The Seven Voyages Of SteveMar 3, 2023

Finally started watching a (long!) video about the UE Gameplay Ability System. I'd tried to get a sense for it from the written docs, but they just don't go into enough detail on how & why you might use it in practice. More like 1 paragraph on each bit & then "go read the Lyra source". Needing to watch a *3h* video has been a blocker on me bothering to dig more before now.

I don't think it's something I'll use on this game, but I can definitely see the utility. Just a lot of moving parts!

Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveMar 3, 2023
Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.
Show threadGreg Stolze
@sinbad
Shhh! In the current climate "hire more writers" will inevitably be heard as "use ChatGPT!"
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Show threadSelf-hosted Idiran (AKA El Lamboz) 🚜 🐧 🎹 Mar 4, 2023
@GregStolze @sinbad As a game background writer, ChatGPT plainly sucks. I had it try to describe terran expansion 200 years after jump drive had been developed, told it to be creative and ignore all stereotypes and the most creative thing it spat out was "the culture x and y is inclusive".
Show threadGreg StolzeMar 4, 2023
@idiran @sinbad Spicy Autocorrect scores again!