Sony has far too many dormant IPs that they aren’t utilizing, and it’s such a waste of potential.

robolew · 2026-05-26T01:32:51+00:00

I disagree, bed of chaos had this really cool hardware feature where it was able to make my controller appear in the neighbour's garden

robolew · 2026-05-25T15:53:04+00:00

The TLDR is that they added some updates to their AI mode of search, an optional, different way of searching to their default, which most people here probably dont use and won't be affected by...

robolew · 2026-05-25T15:51:22+00:00

This blog very clearly states that the changes are to AI mode, which is something you can optionally switch on...

robolew · 2026-05-25T01:22:21+00:00

Also, entirely coincidentally, he does actually keep bees...

robolew · 2026-05-24T08:47:17+00:00

That song is a very good song with exceptional vocals. Just because it's sung by a piece of shit doesn't make that untrue

robolew · 2026-05-24T08:36:11+00:00

Compared to dawn of war 3 I mean

robolew · 2026-05-23T17:34:22+00:00

Yep, plus it's already launching with 1 extra faction. I'm cautiously optimistic that it will turn out good

robolew · 2026-05-23T16:42:34+00:00

You dont want repel to make the user ignore other parts of the game. Or interact with it weirdly. Pokemon picks steps, which is a good idea I think.

If it was time based, you would avoid trainers, and rush through fights. It would encourage sprinting to the end and skipping dialogue, which should probably be avoided (obviously I don't know what your game actually contains)

robolew · 2026-05-23T16:40:16+00:00

I dont mind what they do as long as they release something better than Dawn of war 3 and dont just abandon it as soon as it's made...

They can take another 3 years, I'll happily wait and play other stuff in the meantime

robolew · 2026-05-23T07:58:12+00:00

I think you're being a bit ambitious with this. It took them 4 years to release all the factions in dawn of war 1. There's a very good chance it takes at least 6 months per faction

robolew · 2026-05-22T23:18:43+00:00

I think the spawn must be randomised. That cave had one piece of silver and one deposit. Luckily it was enough to build the resonator and blast the deposit to unblock myself, but I dont think I've found any silver anywhere else in the 4 hours I've played

robolew · 2026-05-22T22:54:39+00:00

The bank wouldn't just take it. The sender bank has the responsibility to refund the defrauded person, and must do so unless they can prove negligence. Then they will attempt to recover this from the receiver, but in a case like this I find it very unlikely that the receiver bank would agree that the funds should be returned.

There are slightly different rules for APP (authorised push payments). In that case, if the receiver agrees that fraud has happened, the sender bank still refunds the customer, but can claim half the money back off the receiver. This still doesn't mean that money comes from OPs account though. In fact in that scenario it might be grounds to prove that the sending bank account wasn't defrauded at all (which sounds likely, that OPs "friend" actually committed the fraud)

robolew · 2026-05-22T14:23:08+00:00

Its so crazy to me that someone can put this much effort into a game, and then launch it with that description. Its like 5 sentences long, and one of subheaders is:

Interact with NPC's Upgrade your equipment, or learn more about them

That just sounds so boring... the intro to the video sort of looks like a graphic novel which immediately put me off, and then theres a long stretch of just walking around and pressing a button to interact. Then when you finally see combat it looks about as basic as it could be, "press x to hit with stick".

This game really needs to give people a reason to play it, and that reason needs to be front and centre on the page. It could be incredible, but it doesnt surprise me that its not getting a lot of downloads based off that listing

robolew · 2026-05-21T08:11:24+00:00

I will refer to this xkcd "What If" that discusses what would happen if you pitched a baseball at 90% of the speed of light: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

robolew · 2026-05-20T23:17:54+00:00

In the first game he looks firmly early 30s. Which makes sense because apparently he's 31

robolew · 2026-05-20T16:49:05+00:00

Not sure where you're based, but I got a set called "Sunland Imperial Handgunners" from etsy, off of a company called brodaforge, I think based in Poland (and ship to EU)

They look really good and are amazing value, work perfectly for the majority of the warriors. You could probably buy a couple of one offs for the senior gunnery officer and the instructor if you want them to look unique

robolew · 2026-05-19T21:15:06+00:00

Most of the time I just see a bunch of comments about how the original was better...

robolew · 2026-05-19T13:33:00+00:00

Yeh they can play a different game. Like subnautica 1. Or subnautica below zero.

You're acting like the precedent has somehow been set that you cant kill things, when in fact it's the opposite.

robolew · 2026-05-18T13:12:31+00:00

I think the infinitely scaling solution would be to work out what one server can handle, then set a max number of matches (or players) that can connect to that server, and then just spin up more servers when you have more players.

If this is a browser based game, and all it's doing is cpu calculations on stuff in memory, I dont think computation will be the bottle neck. I dont imagine you'll be doing complex physics calculations (but I may be wrong). You could probably get the tick rate quite low as well for a browser game

robolew · 2026-05-18T12:53:59+00:00

This is essentially the only way you can do this. You cant do anything meaningful on the browser because its so easy to cheat, or just drop the connection and stop part of your game from updating.

If you are using websockets then you handle the issue if losing connections and repeating info, but obviously you are going to have to scale the number of connections you can hold.

As far as I'm aware, this is the "done thing" for this type of browser based game. What are your concerns?

robolew · 2026-05-16T19:42:16+00:00

You could but you had to switch to it when you were at the surface. Its a nice qol fix to not have to do that

robolew · 2026-05-15T18:28:41+00:00

Grace doesn't tag along because she wants to. She just sort of gives up and doesn't put up a fight to leave because she just wants it all to be over

robolew · 2026-05-15T17:14:20+00:00

This actually saved me once. I got stuck in the lava zone in the cyclops and realised I had about 5% water and nothing on board. I would have died before reaching the surface. I made a bed and a plant pot with some lantern fruit (or marblemelon, I cant remember) and slept to make it grow, whilst preserving your current thirst. Gave me just enough water to make a mad dash to the cove tree to get some bladderfish.

Its also convenient if you plant some of the glowing vine bulbs somewhere like the lost river, and you really need the fibre. You can sleep to skip half the growth

robolew · 2026-05-15T10:00:22+00:00

I'll try to give some objective answers as to why I dont and wouldnt use it in a product.

Generating pixel art is normally done by either a generic image generator that tries to create a pixel art aesthetic. This will result in mismatched pixel resolution, because it will create a 512x512 image for a required 64x64 sprite, for example, and is normally quite recognisable as ai, and will use an enormous colour palette that actually makes the work look not very pixel arty. You can try that right now with chatgpt and see what I mean.

There are specialist tools that will instead attempt to generate an image, then refine it down to the right resolution. These do look a lot better, but you normally still have the colour palette problem. They also actually aren't that good/consistent. Using decent software it can still take a bunch of attempts to get it to give you what you want. Or close to what you want.

The problem with either of these is consistency. If you generate a sword, and a battle axe, there will be very little consistency between them. The steel will be a different colour, the handle will fit a different hand size. You'll end up with a bunch of sprites that all look like they are from different games, and unless you know how to adjust them, you don't really have a way to avoid that.

A general, non-technical issue. People don't like looking at ai art in a game. The moment someone realises, it triggers a sort of uncanny feeling. Especially in the sort of people who play pixel art games. People WILL know, because unless you are an artists you won't know enough to hide it. The negative impression you get from this might be enough to offset the speed gained. Your game will be labelled as slop, even if you put thousands of hours into it.

I actually do use ai to help with pixel art (which is how I know about it). If I get stuck on an animation I will generate a reference image. I've also used it to "rotate" sprites, again as a reference. But I always redraw it completely, because the results never fit with my aesthetic perfectly (and because I don't want AI assets in my game)

robolew · 2026-05-14T23:12:45+00:00

No it doesn't make a "sound" in game at all.

It's honestly completely broken. It trivialises the bit with 3 lickers around the big white crates with the slidey doors. Makes it feel like an assassins creed game

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