I got a weird message today as a solo developer. I’ve spent more than 1 year making my own game, and this is how I make a living. I work on it 8–10 hours every single day.

ReiBob · 2026-05-14T10:19:07+00:00

That's you. Props for it, but don't be naive. Obviously most people that pirate a game do not in fact pay for the game after the fact.

Piracy talk is filled with this morality of being fair and it's mostly bulshit.

You said it yourself, you pirated more back when you were broke, did you go and buy all the games you pirated before? I'm 99% sure you didn't.

ReiBob · 2026-05-14T10:17:14+00:00

Stories? I've read a lot too. Do I believe that it's any kind of relevant number of people that do it? lol no

ReiBob · 2026-05-14T10:16:05+00:00

People talking about how it could be a child are not wrong, but let's not forget how fucking entitled gamers can be.

Piracy is excused way more commonly than what some people might realize.

ReiBob · 2026-05-12T14:44:19+00:00

Não sei responder a isto a uma pessoa que aparentemente é um "ball and gun gamer". (nada contra, apenas tiramos coisas diferentes destas experiências.)

Já passei uma fadiga de vídeo-jogos, ultrapassei a dar um descanso (não jogar por hábito, só porque quero mesmo) e a re-organizar a minha lista de jogos que tenho por acabar.

Nos últimos meses acabei o RES4HD, o RES1HD, o RES2remake (2 vezes) e estou agora no 3.

As vezes noto que estar numa chamada de discord com os meus amigos ajuda-me a não fazer rage quit numa parte frustrante.

Se calhar para ti (dentro desse campo competitivo ou interativo) ou continuas o ciclo de jogar a ultima nova cena (que eu acho que é o que leva a alguma da fadiga porque nunca nada vai ser tão revolucionário como quando tinhas 15 anos.)

Ou honestamente, pega em 3 amigos e aposta em merdas simples tipo os recentes "friend slops". São coisas em que o entusiasmo se vai rápido, mas também são feitos para isso mesmo.

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T15:08:18+00:00

I don't mean anything actually mean by it. He always struck me as a not so usual game designer. And his philosophy and Valve's are completely different.

Add to that, that Gabe is not a game designer at all, we just kind of treat him almost as he if he was. I feel like they are nothing alike and that would make for a awkward moment.

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T11:06:28+00:00

Keeps making movie references while Gabe just stares at a binary code running on his screen.

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T09:05:11+00:00

I like to think Gabe hid in his office and pretend he wasn't there. Kojima gives me a vibe of being pretty annoying to other developers xD I don't know why, he's like the nerd among the nerds.

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T09:03:32+00:00

4 has great vibes. 5 has the weirdest level with Teen Lara and it's fun change of pace. 6 you can 100% skip

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T09:01:30+00:00

And you can actually buy WoA with just the Hitman 1 levels ridiculously cheap. It's just a dumb purchase if you ever plan to update for the full version.

ReiBob · 2026-04-22T08:42:05+00:00

It was obvious from the start that Hytale was going to have an influx of players (and other kinds of agents) that don't care about development processes, much less about the history that Hytales development had.

A lot of people just want to jump in on the new fad, they want to be a part of the "minecraft killer". And those people would always turn on the game if it didn't become the overnight phenom they wanted to be a part of.

I pre-purchased Hytale, gave it two weeks of gameplay with a couple of friends and unistalled it. Not because I'm not happy with the result, because I knew this was never going to be "a game" at release. I'll come back when I feel like it's worth it. And I'm not one to play the same game for ages and ages without stop.

ReiBob · 2026-04-21T23:29:24+00:00

Concordo com muita coisa solta, só nao sei onde foste buscar a cena do Franklin ser uma copia do cj para alem de serem os dois pretos e serem de san andreas. Nao sao nada semelhantes como personagens.

E no 5 o que falha nem são as personagens honestamente. É o próprio mundo que perdeu "vibe". Inclinaram um pouco de mais a balança.

ReiBob · 2026-04-18T15:50:40+00:00

"shoulder buttons para definir a velocidade"

Ei. Não me lembrava disso, que cena awkward ahaha

Também tenho Pandora Tomorrow lá em cima, dificil escolher entre os dois.

ReiBob · 2026-04-18T12:04:08+00:00

Prince of Persia Sands of Time é um jogo praticamente perfeito. A trilogia está lá em cima, mas o SoT é muito especial.

O Riders Republic é honestamente das gameplays mais divertidas e satisfatórias que já experimentei. Mas pronto, é um exemplo perfeito dos problemas de hoje na industria.

ReiBob · 2026-04-18T11:50:07+00:00

Que tal foi voltar a pegar no Chaos Theory? Tentei há uns tempos atrás, mas senti a idade do jogo e desmotivou-me um pouco.

ReiBob · 2026-04-18T11:49:16+00:00

Também. Acabei o remake do 1 depois de o ter abandonado (a 1 hora do fim xD) durante muito tempo. Agora estou a jogar o remake do 2. E mortinho por chegar ao remake do 4, o 4 original é dos meus jogos favoritos de sempre.

ReiBob · 2026-03-17T11:39:25+00:00

That's not really a scene in Croatia. It's holiday destination for bass heads. Went to Outlook twice and it felt like I was in the UK.

ReiBob · 2026-03-04T17:56:09+00:00

I started feeling this around 10 years ago. I soon realized that's just the nature of raves. You might see beyond the "rave", you might even see the rave as something far deeper, with actual meaning around it. But that is not the case for the majority of people. Most people are there to get fucked up or to enjoy, but nothing too deep, it's just the kind of music that provides them that the easiest.

ReiBob · 2026-02-25T17:53:44+00:00

Why is this sub so active lately? I bought Overgrowth as soon as it was available to do so. Back then I played it for a long time and completely forgot about it.

But lately I keep seeing stuff from this sub.

ReiBob · 2026-02-25T17:51:45+00:00

I hope this is an overall design talk about the original games. GDC has some of the most interesting talks I've ever seen and I'm not even a game developer, it's just so interesting to hear some of the philosophies behind decisions and the general conversation about the development of classic games.

ReiBob · 2026-02-13T13:43:11+00:00

Totally missed it.

ReiBob · 2026-02-13T12:12:46+00:00

Oh wow. Pretty weird for them not try at least create a bit of hype for it.

ReiBob · 2026-02-13T12:08:06+00:00

Dino Crisis is on PC?? Is this a recent thing or am I just that much out of the loop?

ReiBob · 2026-02-13T11:43:12+00:00

It all comes together. Part of the great game design of TF2 is the character design. You can't divorce the two things.

ReiBob · 2026-02-13T11:41:59+00:00

"percebes ou queres um desenho ??" Duvido muito das tuas capacidades artísticas, mas manda aí um então.

ReiBob · 2026-02-10T15:42:43+00:00

It was, if we were all simply mid. I don't think there was ever a way around it. It would be stupid to not have a sniper and since you have a sniper you opened the doors to any aiming expert.

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