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BaldSavant

@BaldSavant@mastodon.gamedev.place

โœ๏ธ Narrative Systems Designer
๐Ÿงญ Quest designer and world builder
๐Ÿง  Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign
๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Wizard in need of a pointy hat

Currently @ Monolith

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BaldSavant, to random
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I can't be the only one who thinks the pokemon stuff here is silly right?

Ok, yes, the designs are similar, no denying that, but if "similar" is legally defensible, we've got so many problems all throughout our society and not a single piece of media is safe.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/don-t-worry-the-pokemon-company-is-looking-into-the-whole-palworld-thing

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So I picked up the C&C Ultimate Collection that EA put out on steam this weekend.

First thing I notice is missions just want you to throw numbers at everything. As long as you've got more X than they do, you're good to go. No strategy necessary.

And it's fun, don't get me wrong, but it leaves me wondering: Has a strategy game ever asked you to treat the lives of soldiers as valuable? Or is disposability built into the RTS formula?

BaldSavant, to random
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Ok, netflix , I was going to give you a fair chance but I'm 15 minutes in and aang just flew off to get a little moment to himself when the fire nation attacks.

Aang running away from his responsibilities is THE ENTIRE BASIS OF HIS CHARACTER ARC!! You can't just change that! That informs literally every moment of meaningful growth in the series! It's the cornerstone of the entire fucking plot, YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE THAT!

BaldSavant, to random
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AI continues to not do anything anyone has asked for, and cannot help with anything I want in my OS.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-we-saw-at-microsofts-ai-event-copilot-plus-pcs-recall-surface

djlink, to random
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for me this is the best thing to come out of Disney's purchase of Star Wars.

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BaldSavant,
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@djlink Less Skywalkers, more whatever this is!!

BaldSavant, to random
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I love how every time I see something like this I'll say to myself "I bet it's not what they're claiming" and immediately I'm vindicated by seeing the world's worst definition of "strategy" being used as the metric.....

https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/

BaldSavant,
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and if you're studying games that demand "longer time horizons" then what you're studying isn't game design preferences, it's free time.

BaldSavant,
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I mean look at our modern strategy games. We've got 4X and...... what else? Tactics/Fire Emblem games?

They're both extremely niche. We haven't seen a good, quick strategy game in over a decade, to my memory. Tooth and Tail, maybe?

Of course people are gunna be less interested in the style when their options are nonexistent!

BaldSavant,
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truly I am so tired of "the kids just can't pay attention these days!"

There's a reason. We're enforcing this on them with our social structure design.

BaldSavant, to random
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Ok, mastodon logistics question:

I have no idea if anyone I care about is on threads. Is there any way to find out? I don't even know if I should care about all this that's happening.

BaldSavant, to random
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Reading this is insane. Engine woes causing delays in production, the team noting that schedules and technical features are unreasonable, and then a C-level offering the statement that "New IPs are one of the hardest things to do" as the reason for canceling.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/blizzard-s-odyssey-mmo-killed-due-to-ongoing-engine-woes

BaldSavant, to random
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Oh what the hell, this is FASCINATING.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/new-dev-barnyard-games-formed-to-make-games-within-fortnite

BaldSavant, to random
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I am now angry at storytellers everywhere because I've been studying the of children's shows and seeing the same patterns of quality we see in auteur cinema.

Bluey is as good at telling a story as Scorsese ever was. Sesame Street is as thoughtful as Kubrick.

BaldSavant, to random
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My writing shall now be done under the watchful (and extremely metal) eye of Thoth

BaldSavant, to random
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Someone please explain to me how Kung Fu Panda, of all things, has such consistently amazing writing.

Look at the plot here! That's so good! Who tf?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N56EVgi7bJ4

BaldSavant, to random
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You know what I love? Running my sensitive tax data through a system which doesn't understand what I'm saying, and doesn't understand what IT'S saying, and only creates something which looks correct at a glance.

What a great thing to make!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/talk-to-your-taxes-turbotaxs-new-ai-agent-makes-it-possible/

djlink, to random
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Damn :(

BaldSavant,
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@djlink fortunately it's been a husk for years and the talent all went elsewhere long ago

jimmunroe, to random
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What games have modelled unusual systems for you that have given you a better understanding of a political, cultural or emotional dynamic? I'm really geeking out about Internal Family Systems therapy these days and I'm excited about the possibility of seeing these ideas in a game.

BaldSavant,
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@jimmunroe I've found that almost all games tend to model these things, just indirectly. I've been paying particular attention to TTRPG design lately, cause they tend to model some kind of roleplay and you can learn so much about a designers worldview by looking at what stats are available, and what actions are incentivized. Especially if you look through the lens of something like internal family systems.

alabapsi, to random
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At the cafรฉ today, I ordered a white chocolate chip cookie with extra seasoning (I dropped it on the ground by accident)

BaldSavant,
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@alabapsi "mmmmm, I'm getting a mild taste of bubblegum with notes of foot"

SmallGods, to random
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Words mean things. This is unquestionable, incontrovertible, uncontroversial. Words mean things, or whatโ€™s the point in having words? They may mean different things in different languages, but when people are speaking the same language, they should be able to comfortably assume theyโ€™re understanding one another. That the words they use, identical and clear, should mean the same things.

Continue: https://leemoyer.wordpress.com/2021/05/03/jeff-small-god-of-biscuits/

BaldSavant,
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@SmallGods I just need you to know that on first glance I read this as "JEEF"

BaldSavant, to random
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I've just organically been served an Instagram ad for the goddamn Voynich Manuscript. That's what the algorithm thinks of me: "this dude likes incomprehensible plant languages enough to buy a book about it"

Who am I?! What is wrong with me?!

unormal, to random
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whoah

BaldSavant,
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@unormal Whoa! Really?! Is the world not as insane as I thought?!

BaldSavant, to random
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This is hilarious and I love it

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/the-fine-art-of-human-prompt-engineering-how-to-talk-to-a-person-like-chatgpt/

BaldSavant, to random
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Solid breakdown of the story techniques used in films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kluj70TBrJg

BaldSavant, to random
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Been thinking a lot about layered narratives lately, and then I stumble across this video on layering puzzles and interactions into your scenes for D&D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2svbU7t50

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