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by npinsker 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly it. Also makes me think a16z's games division may struggle to find a hit... generally the people who are hyper-focused on producing great work aren't also looking to make the next billion-dollar empire.
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by npinsker 2y ago
Don't have a Playdate, but I'm really enjoying the soundtrack ( https://hunty.bandcamp.com/album/zero-zero-perfect-stop-orig... ). The instruments for the departure melodies are perfect -- they sound just like
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by npinsker 2y ago
That’s super fascinating, thanks for the comment. I had no idea you could go so far without a guess. Making use of the Wikipedia article text (and even the titles) seems mostly, but not entirely, against the spirit of the game; the techniqu
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by npinsker 2y ago
The quantity of money legitimately is an issue too though. Especially for mobile games -- which rely heavily on advertising and scaling up thin margins -- 2.5% of revenue (plus $2,000/yr/seat) could be quite a significant percenta
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by npinsker 2y ago
Blender (via https://github.com/ndee85/coa_tools ) and Godot's Skeleton2D node are both open-source. I'd assume Spine's advanced features far outpace them, but I also suspect the need for such features is
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by npinsker 2y ago
I did not downvote (I upvoted), but I think I can see why others did. Mentioning their startup’s name, right at the top, isn’t a great start for me. OP didn’t need to do that, it means nothing to me, and it doesn’t add anything other than a
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by npinsker 2y ago
That's fine, of course. No work of art is meaningful to everyone. I think it's admirable that you earnestly tried to engage with it; you didn't dismiss it as pretentious or vapid because you didn't get much out of it. I
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by npinsker 2y ago
It's consistent; 'it' refers to the player and 'them' refers to humanity as a whole
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by npinsker 2y ago
Right now Unity has more resources, is much more powerful, and the UI is a lot more polished. Godot's getting better quickly but still has a lot of rough edges. However, Godot seems like it's built on a better base and has avoided
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by npinsker 2y ago
This is a wonderful channel — thanks for the share — but also so impressed at how good the Japanese TTS is, easily the best I’ve ever heard!
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by npinsker 2y ago
> It’s better to spend more time on a game to ensure everything is feature complete, rather than releasing something sooner and iterating on it over time. This element differentiates the work of Technical Artists and Software Engineers,
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by npinsker 2y ago
I think it’s fine to be angry at the world when frauds are rewarded and celebrated. It’s not a victimless crime, and if you wish for the world to be a meritocracy, it feels like a slap in the face.
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by npinsker 2y ago
gpt-4o produced a correct sentence first try for me
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by npinsker 2y ago
Their point is that Headspace seems to sell meditation a bit more as a means to optimizing one’s life, while Waking Up sells meditation more abstractly, as a means to more fully live one’s life. The app is free (or heavily discounted) for t
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by npinsker 2y ago
Actually an amazing heuristic, double-jeopardy-ing isekais gives me confidence in your taste. Would love to hear some recs of yours if you have any.
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by npinsker 2y ago
> I think if big game studios, rather than dumping their copious amounts of money into single, giant-scope games, dealt it out amongst a variety of smaller teams for smaller-scoped projects, they'd be way better off. This is what ga
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by npinsker 2y ago
What are the coolest problems that have been recently solved? What are the coolest open problems you'd like to see solved?
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by npinsker 3y ago
The buddy pass is only for Southwest flights, so he opted to take another airline.
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by npinsker 3y ago
I like it too. It's an experiment in musical texture -- not to downplay the curation involved in getting a nice mix of instruments, which I'm sure took some skill. To me, it's a bit similar to Skrillex or Rite of Spring, both
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Castle – Make and post games, all on your phone(castle.xyz)
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by npinsker 3y ago
Waymo employees can use the cars in a larger area, though most of those are likely tests.
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by npinsker 3y ago
Plenty of "serious" games are made in the engine -- Genshin Impact, Hearthstone, Marvel Snap, Among Us, Pokemon GO, Beat Saber... is there a reason those games are worse than something made internally?
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by npinsker 3y ago
There’s further you can go — e.g. by taking advantage of the turn-based nature (there won’t ever be 4 Xs and two Os). Can save almost another bit by assuming X always goes first.
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by npinsker 3y ago
It means "extremely happy", but it's usually used to refer to a particular moment in time (rather than a general sentiment), and so the word sounds a bit out of place here, to me.
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by npinsker 3y ago
Your game looks great! Love the color palette, I’ll keep an eye on this for sure. Sorry for the curveball, but I’d be really interested in hearing about the process of finding your publisher (if you don’t mind) — it seems incredibly tough f
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by npinsker 3y ago
Re: OpenAI, being "transformative" doesn't necessarily mean being worth a lot. Do you think OpenAI can hold their (so far) unchecked monopoly in such a hot market? Can they 10x their current customer base? If inference cost f
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by npinsker 3y ago
Fun read, but it felt like the same message as the original, told a bit less tightly. Not that stories have to have a message — the prose by itself was great — but for me this one feels like it was driving at something else but didn’t arr
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by npinsker 3y ago
Completely concur with your experience. I've always suspected that the questions asked on these arena sites tend towards being a bit different qualitatively than real-world use cases.
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by npinsker 3y ago
I agree in principle, but that's dangerously close to saying "I'd love if AI was a good game designer" -- I mean, I'd love it too, but we're very far from that, and there are even more interesting things we cou
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by npinsker 3y ago
> Suppose we want a new version of Pokémon Yellow with a new Pokémon creature. We don’t need to change the game’s source code, we just need to edit the wiki and then press the “remake game” button. Modding a game becomes as simple as edi

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