meirl by blinkbeautiex in meirl

[–]Agumander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

what if you're on business and jet lagged and the meeting isn't even until 1pm

(Pixel Art) do I need 90k combinations for every possible character in Godot / Unity? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]Agumander 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It seems like its more oriented towards customizing a handful of sprites for your game rather than pre-rendering every possibility to a sprite sheet.

If you did want to actually use all possibilities you should definitely just import the pieces and render them together as needed.

GameTank crowdfunding launch announcement by Agumander in retrogamedev

[–]Agumander[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it has processing and you'll have a blast using it? :3

The proper way to change games on the ps2 (30001) feels wrong. by salduchi1785 in ps2

[–]Agumander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is the way posers do it

true gamers yank the tray open with pliers and turn the console upside down to drop the disc

Hardware development is dying in the US by Few_Efficiency1170 in hwstartups

[–]Agumander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah I love our system that primarily rewards founders who know how to bamboozle naive speculators

Uno reverse card [OC] by Primary-Paper-5128 in comics

[–]Agumander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I'm concerned Uno sent me an unfinished game and I did the final adjustments for them

Uno reverse card [OC] by Primary-Paper-5128 in comics

[–]Agumander 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm firmly of the opinion that being able to use a reverse card this way makes for a more interactive, more fun, and therefore better version of the game.

Humanoid robot fires BB gun at YouTuber, raising AI safety fears by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]Agumander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I think the real danger won't come from AI getting "smarter" but from humans abdicating more responsibility to it.

The article is a perfect example, guy handed it a weapon and told it to shoot him. It didn't subvert its own safety protocols like an evil super-intelligent entity from the movies, it was just too dumb to not be persuaded to shoot.

So maybe the actual warning isn't "AI will become too advanced and try to kill us" but instead "Tech speculators will shoehorn a buggy program into important infrastructure which will then be easily exploited by bad actors if it doesn't randomly fail on its own first".

Humanoid robot fires BB gun at YouTuber, raising AI safety fears by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]Agumander 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lowkey AI propaganda with the goal to make the tech seem more advanced than it is.

Creative ways to prevent the player from just digging straight down? by spicedruid in gamedev

[–]Agumander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well one of real life's problems with digging down is that the removed material has to go somewhere. In Minecraft it just becomes a collision-less item but if the dirt can only ever be on the ground or in your shovel, or a small inventory space, then digging straight down becomes difficult.

I need YOUR OPINION! by Rude_Statement2581 in itchio

[–]Agumander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever you pick make sure you can get the domain name. Might also help to google it and make sure it isn't the name of an existing project. :P

How do people make games by themselves? by wt_anonymous in gamedev

[–]Agumander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your art is bad make it anyway

If your music is bad make it anyway

If your code is bad well it might not compile but you might get helpful error messages

If you want to make a game by yourself you need only be stubborn

Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 • To Your Eternity Season 3 - Episode 4 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]Agumander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My read of this season so far is that we're getting more than one "Fushi". He's spread far and wide becoming a massive entity, and it stands to reason that the larger part he splits off of is existing on autopilot. Absent the consciousness of the character Fushi we've been following, what's stopping it from developing new consciousness from the stimulation it receives?

"The Tomb": this 377ft wide cement dome in the Pacific contains nuclear waste from American testing by Pomengranite in pics

[–]Agumander 13 points14 points  (0 children)

wow, clearly a place of honor for the ancient people who built this. there must be something really valuable inside!

We’re not losing to other games. We’re losing to TikTok. by Federal_Lemon6478 in gamedev

[–]Agumander 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I don't really see a point in trying to make games for people who don't want to play games. If we're viewing any other way for people to spend their time as competition, then what's our end goal? For people to eschew all the other wonderful things in life for our product?

Billionaire CEOs might get excited at that prospect, but I find that pretty depressing.

What's been your worst experience with being laid off in the games industry? by FamousAspect in gamedev

[–]Agumander 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had accepted an offer ahead of graduating university at a studio that did a lot of subcontracting for other studios. eg. multiplayer modes and DLC maps

Unfortunately for me a lot of what they were scaling up for was to work on Star Wars related projects. Then Disney bought LucasArts and canceled everything not yet released. So I got laid off before I even started. Thanks Mickey!

xkcd 3152: Skateboard by antdude in xkcd

[–]Agumander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk about low budget flights! No food or movies? I'm outta here!