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So I’ve decided to finally take the jump and post some gamedev on THE TWATTERS. I feel a little silly doing so after wasting so many years arguing about Star Wars, but it is what it it is. Better late than never! Got a bit of work to waveswim done, and I implemented some new systems where when you smack fish about they spin around a bit, it's a twist on stun that I think will be a great means of allowing the player to really dominate weak fish, but enemies that are immune to this sort of control will be much harder to fight. There is so much about this that is rough around the edges and needs improving part of me wants to never make a public update, but I also realize that it’s important we at least try to post this crap, start figuring out what sticks, or at the very least, forum slide all the stupid crap we shit posted over all these deranged years XD SeaCrit is not perfect, dunno how much further we have to go until it’s actually worth showing off, but i figure eh, let’s try to start getting our head into this marketing game and try to feel this space out, we have nothing to lose. I'm going to guess we get maybe 12 views on this post and we’ll be lucky to get a single reply, but we gotta start somewhere. That said I do think our project is becoming pretty neat and hopefully not a total waste of others' time. #indiegaming

@chwe81 @memechaotic I finally have a good excuse to post this clip youtu.be/WzVObt891nc

Go.

I've always been impressed by their work, but as of late they did seem to be getting comfortable just putting out Fornight content. Maybe they were too ambitious and the Meta stuff didn't come together. Or maybe they weren't ambitious enough. Alls i know is they've always done phenominal work, and I wouldn't count them out. Guess we'll have to wait and see what they do. I don't think of this as them focusing on Fortnight, fortnight is just their community hub. At the heart of this is their modability, this isn't wanting to remake fortnite, this is Epic wanting to bring the Unreal Engine to the masses and make it a true sandbox. They've been at this a while, you could say that they're experienced at this by now, or maybe burned out, likely a bit of both. Per usual, only time will tell. It's tech in 2026, who the heck knows what the future holds.

Epic is facing some hard times. This was the 2nd time they did a round of layoffs. The company plans on doubling down on Fortnite. I think that's a lost cause.

Epic head of HR, Monika Fahlbusch, has parted ways with the company. This is on the heels of the 1000+ dev layoffs at the studio recently.

"...slliks fo tes ralucitrap a evah I"

Am I the only one excited for this? Could be amazing like the good old days of flash if done right with a high volume of quality games showcased and seen by millions and I love the idea of the engines giving Steam a run for their money. Little bummed this is taking longer than anticipated, but that was kinda to be expected anyhow, in fact, who knows if this ever comes together with the state of things... Finishing my game is taking WAY longer than I thought it would anyway, so it kinda works out.

Tim Sweeney gave an update on the Unity-Fortnite collaboration and shared how the integration will work. "It's in development but isn't nearing release yet": 80.lv/articles/tim-s…

You don't need a machine of AAA to foster you. Find some youtube tutorials, download visual studio, download Unreal, download Unity and get to bleeding, unicorns. There's never been a better time to start your gamedev journey. The world needs the next generation of devs, and it's not coming from AAA. #gamedev

It was deeper. Chuck, deep down, knew Jimmy was just as brilliant, but he couldn't entertain that notion, because it was all he had. It rationalized all his other failings in life, it wasn't that he was a bore, or uncaring, he was an amazing lawyer! The system of law was rigid, and arbitrary, the very things Chuck was. Chuck was the embodiment of that senseless machine, self important, condescending, but ultimately, when you think about it, kinda a self serving, unnecessary nothing. Jimmy, who had the emotional intelligence to understand that the law was ultimately a bunch of self serving bullshit by the man, was outcast by that machine, personified by his brother. Such a fucking amazing show.

Better Call Saul fame Michael McKean, in an interview, shared a really insightful take on Chuck McGill that kind of changes how you see him. “I feel like I really understand what drives him. At the core of Chuck’s pain is his relationship with his mother. He was the one who made her proud, the successful, dependable son. But Jimmy… Jimmy made her laugh. And that’s what stayed with Chuck. That difference cut deeper than he’d ever admit. It bothers him because he sees Jimmy’s ability to connect with people as something almost ‘magical’, effortless, natural, something you can’t learn. And for Chuck, that’s frustrating. Here he is, incredibly intelligent, disciplined, and highly respected as a lawyer… yet he feels like he’s missing that one thing that truly makes people gravitate toward someone. And in his mind, no amount of success can make up for that.”

@BowTiedTrance It's essentially this, but for anxiety

This was one of Scott Adams's best moments in crowd-level hypnosis, imo. "I will rewire your brains to relieve anxiety" In hindsight ... it's crazy that he did this almost exactly two months before the COVID lockdowns started. Almost to the day. Wow.

@tonyshouldersg Think of it this way, if you have 10 good reviews and one bad review, then you get a negative review, it's not going to take 1 new positive review to balance it out, you're going to need 10 good reviews in a row to get back to the same ratio.

The way Steam reviews work honestly doesn’t make much sense to me. I can go weeks or even months getting positive reviews, and the overall score doesn’t move at all. Sometimes it feels like those reviews don’t really count because the person rarely leaves reviews. But the second someone leaves a negative review, the percentage drops right away, even if they’ve only reviewed a handful of games. Like 4 games total. What’s even more confusing is someone can leave a negative review, lower the score instantly, then the very next day a positive review comes in and it doesn’t raise it back up. 😵‍💫 Negative reviews are completely fair, that’s not the issue. It just feels like the system reacts way faster to negatives than positives, and that part doesn’t make much sense.

@Apogee_Ent Making video games

Name one thing the gaming industry could do better.

@GameDevMicah it's like they're on a mission to reduce their audience by half ever time they put out a new movie

“People-pleasing isn’t kindness — it’s sacrificing your credibility just to be liked.” Vanessa Van Edwards explained this on Jay Shetty’s podcast in a way that really hit home. Princeton research shows we judge people mostly on two things: warmth (can I trust you?) and competence (can I rely on you?). Warmth makes up a whopping 82% of our first impressions. Highly warm people-pleasers often throw their competence out the window to stay likable. They say “yes” when they mean “no,” fake interest in things they don’t care about, or pretend to agree just to keep the peace. The cost? They lose respect, and the relationship becomes inauthentic. Vanessa’s advice: you don’t have to choose between being liked and being respected. You can be both warm and competent, friendly and assertive. Real connection comes from honesty, not performance. When was the last time you people-pleased and later regretted it?

Agreed. Devs should stand by the gameplay. Too many thinly dressed memes disguised as games. Most teams make shallow games about deranged animals with guns, or some friend slop with rudimentary ragdoll controllers. Maybe some horror slop. We hardly even make games any more, everyone just makes their silly memes and extracts what little good will is left. It's damages what little of this industry there is.

Every game should have a public demo. The fear of losing sales is overblown. Limiting it to Next Fest is a waste of opportunity. I kept demos for Soulash and Soulash 2 permanently available, and I didn't regret it.

The unspoken rule, is that everyone just plans on stealing the work of hte few people who actually still put in the legwork. "This is the worst AI will ever be" Becaues we're parsing all the repo's on the downlow and stealing everyone else's work so that trust fund kiddo founder over there posting Steve Job quotes can repurpose your code and make some bullshit app clone and make cryptic posts on X about how rich they'll be in a week.

The AI bubble will burst when people understand that when everybody has easy access to the same tools, then the advantage of these tools is going to be ZERO (0). Not to mention the tool itself is not very intelligent.

@Pirat_Nation I go a little hard on this AI stuff, but to be fair, it is collectively destroying the future of ours species, so I don't feel to bad about it.

The most striking thing about all this ai nonsense, is that people don't seem to understand it's just an enhanced google, able to go one step further and gather a few more references and do some basic level fact checking, and dump it out in a rigid syntax filter for human consumpmtion that strokes our ego's and affirms all our questions that it even knows what it's talking about. People are so taken by a computer that can form a sentence, they don't take the time to fact chekc it or examine its rational abilities. It has none, it just parrots what it's given as fact. It's far more rudimentary than people realize. It can't tell the difference between good code, or bad code, it can reference data of others explaining why this is good or bad, and it can mix and match various sentiments together, but it doesn't actually do any thinking. It doesn't do any logics, it's just a convoluted bit of noise of existing human data that it takes as fact. It passes the basic bitch averaging of existing knowledge, nothing more. It has the same capability as a monkey if it had a time machine and 2 months to "let me google that for you" for every question you might have. That's it. It repurposes public sentiment and smooths it out to sound intelligible. It makes no new discovers, it doesn't push the logics to cleanre, better version, it has no taste, it doesn't weight positives or negatives. In 2026 that passes as big brain level thinking because we've regressed so much and become so lazy we can't be asked to check this stuff, and we've sunk so much investment into these notions of this crazy technical future where we're going to have robot helpers, eternal life, and we're gonna be exploring the stars. And that's an easy notion to have, because it absolves us of all responsiblity and duty to create that stuff the hard way. Much nicer to just think we'll throw more graphics cards at all our problems because all of mankind has gone retarded of late. If this tech were to come out 20 years ago, we'd likely have a more grounded and realistic perspective of how to use it, and our learning materials and documentation for everything would be so much better that the AI wouldn't be seen as such a monumental leap forward. But this is the world we live in, where a machine that writes at a 7th grade level and aggregates all its data from public sources is seen as some kind of Einstein genius.

Anthropic is warning that artificial intelligence is starting to create a new divide in society. The real gap is now between those who know how to use it effectively and those who only use it at a basic level. People who understand how to use AI for research, writing, problem-solving, learning, and productivity are gaining a major advantage in work and education. But those who only “touch” the technology risk being left behind as AI becomes part of everyday life.

I mean it's shiny. But it's also easily generated. Do you gush over a photo like you would a painting? One has value, one took effort and talent, the other was snapped in an instant with a machine. We've been through this before. The machine recreations have zero value, and carry no weight to the viewer. I suppose with how cheap it will be to generate anime any more there will be some niche studios producing shows, but competition is going to explode, and knock offs will be rampant, it's going to be near impossible for anyone to stand out and create a unifying center for the medium. There will be no Disney, no more Studio Ghiblis. It'll be like youtube, where there are millions of channels, millions of creators, but an even lower barrier to entry. I don't understand how anyone thinks this is going to result in a stronger industry. You take away the human requirement, you make it as easy as pressing a "make awesome button" and you don't get a ton of awesome anime, you just get a ton of what anyone will view as half assed slop that anyone could make. Creative works have proportional value to their difficulty of production.

@Grummz I dont. the anti ai spergs will but only if you tell them it was made with ai. otherwise, they probably won't care either if they dont know

AI but does anyone care anymore? Nobody cares that game code comes from prompts now, for example.

"Nobody cares that game code comes from prompts now, for example." Well, most gamers wouldn't care, so long as the game was good. There are no games even remotely close to being as good as this anime art generated from AI prompts, it's actually awful, and any game relying too heavily on AI is almost guaranteed to be a failure. Videos such as this made by a solo creator with nothing but a prompt marks the end of anime, the mystique is dead, that awe knowing how many colorists and line drawers slaved over storyboards and rough ins. When anyone can generate an entire feature film in an anime style with a single text prompt, everyone becomes special. "And when everyone is special, no one is." 5 years ago this would have blown peoples minds. Now no one cares. This isn't the beginning of incredible anime, it's the death of it.