I have only a layman's grasp of philosophy. Why doesn't this field challenge its definitions of consciousness more, and why is ethics treated as an axiom? These both seem like anthropocentric positions to me, limiting…
I'm hard on story-driven games as well, I don't think games are very good at telling narratives because the narrator's desire to control what happens next is at odds with the player's freedom to choose what happens…
I can't wait for the computer generated content trend to end. I understand why it's attractive to indies, because they can focus on the engine - and a game emerges from the effort on its own. But hand generated content…
Simplest compromise I've heard so far is for Apple's cut to scale with size of IAP/subscription. 30% cut starting at $0.99 purchases. As mentioned this barely covers processing fees. 20% cut starting at $9.99. 10% cut…
I've been on a team like this before with heavily separated feature and refactor pods and it doesn't really work. The feature pods outpace the refactor pods. Feature pods can use a bad pattern 50 times in the time it…
I know this was just written as content marketing, but a more accurate insight wouldn't involve the conversion to uniques at all. On one side you'd have count of unique IPs from the access logs at your web server. And…
There's a much much more advanced version of this tool used for systems design in game design called Machinations. You can model really complex economies with it. Now that I've left the games industry I still think…
Before Kickstarter existed I had read Brian Tinsman's The Game Inventor's Guidebook which explains how to navigate the business side of board game publishing. There's a lot of surprising hurdles a board game must pass,…
I stopped kickstarting games too because I've had like a 10% hit rate. One clear signal to me now is if they offer additional game mechanics as a stretch goal. It's hard enough balancing the base game and making it…
A small (~4qt) water boiler for the kitchen. Having on-demand hot water makes tea as available as a glass of water. First benefit: tea is a beverage hobby with some stunning depth (think wine, beer, scotch, etc). Second…
Apple forces Hey's app in front of unsuspecting users with App Store promotions. If the app doesn't provide any value to a random person who comes across it in the App Store, that doesn't mean it should be banned from…
Sorry things in your country are worse. Few issues with the straightforward narrative you present. Cops will slowly corral protestors as curfew draws near by setting up blockades or raising drawbridges. Peaceful…
All AAA games need to be cross platform to maximize revenue with a long tail, so they target the lowest common denominator for hardware requirements. No one is going to design gameplay for a special hardware constraint…
GDPR devalued PII-stores, and companies tried really hard to only let the value drop on the European portion of their data. Requiring ID is a way to discourage and even deny deletion requests in other countries. These…
My optimistic side hopes that this is so they can do some investigative journalism into surveillance capitalism without being hypocrites.
I'm the person at $dayjob who has to chart a course through the recent chrome web store changes and this is honestly my conclusion too. These extensions don't make any money at all for Google, in fact some of them lose…
I got the uncanny valley sense from the footage and had to watch it a few times to understand why. As you say, there are still subsystems whose fidelity don't meet the quality bar that the texture and lighting set.…
They announced developer productivity analytics in the same keynote as they announced codespaces. It's not just coming, it's here! Funny enough, after introducing the analytics stuff, they started the next section by…
Another good palette-hunting tool is Adobe Kuler. It's interactive so you can lock down parameters you like and continue searching the possibility space
If you install any browser extension and give it host permission to a URL (or God forbid, all_urls) it can see and steal anything on that page. This goes for everything from your pop-up blocker, to your password…
We also decided not to use InboxSDK because it has to dynamically load from Streak's servers. If you are open source hobby project this is probably okay, but for a real business this is a potentially business-ending…
I have only a layman's grasp of philosophy. Why doesn't this field challenge its definitions of consciousness more, and why is ethics treated as an axiom? These both seem like anthropocentric positions to me, limiting…
I'm hard on story-driven games as well, I don't think games are very good at telling narratives because the narrator's desire to control what happens next is at odds with the player's freedom to choose what happens…
I can't wait for the computer generated content trend to end. I understand why it's attractive to indies, because they can focus on the engine - and a game emerges from the effort on its own. But hand generated content…
Simplest compromise I've heard so far is for Apple's cut to scale with size of IAP/subscription. 30% cut starting at $0.99 purchases. As mentioned this barely covers processing fees. 20% cut starting at $9.99. 10% cut…
I've been on a team like this before with heavily separated feature and refactor pods and it doesn't really work. The feature pods outpace the refactor pods. Feature pods can use a bad pattern 50 times in the time it…
I know this was just written as content marketing, but a more accurate insight wouldn't involve the conversion to uniques at all. On one side you'd have count of unique IPs from the access logs at your web server. And…
There's a much much more advanced version of this tool used for systems design in game design called Machinations. You can model really complex economies with it. Now that I've left the games industry I still think…
Before Kickstarter existed I had read Brian Tinsman's The Game Inventor's Guidebook which explains how to navigate the business side of board game publishing. There's a lot of surprising hurdles a board game must pass,…
I stopped kickstarting games too because I've had like a 10% hit rate. One clear signal to me now is if they offer additional game mechanics as a stretch goal. It's hard enough balancing the base game and making it…
A small (~4qt) water boiler for the kitchen. Having on-demand hot water makes tea as available as a glass of water. First benefit: tea is a beverage hobby with some stunning depth (think wine, beer, scotch, etc). Second…
Apple forces Hey's app in front of unsuspecting users with App Store promotions. If the app doesn't provide any value to a random person who comes across it in the App Store, that doesn't mean it should be banned from…
Sorry things in your country are worse. Few issues with the straightforward narrative you present. Cops will slowly corral protestors as curfew draws near by setting up blockades or raising drawbridges. Peaceful…
All AAA games need to be cross platform to maximize revenue with a long tail, so they target the lowest common denominator for hardware requirements. No one is going to design gameplay for a special hardware constraint…
GDPR devalued PII-stores, and companies tried really hard to only let the value drop on the European portion of their data. Requiring ID is a way to discourage and even deny deletion requests in other countries. These…
My optimistic side hopes that this is so they can do some investigative journalism into surveillance capitalism without being hypocrites.
I'm the person at $dayjob who has to chart a course through the recent chrome web store changes and this is honestly my conclusion too. These extensions don't make any money at all for Google, in fact some of them lose…
I got the uncanny valley sense from the footage and had to watch it a few times to understand why. As you say, there are still subsystems whose fidelity don't meet the quality bar that the texture and lighting set.…
They announced developer productivity analytics in the same keynote as they announced codespaces. It's not just coming, it's here! Funny enough, after introducing the analytics stuff, they started the next section by…
Another good palette-hunting tool is Adobe Kuler. It's interactive so you can lock down parameters you like and continue searching the possibility space
If you install any browser extension and give it host permission to a URL (or God forbid, all_urls) it can see and steal anything on that page. This goes for everything from your pop-up blocker, to your password…
We also decided not to use InboxSDK because it has to dynamically load from Streak's servers. If you are open source hobby project this is probably okay, but for a real business this is a potentially business-ending…