@invidious.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Solo Irish game dev. I am slowly making an existential horror first-person game about traveling underground and dehumanising yourself. I have unreasonably strong opinions on games and film.
I was really shocked to see how many hours I have put into Noita as a guy who finished it, like, 3 times and has barely scratched the surface of the "real endings".
How do you resist being mean to them? I would make finger-guns at each one going "Slop! Slop! Slop!"
Ideally we'd need an AI to pay for the games, too, though. Do they have one of those?
Tony Stark giving Jarvis instructions, but instead you're stuck looking at an insipid chat interface lying to your face about what it can acheive while failing at almost everything.
"Buser presents AI tools as an 'Iron Man' suit that developers can step into; something that can't act without the human but gives users superpowers they couldn't have without the metaphorical suit."
They are trying way too hard to make this shit sound awesome. You're supposed to imagine you're
"I'm ambi-knee" I say, wobbling horrifyingly into view.
It's so frustrating, because their heart is in the right place but these ideas are getting too sophisticated for many people to keep up.
Selling shovels!
This is obviously just a scientifically accurate simulation of a supermassive star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Qb...
That gives the government too much short term influence over the institution. "Don't print that or you might find your funding slashed next year". Licenses are horrible but there's an undeniable logic to them.
It's going into Early Access so you could conceive of it as not actually releasing until 1.0!
The fact that they published a list of 2,700 assets in a pdf and you're left to manually cross-check it against however many assets you've acquired over many years is completely insane.
Is that showing the real size and shape of the Earth's shadow or is it just an optical artifact? Because if so, that's a really neat side effect of this kind of composite.
Yes, Steam provides a lot of value but 30% from dollar 1 is so excessive when it's already an endless money printing machine.
Prime Video is excellent at digging up movies from 2002 with 3.9 on imdb.
I think URP is actually pretty good but the on-boarding is horrific. Explore the four new places we've put various setting and the several places with override settings and the various new asset files which control settings for the scene and the project and ALSO the RUNTIME scripts that control it.
Kind of annoyed this isn't a game I can play! My first thought was wishlist.
This invites the question "What is exploration?" If you're literally just walking around looking at things, I don't think that's exploring. Exploration requires the possibility of discovery, and discovery needs to hook into other mechanics. Without discovery you're not exploring, you're wandering.
The advice is always to grey box it but I honestly find it demotivating looking at ugly placeholders for too long.
The idea that we're in danger of trees taking over is deeply laughable.
Graphic design in 1999 was wild.
Whomever you are quoting I already have blocked lol
"I spent an entire session of therapy talking about it." Can you imagine being this guy's therapist?
Cos it's a cool name regardless. Evokes a switchblade. Switchboard works, too, in a world full of advanced retrotech.
I think magic should always be better; otherwise it's not magic, it's just another gun. Magic should be a way to break the normal rules; turning it into just one more tool among equals sucks all the fun and fantasy out of it.
Whatever about the legality, it's incredibly tasteless and cliche.
