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Will anyone actually play this? Is there a market for LLM-made “retro” games where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work and would rather play t

Will anyone actually play this? Is there a market for LLM-made “retro” games where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work and would rather play things made by humans?

avaer 2mo ago
I don't think that's the point. This is clearly a demo for PocketJS.
- synqvest 2mo ago
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  - 40four 2mo ago
    You’re really going down a completely different rabbit hole here, that has nothing to do with with the technical content of the post. I’m not saying you’re right or wrong. I’m saying you aren’t adding anything to the discussion of the technology itself presented in the write up.
GaryBluto 2mo ago
> where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work What do you mean by “communities”? There was no enthusiast Council of Nicaea where all people who like old hardware met and unanimously decided that LLMs are bad and their work not to be valued. I see plenty of “retro”-adjacent work done with LLMs posted here to a generally warm reception. Are you just referring to the views of an extended sphere of enthusiast mutual friends that you know?
40four 2mo ago
If that’s what you took away from this, I’m afraid you missed the point. The question isn’t “will anyone actually play this?” No, they won’t. It’s a demonstration of running web technologies (on the front end, and rust on the back) on a device that was never meant to accept them. And to run something outside of the assumed capabilities of the hardware for that era. I found this very interesting to be honest
dannyw 2mo ago
This is a tech demo / proof of concept, promoting the SDK or whatever they're selling (PocketJS). It's for game developers, not gamers. They've written a reasonably non-trivial 3D game in TypeScript and got it running on the PSP with 24MB of RAM and basically an obsolete CPU at 60fps.
- 40four 2mo ago
  I took the bait too and responded to this post, but it’s the third “green” screen name I’ve seen in the last couple days with the same text in the bio: “When dang and tomhow ban all of us humans, only bots will remain” So I’m afraid we’re responding to a bot face palm

Will anyone actually play this? Is there a market for LLM-made “retro” games where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work and would rather play things made by humans?

avaer 2mo ago

I don't think that's the point. This is clearly a demo for PocketJS.

synqvest 2mo ago
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- 40four 2mo ago
  You’re really going down a completely different rabbit hole here, that has nothing to do with with the technical content of the post. I’m not saying you’re right or wrong. I’m saying you aren’t adding anything to the discussion of the technology itself presented in the write up.

GaryBluto 2mo ago

> where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work What do you mean by “communities”? There was no enthusiast Council of Nicaea where all people who like old hardware met and unanimously decided that LLMs are bad and their work not to be valued. I see plenty of “retro”-adjacent work done with LLMs posted here to a generally warm reception. Are you just referring to the views of an extended sphere of enthusiast mutual friends that you know?

40four 2mo ago

If that’s what you took away from this, I’m afraid you missed the point. The question isn’t “will anyone actually play this?” No, they won’t. It’s a demonstration of running web technologies (on the front end, and rust on the back) on a device that was never meant to accept them. And to run something outside of the assumed capabilities of the hardware for that era. I found this very interesting to be honest

dannyw 2mo ago

This is a tech demo / proof of concept, promoting the SDK or whatever they're selling (PocketJS). It's for game developers, not gamers. They've written a reasonably non-trivial 3D game in TypeScript and got it running on the PSP with 24MB of RAM and basically an obsolete CPU at 60fps.

40four 2mo ago
I took the bait too and responded to this post, but it’s the third “green” screen name I’ve seen in the last couple days with the same text in the bio: “When dang and tomhow ban all of us humans, only bots will remain” So I’m afraid we’re responding to a bot face palm