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Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.

Text from a LinkedIn post which says: Ryan Dancey Author Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos:

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Absolutely!
I always find it difficult to explain it too. An example of depth without complexity is perhaps Go where simple rules allow for huge strategic variety. An example of complexity without depth is a slot machine, where complicated mechanisms don't allow for a player to change any outcome.

I hope things in our industry change for the better in the future. I will not allow anyone to feel this way again.

I'm just going to say that we are still really far from an AI being able to pick up game pieces or a controller with feedback and understanding how it feels to play the game.

And once we get there... I mean... their taste will probably be quite different. AIs can design games for AIs all they want!

The pro-AI, anti-game-designer nonsense Suz is quoting below is on LinkedIn, in the comments on a post by the SAME PERSON about how AI told him to *walk* to the car wash. (The cognitive dissonance is killing me!) Here's what I replied over there:

turns out the idea guys don't actually have any ideas, just a vision of themselves sitting atop a pile of success money as their adoring fans blow kisses and their detractors grovel at their feet

The conclusion of his argument is clear: The publishing industry does nothing of real value, just speculation. Sounds to me we are better off without it.

En la ficción: Skynet gana super inteligencia y consciencia de si misma, y una vez conectada a defensa destruye el mundo.

En la práctica: Unos cuantos CEOs conectan sus ordenadores a ChatGPT, y aunque no es superinteligente ni nada, se las apaña igualmente para destruir el mundo.

The tiktok-ization of games. Once a machine can generate a "casual game" instantly, everyone will be doom-scrolling shallow experiences mixed with AI cat videos and ads telling you how easy it is to do all that to get rich and how 7 minutes of exercise a day turns you into AI Bruce Lee. Can't wait.

All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.

14 years ago we accidentally hired a genius to write the script for 80 Days. Now she’s narrative director on a deck-builder about billionaire busting.

Check out All Will Rise:

I love pointing people to the Steam hardware survey.

Most people are gaming at 1080p, right now! At 8 GB of VRAM, and 16 GB of RAM! Generative AI bullshit means the number of people who will be at that spec for the foreseeable future is pretty dang high!!
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I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

I do! The pile of written-not-actioned ideas is an ever growing mountain... 😅

this happens so often 😂 my solution is to write it down! Makes you feel like you engaged with the new idea (which, to be fair, you DID), and then you have it there later when you decide to come back to it! Writing things down is an underrated tool

Lots of kids struggling to swim with an "unfinished project" caption, while a mother is turning to another happy kid with the caption "new project"

Oh no... Yesterday I had a really good idea that has nothing to do with my current open projects...

But... I... Need... To... Make... It...

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#noooo

Some miniature objective markers made of plastic bits and cardboard, next to a space marine for reference: - Boxes under tarp - Screen panel / computer - Banner on a mountain of skulls - Ammo Crate - Smoke Grenade

I must admit I'm having fun building some markers out of bits, cardboard and using milk carton caps as bases.

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Lots of good takes on the text, but IMHO this is one of the most important ones for devs (and people) to understand. The vocal minority is a minority after all, and their opinion rarely matches the rest.

Changing what they don't like tends to make the game worse for everyone else.

this is a great read on why doing development and talking about development are fundamentally different things

a chimpanzee is holding a gun in its mouth while wearing a pink shirt . Alt: A chimpanzee using a typewriter while wearing a pink shirt.

What's the best platform to do a written #blog these days?

Ideally:

- Doesn't require an account for readers
- Free
- Easy to use from the phone and PC

I'm using Tumblr but it's getting a bit annoying, and requires people to have an account to read my stuff.

#question #help #hivemind

Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism

5 Heavy Intercessor Space Marines, assembled, unpainted. The heavy bolter has a custom female head bought in Etsy, and the Sergeant has a head coming from a Sternguard Veteran set (I think), I didn't like the ones included in the set.

My next batch of #SpaceMarines ready to be painted (not sure when I'll get to them though). But I must admit I'm liking how these heavy intercessors look! The kick-ass woman with the heavy bolter can end up being one of my favourites.

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A pack of Genestealers from a 2004 box, painted in white, purple and pink, with dark shading. Lateral closeup view.

A pack of Genestealers from a 2004 box, painted in white, purple and pink, with dark shading. Top down view.

Some old-school (circa 2004) #Genestealers with an as-fast-as-I-could paint job. Could use a bit more polishing, but they'll do for now!

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In the front 3 Space Marines over display bases created with nescafe lids of two different sizes painted black with terrain features on top. In the back a Space Marines Squad on a rectangular cardboard display terrain patch, with a watercolour backdrop.

I registered for a local #miniaturepainting exhibition that starts tomorrow and spent last weekend's spare time building some display bases for my best #spacemarines paint jobs. I found nescafe gold lids are the perfect size!

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Model shot: skeleton warriors attacking bronze Age adventurers in a ruined temple by a flooded altar.

Hello new Bskies and fresh followers! Just a reminder that we small Indie creators and artists don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while Likes are lovely, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us. If you see models or art you love, please share!

I can even think on something more sinister, which is: Why doing a full game, if what keeps us addicted is an infinite stream of really short bursts of experiences (tik-tok style).

Play play "Mario" for a minute, then watch this funny cat video, then play slaying dragons for another minute, etc.

The end goal, I imagine, is that the user enters their platform and there is a "game" (or movie or whatever entertainment product) there for them, generated on the fly with their likes and mood etc.

And it doesn't involve anyone making it (and getting paid). Basically the end of authorship.

A work in progress Rivendell lego set, the Fellowship of the rings movie is playing in the TV in the background.

For far too long this #lego was sitting gathering dust. The fellowship must be reunited again, and the Lord of the rings trilogy must be watched while building it.

#lotr #rivendell

I wish I had seen this video *before* I spent some time this morning taking pictures of my miniatures... though I think I mostly followed a similar approach and got a relatively good result after editing 😅

NATO chief says Europe should ‘keep on dreaming’ if it thinks it can defend itself without the US | CNN NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told Europe it should “keep on dreaming” if it thinks it can defend itself without the support of the United States.

As a reminder, Mark Rutte is the human equivalent of a unpleasant shit that won't flush. He has literally never said a single true word in his entire country-dismantling career.

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Post by @the-missing-piece · 8 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Using Custom Inkjet Transfers for miniatures · As I was working on the chapter sheet for the Star Rise Defenders custom Space Marine Chapter, I started to think about the next step…

I wrote a post about the process of making custom transfers for the miniatures, a lot of trial and error but once figured out it's a good tool to have!

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