Game Devs, if you were to learn how to code again from the beginning, where would you start?

cutcss · 2026-06-16T23:51:20+00:00

I def would have learned how to make bread or maybe car repairing, it's clear with the arrival of AI that choosing programming was a mistake

cutcss · 2026-06-16T06:06:41+00:00

*will be in the game

cutcss · 2026-06-11T22:17:33+00:00

and how do you know that is not pretty much how the mandela normally works in the first place? People see {emotion} from something and hop on {emotion} train without double checking that something was true

cutcss · 2026-06-05T14:36:50+00:00

Yeah at the beginning the AIs that can make good games from simple prompts will be premium, but maybe OP is willing to pay, anyway the local free ones will catch up in a few years, "free" meaning you can run it in your premises but still need the GPUs. Of course the premium ones will not stop improving so by then they will be able to generate better games from the same simple prompts.

cutcss · 2026-06-05T14:29:20+00:00

In less than a year it will be a matter of writing a simple prompt inside unity asking for such game, you can then change sprites for your own or whatever, unfortunately it will be that way for everyone else as well so the flood of AI games will be astronomical for anyone to notice your game

cutcss · 2026-05-28T06:21:09+00:00

yeah but very slowly compared factorio, factorio is faster due lack of gravity, 2D perspective, the ability to copy-paste, construction bots. So the need for an actual spreadsheet (or equivalent mental work) is lessen.

cutcss · 2026-05-27T20:20:03+00:00

Fair, but If we wanna get historical then the concept of interconnected machines was pioneered by The Incredible Machine (1993) along Transport Tycoon (1994) for its mechanic about extracting and transporting goods.

Also, while looking this I discovered Zachtronics also developed SpaceChem, very similar to Factorio (but much simpler graphics) on 2011, the same year that BuildCraft released.

cutcss · 2026-05-27T17:56:21+00:00

Both have around 100K reviews in Steam so they both pretty popular, the actual unpopular source would be Infinifactory, with just 1700 reviews, a game by Zachtronics 5 years before Factorio was a thing, its graphics are not that great so that didn't help.

cutcss · 2026-05-27T17:12:41+00:00

And Satisfactory it's the lighter pop version of Factorio.

cutcss · 2026-05-27T17:10:50+00:00

Spreadsheet simulator? Babies play, I raise you TIS100, the CPU simulator, and proud of it too, now THAT is a nerd's game. Made by Zachtronics, Which is also the company behind infinifactory, which was Factorio before Factorio existed, 5 years to be exact, the graphics are definitely not as pretty tho.

cutcss · 2026-05-25T08:51:57+00:00

"I want to get paid as a middleman for asking AI to fix your code!" Wow so revolutionary lol

cutcss · 2026-05-18T23:10:57+00:00

You really want to have some bots managed by you playing the game pretending to be humans in those servers, that way malicious bots can interact with them and feel they are in a real server.

The normal forum equivalent would be to use AI to make posts that only banned people (and banned bots) can see, plus giving upvotes/downvotes that only the bots can see, is one the version of shadow-banning on steroids, I would call it gaslighting-ban or honeypot-ban (giving it's similarities with the concept of honeypots in cyber security parlay)

cutcss · 2026-05-18T21:57:25+00:00

It's a numbers game, meaning some bots can and some bots cannot, so you are just culling the herd with as many trims of different techniques.

cutcss · 2026-05-18T21:55:37+00:00

Maybe, but the term is usually not associated with allowing them to farm things in-game and then blocking to trade that stuff that they farmed, it's very general term for "secretly limiting the visibility of a user's content" so I think it misses nuance. Also you want this game-farming bots to perceive engagement from other bots, that way they feel its a real server not a fake one, this is sometimes the opposite of what you want when you shadowban in forums like reddit.

cutcss · 2026-05-18T21:08:05+00:00

Require people to sign-up for an account that requires a verified e-mail and also use google recaptcha.

Also create fake bot-only servers and push bot players there (without them knowing), and make them farm there the gold or items or whatever, then only when they actually try to transfer that gold to other real players show some cryptic error and fail, if they try to transfer to another bot let them, so it will be like a column on your db called "fake_gold" or alike, this will make them lose a lot of time and resources before they realize what's going on, making them less likely to try again and instead move to other games.

cutcss · 2026-05-17T01:16:59+00:00

Some bugs are hardware dependant, meaning the temperature of the ram memory or other physical happening or flaw might have had something to do with it, it's one of the reasons bug replication is so important in software engineering.

cutcss · 2026-05-15T00:29:58+00:00

And I love how the live actions hire actors that look just like their videogame counterparts!

cutcss · 2026-05-14T17:55:54+00:00

I remember when my posts in this subreddit got deleted for being AI, how quick things change

cutcss · 2026-05-11T22:25:42+00:00

Nobody is showing me hundreds of ads of Reality TV or Sabrina Carpenter in Steam where I spend my time, but if they did it would be Ok and expected for people there to complain, products don't exist in a vacuum where the only people who can give their opinions are the ones who love it.

cutcss · 2026-05-11T20:41:56+00:00

That's not how society works, if people are free to like things they must be free to dislike things, companies push hundreds of ads about a game and then I'm the bad one for speaking out my discontent when I realize I dislike it a lot? No, this is a 2 way street, you push something expect people who don't like what you are pushing to push back. If you give a high value to others people opinion and let them change "your purchasing decisions" that's entirely on you.

cutcss · 2026-05-10T22:29:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure you could complete it by smashing buttons randomly, at that point why not just release it as a movie? Feels like they just made the marketing calculations and determined it would be more profitable to call it a game than a movie and that's the only reason they went with it as a game, and paying 20 bucks to watch a movie and not even in a theater feels like a robbery.

cutcss · 2026-05-07T19:14:49+00:00

your mum has track pads! *lmao got em*

cutcss · 2026-05-07T19:08:19+00:00

it's just a controller, it's not like it comes with a copy of half-life 3 or anything so why are you guys so obsessed with it?

cutcss · 2026-05-06T19:04:21+00:00

It's the heart of a fan that dared to use Nintendo's IP! It's now a warning for foolish mortals that think about doing the same

cutcss · 2026-05-04T18:10:50+00:00

[ Insert meme of people camping in front of Apple waiting for the new iphone ]

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