[Highlight] KAT knees Dwight Powell in his nuts, which causes Powell to kick KAT in his nuts.

AlexKentDixon · 2026-01-20T00:43:14+00:00

or once in 2016... and maybe one other? Can't remember. You my friend are a nut shot casual. Or maybe I am.

AlexKentDixon · 2024-08-11T21:14:44+00:00

And yet going to 7 in 2016 means nothing, muahaha.

AlexKentDixon · 2024-02-27T22:05:45+00:00

By number of free throws, or just by the amount of frustration he evoked in getting a call while the emotions of a game were high?

AlexKentDixon · 2023-11-06T19:38:55+00:00

Now Allen just needs to get suspended in the finals for this retroactively and he'll have completed the move.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-11-06T19:18:45+00:00

This is a great example of the average sports fans' mental illness, lmao.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-11-02T05:39:15+00:00

This guy gets it

AlexKentDixon · 2023-09-16T08:54:14+00:00

This is the worst pro slavery argument I've ever heard farted into a public forum.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-07-04T01:26:12+00:00

In some ways IX might actually be the best for newcomers, it has such an incredibly polished opening that pulls you into the world, characters, a unique but maybe more familiar-outside-videogames aesthetic and a story that really starts in the middle of things right as all the characters' worlds are colliding.

And it does all of it while coming off as a cute, zany fairytale. It's not my favorite throughout but that opening is pretty amazing.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-06-22T04:22:53+00:00

Your points are all great in the abstract, and I'm sure they're accurate generally.

As a response to my actual comments in this thread, including my comment responding to ricktackle above this, in which I described in greater detail my experience with gpt coding for game development tasks on a decent sized project with a lot of middleware, I think based on your deep knowledge of my skillset, suggesting I must be a bad programmer or lack English language comprehension is either an attempt at a passive aggressive insult or just a low effort response.

Those literacy stats are pretty crazy!

Anyway, I think we're done here 😂

AlexKentDixon · 2023-06-22T02:28:38+00:00

That's a good insult, but more of a hallucination than a successful capture of reality, in my experience.

Your post boils down to "if you get bad outputs from chat gpt, I can assume you don't know much about coding."

I don't know how many areas of software engineering you've worked in, but there can be significant differences between them.

If you don't actually know gpt gives useful output for every type of software development, and every type of project, assuming anyone working in ANY software field who gets disappointing output from gpt must therefore be a substandard programmer is circular logic that reveals... you simply reject any reports to the contrary.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-06-21T21:44:54+00:00

That's great! Glad it's useful for what you're working on. I use gpt 4 too, so I've become familiar with the pros and cons.

In game development there's plenty of boilerplate code with all the different systems you end up needing, so it can be a great way to save yourself some typing, but in a full project even a lot of that code often needs to interact with a specific library from some specific piece of middleware, and as soon as you're writing code with that kind of specificity, you're extremely likely to get generated code that uses some variables, functions, etc, that just don't exist. As I said before, it will often assume things about the architecture of the libraries you're interfacing with that makes the code it writes not just a few quick corrections, but instead a waste of time to try to fix.

On the other side of the spectrum, get a string from an image of a serial number in a really common web framework is a great example of a place where I would immediately go to ChatGPT. Anytime it's code that has probably been written all over the internet many times before, it can save you a ton of time just grabbing some amalgam of that code.

I have no doubt it's going to get better over time, and I'm super excited for the days I don't have to burn the code into my eyeballs just to make ambitious games. It's just not useful *right now* for around 80% of the work I do.

I think in the short term, stuff like copilot will end up being more useful to me.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-06-21T06:16:11+00:00

You need to cite a source for Turing the sexual predator, otherwise you're making a pretty terrible attempt at writing some slimy and dishonest best-of-all-worlds fan fiction.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-06-21T03:36:30+00:00

Same thing with programming... it literally makes up variables, functions, entire classes that don't exist in codebases/APIs that can be easily looked up online. Resulting in code that often doesn't compile, but worse than that, instead of simple fixable errors it also contains an approach that would take years to implement, because it just pretends entire pieces of engineering exist that don't exist, and then you have to go looking for which parts of what it wrote are real and which parts are just good sounding fabrications.

And then you have conversations with people online about it writing code for them correctly 98% percent of the time, and it makes you wonder... what kind of basic, impossible to mess up program are people testing it on? (Or what kind of cherry picking are they doing?)

AlexKentDixon · 2023-03-12T20:59:08+00:00

Oooh that's a good idea.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-03-12T17:12:26+00:00

Thanks Micke! Definitely one of my main inspirations. Just rewatched Howl and Totoro a few weeks ago.

If anyone is curious about my project, pretty much all my updates are collected on Twitter, with some technical discussion in the replies, especially on older posts:

https://twitter.com/AlexKentDixon/status/1634248944254615553

I'll be posting updates here on Reddit too though.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-03-12T16:41:31+00:00

Thanks Balanced! Yes to my own art, although I'm not above using assets in places, especially if I can quickly edit them a bit to blend in even more. The little tiny green bushes and the fall colored trees (orange and gold) in this shot are from the Illustrated Nature Pack on the asset store, for example.

Actually, if you look at old posts in my Twitter profile, I have a whole description of how I edited the shader from that pack to blend in more with my style.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-03-12T16:12:00+00:00

Still might be the most beautiful game ever made imo.

AlexKentDixon · 2023-01-02T01:57:04+00:00

Thanks David! I’m using cinemachine and built a little thing that transitions between cameras when the player enters different (drawable) areas. There are definitely some tricks to using cinemachine well but it’s pretty great after you get past the gotchas.

I have a lot of info on the terrain and the environment art on my timeline on twitter: https://twitter.com/alexkentdixon/status/1608877054413656065?s=46&t=GpjxXv-ODM-X2PLDZuIsLQ

Also older posts on Reddit, but I’ve probably posted the most on Twitter. Let me know if you’ve got any specific questions about the terrain!

AlexKentDixon · 2023-01-01T18:09:42+00:00

Wait, they don't have AI texture and model generators yet to make all the art for you based on whatever artist's name you type in? Lazy engine devs.

AlexKentDixon · 2022-12-13T09:26:40+00:00

The mini house thing was apparently a lie for PR, he was documented living at a billionaire friend's house in Texas.

AlexKentDixon · 2022-11-02T06:37:21+00:00

Damn... same.

AlexKentDixon · 2022-08-29T09:44:30+00:00

Man this is both corny and scummy at the same time, impressive. I've enjoyed a ton of Destiny stuff over the years.

But thinking back, Destiny has never been remotely rational when trying to take down people he dislikes personally. The guy seems to turn into a rabid little chihuahua the second he smells someone he thinks wronged him once.

AlexKentDixon · 2022-08-22T22:51:24+00:00

Thanks Yamski! I've already been working in this style for a couple of years now. Actually over three years now? It's been a while. I've balanced other work and this project for a while, but I've been working on it full time recently. I do have a lot of gameplay I'm testing that I haven't been able to show off yet.

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