Turns out building a multiplayer browser game is the easy part. Getting anyone to play it is the actual game. Still very rough but let me know if I’m on the right track https://polygo.io #webgames #gamedev
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CTO, ex-Solutions Architect at AWS for Games. I talk about psychology of the player, game development, game services and game servers. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
I'm creating a discord server, Responsible Fun, for those who are working or interested in working in the betting and gaming industry (gambling). Still in its infancy (empty) but happy to have a chat there if you are interested. I have more than 10 years working in the industry so happy to share insights as well. Add suggestions to the suggestions channel https://discord.gg/c5gAZBmk #betting #igaming #gambling
Marco Lizza 
... 35 years later, and I'm still in awe of what the achieved, back then. :)
This is *how* they did it! :)
https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-beast/
Shadow of the Beast
When the Reflections team produced Shadow of the Beast for Psygnosis, it was one of the first jaw-droppingly beautiful Amiga games that still looks great today. Sprites were heavily re-used on the screen, along with priority changes to make them appear above and below various layers.
How do you analyze reviews from players? I know that steam has analytics but it won't give you the insights from a review. What is this review talking about for example. Is it performance issues? Is it graphics? multiplayer? How do you know what to improve. Do you read each review one by one? #game #analytics
Electrotopia⚡️Happy 30th birthday to Doom!
So lets celebrate all the random crap we've managed to get it running on.
Top picks include:
1. A pregnancy test
2. A calculator powered by old potatoes
3. An ATM (cashpoint)
Truly testaments to human ingenuity!
Here's to another 30 years of porting doom to everything under the sun🥂
TIL: you can have multiple email accounts in gmail if you use the "+" symbol so you don't need multiple gmail accounts. for example, [email protected], [email protected] #gmail #tip
DevteamLife
mhoyeHoly _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.
You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.
You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a few lines of python and a novel application of _gzip_.
