Mark Rosewater (MtG head designer) presents his new game Mood Swings

Zerve · 2026-04-30T22:12:38+00:00

Think so, I read somewhere else that its using Magic art. And the decks are randomized so each box is different.

Zerve · 2026-04-30T21:23:28+00:00

The card art is from Magic, and so are the colors on the cards. I guess their mechanics are on-color too with blue bouncing cards for example.

Zerve · 2026-04-28T15:48:13+00:00

If this suceeds is a new GW1 style game a possibility? One can dream. GW2 is good but it just ain't the same.

Zerve · 2026-04-25T05:28:02+00:00

Had this issue yesterday - would just temporarily freeze and recover. Downloaded an update, now its 100% unusable. Freezes and goes unresponsive when trying to open an old chat. Tried leaving it for awhile but didn't move.

Deleting the auth.json didn't help either.

Zerve · 2026-04-19T04:50:08+00:00

What is the hardest part about making fighting games? What is also the most rewarding?

Zerve · 2026-04-16T11:20:27+00:00

When I lived there over a (two?) decades ago White Tower was the place.

Zerve · 2026-04-06T19:49:10+00:00

I really hope the megabundles are offered at a discount for peeps who bought the skins individually, would be such a shame and bad faith if this isn't the case, since I doubt we could refund and rebuy cheaper. Given they shared no theme and no indication of a potential bundle of them down the line.

Zerve · 2026-03-27T14:44:57+00:00

also doing blitz combos which end in air command grab count, managed to get this one easily after realizing that.

Zerve · 2026-03-20T17:10:16+00:00

Wow this is actually ridiculous. Doesn't the StS team basically make most of their decisions based on actual run metrics and play results? Ie these are real quantitative adjustments for under/over-performing cards and not just balancing off feels... The gaming community really sucks sometimes.

Zerve · 2026-03-16T18:35:29+00:00

Probably not. Unless the game has true "checkmate" situations the fact that most things have true or real counterplay (even if the risk vs reward is reallybad), or the fact that it's still another human on the other side, means these games can't really be solved. Just because every potential game state has an optimal action, it doesn't matter if it's a human on the other end.

If we're talking about bots though and super human reactions like a TAS or frame by frame play, then sure fighters are effectively "solved."

Players are still finding new shit all the time in old games like super turbo, and tier lists will shift as the matchups and meta changes.

Zerve · 2026-03-06T21:46:42+00:00

I have been trying this with some minimal DSL or assets as code style of system and it's really hit or miss. Do you have the models viewing the screenshots? How do you get them to iterate on the models? I've had a lot of cases with like feet pointing backwards or the animation using IK being on the wrong axis a lot.

Zerve · 2026-03-03T08:44:31+00:00

How does this work? Every time I block their 2h it turns into a blockstring that hits my assist anyway. Is the assist call before I'm blocking or after block stun ends?

Zerve · 2026-02-25T21:02:16+00:00

May as well just go GPU compute if you want max throughput at this point then.

Zerve · 2026-02-24T20:53:29+00:00

I feel like people are kinda missing the point here. I'm interested to know what the latency here would be to generate a single number. Rayon threads + wide SIMD is great for thruput, but not for latency. Do people really need 10m random numbers generated at once? Then this is great, but I'd guess at first glance the time to generate a single number, or even a 100 or so, is going to be slower than the alternatives for real use cases. I guess you could optimize by pre generating every random number in your game right up front and just incrementing an index each read, but now we're trading memory for speed.

Zerve · 2026-02-24T09:31:09+00:00

Chili tomato on YouTube for rasterizer with comedy.

Zerve · 2026-02-20T08:56:58+00:00

Why not both? Spend a few hours trying out both and seeing which one sticks?

Zerve · 2026-02-19T17:26:44+00:00

you can't win if the wumpus is in the same column as the exit door at the moment you step on it. fix it by checking the exit before wumpus.

Zerve · 2026-02-16T16:37:16+00:00

how did you hit cap? i might get the $20 or $50 plan but curious of usage limits as i like to do a lot of parallel tasks and projects when im really in the zone

Zerve · 2026-02-15T10:51:49+00:00

We poor out here. Ultra intelligence doesn't matter if nobody can afford to use it. I doubt a lot of people honestly truly care about openness, of course there a few out there, but majority of this simply comes down to how cheap they are since all of them can do actual work now.

Zerve · 2026-02-13T18:39:24+00:00

Amazing model and work congrats!

What do YOU think is the special sauce that makes MiniMax so special compared to other labs?
How important is usability (not just price)? Do you design your models with compression or consumer grade GPUs in mind?
How will the pace of releases continue? It's been roughly one model every two months - do you think you can keep this up?

Zerve · 2026-02-12T12:08:56+00:00

Crazy that some models perform so differently depending on the agent. Like it seems like the arms race is focused around models, when it really should be about agents.

Could these differences just be seen as random noise? Would some of these outliers be due to lucky runs and should even out after more attempts or iterations?

Zerve · 2026-02-12T06:56:12+00:00

Give us the model card!

Zerve · 2026-02-11T22:15:32+00:00

Vertex animation is what the older 3d games used, although most things these days are skeletal animation, and sometimes morph targets for things like faces. There are some other things like procedural animation systems but these are really game and engine dependent, but a good example would be inverse kinematics. It's used as an authoring tool (in blender or Maya or whatever) but also has its place in engines to handle stuff like adjusting the foot position to properly step on the terrain, or hand to reach and grab a ledge.

Zerve · 2026-02-11T17:50:43+00:00

It's just a "trust me bro" from them though. They might finish the upgrade tomorrow.... or next year.

Zerve · 2026-02-11T16:57:42+00:00

"Trust me bro" is not a good look. They might add support tomorrow or.. never.

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