Mastodawn

D.M.Mar 8

ety://glyphscribe Mar 8

Jack in and join IRC. For the Aesthetic. For the Chooms. For the 'Net we were promised.

#RetroNetworking #RetroComputing #IRC #OtherNetworks #Windows98 #Windows98se #Windows9x

D.M.Mar 8

Jena - Wishlist [Contenir]Mar 8

"we use AI 'cause we can't draw"
Meanwhile Slay the spire 2 winning over my heart with this artwork
#noAI #sts2 #gamedev

D.M.Feb 6

David Amador Feb 6

TIL that SSDs can lose data if left unplugged for long periods of time (only required to hold data up to 1 year), unlike HDDs which as long as the material holds it can take years.

Edit: added link: https://www.slashgear.com/1893447/dont-leave-your-old-ssd-unplugged/

D.M.Jan 30

Eniko Fox Jan 30

Man I wonder why coders, famed for enjoying writing code but hating reading code, aren't taking to the tool that turns them into dedicated code readers for the hallucination machine

D.M.Feb 12, 2025

Andy Price Feb 12, 2025

I've heard that part of writing an engaging novel is to establish the needs of the characters and what they want instead. Well, currently I need to go buy milk so that I can eat breakfast in the morning but what I want instead is to sleep for a whole month.

D.M.Feb 12, 2025

Rock Paper Shotgun Feb 12, 2025

Unity make another round of job cuts as CEO acknowledges "exhaustion associated with prior changes" - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/unity-makes-another-round-of-job-cuts-as-ceo-acknowledges-exhaustion-associated-with-prior-changes #Unity

Unity makes another round of job cuts as CEO acknowledges "exhaustion associated with prior changes"

Game engine company Unity are making yet another round of job cuts across various departments, from software developmen…

Rock Paper Shotgun

D.M.Nov 27, 2024

Mizarc Nov 27, 2024

Reasons to follow me: I avoid saying negative things about games, even if the game is considered a total trainwreck by the general community.

I remember trying to play AC Unity co-op and it was straight up unplayable due to the sheer number of bugs, but I was laughing the whole way so it was well worth it. One of my most memorable experiences.

Literally the worst a game could be in my eyes is boring. Don't be boring.

#gaming

D.M.Sep 18, 2024

Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Sep 18, 2024

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257

Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! (@[email protected])

in case it's not clear: procedural generation is a term used in game design whereby a human-authored algorithm takes a random seed value (a big random number like 123908516 for example) and deterministically generates game content from that. this does not involve training a neural network, these algorithms are painstakingly crafted by hand to create the desired output, do not require anyone else's content to make, and this technique is over 40 years old it's used in games like nethack (1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack, elite (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game), minecraft (2011), dwarf fortress (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress, rimworld (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld and many, many more the fact that people are conflating procedural generation in game design which has a long and treasured history with "AI" slop is fucking tragic

People Making Games

D.M.Sep 12, 2024

Aras Pranckevičius Sep 12, 2024

Oh, sweet! Unity "runtime fee" is no more (well, it never was - it is cancelled now, and did not actually start yet). Good. More of moves in sane direction please. https://unity.com/blog/unity-is-canceling-the-runtime-fee #unity