Accidental Monster Origins: Floating-Point Coding Errors: Code, Geometry, and the Procedural Generation Mistakes in Modern Video Game Development - Couverture souple
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Some of the most iconic elements in digital entertainment were never intentionally designed. They were birthed from simple mathematical typos and miscalculations in the code. The most famous example is the Minecraft Creeper, a terrifying digital predator that only exists because a programmer accidentally swapped the height and length values while trying to create a harmless virtual pig. Game design is an incredibly fragile architecture built on rigid mathematics. When a single floating-point integer is misaligned, the physics engine panics. Instead of deleting these bizarre, mutated assets, savvy developers recognize the psychological engagement these unpredictable glitches create, officially integrating these coding failures into the core mechanics of the virtual world. This book deconstructs the specific programming errors that accidentally revolutionized game mechanics. You will explore the algorithmic generation of unpredictable geometry, the exact code lines that forged gaming legends, and the creative psychology of embracing software failure. Peer behind the curtain of digital perfection. Discover how mathematical accidents, rendering bugs, and broken algorithms accidentally shaped the most successful video game franchises in history.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Some of the most iconic elements in digital entertainment were never intentionally designed. They were birthed from simple mathematical typos and miscalculations in the code. The most famous example is the Minecraft Creeper, a terrifying digital predator that only exists because a programmer accidentally swapped the height and length values while trying to create a harmless virtual pig.Game design is an incredibly fragile architecture built on rigid mathematics. When a single floating-point integer is misaligned, the physics engine panics. Instead of deleting these bizarre, mutated assets, savvy developers recognize the psychological engagement these unpredictable glitches create, officially integrating these coding failures into the core mechanics of the virtual world.This book deconstructs the specific programming errors that accidentally revolutionized game mechanics. You will explore the algorithmic generation of unpredictable geometry, the exact code lines that forged gaming legends, and the creative psychology of embracing software failure.Peer behind the curtain of digital perfection. Discover how mathematical accidents, rendering bugs, and broken algorithms accidentally shaped the most successful video game franchises in history. 108 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783565382842
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Some of the most iconic elements in digital entertainment were never intentionally designed. They were birthed from simple mathematical typos and miscalculations in the code. The most famous example is the Minecraft Creeper, a terrifying digital predator that only exists because a programmer accidentally swapped the height and length values while trying to create a harmless virtual pig.Game design is an incredibly fragile architecture built on rigid mathematics. When a single floating-point integer is misaligned, the physics engine panics. Instead of deleting these bizarre, mutated assets, savvy developers recognize the psychological engagement these unpredictable glitches create, officially integrating these coding failures into the core mechanics of the virtual world.This book deconstructs the specific programming errors that accidentally revolutionized game mechanics. You will explore the algorithmic generation of unpredictable geometry, the exact code lines that forged gaming legends, and the creative psychology of embracing software failure.Peer behind the curtain of digital perfection. Discover how mathematical accidents, rendering bugs, and broken algorithms accidentally shaped the most successful video game franchises in history. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783565382842
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Accidental Monster Origins: Floating-Point Coding Errors | Code, Geometry, and the Procedural Generation Mistakes in Modern Video Game [.] | Samuel Brody | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565382842 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 134966538
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