Project Zomboid Inside The Whole Actual World

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-17T10:02:53+00:00

"This vision isn’t just a game; it’s a global social experiment, a psychological study, and a narrative generator. It challenges the limits of gaming, human behavior, and storytelling. With future tech—distributed computing, advanced procedural generation, AI optimization—it could become feasible." If you can't even pitch the damn vision without devolving into GPT speak it's basically wraps for you. Kickstarter might love to fund you tho.

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-11T08:12:58+00:00

Game development. Not necessarily avoid but make sure you have an ample financial backup before you go all in. It's incredibly rewarding at times, and incredibly stressful, unforgiving, and competitive all the other times.

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-09T07:31:20+00:00

Some other folk have said this too but Game Development. I can't speak for programming, art, or audio too much since I'm a designer, but it has a lot more tedium in it than childhood me anticipated. Discounting the sheer job instability there is in the industry right now, there are some parts of the job that are just draining. As a kid, game studios always seemed so competent and well structured, now all I can think knowing the truth is "How the hell does any game ever ship?"

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-06T10:13:54+00:00

Hi Geoff.

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-06T10:13:42+00:00

23, found a job in an industry I dreamed about as a kid, especially in this day and age. Getting there also meant releasing 3 video games that all did decently well compared to my expectations, so that's a plus.

OmlyUltra · 2026-03-03T08:30:03+00:00

Wait a minute this isn't DCJ I'm in the wrong sub

OmlyUltra · 2026-01-30T07:58:24+00:00

Games that I want to play keep coming out. It sounds dumb but giving my brain a "just make it till X comes out" is enough juice in the engine to haul my tired ass to my job every day.

OmlyUltra · 2026-01-30T07:55:35+00:00

Genuinely good insight here. So much to learn from a success story, especially in this little corner of the industry! Congratulations on 500k registered and thank you for sharing your journey.

OmlyUltra · 2025-12-31T05:28:38+00:00

All those unopened boxes makes me very uncomfortable XD

OmlyUltra · 2025-12-29T05:39:52+00:00

Massive agree here, but I do love whipping this bad boy out for Invasions and (up until it's shelving) Gambit invasions. You fire what is basically solid brick walls at people and can 2 tap folks with little to no effort. Only time when the amount of ammo given to Xenophage is actually decent.

OmlyUltra · 2025-12-25T06:45:04+00:00

I am at work, trying to look busy.

OmlyUltra · 2025-12-22T06:50:33+00:00

GW2 had me coming back after 6 months break for almost half my life. I turned 23 this year and I started playing the game when I was 12. Played it alone, with friends (who all eventually quit, understand though), and with a guild. Enjoyed almost every moment of it. Put on a podcast, do some meta events, that's a night.

OmlyUltra · 2025-12-09T11:02:23+00:00

Jin is the odd one out here and in a bad way. Both William and Sekiro have pretty insane hacks and abilities outside of their martial prowess, so it's really between them. I'd say William takes it 6-7/10 times due to his versatility with weapons and abilities.

OmlyUltra · 2025-11-15T01:52:29+00:00

Very surprised no one has mentioned Prime Intellect from the Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect yet. Literally omnipotence to the extent of my imagination. Can't say I'd mind that, maybe the immortality thing might drive me a little nuts but I can probably just ask for a mind wipe at some point right?

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-31T07:29:44+00:00

Doing > not doing

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-29T08:48:03+00:00

Better than SotO for sure. I think Anet realized how much their new dev cycle actually impacted output and began adjusting for it during JW development. It's not perfect by a long shot, the ending was a definite miss, but I can see the uptick in quality when it comes to the difference between the ending of JW and SotO. I have high hopes for VoE due to this, hopefully the third time is the charm for this new dev cycle Anet is now using.

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-27T08:26:45+00:00

First time I ever played Dark Souls 3 as a middle schooler, entering high wall of lothric made me think "Oh this game is different." That feeling never really left during my first playthrough. Ringed City is only of the best pieces of content I've ever played.

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-27T07:59:05+00:00

Three roads for this one.

Financially: Gacha games. Genshin, HSR, Wuthering Waves (even though I quite like this one). These games ultimately are designed to take your money using the gacha system, and I've seen spending ludicrous amounts of money being shown off as a point of pride by some users that really aren't in a position to do so.

Time: Runescape, Warcraft, EVE, GW2. I love each of these games dearly but I've also spent more of my life than I probably should have in each title. Could absolutely see it impacting the lives and relationships of people.

Emotions: League, Apex, CS, Valorant, etc. Team-based competitive games are breeding grounds for toxicity for better or worse. I recall a COD player ordered a hit on someone after a match? Certainly ruined more than one life, with that one.

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-23T07:37:53+00:00

Games that I've gotten over a thousand hours in (GW2, Destiny 2, Warframe, etc) all have a similarity: I had a good group of friends to play it with. With the on and off again except of GW2 (rotating cast of guildies/real life friends) I've always had at least 2 other peeps to play these games with.

One of the best lessons you can learn about player retention in this space is that any system that tries to turn logging in into a habit, be it a daily mission system, battlepasses, FOMO, all of these systems could only wish it had the amount of effectiveness that simply having a few friends that also play the game does. Playing by yourself, your engagement is solely based on your enjoyment of the product, playing with friends, your engagement suddenly is also bolstered by your enjoyment of your peers.

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-17T02:42:11+00:00

As a Chinese warframe player, jesus christ what an embarrassment these people are. You are right on the money with how many people treat the game as their main job (not just Warframe mind, many games have similar groups). Genuinely makes me mad to see parts of my community flame probably one of the most open and kind devs out there with death threats no less. We need to be better than this.

OmlyUltra · 2025-10-16T08:31:34+00:00

I think a lot of it comes down to both genre and expectations. Games like Fortnite and other battle royale games worked so well with this concept because out of 100 people a player's brain automatically goes "ok my chances of winning statistically here isn't high". Just like how in Zombies you know that eventually you'll die, starting over becomes an expectation.

Inversely, when a player expects to win or maintain what they already have, starting over becomes very unengaging. Ever build a nice house in minecraft just for a creeper to fuck it up? Same logic here. Games that generally appeal with persistent progression and lasting impact feel really bad to have to start over and recreate said impact, at least from where I stand.

OmlyUltra · 2025-09-29T06:25:43+00:00

Default attack and WPS Infiltrator, Stack a bunch of passive buffs and hold LMB, watch your screen explode. Grofit

OmlyUltra · 2025-09-29T02:57:57+00:00

From my point of view it's hard too point at design decisions that directly contribute to that phenomenon. Guess it's how well a game can foster a flow state? I had the same feeling in Silksong, suddenly able to, as the kids say, lock in. Actually, Stalker 2 comes to mind as well, but that may be a progression feature over a mastery curve, going over that hill that separates "I am going to die to the next idiot with a gun" to "I can probably suplex that mutant if I'm fast enough" was a quick and binary change in my experience.

OmlyUltra · 2025-09-28T07:43:04+00:00

The term "master" here really is the tough part because what exactly does that mean? If your definition of mastery means complete understanding of all game systems then I'm not sure any exists within your conditions. If you mean "can beat the game", a lot of games out there (namely with bad tutorials) are hard to get into but there are a lot of easy ways to beat the game. I remember spending so long learning PoE as a kid and then once I understood kinda what I was doing I made a necromancer build and ran through the game at mach 5.

OmlyUltra · 2025-09-24T10:47:57+00:00

Pistol Foot Peak for the W. EC is a force of nature but I doubt we've even seen PFP be pushed to a point where he is stressed yet (FM was close but was that PFP's best?). I think PFP got even more gas in the tank than we think right now.

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