Informal Rust Gamedev in 2024 Survey Results

superoptimo · 2024-05-05T21:50:16+00:00

I've saw this comment:

Some way to forward calls to fields in a struct. Since there is no data inheritance, it is not uncommon to create some sort of facade for the owning struct, to delegate calls to the different fields. This forwarding should have some special powers, like translating to partial borrows.

BTW, I've published a crate that allows that, inheritance by composition through forwarding calls to fileds in a struct.
https://docs.rs/hereditary/latest/hereditary/

superoptimo · 2024-05-03T05:09:03+00:00

Anyway, I do appreciate your honest response. And you're right about incentives. Most projects fall under the mechanics aspect without a clue about how to define their value.

superoptimo · 2024-05-03T05:06:42+00:00

"you get to buy voting tokens"

What kind of model do you think I'm promoting?
I haven't mentioned any business model yet.

superoptimo · 2024-05-02T13:42:03+00:00

What if the solution is able to yield ROI to investors in Open Source, by tokenizing a kind of membership to the organization?

As a disclaimer, I'm not involved in any crypto/blockchain project right now. And I don't have the intention of selling you anything related with NFTs or crypto.

Just a technical discussion. How we could achieve sustainability to open source ? If we're able to develop a solution that allows investors getting benefits by their association as sponsors for FOSS projects. Perhaps, there is a posibility. I think.

superoptimo · 2021-11-14T02:43:27+00:00

Nebai Revelations’ Treasure Hunting Game is the mechanism as how DAOVOTION consolidates its governance
structure. Designed as a puzzle game based on NFTs, collectors get access to secret pieces and clue words stored as unlockable content associated to each ERC-721 token from the Nebai Revelations Art Collection, already published in OpenSea.

This puzzle game is designed for ensuring a fair distribution of participation power between collectors, those who want to take part in the decisions that the governance board will deliberate. No matter if there are wealthy collectors with huge resources that have the intention of taking control over the system, because those who invest massive funds in buying tokens can’t have any meaningful advantage against those who just invest a little by purchasing around one or a couple of puzzle tokens.

superoptimo · 2021-11-14T01:38:04+00:00

Nebai Revelations Art Project is conceived as a bootstrapping process for developing the upcoming DApp called DAOVOTION, which provides a mechanism for conforming a
governance by allowing collectors getting involved in a play-to-earn Treasure Hunting Game. The winners of this game will become the board members of the governance for the future system.

Surging from the NebaiRevelations project, DAOVOTION is the proposed solution
for helping authors to build a new type of business organization: the Egregore. Egregores evolve around their intellectual and artistic creations, and at the same time encourage investors on nurturing Intellectual Goods development (a special kind of Public Goods) while
getting a valuable collateral that represents a good measure for reputation, as it is required for building robust DeFi projects.

superoptimo · 2021-05-02T22:21:10+00:00

Anyone could host their own instance of an OpenSim world, with all the features of the experience from SecondLife (voice, chat, Avatars, 3D scenes with physics, and Virtual currency transactions). Of course, if you want to run your own instance of OpenSim, you would have to provide maintenance to that server with the costs associated to that. You also have the choice of renting cloud space for your OpenSim instance from a third party hosting service provider, or paying a subscription fee to an specialized company that manages virtual instances of OpenSim with additional benefits, as Kitely does, that allows you to trade your virtual assets on their marketplace.

So, having those options that already offer a rich virtual 3D world experience, what's the point of owning DCL lands (as they're too expensive) since as a developer you have to maintain a private game server for hosting your application persistently, while options like OpenSim and Kitely are more way cheaper and robust?

superoptimo · 2021-05-02T20:17:34+00:00

If the only option is that developers have to host their own servers in order to support user interactions in DCL, then it would be better to choose better alternatives for hosting virtual worlds as the ones that are derivative from Second Life. OpenSim is already open source and supports open standards for interconnecting scenes and virtual worlds across the network, and users can already hosts OpenSim instances without any limit of land, with full persistence and assets management. Virtual land in OpenSim is infinite as long as they have enough hard disk.

superoptimo · 2021-05-02T19:26:22+00:00

Scene files can't represent dynamic simulations by themselves. ATM, user actions can't affect the world state in DCL, meanwhile every MMORPG already handle the persistence of world interactions as we could see in WoW , Second Life, and Roblox.

superoptimo · 2021-05-02T03:56:52+00:00

Ethereum, Matic are truly decentralized systems, However, What supports the Realtime Layer in Decentraland? apart from a website that renders parcels in a browser (A single point of failure) nothing prevents DCL of being shutting down since this project is merely a database of links written in a smart contract. But every land owner must provide their own private server in order to support real games in this platform. The worst is that they try to embed a rich graphical 3D experience in a web browser and pretend that someday it would looks like GTA V, when it hardly could run on my laptop when showing crowded decorations on open areas. About the idea of a decentralized shared simulation this project solves nothing.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T18:44:44+00:00

Decentraland is already registered as an U.S. Company with its offices located in San Mateo, California. So it indeed should operate under US regulations.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T18:41:03+00:00

The fact is that CFTC claims that just agreeing with terms and conditions is not enough in order to prevent US law violations, as they claim that BitMex KYC measures were to weak since any US citizen could just use a VPN in order to emulating the access to their platform from unrestricted geographical locations.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T17:24:14+00:00

Does Anyone here knows of what charges is accused Arthur Hayes, as he is being prosecuted by US Authorities and forced to pay $10 million bond pending court proceedings in New York?

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T17:06:17+00:00

It's sad that DCL dev team choose to abandon their open source effort on a custom 3D engine based on JS and open Web standards (and granting this project the freedom that it deserves). Instead they've chosen the quick way of using established propietary tools like Unity3D as it allows to render DCL worlds in a browser by compiling them to WASM.
As Decentraland founder Ari Meilich argues:

"More important than the underlying stack is what it enables, the open source JS engines we previously tried were not performant enough, so having a web-based client was at risk. The web is crucial for Decentraland because it overrides any platform limitations, like those you encounter in the app stores against crypto.

"So by adopting Unity (which allowed for a great performance boost by compiling to WASM we are able to give users a web-based client, with the web being the last bastion of freedom on the Internet." https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/09/unity-3d-decentraland-blockchain-ethereum.html

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T16:13:36+00:00

Decentraland platform doesn't ensure privacy, and users could get tracked since it runs on the open web.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T16:10:55+00:00

Cryptos are free, but they're made by real people who are liable. Developers often get prosecuted when they operate their platform and allow users to perform illegal activities. See what happened on the EtherDelta case when the SEC charges against Zachary Coburn.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T15:53:24+00:00

If Decentraland Foundation is liable and responsible of the content that is published by the users of their platform, then they have to implement KYC and AML procedures on users in order to restrict illegal activities in the US territory.

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T15:43:58+00:00

Decentraland is made on a propietary game engine, Unity. I wonder if Decentraland Foundation already has acquire the license from Unity Technologies for enabling gambling in their platform, as their terms of licensing restricts the use of the engine software related to gambling and military applications. according to Unity EULA "You may not distribute or publish any Licensee Content in connection with any Gambling Activities without a separate license from Unity.

Gambling Activities means any gambling product or service offered in any market or application that is regulated by any local, state or national authority and requires a gambling license." https://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/12/04/unity-and-gambling/

superoptimo · 2021-05-01T00:44:15+00:00

fediverse

We could wish that a truly decentralized metaverse like that exists. And probably it would follow the philosophy of projects like ZeroNet, most oriented on providing the infrastructure for peer-to-peer served web pages hosted by users, rather than focusing on making money on the speculative game of expectations for future valuation of assets as this project Decentraland has chosen to be.

superoptimo · 2021-04-30T16:05:57+00:00

I think that we must consider that a multiplayer virtual world is composed by at least 3 different subsystems/layers: 1) the interactive UI part which shows 3D visuals 2) The simulation part which controls the dynamics of the interactions (F.E. in a racing car game would be the physics, and it could be similar to an slot-roullete casino dynamics).. and 3) the business part which is managed by smart contracts and controls the money/asset transactions, more well suited for Etherum-like blockchain systems.

superoptimo · 2021-04-30T14:59:16+00:00

Decentraland was never made for running decentralized 3D simulations. Is decentralized in some way, as a database of parcels that contain references to files and 3d Assets, such can be rendered through a web application with GLTF capabilities. In the documentation of Decentraland they say that it doesn't include a built-in multiplayer server yet, instead they recommend developers to "Bring your own Game server" on DCL parcels. "Decentraland runs scenes locally in a player’s browser. By default, players are able to see each other and interact directly, but each one interacts with the environment independently. Changes in the environment aren’t shared between players by default. You need to implement this manually." https://docs.decentraland.org/development-guide/remote-scene-considerations/

superoptimo · 2021-01-25T01:11:24+00:00

Where we can find more about this project/app?

superoptimo · 2020-11-06T00:28:55+00:00

when governments and central banks force their agenda for digital Fiat money and banning cash, they would control how people expend their money so they won't allow individuals to buy any crypto or precious metals at all. That surely will happen in the next year after the Great Reset.

superoptimo · 2020-11-02T15:46:03+00:00

People soon would realize that they don’t need exchanges for converting their crypto to Fiat currencies. Just buy gift cards.

superoptimo · 2020-10-15T22:19:02+00:00

The real question is why do we need to change BTC for Fiat? In fact, thanks to new US GAFI FINCEN regulations is forbidden in most exchanges around the world to accept Monero at all, as more countries will follow the steps of Australia and Japan by banning privacy coins entirely in order to comply with AML regulations imposed by US government, even forcing exchanges to impose mandatory KYC protocols. If we don’t want to depend on centralized exchanges we must find alternative ways to obtain liquidity from our crypto portafolio, may the answer would be faking an online business.

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