Senpai of the Pool Declares Game Dev Is Just More Dynamic Frontend Engineering

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A two-panel anime meme using the 'Senpai of the Pool' template from imgflip.com. In the top panel, a male anime character stands at the edge of a swimming pool looking at a silver-haired female anime character partially submerged in the water, with the text 'oh senpai of the pool what's your wisdom'. In the bottom panel, a close-up of the silver-haired girl in the pool delivers the wisdom: 'game dev is just more dynamic frontend engineering'. The meme uses the popular wisdom-dispensing format to deliver a hot take that would simultaneously trigger game developers (by reducing their work to 'frontend') and frontend engineers (by implying their work is less dynamic than game dev). The comparison has some technical merit - both deal with rendering, state management, user interaction, and frame rates

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Both game devs and frontend engineers spend 80% of their time fighting CSS - it's just that game devs call it 'shader programming' to feel better about it

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Both game devs and frontend engineers spend 80% of their time fighting CSS - it's just that game devs call it 'shader programming' to feel better about it
@Algoinde 5mo

As someone who recently did some game dev things in TS with rendering backed by CSS/HTML...
1. @Daonifur 5mo
  
  It's all fun and games until your game/software requires import/export of files
  
  @sysoevyarik 5mo
  
  Games are not a software nowadays????
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  Not all softwares are games
  
  @sysoevyarik 5mo
  
  It's like writing womans/humans. One is subset of other. Ok. Maybe fair, but board games are out of current context. And they also don't import/export files
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  I feel like if you have to nitpick you haven't written enough software to know games and normal softwares are capable of import/export of files and that there's a difference between the two
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  Board games also exist, smh
  
  @azizhakberdiev 5mo
  
  video games are called so because you can't really play them irl, therefore software
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  True
  
  @Algoinde 5mo
  
  i just threw protobuf at it and standardized serialize/deserialize interface
  
  @azizhakberdiev 5mo
  
  le local storage
@pulsar_sp 5mo

total bullshit, tbh, not even funny..( *returns to coding a roguelite 3 years in development, insulted by a meme*
@i_am_no_tree 5mo

Oh shi, tell the author that not all games rely on some backend. Or if they mean any type of backend, including screen rendering, then most software dev can be compared to frontend engineering. So nonsense in any sense
1. @Algoinde 5mo
  
  The game's data model and state can be considered backend, and rendering/visual part is the frontend
@Art3m_1502 5mo

Casino slots is a game that can be done in web. Therefore gamedev IS a wicked part of frontend
1. @i_am_no_tree 5mo
  
  *wicked part of gamedev
@furry_onko 5mo

gamedev and webdev are undoubtedly the most BORING things ever
1. @Algoinde 5mo
  
  doing gamedev on the web was the least boring thing I've done in like, years
  
  @furry_onko 5mo
  
  i personally prefer making low level stuff and optimizing it to the point where moving electrons by hand is a valid choice.
  
  @Algoinde 5mo
  
  that's kinda what i had to do ngl to get gamedev-level perf on the web is non-trivial
  
  @furry_onko 5mo
  
  what languages do you use ?
  
  @Algoinde 5mo
  
  TS, CSS, HTML, with Svelte for reactivity
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  Do you think "Svelte for reactivity" is technically correct way to say it?
  
  @Algoinde 5mo
  
  well, that's what I'm using it for no
@glatavento 5mo

Fine, but how to get 120 fps when you have 10000 divs to render?
1. dev_meme 5mo
  
  Get a 120hz monitor and decent hardware👍
  
  @deimossos 5mo
  
  and sell a kidney to buy 32 gigs of ram
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  There are ways/brands like Beelink, their prices have barely changed since I got mine in November for instance, sadly that only works if you want to switch rather than upgrading current machine though
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  RAM To get to 120hz My condolonces 👋
  
  @deimossos 5mo
  
  Decent Hardware

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