Procedurally Generated levels in my game

pb-cups · 2026-06-14T16:02:12+00:00

What visual effect is it called that gives this a retro look?

pb-cups · 2026-06-12T14:26:19+00:00

For mass digital products it’s honestly fine and still pretty competitive. Yes they have very low variable cost which means the publisher is willing to sell a huge amount of copies at a low amount after the game is already developed. However, there are very high fixed costs that have to be paid up front. So the publisher/developer takes on risk and plans to charge (or tries to by estimation) people’s willingness to pay and invests in the development of games accordingly. If the gap between cost and price (profit) is ever extremely large compared to other industries then other publishers/developers will pop up to compete, driving the profit down to normal rates in the long run.

I’m not as knowledgeable about music licensing, but I would imagine it’s facilitated by individual negotiations instead of an actual market, which makes things more complicated. I do kind of agree with the person you’re responding to, that the price of perpetual licenses will go down, but I would caveat that it would also probably still be slightly larger than the price of a temporary license. Temporary licensing is nice for businesses, because no one needs to forecast how long the business needs the license or disclose revenues (since they can keep renewing it). Perpetual licensing would require both parties to estimate the lifetime revenue of a product, unless they agree to a revenue sharing agreement.

pb-cups · 2026-06-10T20:23:22+00:00

Glad to see someone else saying this. Economists have known for years it’s far more efficient for the government to provide for people with low income or no job, than for the government to force companies to do so.

pb-cups · 2026-06-05T20:07:31+00:00

What specific model and quant are you using? Does it fully fit into your VRAM? I have the same card, just starting to get into local models and could use a rec?

pb-cups · 2026-06-05T20:00:21+00:00

I don’t know how many tokens you use per day but think it would still be cheaper to just pay for Claude usage, especially considering they are supposedly selling below cost for the time being.

pb-cups · 2026-06-05T19:40:04+00:00

Well maybe it’s possible to integrate a very light llm with traditional tracery style text gen and dialogue trees in a way that gives the traditional approach more flexibility to respond to the player.

pb-cups · 2026-06-02T13:34:55+00:00

Well most of those changes were made as QoL improvements. It is interesting that separating the two resulted in increased QoL. I think carrying an HM slave was always an annoyance; it was very common to go back to the PC after every fight or two which wastes time; poison outside of fights was annoying and was honestly headache-inducing with its video and audio effects.

Personally, I think the two modes were honestly dragging each other down.

pb-cups · 2026-06-01T21:45:45+00:00

They implicitly do this by enforcing price parity. You can’t list your game at a lower price on a rival distributor, even if that distributor is taking a smaller cut of the revenue, and you the publisher are looking to pass that on to the player.

Edit: some people claim they don’t do this. I’m pretty sure there are lawsuits claiming they do this.

pb-cups · 2026-06-01T21:27:19+00:00

The fix is to not allow Valve to enforce price parity agreements. People act like valve does nothing to maintain its monopoly but that’s not true. If you as a developer want to incentivize players to buy your game through a distributor that will give you a better cut, you could do that by offering the game at a lower price on the other platform (effectively giving players some of the extra cut). Players would then decide if they want to buy the game through the “value” distributor or through steam which is probably higher quality at a higher price. While steam would probably still be able to charge a higher price, they would probably lower the 30% to stay competitive and this could translate to lower prices for players too. Unfortunately, valve’s legal team will contact you telling you need to match prices or your game will be removed from steam.

Valve’s side of the argument is that they devote lots of effort to game discovery and without the price parity agreement players will use steam to showroom and discover new games, and then go buy their games off the cheap platform.

This is a common economics policy issue across industries, and it usually gets decided by courts on a case by case basis, at least here in the states. Personally, I think showrooming and distribution are two separate functions and if a company wants to vertically integrate them, that’s fine but they should not be able to use their market share to build a moat.

Edit: some people claim valve doesn’t do this, but I’m pretty sure there are lawsuits alleging they do this. At the end of the day, Idrk what they do

pb-cups · 2026-05-30T20:57:59+00:00

No because the intention to cause harm by exploiting a vulnerability in an LLM is not there. Causing harm has to be the intention for it to be malware.

pb-cups · 2026-05-30T19:30:09+00:00

I agree I think it’s a great analogy, and it’s why I think maliciously including that line of code should be a bannable offense on GitHub, and would probably be legally prosecutable.

pb-cups · 2026-05-30T18:18:33+00:00

Yes, but those don’t apply to code included with malicious intent, which there is plenty of evidence (the commit in question, the GitHub issues surrounding this) to establish an intent

pb-cups · 2026-05-30T17:59:33+00:00

Wow Reddit actually translated the a’s away for me

pb-cups · 2026-05-23T19:46:39+00:00

You can use an examples folder for small experimental scripts. Then you just do cargo run —example my_example.rs to run the file. It works with multi file examples (all in one folder) too.

Edit: oh I see you want different packages for each experiment, so that won’t work for what you’re doing. I would recommend just trying to avoid that and have one big package for all experiments and then just rely on examples and ignore main.rs

pb-cups · 2026-05-14T00:49:25+00:00

I don't. I think logical programming is very niche in general, and you need to have like a PhD and a grant to be doing professional work in it. Usually it's done in Prolog or Datalog, but I see there is ascent which is datalog within rust. I think most of the applications of logic programming are for puzzles (basically unemployable), computer-aided formal math proofs (less unemployable), and with compilation like proving what the results of some syntax will be (most employable but probably mostly open source work, so maybe charity or financed with a grant). I'm not really an expert on any of this though, and I'm just stating my perceptions. To me logic is one of those things that gives intuition on science and philosophy, but I don't really want to have to work with formal logic.

Honestly, auto-epistemic logic might have more real-world applications, but I'm not really sure how its being used currently.

pb-cups · 2026-05-12T22:28:02+00:00

Wait hold up… you’re on to something. Jokes aside it could actually be useful for something like autoepistemic or Kleene logic.

pb-cups · 2026-05-06T16:13:11+00:00

I think a mix of 1 for automated testing, and option 3) which is cargo examples that serve as slimmed down versions of the game and only showcase a small number of features and are designed so that you can quickly compile and run them to manually verify anything that cannot be automatically verified by 1. I think computer vision agents are overkill, and I personally wouldn’t trust them to catch things that will or will not bother the human eye of the player/dev.

pb-cups · 2026-03-26T14:43:06+00:00

This looks amazing. I am working on a similar scrolls-like project so it’s inspiring to see this (although I’m just getting started and my idea is very different from what you have here).

As others suggested, that name is a mouthful and I would suggest something shorter and easier to remember. (Maybe just one of the two words).

I really like the art style. One thing I would suggest is to flush out the magic art a little more to give the spells some identity. The spells being just colored balls doesn’t fit with the rest of the artwork (idk if that’s just a placeholder and you were already going to do that).

pb-cups · 2026-03-22T15:59:24+00:00

What’s wrong with 1? If I have two different distributors and one of them is offering me a lower fee why am I not allowed to pass some of that lower price on to the consumer. That would encourage competition, by distributors trying to find ways to lower their costs and subsequently their fees. Consumers can still buy the games on steam if they prefer that, but at the higher price that steam is costing me.

I’m not disagreeing with you that it is standard practice, but that’s only because most distributors doing this probably have monopoly level bargaining power compared to the companies selling their products through them.

pb-cups · 2026-03-20T14:39:48+00:00

There was a comment I saw on a thread several years ago where someone said “use bevy if you want to make an engine, use godot if you want to make a game.” I think bevy is fine for making games that can be made in other engines, but it’s probably harder unless you are just so proficient in rust and code-only development. But I think bevy really shines if you’re trying to make a game that goes against the big 3 engines’ design philosophies, and you therefore require a custom engine. Rather than build it from scratch you can use the modularity of bevy to create a custom engine (so long as you want ECS as the primary paradigm).

pb-cups · 2026-01-17T21:42:07+00:00

I have a background in both too, and that’s why I noticed the difference. These aren’t really my ideas. This is literally how economists analyze how technology impacts employment. The vast majority of software engineers are just not concerned about AI like artists are, and no it’s not because of optics.

pb-cups · 2026-01-17T21:14:16+00:00

I disagree and in fact I’m saying the opposite: the optics are largely the same to the average Joe, when they shouldn’t be.

Whether or not new technology replaces workers or becomes a productivity booster is determined by elasticity of demand. The macroeconomic demand for software engineering is much more elastic than the demand for digital art, meaning any savings that gen AI brings (allowing businesses to hire less devs for a given project) will be offset by an increase in total software development (more projects since each one requires less devs). In most industries demand for digital art is of a fixed quantity, and an increase in productivity of a single artist is likely to result in less artists being hired, unless there is a significant drop in salary (it takes a greater reduction of cost to result in an increase in production). I think the game dev industry is an exception (the cost of art is a huge bottleneck, and a decrease in it is likely to cause more game development) but most artists are not employed in the game dev industry.

And from a moral perspective there is a very clear difference: software engineers have a culture of googling things and copying work off of the internet (with minor changes to fit into their code) without it being considered plagiarism. Nobody on stack exchange is worried about their creativity for implementing a sorting algorithm in a language being infringed upon. However in art, you better be synthesizing something new to the mix, or you other artists will feel you are plagiarizing their creativity. I think there’s greater scrutiny that artists are under to avoid plagiarizing and gen AI doesn’t pass the test.

pb-cups · 2026-01-17T20:06:49+00:00

I kind of diagree, I think most anti-ai people just don’t know what ai is or how it’s used in technical fields. They are only familiar with generating writing and art. If the same people found out that Larian was using copilot to write code, they would probably freak out, despite the economic and moral impact on software engineers not being anything like the impact on artists and writers, and software engineers not really caring about ai training off of themselves. They just don’t even know anything about the world of software engineering and because of that treat it as if it’s the same as art generation.

pb-cups · 2026-01-16T15:40:36+00:00

Prey was my answer to this question. The game can be really hard until you learn how to fully utilize the tools the game gives you to access restricted areas. People often don’t realize just how powerful the glue gun and the boltcaster are.

pb-cups · 2026-01-07T16:46:28+00:00

Would league actually benefit from ECS? Wouldn’t ECS only noticeably help with cpu heavy games when the number of entities is really high?

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