newobj

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by newobj 2y ago
Thank you! :)
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by newobj 2y ago
Godot 4.2 / C#. Godot is an amazing engine and I highly recommend it for indie devs. The iteration cycle is a few seconds. IMHO, using Unity will absolutely slow you down, as a designer/programmer. I can't comment on the real
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by newobj 2y ago
Between returns, taxes, and other stuff, I think you can model at ~55% of gross Steam sales. Then, whatever your split w/ your publisher is, on top of that. So I think it's easy for ppl to severely overestimate how much a dev is a
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by newobj 2y ago
Godot 4.2 with C#. Done differently? Hmm. It was an intense duration of work and I set a firm deadline for myself of EOY 2024 to avoid it dragging out into a longer-than-it-should-be project. Gaining design skills along the way, I could mak
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by newobj 2y ago
I wish I could draw like that! The artist is Hanja Grgičević and she works for a sister dev company of the publisher Raw Fury. I gave Hanja my mood board ( https://www.canva.com/design/DAF1ZIStuTY/j66Hl6xPyMNU6cfRsw
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by newobj 2y ago
Thank you! I absolutely suck at game jams. Like, really bad. Ballionaire is the one time a gamejam ( https://itch.io/jam/eggjam-20 ) went right for me (good idea, microscopic scope) - you can see a video from about ~10 d
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by newobj 2y ago
btw this was the moodboard I put together for the artist -- https://www.canva.com/design/DAF1ZIStuTY/j66Hl6xPyMNU6cfRsw2... imho even if you can't make art, it's good to have inspirations for a coherent
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by newobj 2y ago
Thanks Bill :) I can relate to the first thing you mentioned, and I never really took action. Layoff was thrust upon me, with the privilege of a severance, and I had been working for decades, so I figured "why not try now?" I&#x27
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Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
1581 points by newobj 2y ago|356 comments
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by newobj 2y ago
another ex-CMU classmate here. didn't know him well, but always struck me as a very kind and well-liked person. i suppose there's a reason i remember his name 30 years later. my condolences to his family + loved ones.
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by newobj 2y ago
Just go to therapy dude instead of trauma dumping on HN
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by newobj 2y ago
Don't trust software engineers to handle edge cases and failure modes
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by newobj 2y ago
is Lyceum a reference to Ultima?
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Show HN: 18 months after big tech layoff, my indie game is nearing release(store.steampowered.com)
5 points by newobj 2y ago|1 comments
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by newobj 2y ago
clicked into the thread just to see if ppl mentioned tymnet and telenet what up fellow olds
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by newobj 2y ago
The real headline here is that log4j2 is faster than Boost.Log
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by newobj 2y ago
UE5.
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by newobj 2y ago
> "So if they wanted to be a contender again, this is how they could do it: Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. They could get substantially all of them for less than they'd have to pay for Facebook." "And
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by newobj 2y ago
What are the odds of being alive and having the technology in place to witness any galactic event, on the galactic timescale? That's just so wild to me.
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by newobj 2y ago
pretty sure they said 380 packets total in the 1 minute call (~6-7/s)
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by newobj 2y ago
They can never unring this bell in my mind
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by newobj 2y ago
uhh because the only Gen Xers currently dying are the ones that are dying young?
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by newobj 3y ago
tHe PaRtY of LImIteD goVerNmEnT
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by newobj 3y ago
Why do you say that?
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by newobj 3y ago
> " complexity of work is created by all the processes " this is it. it's not that it's boring, it's that it's POINTLESS. the bigger a company gets, the more it's burdened by its processes. and that com
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by newobj 3y ago
I absolutely picked the right year to become a solo indie game dev (after I was laid off :P)
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by newobj 3y ago
Downvoted but why. Call a spade a spade.
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by newobj 3y ago
Totally normal post
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by newobj 3y ago
Bless your heart
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by newobj 3y ago
i feel obligated once again to mention TSTL, a very high quality TypeScript-to-Lua transpiler: https://typescripttolua.github.io/ works great. used this on a large project. works great with Love/LuaJIT too.

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