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by arsenide 2mo ago
Agree. The tests are great! Playtesting reveals that gameplay breaks my assumptions on how the system should work. Where to go from here? Telling AI to "do TDD" is a shortcut that gets me over 80% there by itself in aggregate with
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by arsenide 2mo ago
I've been having a bunch of fun working on a couple games on a new platform - everything (platform and games) developed with AI. quackwave.com Hasn't really been stress tested yet (this is the first time I'm mentioning it pub
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by arsenide 4mo ago
I work in the slot game industry. Plenty of ex-video game devs in this space. Much better work-life balance, but it's very clearly not the same as making video games.
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by arsenide 4mo ago
Very cool. I’m also working on a browser game - multiplayer, deterministic, with simulator for PvP tuning. Email in profile - would love to connect.
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by arsenide 2y ago
Probably true in general. But there are always exceptions. Hard to imagine a tool better than Excel for slot game math calculations. Maybe it can be done? Calculations for slot machine mechanics and payouts have been in Excel for a long tim
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by arsenide 3y ago
The app refreshing every time it comes into focus is annoying. Not sure when this started but it’s frustrating when what I click on isn’t there after the app refreshes
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by arsenide 3y ago
It is useful to use the words hard and easy. As you mention, changing perspective around these concepts is the crux. Hard problems or domains are unknowns. Working towards solving hard problems involves thinking through unknowns, which may
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by arsenide 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes Godot overrated?
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by arsenide 3y ago
I’m curious about this. Do you have a dataset? I’d be happy to take a look.
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by arsenide 4y ago
I work in the slot gaming industry. A lot of ex-video game developers end up coming over. May be worth looking into.
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by arsenide 4y ago
Alternatively, you can use Airbnb.com.au to get total prices including fees in the listings directly.
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by arsenide 4y ago
Yes! In particular, it is usually to create some concrete data/parameters to be used towards creating the final product. In the usual Excel Solver case, for a simplified example, I want to create a biased coin where getting heads doubl
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by arsenide 4y ago
The only optimisation solver I use is Excel Solver Add-In. It’s great, but you have to be able to put your problem into Excel to use it which does not work for all use cases. In cases where I’m trying to optimise something that doesn’t quit
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by arsenide 5y ago
On 3: ',' and '.' go backwards/forwards by a single frame when paused.
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by arsenide 5y ago
I work on slot machine games for a smaller company. Good work life balance, no crunch time, and decent pay especially when compared to the video game industry. I’d probably be able to transition to the video game industry, but I don’t reall
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by arsenide 5y ago
This is really neat. As someone using Excel to do slot game mathematics calculations, sometimes the excel formulas used are very long, convoluted, and hard to grok when coming back to them. Many cells often exist as calculation cells only,
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by arsenide 5y ago
GLI and BMM are the two main ones. https://bmm.com/
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by arsenide 6y ago
Recently... 1. On StackOverflow learning more about how C# works under the hood to understand memory/CPU usage (newer to C#, used C++ in a past life) 2. Building/debugging a spreadsheet in Excel (not a software engineer by job des
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by arsenide 6y ago
It works for math at the scale I use it. Excel is great in my industry (slot machine game/math design). It is fantastic for doing game calculations and there are reasonable ways to do error handling/checking for correctness. I cou
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by arsenide 6y ago
I work as a mathematician/tools engineer in casino gaming (class 2/bingo based slot machines), so I think I fit this description (math first, software second). People that have this skillset (knowledge of Monte Carlo methods for s
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by arsenide 6y ago
I play mostly on the Asian servers (Tygem and Fox Weiqi) because it is very fast to get games. For beginners and players ranked up to about 10kyu I recommend online-go.com! The Asian servers mentioned are also good for beginners, just not a
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by arsenide 6y ago
Nope! The game! Though I think learning other programming languages through toy projects is useful, that’s a separate opinion
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by arsenide 6y ago
I recommend go instead of chess, for the same reasons. I played chess for years, learned go, and haven’t looked back. I personally prefer it. YMMV
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by arsenide 6y ago
"releasing a new pandemic game" Developed across the last 3 years? This seems like an inapt description of what OP described here.
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by arsenide 7y ago
I’m glancing at the documentation, and came across this line: “Airflow is not a data streaming solution. Tasks do not move data from one to the other (though tasks can exchange metadata!)“ Many of our tools take on the order of 5-200gb of d
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by arsenide 7y ago
We have many software programs that need to be run in sequence to transform a set of data from one form (on the order of tens to hundreds of GB) into a bunch of different output file formats. At some points the tools need to be run linearly
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by arsenide 7y ago
Per a StackOverflow post, the reasons for this are detailed here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/06/10/visual-stu... Is there some reason you would expect a 64-bit Visual Studio port before
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by arsenide 7y ago
Thanks dang. I may very well take you up on this offer.
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by arsenide 7y ago
If there is an analytic model, using Monte Carlo methods is extremely useful to validate the theoretical result. If both agree, it is unlikely that there is a mistake in the theoretical result: which is valuable information. For something a

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