Edit and Continue worked in the gameplay code on that project. Was a delight!

I hope so

You are the bed now.

The most egregious scrabble play I’ve seen allowed is “MRT”. As in the actor Mr T. The folks at that table had a very unique interpretation of the rules.

Mine didn’t come out right…

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I hope to find time to write more of these. It’s great to be able to share behind the scenes info for others to learn from. And the process of writing helps me think about how I might improve similar systems in the future.

Any results from the chilled dough portion of the experiment?

The beautiful sounds are for my officemates, not me

Oh this sounds like me. I’d appreciate being added!

Very cool, nice progress!

I have fond memories of playing a bunch of these with you! Also Mario Kart on the broken tv where green and red shells were slightly different shades of brown.

That dopamine hit is the real reason to avoid premature optimization

I have a vague recollection that there were reasons we didn’t use EQS for this feature, but I wasn’t involved in the decision and unfortunately don’t know what they were. Best guesses: EQS being labeled “experimental” or concerns about it being too tightly tied to AI systems.

Most of the time game thread wasn’t the limiting factor in frame rate. We considered various optimizations (multithreading, storing targets in an octree, etc.) but didn’t end up needing to.

The targets were put into a few different lists based on broad search categories. We’d run through the entire list for the appropriate category. To mitigate the perf cost we tried to order the conditionals to discard as many targets as possible without doing very costly evaluations.

Registration was generally through InitializeComponent/UninitializeComponent. I think those got called when something streamed in/out, but can’t remember for sure. There was also a way for targets to be set Active/Inactive at runtime which let us temporarily ignore them during searches.