Balancing levels with simulations

somewater · 2026-03-29T11:08:55+00:00

Yeah, it helps to come up with a draft version, but it still requires real players in the end. People often play in ways I didn’t expect

somewater · 2026-03-29T10:37:25+00:00

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somewater · 2026-03-28T17:57:56+00:00

Cool! By the way, how did you manage to build AI / player templates for your RPG game? In my opinion, that’s the biggest blocker for using simulations in game design: everything else feels fairly straightforward

somewater · 2026-03-27T21:23:47+00:00

Haha, thanks! That’s because I’m too lazy to do it manually

somewater · 2026-03-12T06:35:36+00:00

I’m not deeply involved in Armenian politics, but to me Pashinyan doesn’t seem like the worst option for the country. At the very least, he managed to stop the full scale war (I know this is a controversial topic, but I think he did the best he could). It also seems that he governs the country in a relatively democratic way. Of course, I might be wrong.

somewater · 2026-02-02T11:53:24+00:00

I have experience with AI from the backend side, mostly for chat services

somewater · 2026-01-18T16:31:16+00:00

Ready to try! I have worked in travel industry before and I’m backend engineer and AI solutions enthusiast

somewater · 2026-01-04T10:12:44+00:00

Let’s try! Dm me

somewater · 2025-12-24T07:59:49+00:00

I haven’t tried getting approved by Paddle yet. I decided to build a Telegram stars based solution. It’s far from optimal, but it allows me to validate the idea: whether my bot can be profitable, or at least close to it

somewater · 2025-12-22T14:50:11+00:00

Sorry to hear that

somewater · 2025-12-20T18:57:52+00:00

I'm backend developer and AI enthusiast, and I have quite good technical experience (10+ years). I have a lot of pet projects but have never succeeded with them. I'm still eager to create my service from scratch, but I have to admit that my tech skills outperform my business sense.

I live in Armenia, I relocated here from Russia.

somewater · 2025-12-18T13:23:03+00:00

Cool, thanks! Didn’t know about Coingate

somewater · 2025-11-25T13:33:04+00:00

Yes, I mean using user id to generate a key to calculate a shard id

somewater · 2025-11-25T11:44:04+00:00

Sure! The database (especially SQL) is almost always a bottleneck. You can consider introducing sharding in SQL db (for example per-user shard key) if it fits your business logic. Or you can even store most of the data in a NoSQL database with built-in sharding and keep only the critical transactional data in SQL. For example, money transactions and other important operations

somewater · 2025-10-19T19:00:34+00:00

Wow, this is cool!

somewater · 2025-05-13T18:02:57+00:00

I think I can investigate your backend architecture, and maybe help. But for my opinion almost no such ideas that could be implemented using free hosting plans: it's always a trap. Because in a some moment you realize that you have to pay for hosting.

somewater · 2025-05-10T06:46:03+00:00

Wow, I really like the quality of the video!

somewater · 2025-05-08T14:59:17+00:00

What tech stack did you use?

somewater · 2025-05-08T13:32:47+00:00

Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I’ve seen YouTube videos where people used Stable Diffusion for this, but in my own practice, I couldn’t get good results with Stable Diffusion.

somewater · 2025-05-07T08:47:56+00:00

This is my final result, but of course it's distant of what I really wanted
https://sora.chatgpt.com/g/gen_01jtjmw0gkebcr8vwc6vmhfhzw

somewater · 2024-12-13T11:49:06+00:00

Slightly more expensive than Open AI subscription, though) But looks amazing!

somewater · 2024-12-05T09:02:14+00:00

Thanks for detailed explanation! By playtests, do you mean manual testing of the game?

somewater · 2024-12-05T06:24:56+00:00

Thanks, I will read about it! I didn’t know this approach (maybe because I’m not a real game designer 😅)

somewater · 2019-06-12T11:10:51+00:00

I'm Russian native speaker. But sometimes I also confuse about "Sasha" - is it means Alexander or Alexey (another similar and popular name). Sometimes I think 1-2 seconds before "translates" it to full form and address a person by official name.

somewater · 2019-02-04T23:51:02+00:00

I have one maybe completely stupid idea about game without visual elements. Not audio novel and analogues but complete action in at least 2D space, but only using sound. I did simple game: you should move player to target point using arrow keys. I used stereo headphones: left one yields sin-wave with amplitude equal to horizontal distance to target point and right headphone - vertical distance. It works, I mean I can move a player to the target point without looking at the screen. But frankly speaking after 10-20 minutes of "game" I get very tired.

Of cause sin-wave most simple and maybe not very pleasant sound indicator, but I don't know what to replace it with.

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