xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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Joined Jun 2020
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@BroDrillard @professionalbigot69 I struggle to think of real world problems that can't be done on 1/100th the compute available on the average laptop, aside from gay AI shit of course. ray tracing? completely optional
for HPC type stuff that is distributable, well we've had beowulf clusters for 30 years
for HPC type stuff that is distributable, well we've had beowulf clusters for 30 years
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Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free https://www.theverge.com/policy/852332/public-domain-2026-betty-boop-nancy-drew-pluto
@beardalaxy @djsumdog @merchantHelios @berkberkman @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo
>I think if someone is making a 2D game they should probably just stick to Godot though.
I think Love2D is a better choice as it is more lightweight. Sure it may lack conveniences like a level editor or pathfinding, but it's simple enough for a middle schooler to pickup as Lua is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. There is also Pygame which is basically the same thing, but for Python. I see kids programming with these tools all the time, so they are easy for anyone to pickup.
I don't think a full-blown engine is needed for writing 2D games. You just need a basic grasp on geometry and trigonometry in order to work with 2D.
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By the way, the Twilight Princess decompilation was finished. Work on the PC port has begun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGI6jrO7G4
Happy New Year to all my follow Chicago Timezone inhabitants!
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🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's video highlights some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
My New Year's Resolution is to get this game done and maybe learn to draw (would like to have a game using either hand-drawn or vector art one day).
I think there are other things, but I can't think of them right now.
Player shooting now has sound.
#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SDL #cplusplus
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@djsumdog @merchantHelios @berkberkman @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo
>Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
Even if games stopped prioritizing graphics or physics, it still won't matter as long as developers keep relying on bloated engines. Just look at all the 2D indie games running on fucking Unity or Unreal when they can easily just use SDL instead.
The whole "buying a high-end gaming PC to play Minecraft" meme exists for a reason and it's because of incompetent devs.
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There's not a lot of macOS because it breaks backwards comparability all the time. As long as there's not a system level copy protection on the CD, a ton of old XP games will still work today (although a lot do need patches, which some companies have done to get that long tail for old games on GoG/Steam).
I still have a 3080-Ti and don't see ever upgrading. Hell, the PS4 Pro hit that golden era of graphics that are more than good enough for most story-telling, puzzles and action. Sure Far Cry 6 might look way better on a 3080 but .. who the fuck cares, the game is shit and the characters all suck ass.
Games have to be fun. Fancy art is a nice touch, but the game still has to be .. a game. Red Dead 2 and Stardew Valley are on totally different levels tech wise, but they're both solid for being fun, interesting games.
Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
I still have a 3080-Ti and don't see ever upgrading. Hell, the PS4 Pro hit that golden era of graphics that are more than good enough for most story-telling, puzzles and action. Sure Far Cry 6 might look way better on a 3080 but .. who the fuck cares, the game is shit and the characters all suck ass.
Games have to be fun. Fancy art is a nice touch, but the game still has to be .. a game. Red Dead 2 and Stardew Valley are on totally different levels tech wise, but they're both solid for being fun, interesting games.
Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
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Eddie Fucksaw
Gamers turned out to be more or less impossible to propagandize so they're going to try and kill us off on the hardware level, as if most of us won't just go back to playing 20 year old emulators or whatever.
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i love allt he conspiracy theories like "they wanna make everyone have to use cloud computing that charges by the second" and i'm like "ok but there's so mcuh last gen hardware floating around that nobody ever has to buy a new thing for like decades, sooo good luck"
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this ain't no time to black pill, if you got any hardware at all, you got a backlog to outlast them.
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If Nvidia fucks this up they could open the way for a new competitor that makes graphics cards specific to gaming, rather than AI and crypto. Some of their OEMs like Corsair could make that pivot.
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@ooignignoktoo @merchantHelios Pretty much, it's still good as a backup
The thing is that AAA cost too fucking much and they refuse to make anything good, innovative and shorter than extremely mega openslop experience and it's just obviously straining them out, meaning, there's basically no use to max out your graphic capabilities anymore, not only they're struggling but you don't wanna play these games anyways
So the PC market is going from enthusiast, to more mainstream to probably specialized enthusiast again
Catching up to these companies and making new graphic card won't be easy, but shit has stagnated badly for so long and if they don't deliver, then someone else will in the market
Otherwise, about consoles, just think about it, the Switch 2 isn't amazing hardware yet it got Star Wars Outlaw (it just looks good), the new FF7 remake, it's also getting Pragmata and the latest RE. So decent optimization can go a long way but a weak hardware like that can keep up, so... What's the point of big hardware anymore
The thing is that AAA cost too fucking much and they refuse to make anything good, innovative and shorter than extremely mega openslop experience and it's just obviously straining them out, meaning, there's basically no use to max out your graphic capabilities anymore, not only they're struggling but you don't wanna play these games anyways
So the PC market is going from enthusiast, to more mainstream to probably specialized enthusiast again
Catching up to these companies and making new graphic card won't be easy, but shit has stagnated badly for so long and if they don't deliver, then someone else will in the market
Otherwise, about consoles, just think about it, the Switch 2 isn't amazing hardware yet it got Star Wars Outlaw (it just looks good), the new FF7 remake, it's also getting Pragmata and the latest RE. So decent optimization can go a long way but a weak hardware like that can keep up, so... What's the point of big hardware anymore
@PurpCat @merchantHelios @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo
>or one that is designed to run on some poverty spec PC.
Maybe this will bring Chris Sawyer out of retirement.
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Maybe 2026 will be the year I finally organize and tag all my memes correctly. ... or more likely I'll just create a 2026 folder
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Joined Jun 2020
