#PDF slides by Andreas Fredriksson about the game tools he didn’t use #IMGUI for at #GDC17. But mostly about abandoning “Insomniac Web Tools”. There’s a certain amount of “fire and motion” in here: “Disable developer mode extensions. Extensions running in developer mode can harm your computer. If you’re not a developer, you should disable these extensions running in developer mode to stay safe. ... [2016 Surprises] Still firefighting things outside our control. ● Auto-updates: gift that keeps on giving. ● Flash update broke all node graphs over night. ● About a week of engineering effort to drop everything and fix.”
on 02025-10-17why Andreas On Coding (Andreas Fredriksson) didn’t use #IMGUI for his game that he did a postmortem on at #GDC17. “People at Insomniac expect a robust familiar looking UI with good performance. But they also expect a lot of power tools to come with that. Things like: • Filtering and sorting every list and tree view. • Copy and paste. • Multi-selection logic with order preservation. • Undo/redo. • Drag and drop with preview and animation. • Full unicode support (i.e. localization)”
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