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Stefan Gagne
@Twoflower
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Video game developer and novel author, with Fiction Factory Games.
Everybody's clowning on the DLSS 5 yassification AI slop filter, but I hope the clowning isn't just niche nerd lols and actually filters down to ordinary game consumers so they push back, too. I'm so goddamn tired of my hobby being devoured by techbros with no internal thought processes.
The problem I'm facing right now is that the story I've designed is basically just a rehash of some of the themes from SOC and LT. And everybody likes it when I dunk on capitalism and AI, but it's not saying anything new. I don't feel ready to write unless this is doing something interesting.
Had a bit of a random breakthrough last night just while walking to the bathroom which may have unlocked how I'm going to approach the next game. "it's a fairytale." I've used the theme of capitalism being a story we tell ourselves before, but I could really expand on it here. Maybe that'll do it.
Miserably bad day today. Arthritis really flaring up. I tried to write three paragraphs and had to stop.
I swear I can have better days than this. I just wish I had more of them.
I know the phrase "emotional highs and lows" but is there a pithy little phrase for emotional lows and emotional middles? Where you could never really say it's up, it's just not always crushing? Whatever that is, I'm in there right now. Kind of sucks but it's better than perpetual low.
Install VN, can't even start the game without using the mouse, hit a minigame that's mouse only, sigh, uninstall. Happened twice today.
People, if you can support controller, you can support keyboard. And RenPy devs, there's especially no excuse there.
I hope everyone that was screaming their heads off about evil video games journalists around the time of the Gates is now dancing in the streets with joy that all of them have been replaced by AI. Good work, buddy! You torpedoed an entire industry because Girl Bad. Thanks so much. Gold star.
Made the difficult decision to step back a bit for a time from game dev. I'd honestly been stepped-back for weeks, but I'm actually acknowledging it.
My physical and mental health sitch is pure toilets. I need rest in other spaces for a time. I'll come back to dev but I don't want to force this.
The new Vampire Survivors turn-based RPG is fully keyboard playable and doesn't rely on sharp timing for inputs.
I am beyond thrilled. I'm having so many problems playing games nowadays with my disability ramping to the fucking moon but this is playable and simple and fun. Simple so far, anyway.