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emilrelecto.bsky.social
Menthami
@emilrelecto.bsky.social
game developer / musician / artist / teacher
working in tech makes me want to delete myself.
i wonder if that would be any different in games?
May 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
unity shenanigans? still ongoing!

anyway, I did a quick search, looks like they indeed discontinued it, but a popular community visual scripting package exists.
May 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
from what i heard it was discontinued a while ago?
May 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
well I hope someone knowledgeable responds, but I agree that marketing may be a cause here.
i feel like every public company has to yell about AI now, whether they actually use it or not.
May 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
im no expert on this at all, but I believe that some kind of machine learning algorithms were used in computer vision waaay before present gen ai bollocks.
May 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
once again tech companies “simplified” everything to the point where nobody knows what words mean
April 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
i think microtransactions can make a game more accessible.
some may not afford 50€+ upfront. i certainly couldn’t when I was a kid. but if the base game is free anyone can play it.

also, for online or live service games that’s probably the only viable way to stay afloat besides subscriptions.
April 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
i legitimately had couple of cases where goto would be a great solution, but i didn’t go with it because people would yell at me xd
April 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
yeah i also didn’t come up with anything better.

i’m just hoping that if i grind a lot, someday, my gamedev stuff will replace the full time job.
March 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
wow, i just tried it with a couple of queries and it works better than i expected.

it also gets rid of all the seo optimised rubbish. insane!
March 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
i think the game’s not for everyone, so if that’s not your thing, the combat may be worth a shot, it gets better. it feels like a boiled down to core dark souls game, you later get some spells and a shield.

the first „tutorial” boss is disappointing, but the later ones can really give a thrill.
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
yeah, tunic is more about exploration and secrets.
a lot of things are hidden in plain sight. later game hints you at these and you’re like „wait, i could do that from the start?” and yeah, you could.
it’s the kind of feeling i felt when i played games as a kid, so to me it was fascinating.
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
you will start getting more pieces of the puzzle, and the secrets themselves become much more interesting.
also, the boss battles. they are good. almost fromsoftware good.
March 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
i would actually say ai became worse.
for example, the early image generators were funky, but they sometimes produced interesting or entertaining output.
the modern ones just stamp slop that looks the same lol
March 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
well, they invested billions, they built datacenters, so we’re going to see these useless annoying ai features in everything, unfortunately…
March 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
yeah that’s what I use now, but it still relies on mozilla’s main branch.

if they go the chromium route it will be harder and harder for librefox maintainers to deenshittify new updates.
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
there were news that steam requires developers to disclose the usage of gen-ai a while ago when publishing
so they’re not showing it to users yet?
March 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
looks like i have to make as much money as i can until mozilla enshittifies the browser that’s already on life support
March 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
didn’t know about it, looks pretty nice, ill give it a shot too, thanks
March 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
there’s a way to remove the original tab bar with custom css or something like that 🌚
March 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
TreeStyleTab for firefox.
keeps all related tabs grouped together, so switching between tasks is like going to a different folder.
i can barely get the work done without it.. if something happens to firefox i’ll be broke.
March 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
that’s why I find it fun as a sole person working on a game though.
you get to exercise your skills in different art forms
February 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i fell like with each upgrade unity spits out more and more internal errors at you.
February 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
venture capital.

indie studios are doing relatively fine.
February 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
from what i heard, most Americans can’t even buy groceries without having to drive a mile or two to the store.
that’s also the reason, possibly
February 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM