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Aside from Sega I was going to toss Atari on that list but TIL they are very much still making new hardware, except it’s all targeted for retro gaming. Different focus and not a true competitor to Sony but technically still kicking.

For sure it did. Dumb decisions, compounded.

Beyond a certain level this wouldn’t help at all as you would already have a good sense of trajectory but moreover you need to understand timing, which a trajectory doesn’t provide.

It depends entirely on the needs and skill of the developers. There’s no one size fits all.

Maybe. Depends on the use case.

They make good points until this bullshit:

But if video games are ever going to be taken seriously as an artistic medium, they have to grow up, and that means learning how to love authentically.

No. That take is horseshit. They don’t have to do anything to be taken seriously as art. They already are. If you can’t see it because it doesn’t tick some of your boxes that’s a you issue.

I don’t really play fighting games anymore but previous titles like SF Ex+Alpha had a killer training mode which scratched my completionist itch. There were scores and gates and progressions, though I can’t recall if you got anything like XP (in truth that bares no relevance to a fighting game anyway).

Hello fellow dashy user :)

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They recently experienced an self-update hijack. Plenty of room for improvement.

They become cheap if you’re patient enough.

I would recommend taking a crack at some frameworks and engines while simultaneously reading up on how games work (in general, as there are no hard rules).

Broadly speaking though, games are basically control systems. It’s one big loop where the output of the previous loop affects the state of the next loop.

Modern engines and frameworks schedule the game updates and rendering separately to provide better/consistent frame rates.

Some engines I’d recommend checking out:

• https://ebitengine.org/
• https://godotengine.org/

Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.

Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.

That reminds me I need to login and transfer some funds to my fleet carrier, if it hasn’t already defaulted. Love the game but shallow depth for sure :(

Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I’m not on Lemmy because of federation, that’s incidental. I’m here because it’s another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.

Barring the single account, I want them entirely disconnected though. Discord had not suffered in growth because of a lack of interaction.

Centralization is irrelevant for what users want outside of a niche. The average user doesn’t care.

Game dev is multidisciplinary but let’s get real, you need to know to code. Without this you won’t get far. Realistically it will take you years to learn the fundamentals.

You’d have to nip stupidity first. Good luck.

I always knew running was bad news. 😏

It looks like discord. There is no replacement. No other project comes close.