Andy (Gamecrafters Collective)

But in more interesting news, I bought an RC car!!

Picked up the #Rlaarlo XTS P12 1/12 rally car and it's awesome!

Took my kid nephew out to an abandoned car park to bomb around, great evening!

(Forgot to set the camera to 120 fps though, but that just means we need to do round 2!)

Knowing my luck someone would vibe code a game that literally does exactly that!!

And given we're all volunteers I don't actually have a lot of control over people, so it's almost impossible to ensure someone doesn't build in game chat, that then leads to abuse, that then leads to me losing my house.

Possibly an excessive way of looking at it, but these days, who knows.

Also, I stepped down as Company Director. Because of the Online Safety Act. Too much liability for a completely ill thought out project that seems to have not considered a) games or b) indie games - like how many fucking indie developers can afford a fucking team of content mods??

And people go nuts at me telling me I can't do that because I'm the guy with all the ideas.

So yeah, still got to figure out balance, but desperately want to finish the game I started. For my own sanity and out of respect for everyone else who's done work on it. It needs to have people playing it!

But here's the kicker...

I joined, I over stepped, I have great ideas coming from startup land and wearing many hats, corporate linear people don't like that, apparently, but then, theennn, I say "ok I'm going to stay in my lane"...

I am FINALLY getting back into game dev. Corporate life is A LOT!

It's been a tough few months for sure. It hasn't really settled down. I've been screwed over. I'm kinda trying to fade into the background and just earn my salary doing just my job.

10 yard phase? Each hex is 2.5 yards? So my WR can run 30 yards but a CB and S can't catch him?

This definitely needs some padding out but (pun not intended) I think it's got legs!!

It's definitely more fun than I was expecting too!

Either rushing ahead or cutting across, unless you just make a WR have a 12 pace of course.

That said, you'd need a massive board basing this on hexes. My WR(7) easily got down field. You'd probably limit that to maybe a 6 with a sprint modifier on the dice or something.

How would you track each

WR on the right. Using card stats means all 11 dice rolls should be used, 1 for each player.

You could possibly assume things like O line only use card stat to move and dice to win push.

I think if you limit movement to just card stat and dice to engagement, you won't make those big WR plays

Creating space for a potential running play.

But, the gap could allow a DT to slip through and get 1 v 1 with the QB so always move the QB early, and remember ball in hand so tackle stat has reduced effectiveness by 1.

By dice stacking though you have players who don't move, so I've got a dormant

Remaining dice could be used to allow the WR to run unchallenged to the end zone.

Like with CA, the offense line takes all low value dice to move forward and engage the defensive line of 4. Then you dice and card stat battle to decided a push back e.g. 2 v 1 (3+2+4+2) v (6+4) and they push him

QB rolls an 8 for a successful throw, DE(9) engaged with OT(2) and the WR(7) catches but now we're out of dice moves so he drops for a 1st down.

However I'm using dice stacking here, if you limited to 1 dice per player + card stat my WR only would move max 12 UNLESS it's a catch, then all...

Repurposing #CounterAttack for a game of American Football. This could actually work!!

Players have individual stats and then the dice create the magic. Here our QB throws down field to our WR(7) who won his dice match with the CB(5) and sped ahead. LB(6) rolls a 2, no INT on the throw...

...if MF can get some budget and really put some dev effort into fixing bugs and online play, while it will never compete with Madden, it could be that solid alternative. Like PES to FIFA. Bad analogy maybe as one died a horrible death, but you get what I mean!

It really is a joy to play!

And MF is just so much faster. Playing Madden felt like moving tanks around the pitch. But MF feels like football. The sexiness of that speed!

Graphically, and other presentation stuff, Madden is away ahead. And playing as Seahawks was lovely, as a semantic layer if you will, but...

Go #seahawks

I played some Madden last night. It really does play like ass. I couldn't put my finger on why I'm enjoying #MaximumFootball so much until I played Madden then went back to MF.

It's the physics engine. Madden is scripted plays. MF is reactive physics.

Forget #Rematch the new #RocketLeague is #MaximumFootball

What a game! I can't believe this is free! It's the best NFL game I've ever played. It's like actually fun and stuff!

And it's deep too. Right down to texting high school prospects to sign to the college!

There's no catching this guy!

Aww Ozzy! 💔 RIP! What a legend!

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders

There's a parallel universe out there somewhere where Bernie Sanders won some stuff and the world is a much nicer place. Dear AI, can you make me a transporter device that sends me there?

youtu.be/I9R3Kp5kcUM?...

Actually, I'll amend my previous statement. Unity AI will get there, because in all likelihood they'll acquire Bezi and absorb it. They'll have to. They'll never catch up with their own tools.

I still strongly object to AI art and other creatives, so I won't be using them in this project at all, but for code and general assistance wizardry, this might be the best AI tool I've used yet.

Looks expensive though. Who makes any money making games these days?! 🤣

...explains everything it's doing, clearly.

It's a clear winner for potential. Like, it just knows Unity and the kind of context you're working in. And that access to the scene to create whatever you need!

Copilot will never get there and I highly doubt Unity AI will either.

Bezi wasn't quite right, took a few attempts and I gave up because it's late. But it's not a million miles away.

And in Agent mode, wow, what an excellent tool!

It not only created the basic code, but a tools menu, a bunch of materials, the prefabs, it reads the debug logs, corrects itself and...

Tried generating hex grids using AI via GitHub Copilot, Unity AI and Bezi Sidekick.

Keep in mind this isn't difficult once you bother to learn it. And given AI is just regurgitating known code, this should be a breeze.

Sigh.

The first two just sucked. Like so bad. Awful, awful, awful.

I STILL DON'T HAVE A GOD DAMNED SHINY MAGIKARP!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

Playing #PokemonGo for the first time in ages, this game has no idea what it wants to be anymore. Battle pass? Really??!

Hot dang this new Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 is good!

My favourite thing about running a game dev studio has been asking people not to do a thing and then watching them just do the thing I asked them not to do :/

My second favourite thing is bitching about it on socials rather than attempting to tackle the problem because...sigh...

And frankly, fuck that!

Basically trying to organise folks in a large studio is a total PITA. And definitely not worth it when you're doing it for free.

And ethical reasons aside for just a moment, that fucking terrifies me!

Because as one of the legally registered directors, I'm probably liable should anyone sue us, it'll be my house that gets repo'd. Artists are failing to take on big tech, so they'll just take on small fry targets, and win.