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BaldSavant

@BaldSavant@mastodon.gamedev.place

✍️ Narrative Systems Designer
🧭 Quest designer and world builder
🧠 Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign
🧙‍♂️ Wizard in need of a pointy hat

Currently @ Monolith

He/Him

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Danc, to random
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So multiplayer PvP games are obviously the reality television shows of the game industry.

Fine. That's a good starting point.

But there's an inevitable design evolution: Add romance with hot singles.

Maybe while dancing. Maybe while trapped on an island.

BaldSavant,
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@Danc romance with hot singles would imply being able to play a game with the same person more than once. Which would require any system other than matchmaking. Can't let THAT happen!

BaldSavant, to random
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Christmas song on the radio just now:

"Sing it to the spirit above.
Sing your heart out with all of your love.
Santa's coming for us.
Santa's coming for us.
Santa's coming for us.
Santa's coming for us."

And I'm glad to see we've returned to the classic tradition of fairy tale creatures whose arrival is foreboding and deserving of threats.

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,
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@shinmera hmmmm.... maybe not a bad approach...!

BaldSavant,
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@AngryAnt I just don't think I've ever spoken to someone like "Hey, what socials are you on?" and they actually answer with "Threads"

Which I suppose is my answer to my question....

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,
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Yeah yeah, I know people have done this for Minecraft, but Minecraft registers to me as designed for this kind of thing while Fortnite is very much its own game. And there's Unreal engine already. So I just.... it's so weird, yall!

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,
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@byobattleship this is why I love cartoons so much. The stories are SO much better.

britown, to movies
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I try not to like be susceptible to nostalgic pandering but the truth is that the only two movies from this year I gave 5⭐ to are Barbie and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, the latter being the most fun I've had watching a movie in recent memory, what a joyful wonderful thing

BaldSavant,
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@britown mutant mayhem was incredibly good! Absolutely sets the standard for future turtles.

aeva, to random
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You ever think about how propagation latency means your thoughts already happened by the time you are aware of them?

BaldSavant,
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@aeva as a kid I used to practice trying to identify a thought as fast as I could, trying to feel when it starts!

BaldSavant, to psychology
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Some social psych for you narrative designers this afternoon: Don't include more than 4 characters in a scene because our brains aren't wired for that.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-can-t-more-than-four-people-have-a-conversation-at-once?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

unormal, to random
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reading retail investor message boards is incredible, honestly

BaldSavant,
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@unormal it's great to know that the people in control of the gates, the ones who decide what does and does not get made, are keeping their finger on the pulse of the industry.

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/

BaldSavant,
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@gradunza hey wait a second! It's almost like those things are related!

BaldSavant, to wheeloftime
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    BaldSavant,
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    @mr_nohup I did!

    BaldSavant,
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    @mr_nohup that's fair. I just walked in knowing it would have to differ, so I'm approaching with curiosity about the things they'll choose to change, and enjoying the new retelling of the stories I enjoyed.

    andyprice, to random
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    When you order by quantity but they charge by weight

    BaldSavant,
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    @andyprice "Hi, yes, I'd like to order 5 of your most blunt-force-trauma-inducing carrots, please!"

    seandick, to random
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    Starfield looks nice, but in every clip of the game the player is shooting at something. Kind of off putting for an rpg if I'm being honest.

    BaldSavant,
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    @seandick I don't get the hype. Why does everyone want another generic shoot game in space?

    BaldSavant,
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    @seandick @shinmera just... could we get a selling point? Please? Just a single selling point?

    Please, Bethesder!

    BaldSavant, to random
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    Well he posted another video, so here's my auto-repost!

    Ok but actually, it's just a really solid set of techniques for writing relationships that have something substantial underneath them.

    Give it a watch!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BvlBoZsV_I

    maxkreminski, to random

    🙊 Toward Better Gossip Simulation in Emergent Narrative Systems

    describes a four-phase abstract approach to simulating gossip between characters (witness → reflect → propagate → decay) + a toy implementation of this approach

    to be presented next week @ IEEE CoG!

    https://mkremins.github.io/publications/Gossamer_CoG2023.pdf

    BaldSavant,
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    @maxkreminski oh hell yeah, that sounds fascinating! Looking forward to reading this!!

    BaldSavant, to random
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    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

    I was wondering what the deal was with releasing expansions so long after the original! It was a warm up!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6yb8OoFvw

    AsherVo, to random

    This is the stuff that makes me optimistic about the headset succeeding where others couldn't (via https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos )

    BaldSavant,
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    @thesupermikey @AsherVo Not having a limited field of view seems useful. Being able to move your "monitor" all around the room and change its size at will seems valuable for lots of different things.

    Probably not worth the price point yet, but well worth exploring the product. Maybe v2 will be more for consumers.

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    BaldSavant,
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    @SnerkRabbledauber If the advice is thought provoking, I'd say it's done its job, regardless of who this person is or what their career looks like.

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