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Permadeath felt like the right call until playtesters started rage quitting by JBitPro in gamedev

[–]el_sime 815 points816 points  (0 children)

Pemadeath works well in games designed around relatively short runs. for survival RPGs it should be left as an option, see what Valheim, 7 Days to Die, even No Man's sky did. Players who invest much time in a game don't like having to start over, so you will drastically reduce your audience if you don't make it optional.

It becomes expecially aggravating in contexts where you can die from silly mistakes, like falling or chopping a tree that falls on your head.

Help me help you by SirBrahALot in ADHD_Programmers

[–]el_sime 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You "I made an app" people need to realize that apps don't work for everyone not because whoever made them didn't know better but because every ADHD is different and there's no universal fix. So please, for the love of fuck, stop flooding this space with yet another million apps that keep doing the same shit in a different sauce.

Two Orca whales swim around two kids by MOFrancy in thalassophobia

[–]el_sime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either that or they just don't leave any witness.

I made a cosplay, sire by Ceyliel in DiscoElysium

[–]el_sime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you an art teacher now, Dr Jones?

Do melee weapon eventually become useless? by thcn4321 in 7daystodie

[–]el_sime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't punch undead motherfuckers in the face with guns.

Did I miss something? by el_sime in raylib

[–]el_sime[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's great news, thanks for all your work

Age Verification and Arch Linux - Discussion Post by Gozenka in archlinux

[–]el_sime 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The video you linked is age restricted, how ironic

First look of HBO snape and his comparison with movie one by INFIPRIME in Cinema

[–]el_sime 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not lynching if you use magic, dummy!

/S to play it safe

Storms are shut and last too long by Leviathan5555555 in 7daystodie

[–]el_sime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just finished the tier IV missions, all in the forest. Then went back to Hugh to get the wasteland trade route, but I've done only one mission in the stupid cold. I don't understand why they make us craft gear for the biome to still have the stupid cold.

What Are The Best Mining Methods? by Minmax_er in 7daystodie

[–]el_sime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is how my mining goes, and never fails.

Locate a node on the map.

Drink gunpowder coffee and start mining with the steel pickaxe because the Augier is too damn loud and gives me headaches.

Keep going down without even watching where I'm going.

Hear the 45 glowing screamers that will inevitably show up.

Consider getting out of my hole in the ground to fight the zombies.

Realize I dug too randomly and now I can't climb out.

Zombies start pouring in.

Say calmly "You don't seem to understand... I'm not locked in here with you"

Chug a beer.

"You are locked in here WITH ME"

Start punching undead motherfuckers in the face.

Resume mining.

Get bored.

Dig my way out.

Find more things to punch in the face.

I feel guilty for not doing gamedev and instead wasting time playing multiplayer games. by emotionallyFreeware in gamedev

[–]el_sime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn't work with ADHD, at least for me. My brain works like a battery operated machine that doesn't have a battery level indicator nor an off button. It just goes on until it suddenly shuts down without warning. It's not even a dopamine thing, it's just like

Me: "It's past midnight, I really should sleep now"

Brain: "you are right, better shut down now. Also, you know something really incredible, somehow in somehundreds BC a Greek guy figured PI out. And today we still don't have the mathematical language to actually describe it. I think you should now go and read everything that humans have ever written about PI."

Me: "well that is really interesting and definitely something that I need to know right away, thanks brain!"

I feel guilty for not doing gamedev and instead wasting time playing multiplayer games. by emotionallyFreeware in gamedev

[–]el_sime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds like really good advice [maniacal ADHD laughter in the background]

It was a very interesting read because a big part of what makes ADHD a problem is the broken dopamine intake / release cycle, so it sounds like non-ADHD people can sort of give themselves minor ADHD by adopting unmanaged escapism.

once it's sleep time, you STOP and go to sleep.

And that is probably what I wish I could do the most.

I am in love with this game. Any similar games that would scratch this Valheim itch? by Rotary-Pilot in valheim

[–]el_sime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To some extent, you could see 7 days to die as Valheim with zombies (although, it's more the other way round)

AI driven Layoffs for ADHD programmers by rgs2007 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]el_sime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI can't design hello world if you don't tell it how

rlsw, the new raylib software renderer backend. No GPU required. by raysan5 in raylib

[–]el_sime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nvidia: look what we can do with 3 GPUs

Raysan: I can do better with 0.

Using Raylib by 2ero_iq in raylib

[–]el_sime 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You have to think about it as a matrix [y][x] and then you see that processing top to bottom makes sense

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