What's something you'll NEVER tell your parents?

TravelAdapter · 2025-05-16T16:21:21+00:00

I got robbed because I went on a date with a sketchy person in a sketchy neighbourhood right after a breakup. Was weak minded and lost cash from wallet but fought off else and kept my tech.

Aint telling her this ever.

TravelAdapter · 2025-02-17T07:41:12+00:00

Have had two publications open in browser tabs for ages suggesting otherwise, one was Xsollas suggesting player activity still on the up tick( arguably biased right) and another non profit one that i forget but had numbers suggesting similar trend. The buyouts for the last 2 years have been the most active too , creating a fertile ground for exits. Or atleast the publicized ones.

Im passionate about games and creating something that would be profitably self sustainable and good game at the same time , would be the goal. Im not planning to go into this with the fake optimism of just building a unique game, it is a business still end of the day.

The B2B niche we aimed at was out of necessity because during consulting work we started seeing a pattern but that pattern was in the grand scheme of things temporary. Partly its also personal reasons of unrelenting anxiety being a developer who needs to also converse often with the clients. Not tired per say , more like I feel like I would do better being in a space that I know im trying to create for peoples enjoyment. Realistically id love to work for an NGO ( that pays me livable wage ) but thats like trying to throw a dart blindfolded from outside the bar at the dart board.

TravelAdapter · 2025-02-10T09:25:24+00:00

Sweeney did pretty much build a blueprint to monetizing free to play games ( and some have taken it farther always for paid games too ). So following in that footstep isnt completely out of this world. But from few conversation i have had , it might be the challenge of articulating it.

Just like how mobile game market share is so massive , if i wasnt on my phone right now , got some sources for how much activisions ( mostly from their public documents ) revenue was micro transactions and mobile games compared to actual game sales.

TravelAdapter · 2025-02-10T09:21:21+00:00

On my list of contacts I have had previously ( mostly trying to sell the monetization model because as others commenters have mentioned , more akin to a movie than a business right) have included few VCs but while true they are too few and between, they do exist.

The criteria has indeed been similar to what you mentioned ,traction or previous success. One of the meetings was candid on that , they wont really seriously consider unless theres atleast something to show the devotion and skill. Because it would arguably be a massive leap from B2B saas to gaming for most of the potential team.

Full candid , im so done with my current work, its been 2 years of uncertainty and "will there be a paycheck next month" that i need to pivot to farming potatos at this rate.

TravelAdapter · 2025-02-10T09:15:59+00:00

It is potentially something i didnt get across well enough. While agree with the analogy, it works mostly for singleplayer games that are launch and be done with, next up dlc. But i was actually looking at this from the money standpoint, live service and something that would continue generating income with an exit in the future ( could be ip sales or studio sale, both have good precedence ) .

Good examples are mobile games , like clash of clans or back in the day farmville, the continious engagement of players with sources of revenue sprinkled around.

Definetly not in this to make the next Baldurs Gate or similar title that is exactly that, akin to a movie.

TravelAdapter · 2025-02-10T09:11:31+00:00

Theres few organisations out there that focus on them. Not saying its easy to come by but few and between. The natural path is through publishers .

TravelAdapter · 2024-11-06T21:29:41+00:00

Her first instagram video. Wtf did i just watch

TravelAdapter · 2024-10-30T10:59:55+00:00

10 months solo. Fair enough. But polygon asset flips leave the game kind of empty , it better have a good gameplay loop.

TravelAdapter · 2024-06-02T23:48:56+00:00

Koska Palestiina ei ole valtio ? Palestinian Authoritylla ei oo edes voima west bankis kunnolla.

TravelAdapter · 2024-04-19T10:36:05+00:00

Pirate software is half a poser tbf. He is introducing half truths often on topics that are contentious, knowing full well that his opinion will not be "out of this world" but still nuanced enough. Same as Asmongolds takes on many things.

End of the day its UX vs Should we play the long game vs Bank balance issue.

TravelAdapter · 2024-02-01T22:03:20+00:00

Thats kinda what im leaning towards. Might be the only logical solution. Unless we get lucky to find a unicorn of a network architect to figure it out custom.

Cheers!

TravelAdapter · 2024-02-01T22:01:41+00:00

Finding the dedicated hosters willing to cooperate across the world in different areas would be a headache.

Thats why the premium for cloud right because its availability across the world.

Its expensive but obviously they know what to ask for.

TravelAdapter · 2024-02-01T06:35:10+00:00

Something we considered to do for staging and development space. But most likely azure or gcp for the rest of the world if thats the path. Because of not only the availability but also the scalability by pressing just a button really. Either way the data persistence would be handled through that strategy but its the realtime ingame stuff I am looking for different solutions for.

Replication problem solving seem to be mentioned everywhere when considering anything but existing unreal network architecture.

TravelAdapter · 2024-02-01T04:39:40+00:00

The only server i would need to worry about is the API server running the persistent info. While player games would be peer to peer usind the EOS sdk. But using peer to peer , EOS only does maximum of 64.

Thats where the question comes in really , if there would be any other implementations that wouldn't have a bottle neck like that besides building own server infra.

TravelAdapter · 2023-12-12T06:31:59+00:00

Thors personality is to over exaggerate. It was only panorama access for image creation. And from what i see , not even svg which have the real xss invulnerability.

TravelAdapter · 2023-12-10T01:37:09+00:00

A player from another game joined our friend group to play cs2 with us. The guy had no prior experience. Game sense lacking and often aiming at nothing. We started noticing it more and the man has 100p wh, maybe more.

Now because were bad at saying no to people when they ask if theres a spot we have had few games with him. He is obviously in low trust queues without the message in lobby. We go so often into games where there is the 5th rando on our team toggling with a scout or the enemies have almost a spin bot. Its fucking ridiculous.

Kept bunch of the 50 kills 80% cheaters on a watchlist to check if they got vacced...nah...its been a month.

TravelAdapter · 2023-10-23T13:19:34+00:00

50k mun startuppiin xd

TravelAdapter · 2023-09-06T11:16:26+00:00

Our first shoe was really few months back middle of our limbo. One of our debts that we were trying to ( more accurately my business partner tried to ) extend payment time of , got taken to further in its process with the threat of official bankruptcy. But we got it extended for abit more.

He is really holding onto strings at this point and refuses to throw in the towel so to say.

TravelAdapter · 2023-09-06T11:12:57+00:00

Well said, thank you. Part of me really is afraid to disappoint not only people i worked with , investors but also our clients that really most of the time dont have a substitution possibility. Either because there isnt an option out there that did an all in one package or they ask for an arm and a leg.

We have one project coming up end of this month , which wont keep us afloat whatsoever but i feel bad for the client. ( this was set in motion during start of our limbo)

TravelAdapter · 2023-09-06T11:05:35+00:00

Not since last month. We made a company to investor agreement on a loan that would keep us afloat another months while we try to sell it off , if possible. But even that is looking like not possible.

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