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by aschearer 10mo ago
Neat! I am working on something similar and arriving at similar conclusions. eg sqlite local index. I am not ready to give up human authoring, though. How do tackle the quality gate problem and conformance? For programmatic checks like lint
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by aschearer 1y ago
Enjoyable reflection. Resonates with me. Making games is incredible but also very challenging. That’s part of its appeal. Highly recommended.
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by aschearer 1y ago
EHG | Remote | Full-time EHG is hiring! We're looking for a talented Senior Back-End Engineer on Last Epoch. If you love ARPGs and want to work with a great team (and me!), check it out: https://eleventhhourgames.bamboohr.co
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by aschearer 1y ago
Great write up, very interesting. Shame y’all couldn’t get funding even after Day of the Devs! Hang in there, game looks cool.
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by aschearer 1y ago
I've been using Claude to help write a complex prototype for game dev. Overall it's been a big productivity boost. However as the project has grown Claude has gotten much worse. I'm nearing 15k lines and it's borderline
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by aschearer 2y ago
Evidently also planning military training for all men…
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by aschearer 2y ago
EHG | Remote | Full-time EHG is hiring! We're looking for a talented game dev to help lead development on Last Epoch. If you love ARPGs and want to work with a great team (and me!), check it out: https://eleventhhourgames.ba
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by aschearer 2y ago
I made a top-down 2D survival horror game with doors that could be opened, closed, locked, unlocked, and peeked through. Zombies could open them when unlocked. Sincerely hope to never make a game with doors that aren’t proximity activated i
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by aschearer 2y ago
+1 to design documents. Would add another reason they're useful: reducing miscommunication & misunderstanding between stakeholders. In my opinion, a tech document's goal is to uncover missed specs, invalid assumptions, broad a
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by aschearer 2y ago
Programmers always want to automate content creation. I get it as I’m a coder and it’s a fun problem space. Plus creating content is super time and skill intensive. It’s really hard to get right in my experience. Kind of like trying to auto
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by aschearer 2y ago
Beautiful game, incredible attention to detail. Sorry it hasn't sold 10x more copies but at least you got to make great art!
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by aschearer 2y ago
I would love to hear more concrete recommendations or reading. It's an interesting hypothesis! That said I am a bit skeptical given the game industry has failed to sort this out for several decades... perhaps it's simply ignorance
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by aschearer 2y ago
I'm in the trenches. Making games is amazing, but the business is brutal. Very hard to find a "geyser of money" and monopolize it for years let alone decades. Contrast with Google search or Microsoft Office, etc. The tech adv
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by aschearer 2y ago
I mean if direct influence is the metric -- Fox has low millions according to Google. What do you think, 5 million people in a year under Murdoch's "direct" influence? Looks like Taylor Swift sold 4.35 million concert tickets
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by aschearer 2y ago
Are we excluding religious founders? Even still, in no particular order and not exhaustive: Marx, Freud, Rand, Nietzsche, Skinner, Locke, Socrates, Darwin.
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by aschearer 2y ago
Eleventh Hour Games | Remote (US Timezones) | Full-time | Multiple roles We're a growing company working on Last Epoch, a cool new action-RPG! We have a number of open positions including a Gameplay Engineer, Senior UI Engineer, Client
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by aschearer 3y ago
I'm also a fan of logs. If you have some more examples of how you typically log things to be most effective, I'd love to see 'em! I'm still finding my sense for when it's too much versus too little. Best way to inco
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by aschearer 3y ago
My random thought for slacker news consideration: I recently read "The evolutionary origins of modularity"[1] and it talks about NNs that are evolved based on task-performance vs task-performance plus "graph cost" and fi
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by aschearer 3y ago
Inflation: according to several calculators online, $100 in 2003 is roughly $170 (rounding up) in 2023 dollars. So 70% over 20 years. Meanwhile Case-Shiller has grown 123% over the same period. Interest rate: in 2003 the interest rate was i
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by aschearer 3y ago
Twenty years ago the Case-Shiller index was 140. Today it's 312.[1] The index tracks individual home sales over time -- that is a single home sold repeatedly. I interpret that to mean someone purchasing a home today must have roughly t
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by aschearer 3y ago
I live a few blocks from a highly rated high school. The elementary school is next door. The middle school isn't far, either. Point being, this is an excellent place to raise a family. That being said, with one or two exceptions all my
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by aschearer 3y ago
I came across this paper a decade plus ago and it stuck with me. Specifically, there were a few things: 1. We derive pleasure from anticipation, so ensure there are a number of things to look forward to. 2. Likewise we derive pleasure from
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by aschearer 3y ago
Thank you! -- it runs on a Steamdeck, or so I'm told, so hopefully it will run on Linux, too. I think what you say is right, too. There's something special in that last push, and there's a sense of loss afterwards. But then y
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by aschearer 3y ago
Well I'm just a dog on the net, so what do I know? Best of luck in your journey. I hope you find what you're searching for!
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by aschearer 3y ago
Meditation is a good analogy. I haven't found sitting and meditating for 15-30 minutes especially mind-expanding. Listening to music and walking my dogs, however, sometimes takes me somewhere expansive. That is to say, I don't thi
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by aschearer 3y ago
That's an interesting theory and certainly meshes well with the book's thesis! My project was a video game I co-created called "You Will Die Here Tonight." After many years, we finally shipped! I find there's someth
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by aschearer 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, that's interesting to read. I've just finished the third chapter -- but I'm really just reading through at this point, not following the course. I've just come out of a long creative project, so I&#x2
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by aschearer 3y ago
I was fortunate to stumble upon the practice by accident. I was journaling just because, and my two dogs ensure I have plenty of solitary walks through nature. It really is incredibly important to have that time, and to maintain a curious,
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by aschearer 3y ago
I recently stumbled upon "Artists Way a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" and really resonate with a practice it puts forward: "morning pages" and "artist dates." The exact nomenclature isn't important,
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by aschearer 3y ago
Difficult to have "rational and informed discussion" when one side's guy says he'll be "dictator for a day" and gets a pass. Hard to imagine that there's a middle ground waiting to be uncovered by open-min

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