wccrawford

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wccrawford,

The Bobiverse series eventually features some aliens. I don’t think that’s a spoiler at all… But they aren’t space-faring, so I dunno if that counts for what you’re looking for.

wccrawford,

As a developer, the experience is so much better on Android for me. And I oppose the walled garden on a ideological level.

But I have to admit some of the features are compelling. Some of them aren’t even really Apple’s doing, such as Genshin Impact supporting wireless controllers on IOS14+, but not Android at all. Others are built in, such as the lidar scanning.

They haven’t yet tempted me over, though, because phones are incredibly expensive and even if I weren’t opposed to the walled garden, I’m pretty invested in the Android ecosystem now.

At some point I plan to borrow someone’s iPhone and try Genshin on it, and if that works well… Well, I might just switch anyhow. Or maybe I get sick of that game before that. ;)

wccrawford,

I guess you could hope to find someone here that could help you with that, but it occurs to me that you’re working with people who definitely understand it. Perhaps you could ask them for some guidance?

wccrawford,

It does say it was cross-posted (to 3 places) at the top on the web.

wccrawford,

After looking into z-wave and zigbee and having installed a lot of wifi devices, I also decided to wait for Matter. I’ve been pretty disappointed in the reviews I’ve seen, and the range of devices is really limited. I’m starting to wonder if I should just give up and go with Z-wave.

Miyamoto wonders why Pikmin hasn't sold more and why people think the games are difficult (nintendoeverything.com)

Seems like time and time again, Nintendo is always trying to sell games to an audience of people who do not wish to play video games. For a sequel, I figured Nintendo should focus on their core audience of Pikmin fans but it seems like they’re always changing things to appeal to people who don’t play games while in return...

wccrawford,

I think the tutorial for Pikmin 4 is boring and painful for people who already know the deal. And I think the constant, slow interruptions absolutely kill the pacing, at least at the beginning.

I’m there for the gameplay loop, not to read the same recycled trash dialogue that every Pikmin game has, and it’s ridiculously similar to other basic games, too.

The devs seem to think I’d rather watch the UI do pretty things than play the game, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Maybe that crap snappy, let me skim through dialogue at rocket speed, and let’s get on with the fun.

wccrawford,

I used to upgrade every generation, and yeah, it was stupidly expensive. But it was my only hobby, and you could actually seen performance increases each time.

But for the last 10 years or so, there’s much less point. Sometimes there are major advances (Cuda, RTX) that make it worthwhile for a single generation upgrade, but mostly it’s just a few FPS at highest settings. So now I just upgrade every few years.

wccrawford,

I thought it was going to be an adventure game at first, and was excited. Then I realized it’s a party game. Meh.

wccrawford,

I think maybe they aren’t quite updated in some areas. In the US, I checked my console and the web, and it’s still showing the old games, and these aren’t claimable yet.

wccrawford,

People love a launcher. People hate multiple launchers. People despise launchers they use for a single game.

That said, it probably wasn’t the launcher that killed sales, other than the fact that it wasn’t on Steam for some random discovery sales. People who wanted to play the new COD bought it, and then found out what the launcher was, not the other way around.

Stray really disappointed me. I want a real cat game.

Just an open world survival game, only you’re a cat, dealing with regular cat problems. You have to hunt, avoid larger animals, compete with other cats, figure out which humans are dangerous and which will give you treats, judiciously spray things to maintain your territory, maybe mate and reproduce (your sex and fertility...

wccrawford,

It was really unfortunate that they included that. I continued to the end, but those were definitely the worst parts.

wccrawford,

I don’t use a respirator at all, but I also don’t hang out in that room while it’s printing, and I have a small air purifier that runs in there full time.

wccrawford,

Based on the title, I was expecting it to be an easy way to automate what you just said. But it’s not.

Reading the page and docs, I don’t understand the use case for this.

wccrawford,

I can understand being underwhelmed if you went into it thinking it was going to be Fallout in space. But I went in knowing it was a space western RPG, and I quite enjoyed it. I’ve been thinking about replaying it, and it was just in the Humble Bundle this month, so that’ll probably happen soon. (I played it on PC Game Pass the first time, I think.)

wccrawford,

Because of federation, I suspect they can’t just disappear. But they should lose their content and be marked as deleted, rather than viewable.

wccrawford,

I think a lot of stuff could fit their tech, if they were willing to go the extra mile and develop standard game features as well. Pokemon Go could be so much more if they implemented more RPG stuff. Ingress might have reached its limit, I dunno… But everything they’ve produced since those has been incredibly bare-bones and boring. And they all sounded like they had potential.

They want to do the absolute minimum amount of work to support their main mechanic, and nothing else… And it’s killing them.

wccrawford,

2 years? It used to be 3 years. It’s one way to get constant raises, as a company is unlikely to keep up with your value otherwise. That said, “unlikely” is the key word there. I’ve been lucky in finding companies that kept up with that value, at least until I fell out of favor with management. And at some point you’re basically topped out anyhow unless you want to deal with FAANG-like stress. And I don’t.

But yes, if you’re being undervalued, you should look at changing jobs and fixing that.

Should we make communities for specific games?

Something I miss from Reddit was that just about all my favorite games had their own subreddits. Like I happen to be a huge fan of Snowrunner but I don’t see any communities specifically about Snowrunner on Lemmy. But Elden Ring has a community on 2 instances with less than 100 subs total. I think the one hosted on Lemmy.world...

wccrawford,

Communities need to be maintained and moderated by someone. If you love a game enough to do that for it here, you should consider making a community for that game. People definitely shouldn’t make communities just because they think they should exist without having the time or energy to maintain them.

wccrawford,

I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of them, but I don’t mind them. If there’s a game from that list that I really, really want to keep playing, I can just buy that game. In the mean time, I got to enjoy all the other games that were fun for just a short time.

I definitely prefer XB Game Pass instead, though, where the whole catalog is available no matter when you started and whether or not you clicked a button in time.

wccrawford,

While you’re developing a game, there’s going to be a lot of things that won’t be coded yet. Many of them are simply going to need to be stubbed in until you can implement them fully, or somehow worked around.

Which ones get what treatment is going to be very particular to your game, and your development style. There’s no wrong way to do it. Do what works for your situation.

wccrawford,

Looks like a gaming table with a screen in it. There’s a lot of custom builds like that on Youtube, and there are even a few companies that sell them, I think.

wccrawford,

That article was posted in Sep 2021 and doesn’t seem to have been updated.

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