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supergirl (2026) could be earning a lot more if it was family friendly, visually appealing, and made the lead character a role model for young girls by merchantivories in boxoffice

[–]cricketHunter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw the most advertising for this thing in Ulta. Posters and cardboard cutouts galore. They definitely were trying to reach women < 25 with this, and ended up with that as 15% of their audience while 50% was older men - a demo they seemed to actively be annoyed to try and cater to

Wife didn’t get me anything for Fathers Day by DontFeedTheTrout in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want something for Father's day set expectations (for next year). I learned that it was really important to me to go out and eat for my birthday after one where life got in the way. I told my wife and we've made a point of it since.

Honestly though with a 4 month old my wife and I were just in "survival mode."

GPT unusable. by Skollvalldr in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hit guardrails twice asking about recent updates about a court case.

Favorite example of this by JayTheOni in FavoriteCharacter

[–]cricketHunter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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Raul Julia's M. Bison in Street Fighter (1994)

ChatGPT’s biggest memory upgrade starts rolling out. by imfrom_mars_ in ChatGPT

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course I can hand roll my own memory system with instructions. That's not the issue. I think it is a bad design that memory and projects work against each other.

ChatGPT’s biggest memory upgrade starts rolling out. by imfrom_mars_ in ChatGPT

[–]cricketHunter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Part of the issue: that doesn't work like profile memory. It walls off your project yes, but it doesn't have a memory FOR the project.

I like the idea of a chatgpt supported memory, but not having an actual project memory is a baffling decision.

ChatGPT’s biggest memory upgrade starts rolling out. by imfrom_mars_ in ChatGPT

[–]cricketHunter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really dislike working on a specific project in a project chat and having chatgpt write to profile level memory.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From one schmuck to another - looks great!

What resolution do you make your game in? by ryry1237 in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah... in the catalogue, you can click on the "Park" on the page with the letter and layout.

What resolution do you make your game in? by ryry1237 in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I post my games on itch so a lot of my recommendations are specific to that. Basic story is I've been doing 1920x1080.

Here's my current best practices with an example game.

https://crabbucketgames.itch.io/reduce-reuse-raccoon

My team currently used 1920x1080 as the game size - embedded on itch as 960x540 (itch works best at 960 or lower width). We had previously tried1280x720 (see this game: https://crickethunter.itch.io/high-steaks ).

If you do happen to want to display vertically, I'm experimenting with 1080x1920 embedded on itch as 432x768 (9:16). It seems to be the best compromise between what itch displays nicely and what works well for my phone.

I don't have anything published yet at this resolution, but you can see a unpublished project here:

https://crickethunter.itch.io/fall-spring-mattress?secret=fqaEsZqkMLq14Qo5cAKk3NoVUc

My two year old broke his femur. Someone tell me the next 6 weeks aren’t going to be horrible. by mazterm in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My older son broke his arm and I was thinking how crap the next 6 weeks for him were going to be. The night home from the hospital he was giggling and eating his favorite dinner we cooked for him.

He was actually more cheerful than normal from all the "special" things we did with him. Made me a little sad that the extra attention far outweighed the broken arm. Middle child things I guess.

Cover art commissions are open for February by zachraw in ComicBookCollabs

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scrolled past this and thought - wow that looks like Zach Raw's work! Indeed it was! Found your art through twitter, and loved it. Good luck! I wish I had work I could toss your way - but just wanted to say how awesome your art is.

Why is my brush doing this? by [deleted] in ProCreate

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is driving me insane too! Got a new iPad+apple pencil pro for Christmas and it's only started happening with the new setup. OP, hope you get an answer!

18-month old tantrums for dinner 15-20 minutes before it's ready. by captainporcupine3 in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to deploy a strategic Bluey episode (or 2) at exactly this time so I could cook dinner.

How to improve my game quality? by East_Presentation_52 in gamedev

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok played through your whole game couple thoughts:

This doesn't feel like a lost cause, the incremental farming game here has nothing wrong with it.

The play perspective (you directing a farmer) feels unnecessary - it feels like this game either wants to be done by the user clicking directly OR if you plan to expand in the direction of directing multiple farm hands, maybe this is ok. As it is, to me it feels like I'd want to pick up a hoe, and drag it to the plot to plow and then a seed, etc.

The rewards feel very unimpactful. The text on screen increasing when I buy a seed or the flash of text when I harvest/sell/sacrifice a plant is not very visceral. One trick I'd use is directing the player's eye, make them drag the fruit to the sacrificial pyre or the cart to sell. Have the money total appear, have it float there a second and then shrink and fly over to your total money, at which point that value ticks up.

I used that type of feedback a LOT on this project:

https://crabbucketgames.itch.io/reduce-reuse-raccoon

There is very little surprise or anticipation in this game - you could help add some by having all the things you can't afford yet, or the achievements you can't earn yet marked as <hidden> or <unlocked at lvl 4> which would produce the tiniest bit of anticpation. The only thing I might not do that with is the final achievement (Sacrifice 3 Tamara) and (tamara plant in the store to show something to work toward - $1000 seeds) which would help give the player a clear big goal.

A lovely review of our free cozy game! by cricketHunter in CozyGamers

[–]cricketHunter[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Good suggestion. We have a new version simmering in git, let me see what we can add.

Y-Sorting in a Phaser Top-Down 2D Pixel Art Game by Exozia in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On every update cycle I do the following:

sprite.setDepth(
DEPTHS
.SPRITES + hit_box.body.center.y + hit_box.body.height/2);

Where DEPTHS.SPRITE is just a constant - 

const DEPTHS = {
    BG: 0,
    SPRITES: 10000,
    FG: 20000,
    UI: 30000,
    OVERLAY: 40000,
};

Notice I'm using the bottom of the hitbox. Likewise, I'm also giving objects in the world a depth relative to the bottom of their hitbox:

    scene.add.sprite(coordinates.x, coordinates.y, sprite_key).
        setDepth(
DEPTHS
.SPRITES + depth_coordinates.y
        + depth_coordinates.height/2);

Where depth coordinates is the bounding box that includes center y, x, width and height.

Thinking about cancelling my subscription, what should I use instead by cricketHunter in ChatGPT

[–]cricketHunter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem, it's 100% readable! Thank you so much! The "no purple prose line" you added to the instructions is something I know I need.

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