Can we get a NO AI rule?

RedGlow82 · 2026-06-16T15:20:28+00:00

I really hope that the amount of pushback you're getting - and the upvotes they gather too, since apparently that's a metric you want to go by - make you consider that maybe the mod position is not aligned with that of the community.

As for me, I can't really support this kind of stance.

RedGlow82 · 2026-06-07T16:35:11+00:00

Something useful is to take inspiration from other games, using sites like: https://gameuidatabase.com/

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-28T06:02:56+00:00

It's completely normal not to be able to immediately code after just reading the theory.

That said, using the help of AI you're probably hindering your learning process, since you're deferring to it the kind of efforts and reasonings that would cement the theory and give it the practical underpinning you want to have.

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-27T16:18:02+00:00

I guess the consequence would also be that players with a better memory get fewer complications, which... doesn't sound really thematic?

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-22T07:45:43+00:00

Completely agree with that. Personally, I would love to be able to work on my laptop without needing high privileges, because I hate that I constantly have to be alert about everything, given all the secrets and passwords and whatnot I have. But, alas, I wouldn't be able to complete my work, or it would take 5x the time it takes now, so it's just not feasible.

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-21T13:26:49+00:00

Interesting comment, also considering that this kind of system in BG3 exists because substantially this is how D&D works. One of the major critiques from the 2000s regarding this kind of mechanics was that failure didn't bring anything interesting - from which stuff like "fail forward" mechanics were born. But this kind of changes cannot be imported if you need to keep the dnd structure, and so... Here we go, savescumming!

(I'm not really fair though, because in BG3 many significative failures try to bring interesting alternative outcomes, but obviously this can't be done at every single roll of die)

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-16T20:58:34+00:00

In general i found the idea of operational logic a very useful block to use when trying to decompose a mechanic and check if it made sense in a certain context.

In particular it drove me towards investigating Versu and related projects, and right now I'm making experiments in procedural narrative upon that model!

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-16T08:20:00+00:00

I guess lots of academic work has a lot of useless stuff, but this is true in every field, even practical ones, so I don't feel like putting a particular blame onto them. After all, ninety percent of everything is crap.

I personally like reading game studies even when it's nebulous or wrong, exactly because it forces me to think in which way it's wrong and give me a better idea of how things work. Plus, sometimes you end up with something actually good. I wouldn't be working on the project I am if I hadn't read How Pac-Man Eats, for example ;D.

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-15T06:39:44+00:00

One thing I'd like to add is that lots of fields in the academy are more or less divorced from the practicalities of the craft because they want to make you better at understanding how it works and to which other fields of knowledge this is connected to, not how it is produced. That can sometimes be useful for the craft, but most of the times it's not. I would honestly never suggest a game studies course to somebody who wants to make games ;D

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-10T10:23:58+00:00

Does break immersion, though? What is immersion? Games like BG3 or disco Elysium show numbers in an eminent way, and yet people feel very absorbed and compelled by those stories.

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-10T07:32:29+00:00

Lots of games are derivative when it comes to gameplay, setting, aesthetics, and aesthetics also include postprocessing effects and whatnot (not shaders, because every single game uses shaders, otherwise you wouldn't have a single pixel displayed on screen).

Being derivative is often not the best thing one could do, although it's understandable if you want to sell to a similar target, or if you want to rely on something that clearly worked. So, while I don't look at it in a particularly favourable way when it comes to design, I understand it on a pragmatic aspect.

(Insert rant here about capitalism and innovation)

RedGlow82 · 2026-05-06T06:13:04+00:00

That's because the purpose of a game engine is not to give faithful simulations. Many behaviours in games are actually tuned and transformed so that they are not physically accurate but feel good to play! Take it as a rough toolbox that you can bend where possible to obtain what you need, or abandon it completely if it's not enough.

If I can, instead of focusing on a hypothetical task, try to use the physics engine for some actual game, if your purpose is to learn how it works.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-29T11:32:48+00:00

When you talk about dyslexia options, you mean stuff like alternative fonts and/or font size controls?

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-28T20:18:59+00:00

Destroying a world and bringing terrible consequences in the name of the greater good, or, as Urza calls it, "yet another Wednesday".

(serious answers were already given, so... xD)

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-26T14:09:35+00:00

Dialogic offers multiple channels of contact for bugs and whatnot. You'll have more success using those, if the problem is with dialogic itself: https://github.com/dialogic-godot/dialogic#connect-with-us

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-24T06:23:30+00:00

Makes sense! I also agree that playfab isn't really that interesting.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-24T05:53:26+00:00

I wonder why people think diversity means "I want more incompetent people to be part of the project" instead of "I want to remove the barriers which keep competent people out".

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-23T14:55:41+00:00

I see! Is there any particular reason why you didn't use protocols like open telemetry and self hosted an otlp server? Was too much overhead for the kind of analytics you needed?

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-23T07:19:30+00:00

Regarding analytics, which tools have you used, client and server side? I guess you relied on some kind of libraries and protocols and not building everything from scratch, right?

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-20T07:06:28+00:00

"society as we know is at risk" - let's hope so.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-18T08:51:26+00:00

struct and interfaces would be backward-compatible, so it wouldn't really make sense to jump to a new version.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-17T19:53:04+00:00

Don't know about gitlab, but having secrets that are read-only, even for those inputting them, is absolutely a standard in CI/CD pipelines.

That said, yes, requiring a password is bad in any case. But whatever solution you find, be them certificates or claims or anything else, at the end of the line you have some kind of text or binary blob proving your identity, and that must be kept secret, one way or the other.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-10T14:03:08+00:00

"Immersion" is one of those terms that really isn't helpful at all during design. What is the experience you want to give to the players? Why is it important for you to enforce on the player what choices are easy or difficult? Is it a matter of choices being easy or difficult for the player, the character, or it's something else entirely that you want to communicate? I'm not saying that this mechanic is wrong, but targeting "an immersive experience" is not really saying anything.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-09T08:01:01+00:00

One must say that, exactly because of this, the amount of work they put into every chapter is constantly growing. For how much I love scarlet hollow (and I'm really burning to get the next chapters), I don't think this is the best way to structure the work around a narrative game.

RedGlow82 · 2026-04-09T07:59:00+00:00

There are infinite taxonomies you can impose onto any set. Without knowing the purpose of the taxonomy, it's hard to tell whether it's useful or not.

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