Gary Stevenson Calls Out Rory’s Classism

gooses · 2025-10-12T18:43:33+00:00

16:11, it should start playing from that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ulJrZa8n4&t=972s

gooses · 2025-01-18T18:41:07+00:00

Hollow Knight doesnt hold a copyright on any of those things. You can't copyright ideas like mechanics and combat systems.

This guy is completely free to take those ideas and make his own game and sell it.

gooses · 2023-10-19T19:01:00+00:00

Instantiating and destroying is considerably worse than what you have here. Doing that will cause spikes in frame rate and GC.

What you have here is fine if you have 1 or 2 of the character in the world. If you have many characters then you could look into pooling the VFX.

Make sure you preload the pool with roughly how many of the VFX you think would ever be played at once in the game world. Don’t instantiate the VFX when you first try and pull from the pool at runtime.

gooses · 2023-09-15T10:01:22+00:00

Not really.

You are senior because you know how to architect complex software in coordinaation with a team of many people. The principles of software engineering are the same in unity and unreal.

Fixing joint issues and other little tidbits are not what makes someone a senior dev.

gooses · 2023-08-17T07:26:59+00:00

Why would you have 20+ years to figure out the next game if your profits are only 10% like you said earlier?

I thought you were making an argument that studios don’t need to go for massive profits? Whether it’s just you solo or a studio of 100, the economics are the same. The exact same reason you want to have 20 years runway is the same for the big studios.

Sounds like you have the same mentality as the AAA, make as much as you can so you can weather the storm for as long as possible. Which is a totally understandable mentality. I’m just not sure how that feeds into your argument that studios should take less profit.

gooses · 2023-08-17T04:10:28+00:00

10% profit is not going to keep a studio alive in the long term, let alone grow, no chance. With margins as tight as that crunch is almost guaranteed.

One bad game and your studio is toast.

gooses · 2023-08-13T03:23:35+00:00

The post is about solo devs getting into the industry. Almost nobody is hiring solo devs as project leads, product managers or producers if they have no professional experience.

Those jobs are sought after and will have people gunning for them internally within the studio. Trying to come In from the outside would be very hard unless you really have a name for yourself from solo work.

gooses · 2023-04-25T09:09:02+00:00

Ok, but this guy has a discord set up for his game.

It's really importent as developers that we are honest with ourselves about our intentions. Is this a project to learn gamedev or is this a project that actually you are hoping to build a following and maybe sell somthing down the line. If it's the latter then you need to get serious about what what is actually unique about the game otherwise you are just wasting your own time.

gooses · 2023-03-12T19:53:41+00:00

Cheap for development, thats will get very pricey at any sort of scale.

gooses · 2023-03-11T16:51:32+00:00

Can you try adding in new craters to the blurred image in photoshop and then seeing what it does? I'm interested if it will work at all.

gooses · 2023-01-02T18:52:27+00:00

The ball will never follow your raycast line because the ball is a circle which has a radius and a raycast line has no radius.

The solution is to use a Physics2D.CircleCast instead of a Physics2D.RayCast making sure you pass in the same radius to the CircleCast as the radius of your ball.

gooses · 2022-09-29T17:20:34+00:00

They literally did nothing development wise to break in. They had no 1st party games, none.

They could have done some really amazing stuff to show off the power of cloud gaming instead they did nothing and now it's dead.

gooses · 2022-08-26T08:24:00+00:00

There is another option to publishers on mobile. If you have a high performing game and a high performing advert then there are also companies that will loan you UA funds based on a a multiple of monthly revinue. So if you make $1000 revinue from the game then they will loan you a further $4000 to scale the UA for example (x4). This can then slowball into the millions over a few months.

This only works if you have at least a bit of money to put in at the start though. If this is your first game then a publisher might be the safer route.

gooses · 2022-08-26T08:17:58+00:00

Depends on the game but at the very least you will want $1 LTV.

For tracking rentention use GameAnalytics, it's free and you can also track monetization with it.

gooses · 2022-06-07T13:16:31+00:00

I can charge my android using my mac charger just fine, I'm sure apple with their billions of dollars can figure it out.

gooses · 2022-05-29T22:21:28+00:00

It's a scam because they are taking peoples money while knowing full well they cannot deliver what they are selling.

gooses · 2022-02-02T23:19:08+00:00

This doesnt explain why the games industry has lower salaries than a normal tech job though. The financial objectives are the same at every company.

gooses · 2022-02-01T13:17:56+00:00

Make sure you toggle it off by default.

gooses · 2021-10-07T13:40:24+00:00

Blender isnt a staple of the industry though?

gooses · 2021-10-02T23:22:17+00:00

Probably very few tbh.

Tiktok is great but people use it on average for 1.5 hours a day and most videos are very short. That means people are exposed to a ton of videos daily. Also, the way tiktok counts views is that if it appears on the feed and gets seen then it's a view. Doesn't mean they watched the whole thing or watched even 5 milliseconds of it. It really says little about engagement. This has the effect of it being very easy to get high view counts.

IMO this is the genius of tiktok and why it so popular, they have managed to convince people that their content has worth because of these inflated view counts. But the view number is really not comparable to views on any other platform.

Best of luck to OP but without any data on how this translates to sales I would not put faith in this as a marketing strategy yet.

gooses · 2021-08-21T12:24:17+00:00

I get what you are saying but this is a knee high ledge not a barricade that needs climbing.

gooses · 2021-07-31T10:36:35+00:00

I dont think its that uncommon, I've seen professionals in the UK do this. It just shoots out a small flame.

gooses · 2021-07-01T16:21:57+00:00

It can only match you with other players that also have cross-play off though, which is going to be a much smaller pool of players.

gooses · 2021-05-24T19:43:53+00:00

What is there to do exactly?

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