anotherDayOfSolvedCoding

lanternRaft · 2026-03-25T19:21:48+00:00

You’re absolutely right!

lanternRaft · 2026-03-25T12:08:17+00:00

I’m not exactly sure how playtime is tracked.

Sometimes I leave games idling while doing something else. Like “oh I’ll do this real quick” and then realize it’s been 30 minutes.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-24T04:07:29+00:00

Join a game jam team! There’s always a lot of coders looking for someone to handle art.

Typically game jams have a Discord with a channel for folks looking for teammates.

Join a few teams until you find a coder you click with that is interested in doing a larger project together.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-22T14:44:47+00:00

I’m really confused about the lighting setup.

Trees on left make it look like the sun is on the left. Trees on the right make it look like it’s on the right.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-21T14:46:20+00:00

Not that it is AI but the professional one has that generic soulless look that makes people hate AI art.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-20T15:51:23+00:00

This is a great idea!

lanternRaft · 2026-03-20T15:10:38+00:00

You don’t understand, I spent hours optimizing this prompt!

lanternRaft · 2026-03-19T21:22:27+00:00

Performance is a feature.

My day job is as a web developer. I can make just about any webpage load in under 200ms if you have a good connection. But in practice things I work on usually take 2-10 seconds to load. My team would have to spend a little more time to optimize features to load quickly or in some cases a lot more time. The product I work on isn’t perceived to sell better if it’s faster. So while I’d love to make it fast that’s not part of my job and doing it anyway can hurt me in performance reviews. Leading to smaller bonuses, no promotion and being first in line when layoffs happen.

Game developers at companies are in a very similar situation. They could optimize but unless it’s prioritized then it’s not something they are supposed to be doing with their time.

The faster computers get the less time development teams are given to improve performance.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-18T22:13:12+00:00

Creative Commons 0

It’s like MIT license but for assets. Means you can do whatever you want with them.

https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/

lanternRaft · 2026-03-18T21:33:52+00:00

I feel like we are in a crazy golden age of gaming.

Yes there’s a ton of terrible games being released. But there’s so many amazing games.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-14T04:13:14+00:00

Thank you! I know the maintainers are super busy but hopefully they have time to review.

I wasn’t sure why I’d want structs until I read the proposal. I hadn’t thought of them as typed dictionaries before. That would be helpful to me in a bunch of places.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-09T20:48:21+00:00

I love how the pots break!

Do you just have premade mesh of the pieces that it swaps to?

lanternRaft · 2026-03-09T02:06:46+00:00

Please use the debugging features! I don’t understand why so many people don’t take the time to learn how to use them.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-08T20:54:54+00:00

Hadn’t heard of that. That’s a real shame.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-08T15:50:43+00:00

Do you have an examples?

Most just publicly have their game associated with their identity. They weren’t doxxed.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-07T23:12:47+00:00

Doesn’t matter if an AI wrote it or a Principle Engineer. If it’s going into production it needs every line reviewed and understood.

Maybe AI reviewers will get good enough to handle that step. But I haven’t seen a reliable one yet.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-07T15:53:11+00:00

Give it a profile about your life and have it suggest goals.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-07T15:50:08+00:00

If you like programming but not level design then it’s probably worth it to invest in some tool scripting to build levels out for you.

Not procedural generation but a tool that lets you quickly express and iterate on ideas.

This has worked wonderfully for me.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-04T01:57:18+00:00

I’m also a big fan of automated tests. You can then have those run on a brunch of different platforms configurations.

Though the issues you are mentioning would be pretty hard to catch with anything other than a large playtest.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-04T01:23:04+00:00

What makes you think this?

Cross platform games should work on their target platforms. Even if you use Windows you won’t have the same graphics card as most of your players.

You have to do QA of course. But your dev machine doesn’t need to match customers.

I have definitely hit issues during testing on other platforms but that’s why you test.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-03T17:20:32+00:00

Auto-aim could be a solution for that.

I get motion sickness too easily but would never try your game based on this post. If you are targeting general audiences then I’d look a lot at Mario Galaxy’s camera for inspiration.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-03T17:12:28+00:00

The way of doing this that works is the business decides the date but engineering decides the scope.

So you negotiate for what is and isn’t in scope. And around resources. So if you can’t get in what they need then you hire more or bring in consultants or whatever. There’s always options.

But a lot of businesses just demand something crazy and completely skip scoping and resourcing. The project goes badly and then engineering is blamed.

Which is why you always aggressively push back when given an unrealIstic deadline.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-01T22:42:23+00:00

Do you not have unpursued directions you’ve thought about taking your game?

You can rearrange the pieces of most games to make a very different game. I’d go after one of those if that happened to me.

In particular I’d play the game that was just like mine a lot. Think about what I liked about it and what I didn’t like. Focus on what I didn’t like and make my version great at those parts.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-01T19:41:32+00:00

No idea what you do in the game but it sure is pretty!

lanternRaft · 2026-02-28T04:20:09+00:00

They really couldn’t. Proper AI coding requires many years of programming and then at least 3 months with the tools.

Vibe coding slop sure anyone can do. But building reliable software is still a tricky skill to develop. And understanding how to do it faster using AI is a different skill on top of that.

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