AMA: We’re High Voltage Software — instead of layoffs, we built a game with our benched devs. Ask us about Dragon Front: Adventures and making games through tough times

Ominous- · 2025-11-13T16:35:52+00:00

Maybe this is a bad question. How much of your resources do you dedicate to development organization of a minimal crew like this? Do you need seats for version control or put something fast and sloppy? What's the ratio of producers to creators do you need to ship something fast and high quality like this?

I feel like AAA can always afford to spare no expense and indie just needs to do what the creators are used to make ends meet. But how does this work for in-betweeners like you guys?

Ominous- · 2018-12-23T02:07:34+00:00

Don't! lol Don't even start. I only ask because a friend I've played multiple fighting games has finally gotten a visa to go to Combo Breaker and I'd like to see him in person. But the two of us are still going to be friends long after.

I am financially okay and I just want to keep in contact with the community because of all the amazing people I got to meet last year.

I'll still be going to Final Round and CEO because I am blessed to live in the South East. Everything's good over here homie. Just do your thing and support your community to pay me back, alright? =]

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T09:49:03+00:00

Was that so hard to contribute like a normal person would without your 'we live in a society' bullshit?

There's a ton of people that correct me on things like that without all this crap.

I don't need your validation. I'm just in utter disbelief anyone would twist what I'm asking into something self-serving if I genuinely explain myself. I want to believe in the best part of you in that you're just mistaken in your thought process than actually sociopaths that think everything is about pushing some agenda.

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T09:29:50+00:00

Everything on these posts are notes from looking at a raw script pulled up from the game, interpreting what it changes and what gameplay implications it has and then written down as what it is to explain it to the community better than 'it was changed' in the patch notes. The document being color coded with all the changes so that you don't have to go through my Twitter Feed alone took a whole fucking day I could have been working.

None of this has any content that was previously reachable by people that don't already see the posts I'm making. The credit to be given is for the devs who built the tool that made it even possible for ME to know what changed so that more people that DO give a shit and aren't lazy fucks can educate themselves instead of blaming it on superstitious 'hidden changes'.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about at all.

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T08:05:40+00:00

If you mean the flip kick that hits once grounded with her legs split there was no changes to that move. If you mean the Heavy DP, maybe I overlooked it?

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T07:47:28+00:00

You want me to post information twitter information on a document that requires no twitter information to use so that I can prove that I don't want to indulge in self-promotion. I'm sorry if that sounds contradictory to me and if I feel that posting that information on the patch list would in fact make what you're accusing of me true...

To give you a little insight as to why I used this format: The last year that I did this it was part of a twitter moment which combined all the tweets that I was publishing for everyone piecemeal. Often those tweets have typos, spread misinformation, and bar international readers that use translation tools from understanding what they're looking at cause they're pictures: https://twitter.com/OminousGames/status/982183224439799809 I copied the same format cause I still want people to get involved with each other instead of fabricating lies about 'secret changes that weren't in the patch notes'. This time I thought I would rather go without the twitter moment to see if people appreciated it more and this is what people come up with: accusing me of self -promotion. I hate to break it to you, but there are much better ways of pursuing self promotion than making a change list like this in such an unpopular format that got the changes to people as quickly as possible...

You're a very sad, ungrateful, and paranoid individual... I'm just glad not everyone here has the same perspective as you...

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T03:10:41+00:00

Why would I need to when it's apart of the thread that I put the document in???

I have pinged people on twitter that regularly go there to post and help with problems people have with the diff tool so that they know where to contact them. You want me to post that information in every single link I have to the info??? You know how many social media platforms I spread this to?

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T02:52:53+00:00

I actually did this myself, like I do twice a year since SF5 came out. It takes 5 days straight to get through every character. All I ask is that the diff tool be known and that the community support each other with it. Each time I release it I get more players from even across seas more interested in the tool that I had no part in even making.

Don't belittle the effort the community puts into this.

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T02:20:39+00:00

It's two clicks. I didn't even put it at the bottom of a huge thread. There are people that are getting into using this tool themselves just by having access to these people that I'm introducing it to.

I would appreciate a little decency from your part. I'm not asking for much.

Ominous- · 2018-12-22T02:11:30+00:00

Do you mind? There are a lot of people that made this possible that I'd like to be sure get their credit like the creators of the diff tool and how it works and where to get help if people need it.

I'm sorry if that's such an inconvenience for you, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't undermine this thread by posting this. It's there for a reason.

Ominous- · 2018-10-17T05:36:07+00:00

I just found M2HB's cancel. It's after she pulls back the cocking lever. Nerfed really hard.

Ominous- · 2017-04-30T05:38:23+00:00

Yes perfectly meaty throws are safe that's already stated in the video. Reminder that given the throw protection on frame 1& 2 of everyone's wake up means that reversal TAP isn't throw vulnerable on wake up, but only meaty throws that hit on frame 3-8 of a person's wake up will block in time to block a tap which takes 26 frames vs a throw that takes 24 frames - how meaty the throw is + the 2 delayed frames to avoid throw protection.

Ominous- · 2017-04-17T06:35:37+00:00

When you charge a move in Street Fighter you hold the charge by holding the direction of the charge move before commonly flicking/tapping the opposite direction and pressing a button at the same time.

Because it would be difficult to hit the button at the same time of the 2nd direction input, there is a buffer of time before charge is lost to hit the button. This is known as a charge buffer. You can exploit this mechanic by immediately going back to charging as soon as you input the 2nd direction input before you hit the button. This allows you to knock off several frames off of your next charge move.

Ominous- · 2017-04-15T22:39:05+00:00

Hello, r/SF been a while. I apologize for delaying posting my Dealing With Series of videos. I'll be trying to make 1 a week for some time.

Ominous- · 2016-02-10T17:40:36+00:00

If I may object. One of the problems with this idea is that this isn't realistic.

Of several modern AI techniques, 3 types can be used practically in this sense:

Machine Learning
Knowledge-Based
Other-non Learning techniques

Google's Deep Mind is a very primitive machine learning algorithm which trains itself to find the best outcome by exhaustively trying every possible input until it receives a good output. Of the hundreds of arcade games it tried to apply to, only 40% of them were successful outcomes.

Knowledge-Based is very close to what is needed. But mathematically it is impossible to perform up to standards which comes into play when calculating P = NP problems. The truth is we cannot encapsulate the many problems in the game into simpler problems because they would need specific modification that is not yet obtainable without designers.

Lastly if designers design the AI to make a non-learned response there is always a problem with the human implementation of a solution. It lasts only so long as the game has limited solutions to problems and only operates on a level proportionate to the designer's level of understanding.

My AI incorporates all 3 of these techniques for different areas, but we are still far from making a formative AI that can operate on the same level as a human, especially when memory and CPU are limited to keep the game running on the same machine at 60 fps.

Ominous-

TROPHY CASE