DizzyDoo

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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I did this for my first Steam game, which let me go full-time back in 2015 as an indie game developer and where I still am today. [1] I'd get up early and get a few hours in before my more ordinary programming work as a Python backend
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
It's worth noting that the quality of games currently released on the Nintendo Switch is currently pretty abysmal[1], with as many Unity asset flips and low-effort 'games' as on Steam. Perhaps it's not as bad as the situ
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
There was also Ian Gow MP who was assassinated with a car bomb by the IRA in 1990.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
You should update your Twitter to point to your new website? Its pretty much identical to your old website, so perhaps it doesn't matter at all.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Wow, hang on, you're bringing up Diablo 3's auction house as... a positive example?? That's a new one. It was, and still is, widely agreed to be a colossal, almost game-sinking failure, and Blizzard couldn't shut it down
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
There is a website, and it's here - https://digiplaygaming.com/ , but it really doesn't contain any worthwhile information. "We'll host your web game" - okay? But I was doing that back in 2009 when I
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
This is exactly right. I actually think the worst thing about the suggestion you're replying to is that it is an over-generalisation. "Most players will do X", "they nearly always do Y"... yeah, okay, but what about
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
It's not just a big deal, it's a massive market. There are many people who will pay an enormous amount of money for custom written cheats, there are whole SAAS-style subscription services for different game hacks, it's... all
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
No tutorials to link you to, but there's significant overlap between anti-cheat systems and anti-virus/anti-malware systems, which makes sense when you consider their aims. Searching for academic papers about anti-virus approaches
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I'm still playing PUBG, though just FPP, and rarely run into what is obviously a cheater - maybe once every two months? But while things have got better, you're right, when things were really, really bad it hurt the game's co
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I once had an unusually good match in a popular FPS game, triggered some statistical tripwire, and received an automatic ban for 48 hours. "Just in case". Streamers and pro-players often have their accounts whitelisted from this s
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Could you expand on "code your game correctly"? Let's say I'm playing your (correctly coded) game and I've got an aimbot, that snaps onto someone's head, how do you detect/stop that from the server-side (t
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Plenty of games have a server-side checking system that works on reports and statistical checking and it's a bit of a joke, like you say, it's an impossible fight. A pro-player of an FPS game is statistically so far beyond even fa
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I mean, this is already happening! Have a Google for "Hardware CS:GO aimbot" and there are some crazy things people are doing to cheat in video games. Stuff that attaches to the CPU, ones that attach to the mouse to fake input tha
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
If I write a cheat for your game that operates on the kernel level, how would you detect it from the game that runs in user space?
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Thanks for the link, what an interesting pdf. What I still don't quite understand about coops is how they practically come about? The pdf you linked to says that 84% come into being from scratch. If you need to buy some mechanical equi
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
My understanding of co-ops, while I haven't experienced them first-hand, is that they are still capitalist in nature - they are usually profit driven (though not at the expense of workers), pay is not equal, and the difference is a dem
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Worker co-operation (coops) models [0] exist and can take the form of a dozen employees, or scale to really quite enormous companies like Mondragon[1]. I've come across lots of them in Europe, and a few where I live now in Canada, but
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
The phenomenon of 'seeing' or imagining Tetris shapes and 'fitting' them around things is known as the 'tetris effect'[0] and is quite common. In my experience you don't need to play Tetris that long to ex
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Yes, it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnkDyGgvGk
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I wouldn't have been surprised to find out my F-91W was counterfeit! But I just went and watched a "30 ways to tell if your Casio watch is fake" video on YouTube and it looks like my watch is legitimate. I probably wasn'
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I got a Casio watch from Amazon about five years ago, there was a deal on and it was about CAD$20. A budgetary driven decision, for sure! But it's been fascinating to see, over the years, how many times I've been approached (in a
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I agree, higher quality conversations happen more often on forums and they're much easier to search and access if you're not a member. But forums are also much easier to moderate than Discord - a message or image you might not wan
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
The amount of work to bring a new game engine to even remotely near the feature-set of the main existing engines is enormous, so congratulations on getting this far. I hope you're able to grow a team of contributors who can help you wi
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I've played a fair amount of Dwarf Fortress and I'd never describe it as 'easy to start'? The learning curve is notorious and for most people involves watching a lot of YouTube tutorials and copying actions. I'm hop
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
A short Twitter thread from Pat Contri on this is something I found provides helpful balance: https://twitter.com/PatTheNESpunk/status/1414300310659473408 "Wow, those Charizard cards from your childhood are n
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I've had people email pitching me on embedding crypto-mining programmes in the games I sell on Steam. It's intensely sinister stuff. I got an email just yesterday pitching me on a special 'credit card for gamers'. I was
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I do think you're correct, but one particularly sticky issue is what you do with all the subtle cheats. Rather than developing an exploit with wall-clip, radar, auto-headshots and so on - all obvious to a human moderator - what if you
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Do you mean just support SteamOS? The biggest problem is, as a few other commenters have mentioned, there's no further break-down in categories other than "SteamOS + Linux" (and the url is .../linux). So you can't t

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