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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
If something is consistently popular it means enough people like it or aren't bothered by it enough to be a problem. The popularity of these games that you really don't like is a signal that your view of the world in regards to th
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Does it seem like a game that's consistently getting millions of views on videos about each update is experiencing some kind of serious decline in popularity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrH9vMZBwAk
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Clearly most people aren't bothered by it as it's an extremely popular game that has remained popular months after release. If it was just a quick low quality cash grab people would have moved on, but they haven't. So you hav
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
>If your biggest issue with the statement is that it unfairly focuses on mobile game devs, feel free to extrapolate the sentiment to all game devs who do this, I think most people do this extrapolation. I'm a game developer. I don&#
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
I bring it up because the majority of people who have a problem with mobile games do not have a problem with roguelites. Either you have a problem with both or with none. I'm firmly in the none camp, it seems like you're in the bo
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
My argument is that roguelites are fundamentally using a psychological trick via RNG-gating content to make people play the game for a longer amount of time. That's built into the genre. And that this trick is the same as the one used
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
>though I don't know how you want to argue that the world isn't mostly run by capitalist forces. Again, if this is something you want to question I'm not sure we're going to get anywhere. I believe that the world is p
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
In a roguelite you end up paying real time , and not only that, you have mechanics that are designed around making spending that time as tempting as possible , while attempting to masquerade as something harmless.
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Plenty of roguelikes or roguelites have locked chests that can only be opened after you play for an arbitrarily long amount of time. That is the same as a lootbox in a game that lets you buy lootboxes with in-game currency at a slower rate
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
First of all, Godot actually doesn't use ECS despite the majority of people in the industry saying it's amazing and all that. There was an article about it the other day https://godotengine.org/article/why-isn
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Well, anything that involves a monetary exchange can be described as "for monetary reasons". I explained to you that a non-monetary reason is similar to the reasoning behind similar mechanics in roguelites, which generally do not
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
In the same way that randomness in a roguelite leads to you feeling really good when you find an item that is cool and that you didn't expect to get, you have that same mechanic taking place when you either save enough in-game currency
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Yet in real life games like Genshin Impact implement most of the techniques you find morally wrong yet the game has actual gameplay and most people playing it have no problem with it. Real life is more complex than the binary way of thinkin
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Of course I can do that, given that the contention is not whether the joke is funny or not but if it's appropriate for its environment. If you don't think my joke is appropriate for the documentation of an engine, then you also sh
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
In your biased elite opinion, of course. A vast majority of people have no problem with pay to win in the games they play.
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
There's this bias where games that are extremely addicting but that appeal to intelligence (like say Factorio), the perceived most important trait in our society currently, are OK, whereas games that are addicting and appeal to other t
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
That is wrong, given that the social justice movement in the US has been a thing since before 4chan existed.
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
>I wonder if the rise of fascist thinking of the 4chan /pol variety among younger people can in part be explained by their entire generation having been raised on a steady diet of comic book flicks and of course similar "fanser
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Well, I still disagree. I've also played lots of games in my life so I also think I know what I'm talking about. You view roguelikes and roguelites as positively addicting because of your personality and the fact that those games
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
If there is one it shouldn't be used. Both types of games are addicting in fundamentally the same way. The only thing that differs is the main trait which each game is using as its primary host. The "unethical" type of game i
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Why is this kind of manipulation bad but RNG-gated content, such as in most roguelikes, which are loved by lots of people, not bad? These value judgements are always arbitrary and hiding the biases of the speaker. You, personally, don'
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
I disagree with this notion. The primary reason why Factorio doesn't feel unethical or exploitative is because the kind of addictiveness it exploits is one that uses your brain, whereas the kind of addictiveness these "unethical&q
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
As an indie dev I disagree very heavily with this. Games like Hentai Nazi ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1183970/Hentai_Nazi/ ) are allowed to be on the store because they're generally very permissiv
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Why indie developers shouldn't fear being cancelled(a327ex.github.io)
1 points by adnzzzzZ 6y ago|0 comments
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Check this out, your opinion may change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw (54:01)
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Thoughts on Making Small Games(a327ex.github.io)
3 points by adnzzzzZ 6y ago|0 comments
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
Or for the people who do make it past weekend hobby state, they simply like it a lot, like me. I think Lua is a perfect language in many ways but you have to have the right mindset about it. If you're bothered by doing things yourself
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Why 1-based indexing is right for Lua(a327ex.github.io)
3 points by adnzzzzZ 6y ago|2 comments
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
If you believe the status-quo is taking you to the dark ages then it's not very crazy. And for the more rural portion of America that seems to be the case.
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
>The hobbit is simply embarrassed into compliance by his elven betters. The ideas he believes become a dangerous mental disease. This diagnosis is written into history. The sooner he gives up this nonsense, the better. To help convince h

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