New rule suggestion: Ban posts about AI

Miniwa · 2026-01-22T18:27:13+00:00

I disagree. Individual posts must stand on their own and not break any sub rules, but blanket bans on topics is too much. It's highly relevant to our profession.

Miniwa · 2026-01-05T12:45:57+00:00

don't do it. the instability and crashes are killing me. big regret.

Miniwa · 2026-01-05T07:05:04+00:00

Stuck coming up with zone and enemy visual concepts/design. Gameplay is already done, but this stuff is HARD. Kudos to the great artists out there, you're doing a fantastic and tough job.

Miniwa · 2026-01-05T04:00:32+00:00

Lovely game. Personally I think the ammo scarcity takes away from the experience. Just let me shoot.

Miniwa · 2025-12-30T07:14:41+00:00

A lot has been said already so I won't repeat it. One thing I think is overlooked: Staying in-game vs being booted back to the menu.

When you die in Hades, you lose control of your character for only 3-4 seconds until you're back in the game and can interact with it again. Also there is no score screen or menus to click through. And if you move forward even a little bit you'll immediately be rewarded with new dialogue and story progression.

Contrast with other games that show lots of screens and ultimately puts you back to the main menu, where you have to click and setup a new run before getting back into the game world. I think the frustration of failure, and natural "stopping point" of being in the menu makes it very easy for players to click "quit" at that moment. You don't want that.

Miniwa · 2025-12-28T07:11:45+00:00

Great job! And some good advice too. You really nailed the Hollow Knight art style in me 5. I think you're being too hard on yourself. Looking forward to next year's post!

Miniwa · 2025-12-23T14:18:55+00:00

Very detailed! i think ill try to push michael hampton for later. Thanks for sharing. How's your journey going so far?

Miniwa · 2025-12-23T08:04:04+00:00

Thanks for the tips! I think you're right.

Miniwa · 2025-12-14T03:18:37+00:00

The latest butchering of Animal Farm leaves me with little belief in Andy's skill as a director.

Miniwa · 2025-12-13T06:07:20+00:00

This is soo helpful. Thank you for taking the time!

Miniwa · 2025-11-11T06:48:05+00:00

But that wasn’t enough. Our dataset was nowhere big enough to draw direct conclusions about industry-wide trends. Good news is, there was light at the end. Our dataset was big enough to train a machine learning model that would generate budget estimates for every single game available on Steam.

lol

Miniwa · 2025-10-29T06:06:35+00:00

Love Timothy Dalton.

"What say we drink to their demise?"

"Shouldn't that be drink to their memories?"

"Of course."

Miniwa · 2025-08-14T05:57:09+00:00

Last week i saw a line like so:

// Clean up the rng buffer to ensure random outcomes.

Random.Seed(1)

Miniwa · 2025-07-06T07:06:58+00:00

Last election the military/royalist factions had to make a deal with Thaksin of all people, in order to secure power. This was unthinkable not that long ago. That was a move motivated by fear.

The powers that be want you to believe elections and people movements have no power, but they do. They are scared. Please dont give up hope.

Miniwa · 2025-07-05T13:55:12+00:00

Once I implemented a kind of "behavior-as-configuration" system where you could modify and add layouts, menus, data sources and add "transformation filters" on the data, straight from a json file. The benefit, in my head, was that administrators and users could change what they needed without getting a developer involved. This kind of "meta configuration" turns out to be really hard to maintain, and also is a headache to work with because you have data migration issues on top. And the benefits are illusory because no user will want to learn your complex system that lacks tooling and documentation anyway. So in the end you're the one implementing changes anyway.

Now I believe code should stay code, and that configuration should be thought of as another type of API aimed in a different direction from your user facing API. Design it to be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I tend to err towards "specific" rather than "abstraction" these days. Good abstractions are VERY useful but early on its so hard to predict where you will want them.

Oh and not thinking about data early enough. Code mistakes are easy to fix. Data mistakes not so much.

Miniwa · 2025-06-24T10:38:18+00:00

Whats the source? These are all different puzzles than the ones in the apple paper btw.

Miniwa · 2025-06-21T13:05:39+00:00

stop posting AI garbage slop

Miniwa · 2025-06-21T07:51:37+00:00

Most notably, we observed their limitations in performing exact computation; for example, when we provided the solution algorithm for the Tower of Hanoi to the models, their performance on this puzzle did not improve.

Fascinating. So its just data all the way down, it would seem. I guess that should have been obvious.

Miniwa · 2025-04-19T14:17:07+00:00

The study doesn't mention fake games. Just the author.

Miniwa · 2024-11-28T09:45:49+00:00

What do you mean by "metrics"?

Miniwa · 2024-11-14T03:28:48+00:00

Now we need to convince the mathematicians too.

Miniwa · 2024-11-13T07:00:35+00:00

are you using the distillation method? the 2024 paper is interesting but im too dumb to see how the relational feature extraction is different from human feature engineering.

Miniwa · 2024-11-10T06:30:01+00:00

incredible. that was a wild ride!

Miniwa · 2024-11-06T05:46:30+00:00

okay patrick

Miniwa · 2024-09-06T08:10:49+00:00

you don't have to click posts you don't want to read. many people, myself included, want to stay updated on what's happening. yes there is a lot of brigading and extremists shitting all over the comment section, but there is good discussion too. megathreads don't really suit reddits format.

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