Dang Rascals

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@Jonathan_Blow How about, "Pushy Pushy Box Box"

I still don't know what this game is called. What if we name it #screenshotsaturday? Is that a good name?

@clemmygames You need to prioritize finishing and shipping your game over making your perfect game.

Tell me a hard truth about being an indie game dev

@LandfallGames Will it replace a biome or make the climb longer?

DON'T SKIP THE UPDATE OR WE BAN YOU

@EZE3D Agreed! Inspiration and influence from others brought into a unique whole based on your personal perspective and vision is what originality is!

"There are no original ideas" A lazy self soothing statement. All ideas can be related to other ideas, originality comes from the unique & personal execution of ideas. It's reductive to attribute the entire worth of something created to the inspirations that lead to it.

@FaustAugustus And of course the entire purpose of having manual intervention was to label it and use it as training data to try and improve the model. So it wasn’t the “mechanical turk” that people are accusing it of being. In fact this is a very normal process for improving automated systems.

The Indians were only queried when they couldn't accurately discern what you picked up, which was about 5% of the time. The other 95% of the time the cameras really were doing it automatically as advertised. However they couldn't get that 5% manual intervention rate down and so the system could not scale to larger stores.

Hey remember when it turned out Amazon Go wasn’t AI at all but actually was thousands of underpaid Indians watching you through the store’s security cameras and manually adding things to your cart when you picked them up?

@Logical_TD @kosa12m Because it's going to collide with -2?

@kosa12m Because -1 is used as a sentinel value in dict and why the fuck do you care about the particular value of a hash anyway.

why the fuck is this a thing in python

@cwisbg Do you know if it's possible to use MultiMeshInstance2D for the trees for example, which require z-index ordering?

Couple layers going in in my game. MultiMeshInstance2D for ground cover, getting their positions from the trees + random offset (cycling between a couple grass textures). Sprite2D/AnimatedSprite2D for "everything" else (ysorted). #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

@XorDev Precompute a list of points using trig with a given precision and then select random elements from it...? Otherwise I think you need trig in any case.

Is there a cheap ("trig-less") way to pick a random point within a unit circle?

Insisting that games optimize for “dopamine” is very confusing and severely limits game design. You know what games maximize “dopamine”? Slot machines and pay-to-win games. As a designer you need to make sure that your game relates to the player in terms of something human beings actually experience: emotions, interacting with friends, achieving goals, etc.

@Panzerschlacht @tsoding Learn to love the struggle.

@DangRascals @tsoding Not nearly enough reward, games are usually not multi-hour struggle sessions with uncertain dopamine at the end

It's interesting how Recreational Programming scratches the same itch as Gaming. You are basically playing Factorio on your CPU.

@gdechichi This is like telling somebody to make their own car because they want to see the grand canyon

make your own engine! make your own engine!! make your own engine!!!!

@littleraucous Are you still going to eat it?

Just tripped and grandly thrust a plate of spaghetti across my living room floor, AMA.

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@littleraucous Multiple games is multiple times more work, and each will be a fraction of your best quality. You can make multiple prototypes but once you find something that works, you should give it your all. A better way to handle risk management is to cap your investment of time and money.

The Siren Cometh! Check out the latest Devlog for The Necromancer Cometh talking all about the new boss enemy, The Siren! store.steampowered.com/news/app/24416… #FollowFriday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #towerdefense #strategy #GodotEngine

@littleraucous Nice, you too!

@DangRascals You released this right about the time we released ours! Well done.

Forge your own path to victory in this pathbuilding tower defense! Place your towers anywhere and craft a unique path through each level. Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2441630/Th… #WishlistWednesday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #towerdefense #strategy #GodotEngine