Polygnomial

@Jonathan_Blow ChatGPT: Here's the thing...

I've been trying to use ChatGPT as a thesaurus but it doesn't seem to be very good ... it keeps making generic suggestions even when prompted like "imagine you are very learned, with a huge vocabulary"... it then just picks older generic words. Any hints? English has 600k words!

@thepixelform Asking as fellow programmer just for curiosity sake, are you using a commercial game engine for the game or custom?

In unity there is strength. New formation orders: - Scatter, - Rally to Banner, and - Reform Lines Those three live and die with the standard-bearer. Also added more advanced rotation options but that's the boring part. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #strategy

@KatDoes3D Design games.

Hello, actual game designers. Wannabe game designer, here. How do I pursue an actual understanding of game design? How do I learn more for real? The last thing on EARTH I want to do is form gamer opinions, and I'm super interested in design. Where do I start? 🩷

@ThePrimeagen This is an incompetitive take on the subject. The better metric is 1000000000000000000x.

Honestly why stop at 100x engineer? Just use more agents, you literally could be 1000x, 10000x, 100000x just by scaling You could what you use to in an entire year in one second

@thepixelform Nice. Ambush is such a prevalent strategy in tactics, yet few games have an ambush feature. When you say each unit brawls independently, do you mean only for animation sake, or the outcome of each unit's combat is variable? I imagine most turn-based games pre-calculate outcomes.

@simplex_fx Unrelated. Me building DoD for a living or not is no indication of whether it died around 2022.

@polygnomial0 what are you building for a living atm, that is DOD?

Is it just me, or the whole DOD thing died around 2022? I mean, there's still some of us trying to build highly performant sw, but no one fucking cares (even in gamedev, not to mention outside of it).

@eeuoss Casey wrote an animation software literally used by thousands of AAA games, along with countless contributions to big projects, including The Witness - a game, a game made by... thats right, Jon Blow. They shape discourse coz they are very good. You wont shape any discourse, ever

It will never stop being hilarious how much online gamedev discourse is shaped by Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow. Casey never shipped a game. Blow spent a decade remaking Sokoban. Meanwhile, Minecraft was written in Java and FNAF was made in Clickteam Fusion. Those are my kids’ childhoods.

@thepixelform It already looks very good to me. Just the background is a bit too plain, maybe, but that's just nitpicking. I don't mean to be that guy from the internet with random suggestions.

@polygnomial0 Like this, it's already implemented. In general this formation screen will look much better later, I want to wait with making it preety for all tools first:

The people have spoken. Thanks for the input! As requested: -Assign the banner to any soldier on the formation screen. -If the bannerman falls, reassign it on the spot. -Later, rally orders will anchor to his position — where the banner stands, the line holds. #pixelart #indiedev #ancient

@rfleury It actually helped me a lot with UI programming.

Stop writing OpenGL state machine management bugs with this one weird trick

@thepixelform There is some unexplained charm in your art. The choice of colors is also near-perfect (for me at least). How do you choose your colors? I would love a sneak-peak into that process. I am sure it has been honed over years.

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous." — Aristotle Nature provides everything you need — you just have to know where to look. Wildlife roams the forests. Hunting alongside logging is another way to replenish your supplies. PS: There are 4 deers on this shot. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godot

@hizzzyai Unpopular, wrong, and laughable. Good job.

Unpopular opinion: Developers who can't code without AI are more valuable than developers who refuse to use it.

@cmuratori It is nice to read a positive comment on modern games. Yes, a lot of modern games, and software in general, suck, but it can get too heavy reading how awful things are. I don't mean this in a critical way.

I finally got a chance to play some Animal Well, and it is delightful! I know I am very late to the party, but I just wanted to mention how much it recaptured the feeling I used to get playing a great 1980s home computer game. Probably because games in general were a novel experience back then, some of them managed to achieve this feeling where it seemed like something new was happening on every screen - something that was unique, not just an instance of something you've already seen, but with different stats, etc. I'm sure few people will remember these games, but for platformers I'm thinking of things like Miner 2049er and Jumpman, etc. You were always excited to get to a new screen, and figure out what the new elements were and how to interact with them. Animal Well totally nailed that, and then some. Based on things I've heard about the game, I'm guessing the next 6 achievements are going to be a lot harder to come by then the first 14 :)

@cadenzza_ If they want to, they can. They just don't want to. They have lost incentive to improve the OS. Or even prevent it from spiralling further out of sanity.

If Microsoft manages to get File Pilot performance in File Explorer (and hopefully rest of the OS) I will cry tears of joy

@ThePrimeagen Let's see how people React to this.

Wait until Casey reads GitHub literally 2 -> 10 fps victory lap

@burntbulb @cmuratori Of course it is actionable on frame 1, and the next one is actionable on frame2. Just that the time between those two is time-zones apart. You know why? Because FPS.

@polygnomial0 @cmuratori I'm willing to accept a 5 frame animation if the control is actionable on frame 1.

How did we get here?

@tomwarren It is not misleading at all. 94ms is ~11 FPS. 11 FPS is slow, period! Factor in Microsoft's statement that it was on "top-of-mind", and 11 FPS is a gross result.

if we're misleadingly conflating 2 different perf metrics (time to first frame latency and fps smoothness) then just factor in OS boot time so it's less than 1fps 🙃The reality is the new Run loads faster (94ms) than the existing one (103ms) that nobody has ever moaned about

@cmuratori What is worse is that this is their best case scenario. After the diolog opens and you type a command, most of them don't seem to provide the results you want. I have typed in folder names multiple times and each time it said "Windows could not find ___ ..."

Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: Microsoft rewrote the run dialog with performance "top-of-mind", and the best they could manage to do when putting up a single text box was 10fps?