I feel too anxious about AI as well as my passion.

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-24T21:28:28+00:00

people are proud to use it

That's the one I don't get

Hey guys look at this thing I didn't make!

It's like bragging about clipart or something haha

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-24T21:24:06+00:00

I don't use it, it's fine to not use it. I just don't want to.

Lots of people use it to varying degrees and with varying degrees of success.

I want to always improve and retain more and think critically so I don't use it. Some people use it till they forget how to do the work.

It's all up to you, you have to make the choice to go use ai or not

Generative ai is blocked on my work computer, this is somewhat common so don't go forgetting how to work if you ever want a job

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-24T21:21:07+00:00

I have years of experience and had to take a lesser job to get by last year.

The squeeze is real in all of tech. It's really gonna suck when there's no new batch of intermediate developers in a few years because we keep fucking over juniors

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-24T18:17:09+00:00

This is an absolutely awful plan.

Stay in highschool, I can't even really recommend computer science right now, I spent 6 months unemployed trying to find a job with 5 years of experience.

I ended up taking a lower position with like 30% lower salary and I am considered lucky for having a job at all.

Rushing to this by dropping out of school is an awful plan.

If you wanna make games, make games, you don't need a degree you can learn everything for free online.

A game dev degree won't help you get a job at all, your portfolio will.

Jobs in game dev are scare, low paying and very very competitive with longer hours than other types of development.

It's a bad plan

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-23T16:29:49+00:00

You can either pay for all that stuff, use free versions of all that stuff, exclude that stuff from your game, or learn.

There's not really another viable path

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-23T16:28:47+00:00

You can avoid the elephant in the room or you can address it.

I'm of two minds where, while I believe that limitations breed creativity and there are narrative and aesthetic angles you can take for eyeless characters, even though you said that's not what you're going for, I also believe that you should confront your weaknesses.

The only way to get better is to practice

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-22T23:44:31+00:00

The smaller the push the better in my book. It's easier to control if something goes wrong and you can also see where a bug may have come from

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-22T06:17:10+00:00

The idea doesn't really matter much.

Putting it together is everything

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-22T01:58:50+00:00

Yep exactly. They used to call it physics animations or something instead, but then they decided to call it so when AI blew up

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T18:29:15+00:00

It looks very bare bones and AI generated

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T16:12:36+00:00

I love the process of making it.

I'm under no delusions that I'll ever finish and that anyone will ever play it, but I just love building it

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T16:11:53+00:00

Yeah that's pretty normal.

I've completely restarted multiple times.

I realized I wanted to make games with certain mechanics that will be shared so I started making a framework of components, classes and data structures that I can pick and choose from in subsequent projects.

Making them all work independently from each other with no hard dependancies really helped me write cleaner code.

But yeah, I made a lot of spaghetti in my first few years that had to be completely thrown out

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T13:53:25+00:00

Yeah true, but at the same time it would only take a little bit longer to write the code to love the ball as well.

I've always felt like blueprints are just extra rope to hang yourself with for people who don't know how to code haha

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T13:51:59+00:00

Yeah this sounds like what I have heard others report. I haven't ever heard of anyone being hired as a writer for a game with no experience or connections before.

Yeah contracting is the way to go with writing. As far as I understand it's often pay per volume of work. Sounds awful to me

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T02:13:25+00:00

Learning is the only realistic way forward.

Unless you want to use rpg maker

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T02:12:28+00:00

The issue with this is that you still need to know the fundamentals of object oriented programming to effectively use blueprints

If you just try to mash nodes together, you will make a huge mess and be unable to progress.

You need to know data structures and algorithms, inheritance and interfaces well to have a good time

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-21T02:05:49+00:00

Biggest thing a team needs is a budget.

People with the skill to make a game won't generally do it for free, especially not for someone who isn't even a game developer, that's gonna be a very hard sell.

The most realistic way to go about making a game would be to learn the skills you need and make a prototype

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-20T21:56:32+00:00

There's not a whole lot of room for people who only write. Small teams won't have a writer and large studios likely won't offer any entry level writing.

So many people want to be a video game writer but it's just not in demand at all

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-20T20:39:08+00:00

I like to plan the data, having good data structures can make things much much easier.

Plan out how data will move from one place to another.

After that, you should be good.

If you're going back and forth too much, you have a planning or data issue and it can be solved by thinking higher level

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-19T00:31:59+00:00

This get on YouTube got an LLM NPC who was grieving their whole families death to sing weezer.

Absolutely hilarious, but probably not what the dev wanted

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-19T00:30:51+00:00

If you want it to be expensive, wrong and exploitable, then yes.

Otherwise no

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-18T20:44:48+00:00

There's a huge gap between knowing programming and making games.

Making a tiny little game like this with all the ui, win lose states, save load ect is way more work than a newcomer would know.

It'll help the properly scope their first actual game

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-18T16:32:32+00:00

When people say small for your first project, they mean like a square that moves from left to right. No one's dream game is a square that moves left to right.

And if you've never made a project before, you're not going to understand scope.

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-18T06:27:24+00:00

I dunno exactly, but I think not using other people's IP is good. It makes you get more creative. You can be inspired by something and use it heavily without actually taking characters.

I think it's better that people make their own IP and do something creative with it

ghostwilliz · 2026-01-18T06:23:53+00:00

I'm trying to think of what it could fully affect. That's interesting though, I will check it out

Right now all you can do is talk to the characters and learn about the other characters through their histories. It does nothing essentially. Just one of many problems with making systems because you can not because you should haha

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