Hey #gamedev

Do you have a good analogy to why: "these indie devs did it, so the AAA team should be able to do it!" is just so fundamentally not the reality?

(Someone in my TikTok thinks since Boneworks has melee combat that Half-Life: Alyx should have it too).

I know just enough about games to understand the scale of designing something like melee for a relatively low fi indie game is totally different if it’s a game as high end as Alyx, but not enough to articulate why.

#gamedevelopment

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New blog post: on a new technique we've been using for Highland which allows the player to walk away from any conversation at any time - and have the other character respond.

It is ridiculously simple - so simple we didn't really think it could possibly work - but it turns out to be, in fact, absolutely great, and makes the whole game much more seamless and responsive without adding any real complexity at all.

https://www.inklestudios.com/highland/2023/05/11/autocut-for-responsive.html

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.