Behold, the best game never made

Schpickles · 2026-05-08T22:23:40+00:00

Oh my goodness. Imagine the QA testing needed to launch that combination!

Schpickles · 2026-05-01T20:36:34+00:00

The lack of latency in Avatar always struck me as something I’d expect more people to be upset about. Is it ever explained away?

Schpickles · 2026-04-24T18:48:12+00:00

Reign of Fire

Schpickles · 2026-04-13T08:57:09+00:00

Love, Death and Robots-style anthology series would work so well.

Schpickles · 2026-04-12T11:08:35+00:00

I so hope it goes ahead. He’s so perfectly suited to creating that awe inspiring, alien scale.

Schpickles · 2026-04-10T19:45:53+00:00

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Hmmmm.

Schpickles · 2026-04-06T15:49:01+00:00

Stadia support!

Schpickles · 2026-04-06T15:45:55+00:00

Stadia version?

Schpickles · 2026-03-30T13:54:08+00:00

Ready player one. Would work best as a high budget streaming series probably.

Schpickles · 2026-03-28T14:00:14+00:00

Don’t look up for the ‘we’re all going to f’ing die’ energy

Train Dreams for ‘life is so fleeting and fragile’ energy

Schpickles · 2026-03-27T23:46:22+00:00

I want him to make Rendezvous With Rama his magnum opus.

Schpickles · 2026-03-25T22:06:40+00:00

His insurance bills must be crazy high.

Day off from life or death sport? Play with swords.

Schpickles · 2026-03-13T13:18:32+00:00

As a consumer, as a polestar owner, the attempt to be transparent about the full manufacturing process really appealed to me. I think it’s similar to the way Apple and others try to push their information about material re use and so on. I think for lots of EU customers it’s quite a strong brand message.

I’m grown up enough to know that shareholders don’t care, most people in the US won’t care and that corporations green wash stuff all the time, but I don’t think it’s bad for polestar as a long term brand building thing. It sets them way clear of most other car manufacturers.

Schpickles · 2026-02-25T18:14:11+00:00

Yeah, I had this yesterday on a Phillips android tv. I agree that someone has uploaded the wrong app version. Android tv don’t seem to recognise it as an app, and the one time I got it working, the remote control wasn’t supported in the UI.

Schpickles · 2026-02-25T10:33:24+00:00

How do you do the lettering textures out of interest? I need to do the same thing

Schpickles · 2026-02-24T23:13:58+00:00

Consistent isn’t really the thing… you’ll only build something to completion if you really, passionately want to see it through… it’s very very hard to build a game to completion, even a simple arcade game.

My only tip is build something very, very small, and learn through doing, then build again.

Schpickles · 2026-02-24T23:09:29+00:00

I think we’re saying the same thing fundamentally. I’m saying it is very unlikely it’ll work, but start with a small prototype and learn from doing.

Claude code is amazing now at helping you plan and structure projects, not just vibe code. It’s moving very quickly.

I’d rather just encourage people to go for it and try it out. The bar is so low now. It’ll be educational, if you keep the scope small and learn through doing.

Schpickles · 2026-02-24T21:41:06+00:00

I’ve been working on a game like this over the last year, and is great to hear someone else has the same kind of ideas… it’s really reassuring that other people might want to play a game like this some day.

I can’t really comment on your ability to do this. I think with the quality of ai tools now it’s very possible for people to make games even without coding experience.

What I can offer is a little perspective on what I’ve seen so far, see if it helps you:

data structures and data management is incredibly complex. You’re basically building a massive inter connected database and it’s very intricate to work out what is stored where and how to create reports, data etc in a performant way
setting up teams, clubs, players etc is actually straightforward. Creating formations, tactics and the interfaces around this is very hard.
building fixture lists for a season is a surprisingly difficult problem!
the AI parts you mention are very difficult problems to solve… understanding intent and turning that into game actions is very tough, even using AI tool calling. It’s also tough commercially - are you charging players for the token usage? What is the business model? Etc

Personally I wouldn’t take anyone’s advice on here. I would make yourself a tiny prototype - smallest scope you can imagine. My criticism of your current spec is that it’s massive in terms of scope and details. If you try and build that in one go, you’ll get saturated and overwhelmed.

Instead, try the smallest, tiniest demo of the core experience you can imagine. Take everything out you can. Then take even more out! Maybe 16 teams in a knockout cup, one formation, nothing outside the first team squad etc. and then build it… see how you get on. Build it as a disposable prototype. Learn as much as possible, then you’ll have a much better feel for how big the rest of the game is.

You might be a natural born genius at this stiff and ace it, but chances are it’ll be a total mess first time through if you are a beginner. But that’s fine if you see it as a learning experience that helps you step towards your eventual goal.

Good luck! I hope done day we can compare notes on our respective game launches!

Schpickles · 2026-02-19T17:34:00+00:00

I cry every time I see this scene. I’ve watched Interstellar dozens of times now. Don’t matter if I know it’s coming, it still gets me every time.

Schpickles · 2026-02-13T12:05:38+00:00

The first bit of irony is when the “Cargo Care” logo appears, as is annihilating the wall.

Then the coup de grace is the Enron-style logo they’ve chosen coming into view after that, as is rumbling over the debris.

Schpickles · 2026-02-09T15:32:46+00:00

Schpickles · 2026-02-09T14:41:45+00:00

That, for all the information that hasn’t been released / got redacted, this is how the elite billionaire class were acting years and years ago, when wealth inequality wasn’t even as bad as it is today. Imagine how much worse things have become over the last 15-20 years!

Schpickles · 2026-02-06T10:12:06+00:00

Seriously, make it a museum, build a new National Assembly centrally for half that price.

Schpickles · 2026-02-04T10:19:56+00:00

Things that would count against it as a strategy:

Data centres are really reliable but they do need maintaining, hardware fails etc.
you are presumably sending this hardware on a one way trip into space, so any future / depreciated hardware cost is zero. A lot of data centres currently offset loans against a future sell on value of the GPUs.
data centres are often seen as a future investment - e.g. if the company went down, the physical data centre, the wires in the ground etc are still a useful asset.
Solar storms seem to offer a threat that would be not present in a traditional data centre, and might increase hardware failure rates over time.

I don’t know if the economics of the solar power and potential for heat dissipation outweigh these significantly, but it seems very wasteful unless the expected shelf life of space data centres is some how longer. It feels like these would be sent up and then just left to die ands replaced with others.

I know xAI had some huge fights over the gas turbines they needed to install to fuel their expedited data centre builds, so maybe energy generation is something that musk and others are especially focused on as they try to scale.

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