RicoTech Engine (2016-2018)

A user by the name of NEO97 decided to start writing a 3D physics engine in Jai, and announced it in the Secret Beta discord. Having attempted this myself a few years ago, I thought I’d share a list of some of the resources I found invaluable during my journey.

This post shares the tale of my recent work porting Glenn Fiedler’s networking library, Yojimbo, from C++ to Jai, a detour through the land of cryptography, and the discovery of sunscreen.

Whenever you use a monotically increasing integer in your code, there’s always the possibility of it reaching the end of its range and wrapping around. So what do we do? Use a bigger integer? Let’s talk about it!

While researching last night, I fell into this incredibly fascinating rabbit hole of “perceptual causality and animacy”. The idea that humans, when they see an object move, give it significantly more emotion and meaning than it explicitly has.