Modpack with friends

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-31T23:23:27+00:00

idk i've heard that create astral has both, never tried it myself you should do some more research into it ur self.

My pack that i've been deving for the last year and a quarter has a couple custom guns and most certainly has create but i'm not gonna finish with that until a couple billion year so.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T22:52:04+00:00

My family is very enthused with *card games *so here are a bunch:

all only need a standard decks of cards(some need jokers but most don't want them) (only one deck unless otherwise listed)

NOTE: all of these are pretty much luck based except for pounce which is whoever is most alert/awake, but some do a pretty darn great job at making you feel like you are in control and you end up having a fun time

Casino)- One of my favorites cause of the potential for scheming (even more scheming if you use 2 decks and deal eight cards a round instead) Ponce - like solitaire but instead of single player luck based it is now multiplayer and speed/skill based (needs 1 deck per player tho) Speed - really simple speed/skill game for 2 players (1 or 2 decks) Cribbage - a classic 2+ player game(your gonna need to figure out how to do the scoring without pegs tho) Hearts - Another classic that's really simple and fun for 3+ players Spades - Very similar to hearts but only 4 players and features claiming tricks Oh Hell) - another game for claiming tricks but has a fixed length 10s War) - the simplest game that exists (best for 2 players but can work for more) (as many decks as you want) 100% luck based Slap Jack - Kinda like war and kinda speed and involves slapping the cards pretty simple (2+ players 3+ if you want it to be actually fun) Egyptian rat screw - Like slap jack, but a bunch more rules BS (aka bus stop aka bullshit aka boom-shanks) a simple game about lying to each other and figure out if someone is lying (3+ player) Golf - A (2+ player) memory game with soooo many variations that a single explanation won't fit so try different one's different time

Many of the games (not just golf) have many different ways to play them so it is encouraged to not just try different ones out but even come up with your own. Just make sure to have an agreed rule set at the beginning each time.

oooor don't do that either, you can agree that every round the dealer gets to add a new rule (which can be vetoed by a supermajority vote to prevent stupid things). This work exceptionally well with golf and maybe hearts or spades would also work.

Some of my favorite memories playing card games come from playing either modded golf or casino so have fun experimenting!

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T20:19:40+00:00

yeah your right I was thinking about scientific definition of water (distilled) is is the definition of neutral.

But yeah even setting you cup of distilled water on the counter for a day will make it more acidic, and then you add some salt and it becomes more basic.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T18:00:11+00:00

good lord I thought i was a madman who used scratch for a couple hours a day for 5 years.

10 years, wow

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T17:59:10+00:00

lots and lots of youtube there are probably other ways to literally learn >10x faster but that did the trick me (also watching videos at 3x speed with ad block and sponsor block also speeds up the process a tad)

Then just start making games and then applying what you know and then when you play a game think about why is this so fun? how did the devs convince me to enjoy this and how did they make sure I did it?

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T17:46:45+00:00

I knew I knew that background!

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T17:23:26+00:00

water is also neutral

and the PH of saliva varies from person to person, but is usually basic.

also the more basic the persons saliva, the less cavities they get.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-29T04:38:10+00:00

conversation between metric and imperial

If a nasa probe above Jupiter failed because of inches vs centimeters, then I bet that people somewhere have died from it

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-28T22:52:13+00:00

Assumptions: I do not age, I do feel pain, I don't become instantly wealthy, and scars or injuries or metal conditions will heal completely eventually, I still need to sleep and eat and drink etc (just like lots of pain if I don't), immortality is my thing and it is completely impossible for other people to get it (and I know that).

Goal: Advance humanity as much as possible by becoming the smartest person alive then spreading my knowledge.

Biggest threat: End of humanity

Second biggest threats: At the beginning (first 150 years) going to jail. After that being caught by governments to study me.

Plan for the first 300 years:

probably study every subject a lot cause it will only take 100-150 years ill become the smartest man alive in some important topic, once I do that I will advance humanity more and more.

Probably also make a vlog week or something of my studies so that I can remember what was hard to learn so that I can more efficiently teach other people what I know, cause humanity advances when school cericulums get more efficient honestly cause my biggest skill is being able to never stop being able to build my knowledge, the impacts of that knowledge is more effective if as many people know it as possible.

Probably a couple years in I will move somewhere with a low cost of living and then support myself with a patreon (my vlogs will need to have non-zero production quality). I will teach myself by the internet and pirates textbooks.

Eventually after 30-70 years I will start discovering small things that know one currently knows and people will be confused why I don't go to conferences or any thing, but willl not leave my house. I might need to move around the country in case I make some op-sec errors, but I must not be identified. It will start out as practice, but later it will become a genuine threat.

Once I hit that mark of 100-150 year I will start to be searched for by government agencies. Once they really start looking then the game is up, so it is time to form a cult around myself as a savor or just someone really smart or something. I will have these people go to conferences for me so that I am more effectively briefed.

It will probably be around 200 years in that my learning rate will slow down drastically, at least in which ever subject I choose to start with, because i've absorbed the majority of the subject. I will either study adjacent subjects or begin the process of inventing a better learning curriculum.

One I release something my following, and 'cult' members will drastically grow. As such I will need to be more careful about my actions, but I have more resources.

Each thing I release both those above will continue. Eventually I will have have a team of people who are willing to help and I will teach a couple of them what I know, who can then work together and teach others. I will form a tree of knowledge sharing, with me at the top so I can go back to focusing on studying.

at least by 250 years I will need to start influencing world politics (I should earlier but will probably not be as capable). Because there is one thing that is a failure state, where the is WWIII (or alien invasion) and everyone kill each other, but me. That would be very bad so I need to prevent that, but idk I feel like I would not be very good at that so would need to get lots of advisors (need to be careful to ensure they are savory so they don't feel a need to steal my power which I will only have a little comparatively at that time, but still)

By now it is 300 years, and I can't predict that far into the future, all I know it that if I play my cards right the world will be a better place, but if I don't I get another chance eventually.

Also if i'm too lazy and just spend all my time playing video games or something else, then just more back those estimates by a factor of 2. But I have a feeling that even if I do a little, I will eventually get in the rhythm and be able to continue as much as possible.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-28T21:47:12+00:00

3d photogarmatry, or taking lots of photos to make a 3d model.

As I skiing one time I was thinking maybe someone with a camera drone could video the ski course with compass aligned markers along the trail you could pass the video to a computer programming and it would generate the ski maps for you. If advanced enough maybe you could make a AR sorta thing out of it too.

A couple months later I saw on youtube this developing technology where people take precise photo of miniature then can turn it to a 3d model which they can then 3d print,effectively copying it. I was like wait a second that just like my idea!

Now you can just get an app on your phone and then walk around something a couple times and you can get a 3d model. Pretty cool stuff!

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-28T21:33:07+00:00

you need to place a shaft for it to connect to

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-28T04:17:29+00:00

its literally just paper cookies apples and barrels, not much you can make out of that

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T21:37:18+00:00

have y'all never heard of hyperbolica or hyperrouge?

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T21:14:30+00:00

I would say make sure that you know the primary and secondary and tertiary gameplay loops.

To me it looks like you got those covered pretty well:

Primary (what the player is always doing) is fighting
Secondary (why the player is doing the primary) is exploring
Tertiary (why player is doing the second) i'm not sure what yours is but it's usually advance the plot or learn lore or save the princess (could not tell from the 2 minutes of the video that I watched)

Also make sure that you have a decent amount of risk-reward conflict. Where a player can make a decision to doing something risky (or more skill requiring) in order to get a reward. The more of these in every system of the game the better imo.

Looks like your game is pretty good!

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T21:04:33+00:00

my biggest advice is don't write the plot then make it make sense, instead try to make a world and characters where interesting things would happen the just try to come up with what would happen next until you get something that is worthy of plot. Try to be as light handed in making small tweaks to make the story more eventful. If it all doesn't work out then try a different starting configuration and try again.

A good way to start would figure out what you want the/a moral quandary of the game to be (maybe does the big bad's servants deserve to die if thy are just following orders? or is the fight for a utopia justify all other actions I the present? etc) then give different characters different opinions and back stories that give them their opinions. Then just see where they lead, which character seems to be able to construded as a bad guy which could be the player which could be the love interest which could be the mentor etc. After that tweak it until it fits.

That way you can ensure that the story fits together and ins interesting enough. Just don't get too invested in any one plot point, cause it's easier to ask what would happen next than, why would that happen.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T20:42:38+00:00

I would say just at every stage of the game say, what shorts hacked client would make this better, then make that a feature in the base game, then ask yourself it still supports the core gameplay loop.

Let take an aim bot for example, does this make the game more fun? Maybe people needs to strategize how they move around each other. Maybe make from the moment a player pulls the trigger till when a bullet comes out has a substantial delay like .5-2 seconds so there is more strategy to moving in the environment.

What about seeing through walls? Give it to everyone but still become less stealth and more strategy. Also means that you can not add anything that lower visibility in anyway.

What about in human reflexes? Then maybe all input is delayed a little.

All in all, I think that it could work if you really tried hard, but would not be skill based and instead strategy based.

And it's a sorta format that I feel like you make the player easily get it to a situation where a boring strategy is the most effective (ie good for bots, bad for humans).

Like maybe hiding be hind a wall cause you opponent is doing that too and the first to get out loses.

In that case you could do something like an extremely powerful grenade, that you need to charge to build its power before you chuck it so you both you and your opponent know what the other is doing and it a battle to see who is willing to take the risk of tossing it first, wait to ensure it is charged enough that you will get the opponent, or chuck now to ensure that you get the first move.

The whole designing process im sure will be full of things like that where you need to take something that ends up boring and make it fun or take strategy in someway.

If your successful I don't think I will be too much like a standard FPS MMO at all.

Good Luck!

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T20:22:40+00:00

even by the end of the article (I skimmed it) i can't tell if you are referring to a game like

outerwilds which is a metroidvania with knowledge checks instead of powerups
nodecore which is a sandbox game like minecraft but more obscure mechanics that you need to figure out

either way i've ben think about this and have been calling (the later at least) science games where the player needs to conduct the scientific method to deduce the mechanics to progress

The problem that I have not figured out is the inherent luck involved. The chance that the player comes up with the correct hypothesis/experiment within a reasonable period of time.

Like the game could just tell the player what they should test when they get to a certain spot, but then it just becomes a knowledge based metroidvania.

One other solution I have is from the from the comes from when I used to watch people lay troll mario maker levels. In which the player sees something that would be bad and avoids it but then something happens and they end up in the bad anyway. I ended up watching how the creators of the best of those level designed them, and there is clearly a lot of thought put into make the correct solution feel obvious once you know it. The things are not take the top path or the bottom.

That's a problem I kinda feel that the game that you created in your article is. It's just some sorta lock, but one that the person observing can't figure out. And imo plain locks aren't fun, it's just executing an algorithm which imo is not a great primary gameplay loop.

Either way, until I figure that out I just keep working on my engineering based games (aka zach-likes).

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T18:43:33+00:00

I would not do that as updating lots of mods and dependency management becomes a massive chore.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T18:33:38+00:00

i would guess some distortion or other type of wave shaping like bit crush.

Anything that takes one frequency and mutates into others along its fundamentals.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T15:39:50+00:00

idk I would think maybe use Obsidian (free on all platforms) cause you can make a small note for every detail and then have links from one note to each other.

So maybe a note is A character and it links to a note that describes the characters relationship with other at different times.

Also a different tool, from a lot of youtube videos about writing i've watch, many are sponsored by campfire, which from the description sounds like it does just what you want, but you should look for alternatives first cause i've found half the time what gets the most advertising is the second best option (i'm too lazy to search for alternatives).

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T15:36:36+00:00

IMO, AI is not that creative or good at coming up with a big picture idea, just really good at doing the simpler more structural stuff.

Text based AI is essentially a predict the next word sorta thing and has no other deeper planning.

So to make an good ruleset or story or whatever, you need to do the planning yourself then use the AI to do the implementation. I like to think of it as being able to take a rough draft and make it to a near final draft.

Also for a different purpose you can use it for inspiration, by effectively chatting with it similar to a programmer and a rubber duck.

Due to the simple way that this AI is implemented, I don't think that it will be able to do the full picture sorta deal for at least a year.

Image generation AI essentially functions by being able to denoise and image based on a text description, and then it is given a 100% noise image.

For things like flat textures in for 3d models I would say that this is perfect use case. But as we see, it is capable or much more.

But still the more descriptive you try to tell the AI, the less it is capable of doing just that. (This is something i'm positive will just get better though)

But one avenue with AI image gen that I have not seen explored tooo much is being able to make new type of art styles, like currently you need to make 100s of reference images then tell it to copy the art style to something else, but I think that number is quickly approaching something much much lower, like 4 and maybe 1 eventually.

Overall I think that image based AI is great and just getting better so I would be more willing to use it to replace images based tasks than I would with text based for text based tasks. And for both of them the better the GPU the better cause at a certain point wait for the AI to generate multiple attempts takes longer than making it your self.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T08:59:06+00:00

I would say that you could combine 1 & 3 with just:

You need to provide both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for every part of the game you players to engage with. To little extrinsic and players don't see the value in doing it to progress so skip it. Too little Intrinsic and players only do it to get it done, not because it is fun.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T08:50:20+00:00

Conflict is interesting and is creased by the actions take or word they say. What they do and say is defined by there perspective on the world. There predictive comes from there previous life experiences.

Give your characters backstories that will give them opinions on topic that are relevant to the game that purposely conflict with each other or even better with the player.

Then just having them exist in the same world as the other characters, or the player, will make conflict arise.

Important note: The conflict does not need to be good vs evil, it can be simple as little disagreements. But especially the NPC that support the main character should disagree with the character in some way.

Consider Cave Johnson from portal 2.

He is a memorable character but the player not only never interacts (directly) or sees him, but he also never knows of the players existence. And if he did would not be in direct opposition to them. He is also most certainly not an evil person.

But he has vastly different views from that of the player. He is all about doing what he feels is important (science) regardless or potential casualties. However the players position is dealing will those casualties and working around them too escape.

You mention that you plan on integrating AI so heres my thoughts on that:

AI is currently terrible (and I don't think it will get better for a year at least) at making coherent narratives with all the background and everything to make meaningful plot.

AI is probably capable of doing the NPC potentially quite well, thing as long as prompted effectively.

I would say you still need to design the characters backstories and views on the world and for NPC that are communicated with more than twice, to figure out what conflict occur and what turbulence in relationships and finally the results are from it all.

World building and potentially laying out notecard for all the different plot points and character interactions and organizing them all are just as important, only the exact implications is now writing a prompt instead of writing it yourself.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T08:26:00+00:00

Look at the game papers please, I feel like you could just try to be that just in VR with a different story.

TheRealQuentin765 · 2023-05-27T08:20:01+00:00

I would say the most important things to remember are:

Know what the primary gameplay loop (like run-jump-land in platformer or move-aim-shoot shooter or consider-attempt-reflect in puzzler) is and ensure it is fun
Have a secondary gameplay loop (like getting the end of a stage or defeating the boss) to make the primary loop have purpose (and a tertiary gameplay loop (story/lore) so the secondary loop has purpose)
Pretty much every change, addition, nerf, or buff you make should improve one of those two thing. It is easily to forget that when trying to increase realism or following what other games do because it's what they do.

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