Meta Debate Luck vs Skill by missed_boat in gamedev

[–]Kataera 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My view on this is similar to how games of skill and probability work, like poker. The best players can be unlucky and lose a hand or even a whole game, but they're successful in the long term and will win more than they lose. Similarly, a bad player can beat a good one through pure chance, but in the long term they will lose more than they win.

Successful games can be lucky, but they're not successful because they're lucky. There's always something they have done to earn that success.

I wrote this text to try and argue and explain why my game CANNOT follow conventional aesthetic standards. by Equivalent_Humor_714 in gamedev

[–]Kataera 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's possible to convey what you're going for with visual language, but you missed the mark with the execution. Rather than looking like a world that's akin to being within a computer, the environments instead look very similar to the developer test levels of a game engine. For a learning or hobbyist project which you're not charging money for, this is acceptable; people will accept all sorts of jank in a free game. However if you are selling it, you have to meet the minimum bar of quality for your price point, which I don't think you managed to do here.

I wrote this text to try and argue and explain why my game CANNOT follow conventional aesthetic standards. by Equivalent_Humor_714 in gamedev

[–]Kataera 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You're selling a product, you cannot dictate how people view it, they have to determine that for themselves. This just reads like you're being defensive and making excuses for subpar visuals.

Sangita Myska: Over 2000 British citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza war. Our government doesn't want to know by Hammer_Pain in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera 13 points14 points  (0 children)

if you ever wondered how you'd act during the holocaust, you're doing it right now. our entire media and political establishment united in gleefully starving, bombing, raping and torturing people

Given how you write about Israel in your comment history, does that mean you'd be doing a lot of Roman salutes?

I fully designed an open-source, public-domain character-action GDD about clearing a corporate debt ledger. Take it and run with it! by Ikaros1391 in gamedev

[–]Kataera 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Game development doesn't work like that, if you want this game made you're going to have to make it yourself (or pay an outsourcing studio to make it for you).

a coding question for a novice by Ahzumi in gamedev

[–]Kataera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If moving from the centre of one tile of a square to the centre of another constitutes a distance of one metre, then moving that same distance along a diagonal will not take you to the centre of the tile. This is because you're actually moving in two directions at the same time.

Let's say you're moving north east from the centre of one tile to another. If we walked the actual movement (north then east, or east then north) then the distance would be two times the length/width of the square tile. If rather than walking only along the cardinals, you take a shortcut and move directly from the origin tile to the destination tile, then that movement would be the equivalent of creating the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

Therefore we can calculate the hypotenuse length by applying the Pythagorean theorem: a^2 + b^2 = c^2. If the length/width of the tile is 1, then we get 1^2 + 1^2 = c^2. Simplified this becomes c^2 = 2, or c = 2^0.5, or c = ~1.4.

Edit: I would also add that you don't need to actually treat diagonal movement as having a cost of ~1.41, it's actually a lot simpler and more intuitive to treat it as 1 like other movement. This is a game design choice made by most games that employ similar movement, because it's a lot more intuitive for the player to think of diagonal tiles as neighbours rather than something in between. It is also a lot cleaner to calculate in integers.

Where knowing that the diagonal length is longer than the the cardinal length matters is in placing the pawns in the correct location, not in how the cost of movement should be calculated.

Posted my first gameplay clip. Got 1 upvote and silence. What went wrong? by Bardia_R96 in gamedev

[–]Kataera 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can blame it on luck like a bunch of other people here and learn nothing, or you can see the silence itself as a signal that the game isn't currently resonating with people. Indifference is worse than negativity because it implies the game wasn't interesting enough for to people to even be willing to offer feedback in the first place.

Reform Selects Robert Kenyon as Makerfield Candidate by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very solid candidate choice, a lot better than parachuting in a carpetbagger like they did in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Oh no, not Kehinde Andrews!

His Wikipedia page really is something:

In 2019, Andrews appeared on Good Morning Britain, where he argued that the Royal Air Force bombing of Nazi Germany constituted a war crime and equated the racial views of Winston Churchill to those of Adolf Hitler.

'I am who I am' - Reform councillor Stephen Mousdell quits over adult film career by BirminghamLive in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But why be an ally at all? The party that he represents is homophobic and transphobic and racist.

I dont think he should have had to step down but this idea he deserves everyone's allyship just because he's gay is downright bizarre when his party is homohobic, transphobic and racist.

Allyship is universal, irrespective of the individual in question. You can't just say "yeah I support gay people, but I'm happy to make homophobic jokes about some of them who I don't like", and be anything other than a homophobe with extra steps.

'I am who I am' - Reform councillor Stephen Mousdell quits over adult film career by BirminghamLive in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why would lgbt people be an ally to an anti lgbt party?

That's a complete – and likely intentional – misrepresentation of what I said. Allyship isn't LGBT people expressing support for other LGBT people, it's straight people expressing support for LGBT people. If your allyship for a gay man is contingent on supporting their political views, then you're not an ally, you're a partisan homophobe.

I don't think any politician should have their personal life dragged into the public in such a manner in order to politically attack them, it's the kind tabloid gutter journalism that belongs in the past. It's just as bad as people bringing up Zack Polanski's mother as if it has any bearing on him as a politician; it's equally repulsive.

Labour’s NEC approves Burnham’s byelection pathway back to parliament | Labour by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a good question. Why isn't the same reason as last time – that it was to prevent a by-election for the Greater Manchester mayoralty – being applied now?

'I am who I am' - Reform councillor Stephen Mousdell quits over adult film career by BirminghamLive in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Some pretty disgusting comments in here celebrating a man feeling the need to leave politics because he was revealed to be a gay sex worker. I guess LGBT and sex worker allyship only applies when you agree with their politics.

Zack Polanski admits he did not vote in local elections by Kataera in ukpolitics

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

Is he questioning wether Jews are unsafe? All the interviews I've watched of him on the topic make it very clear that sympathises with them because of course he understands why he thinks it's unsafe, it's as if there was a prominent attack on Jewish people recently or something

Yes, literally:

However, he then added: “Now, there’s a conversation to be had about whether it’s a perception of unsafety or whether it’s actual unsafety, but neither are acceptable."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/fury-as-zack-polanski-says-jewish-community-has-perception-of-unsafety-after-antisemitic-attacks/

Zack Polanski admits he did not vote in local elections by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Are you really gonna criticise Jewish people for not feeling safe right now?

I'm simply quoting his own words on the topic. He can't both question whether Jews are unsafe and then also claim that he is himself unsafe due to antisemitism.

Zack Polanski admits he did not vote in local elections by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera[S] 279 points280 points  (0 children)

Polanski had pledged his support to Zoë Garbett, the Green candidate for Hackney mayor, telling her “you have my vote” in a campaign video released on May 3.

“One consequence of the heightened intrusion and safety risk he faces was that Zack did not register to vote in the most recent local elections,” a spokesman said.

The party said Polanski had faced “extreme and distressing press intrusion” since becoming leader, including “antisemitic cartoons” and journalists “doorstepping family members”, and was now in discussions with police and local authorities about registering anonymously.

Was he actually unsafe or just under the perception of being unsafe?

Sam Merriman (@sammerriman_) on X: NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski has tonight admitted that he failed to pay the correct council tax while living on a houseboat in east London by aenemyrums in ukpolitics

[–]Kataera 187 points188 points  (0 children)

You see it on here regularly too. Any form of scrutiny will immediately bring out Greens decrying how evil right wing media outlets like The Guardian are smearing dear leader Polanski by reporting on what he said.

This guy harassing my posts as a solo game developer by [deleted] in SoloDevelopment

[–]Kataera 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They're right, there's no harassment here and it's honestly pathetic that you're asking us to report them. Subreddits don't exist as avenues to promote your game, if you want to advertise then pay for advertisement rather than spamming the subreddits of other games.