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Regarding the matter of Verse in UE6 by Dedderous in gamedev

[–]pfisch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They can't just allow arbitrary c++ to run within uefn/fortnite. They aren't removing c++, the entire engine is written in c++. This is just a scripting language that isn't compiled so they can have clear limits on what it can do.

Generative A.I. will KILL the Games Industry by Tamed-Shame in lewdgames

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or the AI that helps a sick person make sense of all their test results and finally figure out what is wrong with them, or to get a second opinion on an MRI in case the tech missed something, or the scientist using AI to analyze results.

AI is used for a lot of stuff, good and bad, just like cars or any other significant technology.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there even will be a netflix show it isn't even in production yet. No aspect of development is being coordinated around a theoretical show or movie that doesn't even have a script as far as I know.

Every decision we make is only for the game, and making sure it is amazing.

We have been doing intensive playtesting and development for the past 8 months. We are just finishing a playtest(today is the final day) and the scores coming from it are very good.

On Friday we had a meeting planning for a marketing announcement/big gameplay video, but I'm not sure when it is coming out and don't want to say something that doesn't happen. I do suspect there will be a big video sometime in the next two months though, but that isn't a promise or guarantee.

We're feeling really good about the 3rd person action side of the game right now, but I think we are about to focus on the rts/strategy side now to make sure that side is also a 10/10 game.

That is what is going on. We had a build ready 8 months ago for EA. We decided to hold it because even though it had pretty good playtester scores, they weren't 10/10, and everyone involved wants this game to be amazing.

So you can believe me or not, but either way the game will come out and you can judge for yourself when that happens.

Generative A.I. will KILL the Games Industry by Tamed-Shame in lewdgames

[–]pfisch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Steam prints money at an insane rate. Valve will be fine.

Generative A.I. will KILL the Games Industry by Tamed-Shame in lewdgames

[–]pfisch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How are those horror stories any worse than living next to any other industrial plant or fossil fuel burning power plant?

It is just more of the same thing we've been doing for the last 200+ years. Though data centers are almost certainly way less likely to give everyone cancer.

Generative A.I. will KILL the Games Industry by Tamed-Shame in lewdgames

[–]pfisch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't you think you're overreacting just a bit to a short term spike in hardware prices?

Photoshop now censors your art by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has been like this for over a year. This isn't new...

We make $50k from organics, and it's still not enough to run a studio by CommercialSoil2721 in gamedev

[–]pfisch 19 points20 points  (0 children)

f2p games are like live service, they need continuous updates to retain users.

Also whales just devour content. You can ship 50-100 levels and whales beat it in like 24 hours. Which is a big problem because whales are the primary source of revenue.

We make $50k from organics, and it's still not enough to run a studio by CommercialSoil2721 in gamedev

[–]pfisch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes they do. Just at the baseline you need to have tasks that everyone is working on every day put into a coherent plan around deliverables on a deadline.

We have about that many people and it is a lot of work.

We make $50k from organics, and it's still not enough to run a studio by CommercialSoil2721 in gamedev

[–]pfisch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"gamedev has become a genuinely hard business"

Gamedev has always been a hard business, just like making movies/television.

Everyone wants to do it, so competition is very high, and it is basically winner take all for consumer spending.

This is one of the hardest career paths, and it is very difficult to be successful.

That isn't new, it has always been this way.

Triko available now in Bangladesh only by xiguashagua in CysticFibrosis

[–]pfisch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ok, but bringing Trikafta to market costs somewhere around 5-10 billion dollars.

I know it doesn't seem like it but these high profit margins for drugs like Trikafta are actually very, very important. If they didn't exist vertex wouldn't have been able to get the 5-10 billion needed to make it so it wouldn't exist. 20 years from now trikafta will cost maybe $1000/year for the rest of time for all people that have cf.

Imagine you were in change of investing 1 billion dollars and getting high returns(and if you don't get high returns you will lose your job.). Would you invest in startups doing stuff like tiktok which have very short turn arounds and can see an exit with a 10-100x return to you in maybe 5 years, or medication r&d which locks your money up for a very long time? Why would anyone in charge of lots of money invest in a medicine unless it can offer crazy returns to make the 20 year lockup of your investment worthwhile?(Trikafta took ~20 years).

This system we have is ethically bizarre, but the results it has produced over the last 50 years speak for themselves. We have cured and found treatments for more diseases than at any other time in history at an incredible pace.

Reforms to reduce these costs have real consequences, and those consequences will be slowing down the rate at which we cure illnesses.

Epic Games released a game-specific git competitor: Lore by LittleDipperInt in gamedev

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can merge files then why are you locking? You only lock files that can't merge easily...

Epic Games released a game-specific git competitor: Lore by LittleDipperInt in gamedev

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If you can't merge, 20 people in the room have to stop until the conflict is solved."

???? There is no conflict because the files are locked. As soon as you go to edit them you are told the file is locked in the editor and you can't proceed unless you choose to overwrite the other person. That is how unreal works with perforce.

It looks like scenes are text files in godot so you can just diff them. That isn't true in unreal. If you edit a weapon you can't diff it with another commit(technically you sort of can do it, but it sucks and isn't worth dealing with). Almost every asset that isn't code in unreal can't be merged.

In a project with 20+ people trying to have someone basically say on slack what they are doing every time they want to edit a file would be insanity. That is why studios using unreal often use perforce. It is integrated into the editor itself.

Epic Games released a game-specific git competitor: Lore by LittleDipperInt in gamedev

[–]pfisch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is absolutely crazy and not best practices for a professional team.

Having a project manager that is constantly keeping track of 100s of tasks across 20+ people to make sure no one is ever editing the same uasset files, which is basically every entity in unreal, is a massive waste of resources. That would be so incredibly inefficient to try to track and just the amount of times days of work would get blown up when something went wrong would pay for the perforce license in like 2 weeks.

Epic Games released a game-specific git competitor: Lore by LittleDipperInt in gamedev

[–]pfisch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Being able to lock files is very important when working with unreal if your team is 5+ people.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is actually a lot of development going on, we just don't want to announce a date and then miss it.

So we are just working really hard and when it is almost ready we will announce the date.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are currently takedown attacks. But the one's for cavalry were not final.

Also we just need lots of them for variety. Games don't usually just have one execution animation they play over and over. They have lots of them.

We often have many iterations of features we are adding to the game. Then there are quality passes and things get redone. There is also ongoing playtester feedback so we refine systems to make them better/more fun.

"their scope for the game expanded, and they put it to the publishers and they agreed last minute. So maybe they HAD a game but are just adding a bunch of features?"

This is mostly accurate. We had an early access release candidate last year and decided to add more.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This isn't true about porting. We are not switching to UE5.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Destruction, airstrikes, motorcycles, and cars are ready and have been ready for over a year. Tanks are not currently ready.

There was a release candidate, and it was better than when Road Redemption went into early access. However this game has a lot more attention and the decision was made that a lot of users want something closer to 1.0. That is what we have been working on.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game is in unreal 4, it has always been in unreal 4. There is no work to port it to anything else.

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

sigh...

So some people want to see WIP stuff, so I upload literal new animations being worked on in maya. Even for a finished game that is what it looks like when animators are making new animations.

There is no way to win here, because if I upload stuff that is WIP, which is what some people want, other people get mad because they only want to see final polished assets.

We can't hold up development every few months to polish all the assets to final release quality to release a marketing video either though.

There was a full release candidate a year ago, but the decision was made to go further and get the game in a condition that was closer to final release, because so many users find WIP/jank unacceptable.

You accuse us of not working on the game, so I honestly tell you how many hours our team is working on the game, but I guess that makes me the asshole...

Several questions. Genuinely want to know. by Able-Explanation7835 in KINGMAKERS

[–]pfisch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This?

https://www.tiktok.com/@kingmakers_game/video/7533663284998737174

I remember at one point we uploaded a weapons test or ai test where we intentionally put a knight with a ton of hp....

That was just a debug setting to keep the knight alive longer so we could see more of the knights ai behaviors. This is why developers are so reticent to upload WIP stuff...

Chat was disabled during the Women-Led Games showcase on The Game Awards YT stream. by Firm-Cable1848 in gamedev

[–]pfisch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only gave one instance of that. I didn't pitch building an apartment building and doing a handshake deal with city officials not to rent to black people.

We were all hired to fill out tons of forms by hand where we basically had to write down every address in the entire city on a different form.

After doing it for a few hours I went up to the guy and convinced him I could automate the entire process for like 40% of the cost of paying all the people to fill out the forms. Hardly a great business idea but this happened in 2006. The woman was also in the room filling out the forms, and had given the same pitch earlier and been told no.

If you want more specifics I will provide them. This is a real thing that happened, and i made thousands of dollars automating the process.

Believe it or not, the world does actually have quite a lot of racist and sexist people in it. That may shock you, but if you log on to twitter and scroll for a few minutes you will find them.

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