The architecture of Doom was specifically designed for portability. If you’d like to learn more, check out this video. For those that don’t know, tl;dr, the game’s structure is compartmentalized with specific connections (interfaces). The game logic runs separate of engine logic. If you write the specific engine hookups, the game logic should then run. Also math & clever level design implementation.

The moral compass bit is hilarious. Large swaths of tech haven’t had morals in decades when it comes to business, if ever. See google’s canary “do good” being gone. People have fully drank the “greed is good” koolaid for years.

I’ll say this: when I go to the doctor, I’m listed as “not smoker.” But, I have my medical card, and it gets lots of use. When I go to ask, the doctor always seems to wave me off, like “It’s not tobacco, so it’s fine.” I definitely feel like I’ll get lung cancer with the amount I vape/toke at the moment 😬

This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.

https://www.definefinancial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/giving-by-income-group.png

The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).

The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.

The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.

Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.

Yeah, this reads like someone has some internal problems to investigate… She literally has a bag over her head as some sort of breathing system? It looks terrible & creepy, not in a good way. The trailer seems to keep this trend of female fashion, whereas every dude is in full battle regs.

Also, it reminds me of the Peter Molyneux game from 2012 with a giant cube.

Yes, edited now. Thank you.

Yup. For most kids, it can be exploitative because of the restrictions around withdrawing funds, the super vast majority of the audience is under age, many games have gacha models (gambling). I did get to make & work on games relevant to my kids, so that was very cool.

On the whole, I’m glad I’ve left that area of the industry for now. I’d prefer not to go back (only did about a year / 12 in my career). There are great companies in that space trying, but it’s not easy.

I’ve worked at a professional studio (+100 employees) that specializes in Roblox.

It’s very strange how that side of the industry works. Some people can make a killing just on the marketplace side, like providing assets for others (e.g. someone told me they made $200k/yr independently creating assets).

However, the vast majority of games & creators make nothing, or they make Roblox but now enough to withdraw funds into real money (something like 95% of creators fall into this category). It’s also hard to design for Roblox, because it’s like TikTok for games. What works there is somewhat unique to Roblox itself.

It could have changed since I worked in that field, but it’s a very topsy-turvy side of the industry.

Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.

It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.

I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.

Storytelling & oral sex.

Maaaaan… can we please just work together for fucks sake?

It’s almost like reality has a liberal bias. 🙃

Because those groups were right wing and funded by political agitators, multiplied by manipulated media. The people on the ground did believe in the issues, but it was a concerted effort of political theater as a show of force.

Everyone else is now debilitated by wage theft that they can only care about the economy. When the market crashes harder and full recession hits, that’s when people will take to the streets because they’ll have lost jobs and freedoms. That’s when the martial law will start.

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Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

I like this comparison to see how they were right about different facets together.

Wait, there’s a massive spike in spend. Who was president then? /s

You should peep this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment?wprov=sfti1

I’d say there’s more progress on scale than visual fidelity. There’s greater ability to render complexity at scale, whether that’s real actors on screen or physics in motion. I agree that progress in detail still frame has plateaued.