I Get Your Fail

Modern Gamedev Bingo

2011-01-31T21:39:00.001+01:00

(Thanks Christina)

Deferred Incorrectness

2010-05-12T23:07:00.001+02:00

(Thanks Christina)

The Acid Powerup

2010-04-19T08:44:00.000+02:00

(Thanks Pat)

Pink Shadow Acne

2010-04-16T16:02:00.002+02:00

Compressed Human Animation Fail

2010-04-14T09:32:00.000+02:00

(Thanks Jonas)

Award-nominated File Naming

2010-02-12T01:40:00.003+01:00

(Thanks Anonymous)

Divide by Zero Shadow Mapping

2010-01-29T20:46:00.000+01:00

(Thanks Aras)

TheLongestAndMostDescriptiveFunctionNameEver?

2010-01-25T23:40:00.001+01:00


Vec2 GetDesiredPositionOfLastStringSegmentForCarryingObject(Object * pObj)
{
       ...
}

(Thanks m3xican)

The power of comments

2010-01-25T23:38:00.001+01:00


// As long as all calls to this class are made from the same thread this
class is thread safe.

(Thanks Anonymous)

FFD lattices in prime condition

2010-01-25T23:36:00.001+01:00

(Thanks Tadej)

Polygon Acne - It's a serious disease

2010-01-08T15:37:00.002+01:00

(Thanks Tony Albrecht)

Advanced furry bear shell rendering

2010-01-06T10:56:00.002+01:00

(Thanks Dmitry)

Efficient spawn table creation using STL

2010-01-05T17:04:00.002+01:00


std::vector<vector3> spawn_table;

for( int i=0; i<level.getSpawnCount(); ++i )
{
    spawn_table.push_back( *( new vector3() ) );

    spawn_table.back() = level.getSpawn( i );
}

(Thanks Julien)

Angles greater than 114.59 degrees can't possibly be of any practical use

2010-01-04T21:05:00.000+01:00


__forceinline float tan(float a) 
{ 
 return ::tanf(clamp(a, (-1.0f + FUZZY_EPSILON), (1.0f - FUZZY_EPSILON))); 
}

__forceinline double tan(double a) 
{ 
 return ::tan(clamp(a, (-1.0 + FUZZY_EPSILON), (1.0 - FUZZY_EPSILON))); 
}

We've had this in our code base since 2005 and have shipped 3 games on it, solid!

HLSL optimizer is beyond earthly logic

2009-12-18T22:31:00.003+01:00


    if b2

      if b1

        mul r0.xy, r0, c0.x

        texld r4, r0, s6

        if !b2

          mad r0.xyw, r4.xyzz, c121.x, c121.y

          mad r4.xyz, r3, r3.w, r0.xyww

        endif

      endif

    else

      // ...

    endif

(Thanks Benoit)

SPH fluid simulation + Geometry Shaders = Pacman?!

2009-12-17T02:14:00.002+01:00

(Thanks sebh)

Audio bonanza through recursive cascading ice explosions

2009-12-15T20:09:00.002+01:00

(Thanks Ben)

Why name variables when you can use padding?

2009-11-09T12:32:00.002+01:00


if (data.lights[id]._padding[1] == NOSPECULAR)
{
...
}

(Thanks Tomasz)

PS3 Shadows Mark II - Style through acne

2009-10-28T01:08:00.002+01:00

wrt burning, cute chickens in games are not supposed to

2009-10-23T14:49:00.001+02:00

(Thanks Marco)

Step 1: misalign UVs. Step 2: Kill it with fire!

2009-10-22T21:05:00.003+02:00

(Thanks Simon)

High quality DOF with extra ringing and evil eye?

2009-10-21T21:55:00.002+02:00

(Thanks Peter)

functionality where being correctly

2009-10-03T14:50:00.001+02:00

// emit a particle
// This should NOT be done here, it there should

(Thanks Pat)

Giving New Meaning to Destructors

2009-08-28T09:57:00.001+02:00


LRUCacheModel::~LRUCacheModel()
{
   for( LRUCacheEntry* entry; entry != NULL; )
   {
      LRUCacheEntry* next = entry->next;
      delete entry;
      entry = next;
   }
}

(Thanks to Pat)

Forget normals, we have lovely hearts!

2009-08-10T01:38:00.001+02:00

As in, who needs proper packing of normals into the g-buffer... when you can have those lovely heart shapes instead?

(Thanks Aras)