Game Development

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[–] cm0002@literature.cafe [S] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Japanese companies have a habit of getting bored and just delving into random ass industries LMAO

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah... they have a tendency to spread into unrelated markets, and then dominate.

Probably most notably, Nintendo originally made Hanafuda cards.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Most notable in gaming, no question. You've also got Yamaha (probably the most diverse) making guitars, motorcycles, wheelchairs, electric surfboards, air conditioners, and about a hundred other things. Nokia made rubber boots or some shit before making an indestructible phone.

But I think the most notable is a Korean company, Samsung. Semiconductors, phones, TVs, and other related electronics. Also sentry guns. Also the Burj Khalifa. Also, a theme park (Everland).

I guess to your point, not just Japanese but they do seem to have a greater tendency.

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

Nintendo still makes hanafuda cards.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago

Nintendo started as a card game manufacturer.

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 points 7 months ago

I have a hunch it's for in-car visualizations, similar to how Tesla uses Unreal Engine.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

Tell me what Yamaha makes?

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[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago

Not exactly endorsing it, but it worked for Sony who was mainly known for making TVs and Walkman.

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[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

The same reason unreal and godot are used on the Tesla console

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[–] eah@programming.dev 1 point 7 months ago

NIHS

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 16 points 7 months ago

Interesting. This might actually become a good option for mobile games and apps. I've created a few Flutter apps that integrate Unity for their 3d content, but that always comes with drawbacks, especially performance-wise. I'll definitely keep an eye on this.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This seems sort of interesting, although I really wonder how performant it'll actually be given that most Flutter apps on my phone are somewhat laggy.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago

And they're a usability nightmare on PC

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Same. flutter apps just feel sooo heavy and laggy.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn’t godot already solve a lot of this?

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 9 points 7 months ago

When has an existing solution prevented a new one from being developed?

https://xkcd.com/927/

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[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Meanwhile for Godot they found long start-up times and being too resource heavy.

Addressed in the article.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Long startup times? Godot opens very quickly on my computer. Granted, my projects are small test projects with not much going on, but flutter and dart will probably start sputtering once their scenes get bigger.

They are also always at the mercy of Google who might drop flutter and dart at any time.

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[–] kamstrup@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

On your computer. I think this engine is aimed at embedded, if I understand the article correctly

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

But are they going to develop games on the embedded device?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Toyota is interested in a game engine suited for their in-vehicle / digital cockpit experience.

Maybe not embedded devices, but hardware equivalent to mid phones from 2016 which is what I suppose would be the equivalent of the media center in their cars, stuff that might not even support OpenGL3

Also: godot still isn't that great with 3D graphics

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago*

maybe practically not developing on an embedded device. but targetting to. Godot games on Android is also not the smallest nor starts up the fastest compared to something like Defold games.

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[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

How about console grade open source car systems

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 point 7 months ago

Thanks. Looks like Microsoft is getting their dirty hands in Toyota. Good to know now that I'm looking at trucks.