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Despite your gatekeeping thoughts I think things like this are great. You make it sound like it's a bad thing that you abstract the difficulty from past times a
by numlock86 5y ago
Despite your gatekeeping thoughts I think things like this are great. You make it sound like it's a bad thing that you abstract the difficulty from past times away, but what actually will happen is that it makes this stuff much more accessible to get started with it at all. There will be a few people among those falling down the rabbit hole and end up at reading and writing raw code for the Game Boy because stuff like this will always limit you in some way.
- t8y 5y agoI think there's lots of good things about GB Studio I just didn't want to write some kind of HN manifesto on Game Boy game development. For example I'm sure with GB Studio it's possible to run into hardware limitations like sprites per line, music causing lag etc.
- le-mark 5y agoGP makes some valid points, why would one accuse GP of gatekeeping? I think anyone who jumps to such an unfounded, uncharitable conclusion should consider their own biases first.
- numlock86 5y ago> [...] why would one accuse GP of gatekeeping? Well, for starters the comment was listing all the good things about GB Studio as bad things, going even as far as being "worried" about it. The motivation was that it makes this stuff look too easy and giving people an "unrealistic view", whatever that is even supposed to mean. Basically every line is going into full defense, trying to tell how "super-duper elite" the whole idea of programming "back in the day" was or rather still is. This perception, at least for OP, needs to stay that way for everyone else and GB Studio is putting it into danger. That's gatekeeping. Look it up.