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…
Gitlab might also be looking for where they can grow during the pandemic. 1.5% of 6m existing free tier users is 90k accounts who now need to reduce usage, pay Gitlab, or move to another platform. Only one of these…
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…
A calculation of effectiveness should contain not just an assessment of magnitude but also of scalability. Most people can't become Bill Gates or Elon Musk. There's not enough births of the computing age, or births of…
It is a total hassle to keep up with Googlers changing everything constantly. It's not just GCP it's every platform they control. Try keeping a website on the right side of Chrome policies, a G Suite app up, a Chrome…
People watch over a thousand hours of TV per year so if time spent was sufficient criteria for addiction we would be a pretty afflicted population. Think of how addicted I'd be to showering! I do it every day! I would…
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…
Analogies may be less about equivalency and more to do with bridging ideas. They can help the analogiser draw someone closer in thought, like a shout in the dark to help your friend find you
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…
I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengaged[0]. Another thing it does which I think helps a lot is automatically collapses subreplies. [0] https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
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 variant of this is that both ppl are answering the same question but on different time scales. So one is pro (on a generational timeline) and the other is con (on a 4-year timeline). Both might be right, for their…
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…
Only other optimization I would add to this is that you don't need to use the same 'consumer' value for all parts of your game loop. Collision detection you probably want to be tight so that fast moving objects don't…
Another perk of remote worker villages is their potential for upsetting gerrymandered districts in the US.
My favorite in this space has always been Paint.net, but it is Windows only. I tried Krita a couple years back and it was too buggy to become my OSX alternative. But reading in this announcement that they've spent a…
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…
This setup is going to lose its sheen really quickly when every attempt at writing a blog post also accompanies three hours of npm package bumps
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…
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…
Gitlab might also be looking for where they can grow during the pandemic. 1.5% of 6m existing free tier users is 90k accounts who now need to reduce usage, pay Gitlab, or move to another platform. Only one of these…
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…
A calculation of effectiveness should contain not just an assessment of magnitude but also of scalability. Most people can't become Bill Gates or Elon Musk. There's not enough births of the computing age, or births of…
It is a total hassle to keep up with Googlers changing everything constantly. It's not just GCP it's every platform they control. Try keeping a website on the right side of Chrome policies, a G Suite app up, a Chrome…
People watch over a thousand hours of TV per year so if time spent was sufficient criteria for addiction we would be a pretty afflicted population. Think of how addicted I'd be to showering! I do it every day! I would…
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…
Analogies may be less about equivalency and more to do with bridging ideas. They can help the analogiser draw someone closer in thought, like a shout in the dark to help your friend find you
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…
I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengaged[0]. Another thing it does which I think helps a lot is automatically collapses subreplies. [0] https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
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 variant of this is that both ppl are answering the same question but on different time scales. So one is pro (on a generational timeline) and the other is con (on a 4-year timeline). Both might be right, for their…
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…
Only other optimization I would add to this is that you don't need to use the same 'consumer' value for all parts of your game loop. Collision detection you probably want to be tight so that fast moving objects don't…
Another perk of remote worker villages is their potential for upsetting gerrymandered districts in the US.
My favorite in this space has always been Paint.net, but it is Windows only. I tried Krita a couple years back and it was too buggy to become my OSX alternative. But reading in this announcement that they've spent a…
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…
This setup is going to lose its sheen really quickly when every attempt at writing a blog post also accompanies three hours of npm package bumps
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…