the comments or on my Twitter: twitter.com/cubesos

Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=eHX0UtFzjqA&list=PLW3Zl3wyJwWPoqjWDgybGxOAZhdUBAhyR

00:00 Introduction
00:32 Types of Interviews
02:10 Company Values
03:33 Preparing for Behavioral Interviews
05:42 The STAR Response Format
07:27 Dealing with Tough Questions
09:51 Make Sure The Stakes Are High Enough
11:38 Don't Be Afraid To Criticize Yourself
12:26 How Much Detail Should I Go In To?
13:27 The Four Magic Followup Questions
18:09 Concrete vs Abstract Questions & Answers
20:46 Q&A: How Do I Get Experience?

How To Get A Job In Game Design - Part 4 - Cover Letters and Portfolios

Jorge Rodriguez 2022-08-19 | Get Mentoring on ADPList: adplist.org

Questions? I will answer them in a future video! Ask them either below in the comments or on my Twitter: twitter.com/cubesos

Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=eHX0UtFzjqA&list=PLW3Zl3wyJwWPoqjWDgybGxOAZhdUBAhyR

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Cover Letters
03:49 Cover Letter Example
06:27 Portfolios
09:45 Portfolio Review
12:13 Viewer Question

How To Get A Job In Game Design - Part 3 - How To Write A Resume

Jorge Rodriguez 2022-08-05 | Get Mentoring on ADPList: adplist.org

Questions? I will answer them in a future video! Ask them either below in the comments or on my Twitter: twitter.com/cubesos

Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=eHX0UtFzjqA&list=PLW3Zl3wyJwWPoqjWDgybGxOAZhdUBAhyR

00:00 Introduction
00:22 What Happens To Your Resume When You Apply?
01:30 Resume Preparation Exercise
09:39 Viewer Questions
12:57 A Special Request (To Like And Subscribe)

How To Get A Job In Game Design - Part 2 - The Question I Wish Game Design Students Would Ask

Jorge Rodriguez 2022-07-24 | Get Mentoring on ADPList: adplist.org

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00:00 Introduction
00:43 The Question I Wish People Would Ask
02:12 How Do I Become A Better Designer?
04:58 Goal-Oriented Game Design
08:24 Transitioning From Design To Other Roles

How To Get A Job In Game Design - Part 1 - What Is A Game Designer?

Jorge Rodriguez 2022-07-19 | Get Mentoring on ADPList: adplist.org

Questions? I will answer them in a future video! Ask them either below in the comments or on my Twitter: twitter.com/cubesos

Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=eHX0UtFzjqA&list=PLW3Zl3wyJwWPoqjWDgybGxOAZhdUBAhyR

00:00 Introduction
00:58 About Me
02:17 A Warning About The Game Industry
04:58 What Is A Game Designer?

Math for Game Developers - Backstabbing Part 2

Jorge Rodriguez 2021-12-02 | Question? Leave a comment below, or ask me on Twitter: twitter.com/VinoBS

The game I used to implement this was Double Action. You can check it out here: http://doubleactiongame.com

Debugger Programming 7: Showing valid breakpoint lines

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-06-10 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Debugger Programming 6: Rewriting the memory cache

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-05-27 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Debugger Programming 5: Native Visualizers std::map and base classes in the type system.

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-05-20 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Debugger Programming 4: Native visualizer implementation with Clang emulated evaluation

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-05-13 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Debugger Programming 3: Debug thread state rework part 2

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Debugger Programming 2: Debug thread state rework part 1

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-22 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 23: Everything About You Is Wrong

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-20 | (Sorry that my audio is a bit low. I turned the game audio up and forgot to turn it back down again. I don't have a production team to balance these things live on the stream.)

In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Note: In this video I disagreed very strongly with their direction for the finale. Here are my thoughts now that I've had some time to reflect about it. I'll avoid explicit spoilers but it's probably best to read this after you've watched the video.

By doing these changes they're throwing out 23 years of my own investment in the story and characters. I felt an empty spot in my heart because none of that will matter anymore, and the characters we're going to watch from now on will be, in the game's words, different people. They showed you images of what happened in the original and one of the characters said, "This is what happens if we fail here" and they succeeded. Can we then reasonably assume that they're starting the story over from whole cloth?

Their audience comprises three groups of people. 1) The people who would be disappointed if the remake takes a different path. 2) The people who aren't disappointed. 3) New people who don't know the original. By doing this they're taking the risk that the #1 group will be small. In this video I assumed that group would be large, but maybe not. But, why take that risk at all? Why make a game that turns away a potentially large part of your audience?

I called the answer "arrogance", which has a kernel of truth, but the real answer is probably "They wanted to be creative and do something new and exciting with the series." That's a great reason not to carbon copy the old game. But I don't think most people wanted a carbon copy. The Sector 5 reactor sequence was an excellent example of them going in and creatively upgrading the script. The new ATB battle system has a few minor problems but is mostly great. I would have been perfectly happy with even larger diversions from the original plot. There's plenty of room to be creative and do new things.

But what they did here was lie to their audience. They called it a "Remake", but apparently in this case "Remake" means "Reboot" rather than "Remaster". In the absence of them communicating this fact to their audience, they left me and many others to assume it was more like a remaster than a reboot. If they had communicated the fact that it was a reboot ahead of time, they could have prepared their audience for what was coming. I would have known what I was getting into. I would have been disappointed but on board. But they made the decision (in my opinion a mistake) for this to be a surprise plot twist. If you're going to remake possibly the most popular game of all time, I would argue that you should think about your fans first--it should be closer to remaster than reboot. But if you really must go the reboot route, you should manage your fan's expectations better.

I've had some time to get over my disappointment. I'm now ready to approach this game as what it is: a completely new game that's somewhat related to and borrows most major story points from original. As such, I'm going to judge it based on the new content and decide whether I want to invest my time in it with a clean slate. Let's go.

A lot of the decisions they made in this reboot are great and strengthen the story, they clearly have some talented narrative designers on their team. Other decisions feel opportunistic or poorly thought out. Multiple timelines and [spoiler] surviving his fight is a hard sell. Square now being a Sephiroth Pez Dispenser is disappointing. Aeris as a semi-psychic planet-wizard rat-dog-whisperer instead of just a girl who can sometimes talk to spirits is just so that she can psychically explain plot points and give exposition whenever the writers get stuck. At the end of the story a new player has no idea what Jenova is, why Sephiroth broke her out of the Shinra building, or even *that* Sephiroth broke her out of the Shinra building. Who is the black haired guy with Cloud's sword? What was that weird cat thing with the crown? A newcomer to the series is going to be completely confused as to what happened between the end of the Drum and the Rufus fight. Sorry, if you're going to throw out 23 years of my investment in the original with writing like that then I just don't have faith that you can have a strong enough story to keep me interested. I'll be much happier playing games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Spiderman.

There are certainly people who will enjoy this ending and look forward to the next episodes. I'm happy that they get something they enjoy. They're entitled to their enjoyment and I'm glad this game and the subsequent ones work for them. I'm personally just not interested in what comes next.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 22: Pointless Jenova

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-20 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 21: The Endless Ward

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-19 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 20: Im Not A Rat Dog

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 19: Toilet Humor

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 18: The Mayor Is The Best

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-18 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake: Part 17: Escalator Jazz

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 16: Chadleys Dissertation Fantasy

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 15: Averle

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-17 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 14: The Golden Shiny Wire of Hope

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 12: May I Have This Squat

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 13: We Found You

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-16 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 10: Compensatory Recompense

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 11: Double Headed Chocobo

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-16 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 9: This Guy Are Sick

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-14 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 8: Underwear Bandits

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-13 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 7: Your Ass Is Fine

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-12 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 6: Cat Herding

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-12 | (Parts 5 and 6 are at times somewhat skippy. Sorry about that.)

In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 5: Divekick Chadley

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-11 | (Parts 5 and 6 are at times somewhat skippy. Sorry about that.)

In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 4: He, Hey! Waitaminit you!!

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-11 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 3: Involved In Dangerous Things

Debugger Programming 1: Checkpoints While Running

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-06 | Visit luxdebugger.com to join the alpha to try out the debugger shown in this video and get a discount on the debugger when it's released.

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 2: This Is A Strange And Wonderful Place

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-04-05 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitch.tv/bsvino and http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

In this episode: Just after the guard scorpion, played through the end of the remake in the demo and when you get to Sector 7 in the original

Final Fantasy 7 Original Vs Remake Part 1: This Isnt Just A Reactor

Jorge Rodriguez 2020-03-29 | In this series I play all of the FF7 original and remake and compare them, one part at a time. http://twitter.com/cubesos for stream notifications.

#ROCKTOBER DAY 31

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-31 | Last day of Roctober. Thanks for watching!

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 30

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-30 | Re-record some vocals and clean up vocal tracks.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 29

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-29 | Final drum track recording, mixing and some sound effects.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 28

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-28 | More progress on the final drum track.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 27

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-27 | Starting to record the final drum part.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 26

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-26 | Finished recording the final bass track.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 25

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-25 | First day recording the final bass track.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 24

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-24 | Finally finished recording the final guitar part.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 23

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-23 | Still working on recording the final guitar part. Maybe going insane.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 22

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-22 | Recording the final guitar track.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 21

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-21 | Re-recording "On we sweep with threshing oar".

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 20

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-20 | Hopefully final re-record of all the verses.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 19

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-19 | Recording a new guitar fill for the second verse.

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#ROCKTOBER DAY 18

Jorge Rodriguez 2017-10-18 | Using a piano to make sure I'm singing on key.

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