Sorry that I never post and this is the one I come back with

I just figured out how I would have fixed the end of Twilight. Have Jacob imprint on some other woman near the end, turns out their baby and nessie or whatever are the soulmates and is why he felt drawn to bella and protective of her. Boom, you got a spin off warewolfxvampire story and not creepy

The previous ethos used to be something like tack on 30% to your budget iirc? Idk, after like 8 years doing it I'd say pretend you have 15% of the money you have and decide your scale based on that. Most indies can not survive one element going wrong, including common stuff like illness

The Pokémon don't use slurs but they do trash talk capitalism

I'm obsessed with Pokopia as a gamer obviously, but also I'm just incredibly jealous/ impressed that they actually made cozy sim in the alps Disco Elysium and it totally works

Pomeranian concept art

wtf I drew a guy for work that looks just like Pombon a year ago am i psychic (no I'm not, that's just a pomeranian's peak form)

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This is an entirely unrelated anecdote, but I learned antibiotics cancel out birth control really early bc they brought teen moms into my health class in hs to scare us and one of them was due to that 😰
Sorry about your microbiome

There are ALREADY ways to make games without coding! Most engines have stores where people are selling or willingly giving away cool tools to make things. Engines like Scratch even teach you as you go with lego like pieces of code.

There's a huge lack of context to ai chatbots, and video games are an incredibly fragile tangle of interwoven features. Trying to get it to do exactly what you're picturing takes immense back and fourth. There are so many better ways!

If you're an aspiring dev. I understand the allure of getting where you want faster or easier! Consider the ethical implications, but also understand that studies show ai coding frequently takes longer and is more frustrating than other methods, even when users perceive it as faster

Also, original statement is misleading, later they clarify it can "assist" or "empower" which is not creating an entire game with a prompt

This pill says it can make you 8 inches taller!

I know I'm asking a lot, but I wish these article headlines were more clear about "But they have not shown any evidence at all that what they claim would be remotely possible"

I did! close up it’s not the most realistic, but I think it gives it a cute cartoony look :)

I cringed soooo hard at that

Tiny dresser and tiny table

Made tiny furniture out of clay during the super bowl

the bushes were people 😂

It is very very funny to me for a Super Bowl ad to have “we will have AGI soon” in an ad without mentioning what that is at all. Who is this ad for, what market are you targeting here? more money than marketing sense obviously. Also a blatant lie anyway but whatever

I figured it out, the Super Bowl commercials this year remind me of the expo hall at GDC. Same vibe of 10 different wildly over funded companies chasing one tech fad. We’re just missing a blockchain and NFT ad

If I was famous id be in the Pokemon superbowl halftime commercial that isn’t specifically advertising anything just the concept of pokemon

I also appreciate the beer commercial showing live video of the horse and eagle from the commercial after to show it wasn’t ai (no idea if the rest was, but they did have a real horse riding eagle)

There’s a really weird amount of ai de-aging ads in the Super Bowl, it’s legit like 40% of them?

Also even if you start early like me, you will become 30 somehow anyway! Progress (for whatever that is measures by) is not going to be a straight line, and when you get in won't really impact how long one lasts or how successful they'll be

36% is a hilariously low number considering how many companies are forcing use, and how many (basically all) mainstream dev tools and programs are inserting passive gen ai into their products anywhere possible. Good job team lets get those numbers lower next time tho ✌️

Also my entire household has had an upper respiratory infection for the entire month of January, as well as worms and pink eye. Unrelated

This optimistic post brought to you by the 100 political anxiety/depression posts that I opted not to vent out into the world before this one

So it's eerie that every major political event is happening in places I live or have lived, but the nice part is seeing all the random center right people I went to school with swing wildly left over time and all be out protecting their communities, and that's really wonderful

Game dev is weird, because whatever we make wont be out for quite a while. So discerning the tone that the community needs beforehand is dicey. But I think coziness and optimism that recognizes and validates common community feelings is hopefully timeless

Game dev wise, I've flip flopped between "people need rest and energy right now from a safe and comfy game between news" and "I need to make disco elysium but with cats", I'm falling somewhere in the middle where I'm trying to make something safe to relax, but with honest moments that give catharsis