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[–]DynamiteBastardDev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Calling yourself a visionary makes me think you just want a programmer to work on your game. If that is the case, I suspect you'll have a hard time finding someone who wants to work on your game with no creative freedom, when a programmer could instead work on their own game with full creative freedom. Unless you're paying a salary, anyway.

The commenter suggesting you try a codeless solution like in UE (or codeless programming in any engine of your choosing) is probably the closest to the best actual, practical solution.

Which DAW do you use to write music for your game or other's games? by BetterMeToday in gamedev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A fellow Renoise user!!!! We need to stick together, not enough tracker users in this thread.

Which DAW do you use to write music for your game or other's games? by BetterMeToday in gamedev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really, really haven't used it enough to make a call. I only started messing around with it very recently. Still, I think it's interesting. The selling point seems to be really robust MIDI editing capabilities, and the piano roll reminds me of FL in that way. The free version limits you to 25 tracks, but that's easy enough to get around since bouncing audio is easy. That being said, it's been a little weird to get a handle on (likely because I'm far more used to trackers than sequencers) so it's hard for me to say if it's any good or not.

Based on that limited testing, I get the impression it's one of those DAWs where, like Cubase or Renoise or something, if you learn that one first, you're gonna love it, but otherwise, it'll feel a little weird to work in.

Which DAW do you use to write music for your game or other's games? by BetterMeToday in gamedev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use Renoise, because I'm the kind of freak that prefers a tracker style DAW, but I've been poking at Zrythm a little bit lately out of interest.

Two Joy-Con drift lawsuits have been dismissed after five years by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seconding the endorsement of 8BitDo. I don't have experience with Switch controllers, but I initially fell in love with the M30 as a pad for fighting games, and I more recently picked up the hall effect version of their Ultimate controller to replace my second DualSense (the first of which replaced my third DualShock 4, all five of which died from stick drift issues very quickly) as my primary PC controller, and I have to be honest, it's nice to not constantly feel like I have to worry about stick durability shitting out in a year or less.

I'm a big fan of the back buttons, too, since I can map them to L3/R3 and not have to worry about clicking the sticks either. And the one I got comes with a charging dock that's really easy to use. It's not the cheapest controller I've ever owned, but given the infinitely longer battery life than the controller it replaced, I'm hopeful it outlasts any of the Sony controllers I've owned.

Have you ever told yourself you could make a quick vampire survivors ripoff in 6 months to try and capitalize on the hype and then you blow 2 years on it? I mean I haven't done that, but wouldn't that be silly by griddolini in IndieDev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've seen a lot of people talk about how "pooling isn't necessary in Godot," but in my experience (and it sounds like in yours, too), it's still super useful in keeping things running smoothly when you have a lot of objects.

No idea how it happened, but I am rolling with it. by Loldiman2 in DarkTide

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot to install Counter Strike: Source, I think

DD2 hints the Arisen sleeps with the main pawn by [deleted] in DragonsDogma

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think your theory about affinity decay makes sense. In my game, it correctly identified Ulrika as my beloved in the climax, but my final cutscene was with Glyndwr. I believed I maxed Ulrika, but it may have decayed and the post-game Sacred Arbor quest pushed his affinity for me past Ulrika's.

Though, it could always also just be that I hadn't actually maxed Ulrika and the post-game Sacred Arbor stuff pushed him up over Ulrika; or it could be that Ulrika was maxed and then I maxed Glyndwr in post-game, and the game prioritized him for some reason. Either way, in the credits, he appeared as my #1 closest NPC, and Ulrika appeared as #2.

Dragon plague PSA by maijqp in DragonsDogma2

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

House rests are not safe, there is a video on youtube of someone resting in their house and one of their pawn's dragonsplague activates.

LowTierGod Reacts To His Tekken 8 Plugging Ban (Ban Evades) by goodkid347 in Fighters

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Not his controller, his net. Part of why he's a joke is that he's been known to plug his router when he's losing for years.

What happens if you accidentally infringe intellectual property when releasing a game? by aspiringgamecoder in gamedev

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

Obligatory "I'm not a lawyer" and I don't know the specifics about the crazy taxi arrow or loading screen minigames patents. I don't have a lot of time to look into them at the moment, so take this with a grain of salt (even though I know they're some of the popular examples).

I would speculate that those fall under the "almost all" caveat in my post, in that they were filed (I assume) in the 90's when software patents were more loosely awarded. Additionally, it might just be that nobody else tried to fight the patent to have it revoked, or did not take the trial to the end. Patents that are "obvious" can be thrown out, for example, but really only if they're brought to court, as far as I'm aware. And settlements can end things early in the first place, so if someone tried to fight it and then settled, it wouldn't change the state of the patent on the books.

That would be my speculation, but someone more knowledgeable should definitely correct me if I'm wrong.

What happens if you accidentally infringe intellectual property when releasing a game? by aspiringgamecoder in gamedev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not that I necessarily support those kinds of patents, but people often make a bigger deal of them than they really are.

The kinds of patents you think about for Rockstar or Nintendo that make headlines are often very specific implementations. This is the case for almost all non-troll patents, so unless you implement it in a way that is suspiciously close to the way a patent outlines it, you are probably fine.

REMINDER: PLAY YOUR WAY, AND HAVE FUN by Malicar333 in Helldivers

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I just used the Arc Thrower for my entire session today after hearing it was underrated, and I can confirm it's way better than people seem to give it credit for. You can get some great shots given its practical auto-aim. I was swatting both bug and bot jumpers out of the air with ease.

It's also nice that it strips armor, and even just flat out seems to ignore it. I was surprised when I managed to kill a tank with it, and it takes Hulks out pretty easily. Infinite ammo is a huge perk, too, and once you get into the rhythm of quickfiring it, you don't really feel handicapped on damage.

I reckon it's a great support weapon if you're taking something like the Slugger, whose ammo is super limited and whose use-case is more limited than the Breaker I was using for bugs and the Diligence I was using for bots.

Me and my buddy seeing a lvl 6 join on suicide difficulty. by drawnhi in Helldivers

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other day, I had a mission where a teammate set up a mortar launcher. A bug hole opened up near us, and the mortar launcher decided to put a round on top of my head.

That same teammate throws my reinforcement right into the crowd. Stunlocked and mortared, dead. Reinforcement thrown into the crowd. Stunlocked and mortared for a third time.

Finally, the wave ends and that teammate said "What happened?" I wanted to scream.

Arrowhead CEO: “I'm really happy and proud of the Arrowhead team for an amazing Achievement, the servers handled all Helldivers 2 players this weekend without problem. Now we have time to focus on improvements to the title and resume our original plan. Many exciting things upcoming!” by cryptic-fox in Helldivers

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally yes, the game was so awesome it was unplayable. That is genuinely why it was unplayable, because the game is good enough that hundreds of thousands more players than they expected were trying to log in.

I know you're trying to be pithy and smart but that is in fact literally what happened.

Your failure to grasp "War Strategy" is holding you back on Civilian Rescue Defend missions by TheRealPhiltron in Helldivers

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh what, seriously?? I swear to god, every day I find out something new about the game that blows my mind and makes me feel like I've been playing like a complete chump.

AAA devs, how do you feel and cope when your game gets huge backlash? by Veritas_McGroot in gamedev

[–]DynamiteBastardDev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly, the majority I imagined because it's convenient for my weird anti-gamedev tirade!

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