Tag: thoughts
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first game-on-shelf experience
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Recently had (finally) my first experience of “a game I made is physically on a shelf in front of me for sale in a shop”, with Weird West, which is physically out on PS5 now (it’s on other platforms too but not physically, I guess). For whatever reason, I didn’t really expect to feel anything…
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if you can get a levitator, then you can get some wasps
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in troubled times, it is comforting to reflect on this
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speaking of target audience (which i just was, somewhere else) when i was ~15 i had to interview someone for a school project so i emailed the questions to gabe newell and one of them was about target audience and he said “it’s hard enough making something good without trying to figure out how to…
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if you want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less, graphics tech advancements should please you
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it’s massively massively feasibler than ever before for one-person devs/tiny studios to rapidly iteratively make stuff, all kinds of stuff, from the fancy-graphic’d to the deliberately lo-fi, than it ever has been before, with fewer limitations, because of the same tech advancements that are mostly marketed via boring shit like a realistic building exploding or…
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once when i was 10 a teacher put me and another computery kid, mark, in charge of helping other kids change their passwords. it was literally “type your new password and press enter” but mark insisted on us pressing enter. wanted the other kids to think it was more complicated i was like “yeah just…
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i think the ai art thing is really about,
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people aren’t comfortable with their own disinterest in things. they don’t want to make art but they want to want to. they can’t make themselves want to. but that’s not ok with them. but they imagine it would feel good to have made art i think these people are in a real distressing crisis of…
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apple vision pro announcement thoughts
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the Apple Vision Pro (???) announcement video is vibeswise identical to every other Big Tech Announcement Video you ever get now – not only totally rancid, but so overwhelmingly rancid that it’s hard to talk about. there’s so much awful so tightly compacted into such a dense ball of awful that pointing out any individual…
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i dislike “official [region] [topic]” internet communities
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as in, “the melbourne writing community” or “the perth gamedev discord” or “the hylian ornithology forum”. all you have to do is use that format to name your website or forum or discord and everyone seems to go with it, as though all of a sudden there is a single canonical “Hylian Ornithology Community” or…
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You know what’s a good curse?
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Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 curse. Steal a coin, have a terrible time til it’s all returned. Solid curse. Real nobody-to-blame-but-yourself curse. Easy to lift unless you’ve really gone nuts with your spending, else potentially impossible. Good curse. You know what’s a lousy curse? Pirates 2 curse. Cursed with a spot on your hand that…