Peeker’s advantage is the edge a moving player (P) gains when swinging into line of sight against a holding player (H). It exists in all server-authoritative shooters due to latency. A common claim is that peeker’s advantage depends only on the holder’s connection [1]. That is correct
Hi, this is Yuhao. Due to a billing oversight, the DigitalOcean instance hosting the blog CMS was deleted. Unfortunately, the Coolify backup was not set up correctly, so the restoration process has taken longer than expected, and the available backup is incomplete. Thankfully, I still have the drafts for all
This summer, I am brushing up my C++ by going through Alex's excellent tutorial at learncpp.com. I recently went through its chapter on Pointers and References, and I cleared a lot of my previous confusion on the topic. Here are some notes I took. References in C+
Recently, a team I contributed to as a minor collaborator - as interaction designer -submitted a game to the thatgamecompany × COREBLAZER GAME JAM 2025. The director of the game is my friend Ebay. I first met him through Cooper and Justin, who worked with Ebay on a different project at
A week ago I got paid to go to Disneyland. I was invited to be a translator for a group of executives from Amazing Seasun Games who were visiting USC for a two-week summer program. Professor David White, their guide and video game producer and veteran, has been to the
Aaron Sorkin, when asked how to portray a villain characters, says "You (the author) cannot think of them as a villain. You can't judge the character… You have to be able to empathize with that character. Find something about that character that is like you too. And
I recently went to The Nest — an immersive theater experience by Hatch Escapes — with a couple of friends. If you're around LA, I highly recommend it; the experience is both immersive and intimate. I won't spoil anything, but one of the best moments from the experience
I went to watch Thunderbolt* (2025) tonight and it made me excited about what’s next in MCU. I very much look forward to The Fantastic Four and the Avengers film coming next.
In early April, the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration abruptly and unjustly terminated my SEVIS record. SEVIS is a database used by DHS to verify whether a student is eligible to study in the United States. Losing SEVIS status means an immediate loss of legal standing, the
I am halfway through Tae Kim’s The Nvidia Way, and it’s the 2007 to early 2010s. Nvidia has introduced CUDA and worked with companies like Adobe and Autodesk to enable parallel computing to massively make their applications faster. And I just can’t stop thinking — Oh my god,
In the past, learning to sing alone is one of the biggest hurdles for me in regard to guitar. I can never find the rhythm. Also the moment I started to sing, my playing become messy too. This time though, I decide I want to overcome this hurdle. After two
My friend Coop and I are building a movement shooter together. Shooter as a genre is very popular, and never lacks well designed game. So it is challenging to build something new, novel, while maintain a good sense of design. It’s gonna be a long journey before we get