Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

Carmack has never had an artistic bone in his body

"Oh its just like home made or artisanal vs mass produced goods like bread or furniture"

No it's not. Code grows and evolves over time, like a living organism. And bad code (and slop code is bad code) doesn't evolve, it *festers*, it spreads rot in a way that isn't applicable to mass produced goods

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I hear "players don't care about the code" fairly regularly and that is true in the abstract but not in practice. They can absolutely feel it and I'm not talking about just when stuff catastrophically breaks

that's not the important part of the code

i hope eventually the dopamine rush of the code slop slot machine fades and you look around and find yourself in a morass of technical debt and realize how utterly fucking wrong you were

"it doesn't matter what the code is all that matters is that it runs and produces the desired result"

liar. what you're saying is bullshit. you know it's bullshit and you're saying it anyway

and for the record i'm not talking about making code to create art like a game or something. i'm saying *the code itself* can be art. a perfectly constructed api, a framework that fits together just so, when code comes together in a beautiful harmony, *that is art*, it requires artistry to create!

i don't know what AI brainrot has made otherwise prolific and proficient coders think that there's suddenly no distinguishing factors between good code, code written with artistry, and bad code, but it's baffling when this is a thing that we can measure and have measured in the past and they know it

how does this game have voice acting but $70 switch games barely do.

Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

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that quote has sold so many copies of our game

the sale ends in 3 days get kitsune tails for 13 usd while you can

Yeah its pretty nuts XD

It felt like a near perfect speed match after I sped it up from the actual near perfect speed match to compensate for the wider screen :D

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oh that makes sense

you usually wanna do that regardless to give players more reaction time to stuff coming up ahead

taking SMB3 physics and putting them into kitsune tails, a widescreen game, had people complaining they moved slower than in SMB3 even though they didn't, the wider screen just made it feel like they did

Everyone understands why it'd be a supremely stupid idea to force puzzle games to adapt to widescreen monitors, yet few ever stop & think that maybe this applies to other 2D genres where players interact with the edges in some meaningful way

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at one point @glassbottommeg.bsky.social was like (and i paraphrase) "running an indie game studio is like unexpectedly having a live thermonuclear device delivered to your doorstep, mulling it over for a few seconds and going, 'actually, i can make this work for me'" and i think about that a lot

ludum dare literally started my career in games. end of an era

I might not have ever made I Get This Call Every Day if it weren't for the Ludum Dare.

A functioning games industry, a healthy games community, wouldn't have allowed things to get this bad.