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So how did your experience is going with lenses? Do they help you with self-diagnosing so far?

Well…

One thing is you can’t know if a ‘game idea’ is a good one before battle test it.

On one hand it’s similar to writing a book or shooting a movie. Sometimes most mundane narratives have something that ‘clicks’, making it a hit. And sometimes most interesting ones have bad execution, to become instant failures.

On the other hand, of course there are some understanding about ‘what is entertaining’ and ‘how to make things fun’. There are lots of discovered rules, tropes, approaches that worked so far. Like, Game of Thrones books always meant to be a cash cow TV series, and you see traces of almost all the rules that makes a book a good TV material. So there are many sources about narrative and game design that can guide you through your journey.

Of course the concepts discussed in these sources aren’t definitive and open to interpretation. But they helped me dearly exploring ideas and hand down better experiences.

Some I can recommend are,

• Art of Game Design (Jesse Schell): It comes with a deck of cards which is very valuable for self-feedbacking.

• The Game Narrative Toolbox

• How Games Move Us

With games, it’s ‘vertical slice’s, like preparing a 10 minute condensed version of a game. You can gather lots of feedback with that. Every game had that at one point. Balatro had that, GTA 6 had that, as well as “What Remains of Edith Finch” had that. If you can pique interest with a vertical slice, it’s mostly good idea to pursue the rest from that point.

Excellent?.. Well, your experience might be different but even though I clocked way more hours at BL3, I don’t remember an inch about it. I remember lots of details and fun moments about BL1 and BL2 though.

I don’t buy promises anymore, sorry.

It doesn’t have Hot Seat either. I instantly refunded when I realized that. How the hell a Civ game have multiplayer but not hot seat?

The peak of my career also was definitely when we crashed Steam for a few hours during our EA launch - even though the Steam devs were prepared.

I’m also really happy that Silksong is getting so much love from players. The team behind it truly seems to deserve it.

Fork Android?

For years Android people were yapping about how it’s open source, open platform and the competitors are not. So why not just fork it and keep on? Isn’t that the strongest point of being open source?

Nokia done so many things for the user interfaces in general, like they’re the power behind QT as well.

ZA/UM’s toxicity really on par with the Detective’s worst behavior.

It was a surprisingly decent game which kept up its quality until the end. Devs could able to capture Indiana Jones feeling all around. I’m sure DLC would be fine again.

Keep your hopes down. The project has been restarted 4 times and lastly handed over to a small studio in a turmoil with no experience in the genre.

So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd?

I was expecting that as well but somehow Microsoft botched it. Training on failed commits should be the most invaluable asset. Yet their internally developed models (Phi) are lagging back of the competitors.

Microsoft bought GitHub like back in 2017.

I don’t understand why people first think of memecoins when there are a few stablecoins like USDT or USDC?

Gift cards are an obvious way to bypass regional pricing, so a low-income country like mine could get more harm than good (as in fraud increases and the storefront gives up ın regional pricing from that point on).

Also, when convenience of online shopping is lost, why would I bother wearing my shoes and get out to sun to purchase a gift card, while I can buy a physical copy of the game instead?

I’m almost sure they’re keeping that for the Earnings call.

I’m thinking otherwise. I think GPT5 is a much smaller model - with some fallback to previous models if required.

Since it’s running on the exact same hardware with a mostly similar algorithm, using less energy would directly mean it’s a “less intense” model, which translates into an inferior quality in American Investor Language (AIL).

And 2025’s investors doesn’t give a flying fuck about energy efficiency.

I was in the impression it’s development stopped altogether since mobile app support dropped. Cool!