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Agree! Without twitch and the lockdown the game would’ve quietly died

The Among Us devs didn’t rely on any virality for success, the game had been abandoned before it blew up

It’s unfortunately more widely used in the dev space too

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Good description of the problems! I don’t play many big games nowadays but the tutorialization definitely feels heavy handed. I’m reminded of the newer Doom games that want to make sure players don’t get confused with pops for every single enemy. I think it’s a result of trying to scoop up a wider net of players to recoup those crazy dev costs.

Accessibility is a big win, replaying older games is sometimes very jank because of how games have evolved!

It’s a popular language for data scientists

Elaborate! If you want to, that first Dying Light was a great game but I never played the sequels

That would be why I used the phrase in quotes, I don’t agree with it

Gamedev is like the ultimate digital hobby if you do it yourself. You get to program, do art, sound, game design, etc.

Potentially good news about Lairion: Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use

Funnily enough, the Arc Raiders team “did it right” like this. They paid artists and made special models to pre-generate some voice clips, none of it is used at runtime, and people were still upset!

The well is beyond poisoned at this point.

The generated assets in e33 were minor and patched out so the project could’ve been made without them. This gives me hope for their future projects, they seem to know how to manage a decently sized team and had a fitting scope for their resources.

Good discussion! The audience clearly doesn’t like or trust the tech so the risk of backlash will hopefully scare off publishers and investors, the sooner the bubble pops the better.

The lighting on hair is beautiful on ps5, I can see how it wouldn’t not scale if you don’t have the specs for it.

Your experience with the deck made me curious on the system… so I checked some of my CSGO skins and one that used to be $10 was selling for $145 on the marketplace. I sold it, and the next day Valve discontinued the lcd steam deck 😂 so rip that idea, the oled versions are too pricy for me

I’ll add to the other comment for anyone else that’s actually open to new things, because I traditionally don’t like turn based games:

The combat is excellent and the enemies are varied. Party members have fun synergies with both your team and the enemies, and the Pictos system adds a ton of flexibility for each character. You can have some crazy setups, at one point I gave a character the explosive death + instant-death perk which let me skip a lot of the easy battles later on.

Plus there is a parrying mechanic that is challenging and rewarding!

The best argument against it I’ve seen is “why should I care about the thing you didn’t care enough to put the work in yourself”

Which is also why I support using assets. You still have to find things that match what you need, but the human isn’t left out of the process.

Also that the unethically trained llms are an abuse of social contract for profit

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There are some, none of them are very big. The bigggest I can think of is Darth Vader from Fortnite and players immediately got it to swear and say slurs.

https://www.totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surprising-new-number-of-genai-games-on-steam

The fact that Silksong did that is insane to me, there was so much hype

Agreed, it’s still one of my favorite games this year. Any placeholder that isn’t an obvious placeholder has a chance to make it though

I can see what you mean, it could’ve easily slipped through the cracks. I feel like the Indie Game Awards (much smaller than the regular Game Awards) had to do it on principle since genai is a disqualification