Yuan Gao

If you know me and my antics in the gamemaker discord server, you'll know that for several years I've laughed along to the jokes about people trying to make MMOs in gamemaker for their first game but it got me thinking... wait, I know how to put this together, I know enough backend systems from my previous satellite image processing work, and realtime systems from my previous robotics work to piece things together fast forward to today, we have a serious MMO platform, dare I say "best in class". leveraging many of the advantages of gamemaker (great 2D engine, fast iteration) but bringing in the programming rigor needed to operate a large team and project like this. The feedback I get from new joiners is often that the codebase is clean, and some of the systems like the component-based entities, and the DOM-inspired UI systems are comprehensive. We're pushing the envelope of what gamemaker can be used for. combined with a full-on backend stack - node.js, typescript, kubernetes, all the good stuff. But at the heart of it we have gamemaker running headless and containerized in the server providing full server-side authority for the MMO, a decision I made early on to empower gamemaker devs rather than backend devs to work on the server-side game logic. The same GM project gets built into both client and server, so you can implement your object and their components once. Plus, we've got a a pretty decent CI and deployment process, so most of the work that gamemaker devs have to do is in the IDE or via git. we have one of the larger gamemaker teams in the industry too, and we have separate teams for gameplay programming and technical programming to suit both styles and preferences. I can't ask for a better place to work as an indie dev. so join us. I have some weird gamemaker things to show you

@woods_jus @not_oayo hopefully supercritical CO2 becomes popular. early days, only one commercial plant operating, but hopefully another option to just boiling water again

@not_oayo Photovoltaic solar cells are the only widespread power generation that doesn’t use water or steam to spin turbines for power (hydroelectric just uses regular water).

its to boil water again isnt it

@Ed59716829Ethan @RadicalRollo @Videajames Tbh, it makes sense that TES, Fallout and Starfield would share a lot of mechanics for vendors

@RadicalRollo @Videajames TBF, most WRPGs have that. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, even Starfield.

A comic about shops in RPGs (1/3)

@deetavallio @VanGoghTech @OpenRouter free testing and feedback. the anonymous model gets people's attention. people will speculate whether it's Anthropic or OpenAI, people are curious what a next-gen model is like, way more attention and speculation than the name "Xiaomi" can draw outside China

@VanGoghTech @OpenRouter Fairs. Why havent they just announced it instead of doing it anonymous lol

The Hunter Alpha stealth model is now ranked #1:

@sseraphini on modern agents, that's Skill

what is the recommendation to create a recurrent task using an LLM? like making a review of what will be push to production, before pushing to production? is this prompt engineering?

@CalimanuLoredan @crystalsssup I formally grant you your Chinese name: 占位名 you may now add this to your profile

@crystalsssup well, how's my name in Chinese? :-/

As funny as when a Chinese person sees this: "English name (水平问题)" 水平问题 means “skill issue”

@Angus_CLC @PearlteaRizzy this reads like the list of Need For Speed game titles

@PearlteaRizzy Whatever this is

In Asia, it's mostly: Ground Floor Second Floor Third Floor Fifth Floor

@ShimazuSystems another 1/4 is made up of this one

we can tell this is a pelican case with well cut inserts and an assortment of things you can buy off of amazon plugged in to eachother via USB, which could all be achieved by just using a smartphone. I swear these keyboards probably make up a 1/4 of earth's mass, too.

@Pdj79 @MainStageNews @dissproportion that tracks. in china, last 4 digits of phone number is used everywhere for quick ID. like picking up packages. confirming you're the right passenger for ride-hailing app, etc. etc.

@MainStageNews @dissproportion This. My favorite Chinese restaurant is always "What you want....price is $30...ready in 15 minute. <click>" and when I show up they ask for last 4 of my phone number and then complete transaction. In and out in less time than it took me to order it.

Ordering from a small town pizza place: [rings 6-11 times] Him: Pizza Place Me: Hi I’d like to order a couple pizzas for pickup Him: yeah Me: Um, could I have a large cheese and a large pepperoni? Him: gimme twenty minutes [hangs up] No mention of money, a name, nothing.

@vxunderground sadly, the game dev scene is rife with this, every day there's a "can you help test my game" scam or five, with fake game profiles copied from legitimate ones, or shady buyers wanting to buy "complete games" under a guise of licensed distributors, but really as malware delivery

> be me > get file > "smelly this might be malware" > look inside > some weird game called renpy > visual novel thingy > look inside > everything looks normal > find weird .5t file > ??? 5t ??? > weird file with it, base64 encoded > decode base64 > "password is wu1xyEe" > ??? literally says passw: wu1xyEe > xor with wu1xyEe > decodes to .zip > look inside > .exe and some .dlls > signed > look inside > not really signed, fake sign > there_was_an_attempt.mp3 > too much work > throw in emulator > yara instantly flags as hijack loader > active campaign since february, 2026 tl;dr dont trust shitty game cracks. thank you to @brvnd0n_onbase for helping me reverse this (he did literally nothing except send me a picture of a cat)

@DavidKPiano game devs do this so much. they learn about state machines, and then meticulously apply a single state machine to the player character, and discover what happens when your character behaviour states and visual states aren't the same

"State space explosion" is the coolest term for the worst thing that most developers do

@kristinatastic Windows 11

I've been working on this important list for a couple of years now. What am I missing?

@willmcgugan oh for sure, if you've gone from the UK to China, the difference in fruit selection is stark dunno how long you're around, but we're heading into cherry season. Now the UK has decent cherries, but you'll notice the price difference and availability immediately

China has amazing fresh produce available. Dragon fruit is a favourite!

@ArthurzKV @wildmindai it's basically a time-limited open beta, but you don't know who you're sending your data to. later the model name will be revealed and be no longer free

@wildmindai so openrouter charges what exactly per token if its free

POV: Wake up and the world has changed again. > DeepSeek V4 or Kimi K3 is here > 1M context window > Free: $0 per token > Works with OpenClaw

@toomingos @OpenRouter yeah that would be good. especially if it can avoid providers running at 3tps like SiliconFlow was yesterday, where suddenly your prompt takes 10 times longer than another provider running 30tps at the same cost

@OpenRouter Will it do this automatically?

"Auto Exacto" is now live, and on by default for tool-calling requests. Over the last few days, OpenRouter has reduced tool error rates by 15-90% across providers automatically. Here's how it works:

@willmcgugan did they call you 老外

Kids in my in law’s neighbourhood cycling around playfully saying (in Chinese) “foreigner”. Disappointing. I thought I was blending in.

@runaway_vol @d2sdev 学中文 , duh

@d2sdev ok what do we do now

chinese models are so smart because they have 8 time more meaning per token due to symbol based writing system

@zebassembly a good strategy is kiki-k2.5 for interactive prompting coding tasks. and then switch to glm-5 for "walk away from the desk for 5 minutes while it works on a big task" type thing

I haven't done any AI coding outside of work in like 3 weeks, out of Kimi k2.5, glm5, and minimax 2.5 which is the best?

@Shu202410 @theepicmap bread is defined as a food made from wheat and a leavening agent. mantou, mo, etc. fit this definition. they are bread. The northern Chinese eat bread as a staple, not just a snack. sorry to have to break it to you. bread comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes

@mesetatron @theepicmap But it's not bread. If you had seen 主食 in China, many of them also flour in it. Mantou, Nang, 火烧馍馍，白吉馍，they are not bread, it's not about north or south China. What's the definition of Bread? There are lots of 早茶点 in Guanzhou, not bread, but with flour in it.

Bread vs Rice in Asia

@steipete @openclaw it's interesting how low minimax 2.5 is on the list versus 2.1, what happened there?

Interesting benchmark on which model is best for @openclaw pinchbench.com

@vxunderground the problem is you work on complex tasks that require a very specialised set of skills that takes a lot of talent, time, and effort to obtain, and the people advising you to use Claude are web devs

I've had so many people tell me to check out Claude. I tried it with my malware stuff (C WINAPI) and this thing produced some S-tier slop. It produced incredibly dangerous, over complicated, or straight up incorrect work. It did do a good job with API searching and stuff. Claude showed me some things I didn't know about. However, the implementation was wrong. I literally sent it a direct link to MSDN and it said, "You're absolutely right! My definition was wrong!". Or I would ask it something about the Windows registry and it would just straight up hallucinate something about WoW64 redirection. I suspect part of the problem is the lack of lower level C WINAPI documentation ... maybe? I don't know. High level stuff like Python it seems to do pretty good. I've had so many people try to gas me up about Claude and AI. Dude, it's cool, I get it, okay? But it is still dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. My best advice is to use AI to learn. Ask it questions. Study. Do NOT copy paste code from it.