Alistair Doulin

My Arcade Air Combat game has a Steam page! Please Wishlist and Repost to help me out. store.steampowered.com/app/2397810/Je…

@jammingames Ah yeah the attenuation can be a killer as you get further away. I strategically placed Access Points either above where I VR or as close as possible. That way the family can play VR table tennis against each other in the big open areas in different rooms.

@Doolwind I have a pretty great router but I was just too far away from it.

What’s the best way to tether a Quest 3 to windows 11 machine? I’ve been using virtual desktop streamer but I don’t think it supports tethering unless I’m missing something. The built in meta desktop thing didn’t work well last I tried but it’s been a while. I’ll try again this afternoon

Finished all 105 puzzles in @SinkingStarGame over the last few days. I tried 21 games in Next Fest and played this more than all of the others combined, absolute masterpiece

I was expecting this game to be good but never imagined the emotional rollercoaster of oscillating between feeling like the stupidest and smartest human alive. Managed to complete the demo while only rage quitting 13 times. Huge recommend🙏@Jonathan_Blow store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Or…

One extremely powerful use of LLMs is in hardcore optimization like this. Kudos to @mike_acton for putting the time (and token cost) into producing this and open sourcing it.

@SofaMods As others have said, Davinci Resolve is the best option. The free version is all you’ll need for a long time. I’ve used it for all my short form videos that have over 50 million views in total and I’m a terrible video editor. Super excited to watch your vids!

Think I'm going to start making a vlog or sumfin for project updates (general art stuff, RF mods, games, allat). Any recommendations for free, simple video editing software? Was using Hitfilm Express before but then they rugpulled it a while ago.

@Space_Strategy Yes! I've wanted to build a game around this idea for years.

Put tanks on the Moon

Yeah it looks like Sentry has exactly what you need about devices. You'll need to get consent depending on platform (for mobile you declare what you are capturing and your deletion rules) but otherwise you should have a pretty good picture of most common devices AND which ones are causing the most errors/issues in Sentry

@Lizzergas You will likely need consent, yes. I’ve just started using Sentry (instead of Unity Analytics which gave a heap of info) so I’ll have to check what device info you get by default. The info isn’t PII it’s just basic device stats like cpu/gpu/ram.

Have you ever bought a low-end device to benchmark your game? Planning to buy Lenovo T480s or T490s just to benchmark Clankerfront big battles. What is your opinion about it? #gamedev #indiedev #rts

@Lizzergas The other best option is to get the absolute lowest spec device you want to support and make it run as consistently at 30 or 60fps on that hardware as you can

@Lizzergas If you have any reasonable amount of players (from playtest, demo or released game) then I highly recommend getting stats on most used device to help you pick. Even just what generation, amount of ram or similar to see what the largest group of players is experiencing

@MindForge9 Yeah the same guy that made VTOL VR put this together. It's a cutdown version so it runs directly on the headset. It's also stripped right back to the pure gameplay fun of dogfighting. I love it!

@Doolwind Is this an upgrade from VTOL VR? Will have to check it out

The best VR game now has a standalone version (no PC required, runs directly on your headset) youtu.be/cXt1AAe8qQE?si…

@jamonholmgren @jammingames Could you ask the player if they’ve completed training? Have a little clipboard or similar with yes/no when filling out their name/callsign.

Looking for opinions for my combat helicopter game, Gunship Origins. (@jammingames) Unlike many games, the training missions (tutorials) are actually part of the story. When you start a new pilot career, you’re required to complete the basic flight training and basic gunnery training missions, and be promoted to Warrant Officer 1 / earn your wings, before you get to fly real missions. Ideally, this would be a hard requirement. A pilot’s career includes completing training, and that’s part of the story. Not only that, but when I observe testers finishing the training missions, I notice they are much more capable at flying and fighting in real missions in the game. But I’ve gotten plenty of people saying that they’d want a way to skip training. I’m considering it. Any ideas on the *narrative* around skipping the (normally required) two training missions and going right to flying real missions? For example, maybe you request an emergency training waiver due to prior civilian helicopter pilot experience, considering the urgency of getting pilots into the fight quickly repelling the invaders. I’m thinking this means you do get promoted to Warrant Officer 1 and earn your wings so you can go fly real missions right away, but you will not receive the training medal until you actually go back and finish the training missions. Opinions welcome.

@SachinKankane This is Unity compressing your assets, turn this off during development to drastically speed up your builds. Set Compression Format to disabled:

Why does Unity take so much time to build even a simple game? #gamedev #unityengine #unity

@gusvogelnice Nice!

'splosion #turnbased

@gusvogelnice I found darkening, desaturating or just tinting the ground helped a lot with making the jets stand out more. They get easily lost atm so having then stand out more would help. Also a light that only affects them can help you tweak level (no shadows, just pure directional light)

Any Unity devs want to help me out with lighting and color balance in URP? I could use some guidance😊

@PjctAggressorsG I have this same problem! My last two games both had them and I would always spell it wrong. Even in the source code of my second last game it was the wrong way around. The only cure was having people on my game’s Discord server mocking me every time I misspelled it.

Also after making this post I realized I've been misspelling CIWS my entirely life but I'm going to keep it CWIS because it sounds like cheese-wiz I think that's funny.

Working on anti-ship missiles and further on ship combat. It's a bit rough around the edges but I really like the feel of it so far. #indiedev #unity3d

@ThePrimeagen @zeeg Extreme adversarial metric: user data loss / leaked user data

@zeeg i would say the best metric is: * idea -> design -> in product -> conclusion of AB test (or however you determine success). * adversarial metric - outage / downtime / non show stopping bugs in production / performance (p99+) everything else is noise, in my not humble opinion

Lines of code has always been an irrelevant metric and LLMs have not changed that. Even the much celebrated lines deleted is garbage - as if removing things is always net win on the outcomes of a project. What you should be doing: track your commit frequency. It should be every single day you work, realistically multiple times a day. Then track total contributions. Figure out how you get more contributions per day. That is the metric. More isolated contributions that are of high quality, stable, moving towards the overarching goal. AI makes it easier to build mvps, internal apps, to unblock smaller tasks. Those are areas where you can see contributions go up. It also makes it easy to do what Garry is doing: generating large volumes of useless code. Lines of code at this scale is just slop generation. It is not real software, it is not how anyone who cares about the outcome of their work operates. It has real world consequence. If you think this is reflective of what you should be striving for you should disconnect from the internet and focus on your work.

@riotgames @LeagueOfLegends This is awesome, more like this please!

@cursor_ai does upgrading from Pro to Pro+ give 3x more Auto+Composer AND API usage or only 3x more API usage?