mors

i should make an nes game like, a real one

i have a SHITTON of game ideas but somehow none of them are things that'd work well on an nes except for one... hmmmmm

i don't think ive ever talked about this in public, but a few years ago i was approached by a professional documentary crew working on a story about a roblox predator. they wanted to know if i had any information about the situation

turns out, the person who originally brought the allegations to light followed me on twitter, probably to get me to help spread awareness, but i never noticed! unfortunately, though, i couldn't be of much help since i knew nothing about the situation or anyone involved

it's shocking to me that c# has no good ui frameworks for desktop apps none not a single one no, avalonia is dogshit too

then there's microsoft's own multi-platform option: maui maui is hot fucking garbage. it was clearly made with mobile first, windows second. everything else is a complete afterthought and blazor is somehow even worse than that!!! MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!

it's shocking to me that c# has no good ui frameworks for desktop apps none not a single one no, avalonia is dogshit too

avalonia WOULD be great if the default "fluent" theme wasn't so fucking garbage. customizing it feels like constantly fighting against a series of really poor default choices

somehow didnt realize sploob was still frontpaged on itch! and im still getting a ton of support and kind words from people, thank you everyone! i really need to get to make this into a full game now that im less sick

you're laughing. grifters are invading my hobby and you're laughing.

how is this a real screenshot

i was gonna make a joke about this being the next gamedev culture war, but looking at the responses on x the everything app, the only real gamedev i can see siding with tim sweeney here is... daniel kaplan for some reason??? you know, the ex-mojang guy the rest are ALL aibros. not even indie devs

i had to spend like the last 4 days doing constant hospital visits for government related reasons, and now im suddenly super sick coincidence?

update: im dying. goodbye cruel world. sorry i never finished flashback my last gift to the world reddit torture goodbye....,,,,,,

what

i got bored and decided to crucify reddit

the best way to tell whether you can trust a cool project these days is to look at who's actually behind it and whether they have any history of doing related work this sucks for beginners, and those who chose not to be very public with their work, but... it is what it is

the truth is that if someone appears out of nowhere with no prior related work, an empty github, and a complicated project that would've been really hard to build before llms, that's a massive red flag. at that point, there's no way to know whether they actually understand what they're doing or not

it is my hot take is that when a game is successful 99% of the time it's because they've done something right, and not because of sheer luck. if anything, i don't think games find success merely because of "luck"

but that doesn't make it so that when someone from uk makes a successful game, it's successful because they're from uk. and you can apply this logic to so many different things a huge part of success is also not just making a "good game", but also doing good marketing or knowing the right people

it is my hot take is that when a game is successful 99% of the time it's because they've done something right, and not because of sheer luck. if anything, i don't think games find success merely because of "luck"

it's also weird to me because the appeal has always been a mixture of "wow this is cool" and "some madman did it" now the cool factor is heavily diminished because there are so many of these now, and it's not like there's any real technical skill behind any of them