@trentpolack
Video game maker, player, and general all around game person.
Gameplay Designer and Game Director at CD PROJEKT RED that's been making video games for almost 20 years.
Whatever, really.
Jul 23, 2025 · 2 min read · You may have noticed a flurry of activity around the site the last couple of months. Or maybe not, it’s not like this was the most active place on earth, but there has been a flurry of activity with a full site redesign that’s bringing with it a hand...
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Jul 16, 2025 · 12 min read · “Git is great. It is also the source of pain and will steal your soul.” — This. Right here. Right now. When I started the now-defunct Steel Hunters (RIP), I wrestled with how to best handle version control for the project. Managing Unreal Engine is ...
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Jun 27, 2025 · 23 min read · Part one of this origin story can be found here. The University of Michigan About halfway through my senior year of High School — where I only had to go to school for a half a day as the other half was considered eligible for “extracurricular work” (...
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Jun 27, 2025 · 15 min read · Doing a merge of a major version change in Epic’s Unreal Engine codebase — especially one where every source file has its copyright data change from 2017 to 2018 (which is, for some reason, a confusing thing to Git) — is somewhat of a time-consuming ...
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Jun 27, 2025 · 14 min read · This article was originally published on VentureBeat. In my senior year at the University of Michigan, one of my roommates and I had a nightly tradition: playing NCAA Football 2005 (it was 2007). We played every night because we were constantly learn...
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