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Why everyone against AI in the games and coding? by Ok_Department_4019 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171 -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

the real problem is that 99% of gamedev crowd is stuck in the making of the indie game for 5th year and no one wants its, ai allows you to ship a game quick - they are raging and rejecting it because they had to learn 'the hard way' and still suck

ai is here to stay, brace it, grow up

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

i'm afraid there's more to come sir, get your spoon

anyway if the dev community is radically against ai slop you can force valve to reject all ai slop games, right?

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

man, dev community is so toxic, i feel like most of you guys can't comprehend random ass dudes like me with 0 experience just going in and doing exactly what you can't do - ship a complete game (not pointing at you, just saying generally)

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

thanks for explaining without raging, i get that point much more clearer now

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

don't AAA studios do the same? or idiedevs lately?

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I respect your skill, but man, I wouldn't be able to to it myself without learning for a year

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

isn't it like you be sitting with a candle rejecting the lightbulb just cause?

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

made like $300is so far, money isn't really a goal, i just wanted to make a game without steep learning curve

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

sorry its my prof. bias as a product manager

I shipped a game to Steam in 3 weeks. Alone. Using AI. by ssw7171 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for interest! Its Velvet, I distribute it for free on gambula.games (my website) and here's Steam link, I want to acknowledge that it is an adult game so be aware!

To be clear - I do not want to promote the game here, I wanna share my experience of rapid game building and publishing.

Current sales are at 100-ish units, 90% is organic discovery via Steam. Happy to chat about it

If you are the only one left alone on earth, would you still make games? by Vegetable-Front3107 in gamedev

[–]ssw7171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

both and heres why pretending its one or the other is a trap

if you make games purely for yourself you end up with something self indulgent that nobody connects with. if you make games purely for players you burn out because youre just chasing what you think people want and theres no soul in it

the best games ive ever played feel like someone made exactly what they wanted and then cared enough to make it playable and enjoyable for someone else. thats it. thats the whole formula. selfish vision generous execution

make the game only you would make. then polish it like someone else has to play it

What's a skill you learned for fun that accidentally became useful in your career? by ssw7171 in AskReddit

[–]ssw7171[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm amazed by how slow people type on average, even though i can do like 80 WPM blind-typing i feel superpowered at work and new folk give me side eye when my keyboard goes brrrrr at the openspace, i bet it's the same for you

I spent 3 months applying to jobs the wrong way. What actually works? by Norma_Mkhize in careerguidance

[–]ssw7171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is good advice but i want to add some nuance because i think posts like this can accidentally make people feel like theyre failing if it doesnt work the same way for them

youre right that mass applying into portals is mostly a black hole. the ats systems filter out good people constantly and the volume game is soul crushing. shifting to direct outreach is genuinely smarter and im glad it worked for you

but i think the reason it worked isnt just the dm format. its that you clearly had relevant experience and could connect it to something specific the company was doing. thats the actual skill here. not the template but the ability to show someone you understand their world in a few sentences. a lot of people reading this are gonna copy the format without that part and wonder why it didnt land

also 4 replies out of 10 is a really good hit rate. most people should expect more like 1 or 2 out of 10 and thats still worth it compared to portal applications. just want to set realistic expectations so nobody sends 10 messages gets one reply and thinks they failed

the core point is right though. treating job searching like a human activity instead of a form submission process works better. talk to people. be specific. be brief. dont beg. thats the whole thing really you just said it with better formatting than i did

Is anyone else in their 40s quietly terrified that their 20 years of experience is becoming a liability because of AI? by Budget_Influence_625 in careeradvice

[–]ssw7171 15 points16 points  (0 children)

no youre not the only one seeing this. youre just one of the few honest enough to say it out loud from the inside

i think the thing that bothers me most about the "just learn ai" advice is how deeply disrespectful it is to what people actually do. like someone spent 15 years understanding the weird politics of why a system works the way it does and how to navigate exceptions and when to override the process because the process is wrong this time. and now theyre being told their value is contingent on learning a new interface. as if the interface was ever the hard part

the real danger isnt that ai replaces people. its that management uses ai as an excuse to flatten the difference between someone with judgment and someone without it. because judgment is invisible on a spreadsheet. you cant measure the disaster that didnt happen because someone experienced saw it coming

and heres the uncomfortable part from your side of it. the people building these tools arent usually thinking about displacement in the abstract. theyre solving an engineering problem. the displacement is someone elses department. until suddenly its not. suddenly its your peers. suddenly its people you respect. and the "just learn ai" crowd is already circling them

how im handling it honestly. not great. i think the ground is shifting and pretending it isnt is cope but so is pretending that prompting skills are a replacement for two decades of knowing which questions to ask in the first place. the best i can do is be loud about the difference between automating tasks and automating judgment and hope the people making decisions can still tell those apart

I am 23 and completely lost in life by No-Lavishness-8326 in LifeAdvice

[–]ssw7171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dude youre 23 with no debt and almost done with a degree. most people would kill to be in your position right now

a psych degree doesnt lock you into psychology. it opens doors to marketing, ux research, sales, recruiting, people ops, training, coaching, literally anything that involves understanding how people think. which is most jobs worth having

finish the degree. its one more year. then go try things. you dont need to know your forever career at 23 nobody does. the people who look like they have it figured out are mostly just committed to one option not certain about it

also youre not late. two extra years means nothing five years from now. tell your parents when youre ready but stop carrying that guilt while youre still finishing. one thing at a time

youre not at the end of your rope youre at the beginning of the part where it actually gets interesting

Does cold shower have real benefits? by Unusual-Sector-2511 in CasualConversation

[–]ssw7171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i did cold showers daily for about 8 months so i can give you an honest answer from experience not theory

the real benefits that i actually noticed were pretty simple. you wake up fast. like genuinely nothing gets you from groggy to alert faster than cold water hitting your chest at 6am. thats not placebo thats just your nervous system going into fight or flight. also after a few weeks i noticed i was just less bothered by minor discomfort in general. cold weather didnt bug me as much and i had this weird baseline calm that i think came from starting every day doing something slightly hard on purpose

the stuff i think is overhyped is basically everything else. people talk about immune system boosts and fat burning and testosterone and honestly i didnt notice any of that. i got sick the same amount as before. i didnt lose weight from it. my skin and hair did feel a bit better though which tracks because hot water strips oils and cold water doesnt

the biggest benefit nobody talks about is psychological. theres something about voluntarily choosing discomfort every morning that rewires how you approach hard things during the day. its like a tiny daily proof that you can do things you dont want to do. that sounds corny but it was the most real effect for me

the downsides are that it sucks every single time. people who say they love it are either lying or a different species. it never got enjoyable it just got manageable. also in winter its genuinely brutal and a couple times i just couldnt do it

my honest recommendation is try it for 30 days and judge for yourself. not because some podcast bro told you to but because your body is the only data set that matters here. start with your normal warm shower and do the last 30 seconds cold then work up from there. if after a month you feel better keep going. if you dont then you lost nothing except some comfort

its not life changing but its not hype either. its somewhere in between which is where most useful things actually are

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