kyriefh

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by kyriefh 3y ago
gaming studios are full of people who are squarely in the target market for the product they're developing. this has downsides but in many ways is a huge edge, so in a sense ageism seems more justifiable in games than elsewhere as a cl
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by kyriefh 3y ago
valorant had layoffs, as did league. what makes you expect cuts on the league game design and balance teams? (not the same thing, btw)
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by kyriefh 3y ago
brutal job market in games right now. layoffs and studio closures all over the place, startups having trouble closing rounds, meanwhile ever more games on the market with 15k released on steam last year
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by kyriefh 3y ago
thanks for reading and sharing your perspective! i'm arguing against my own interest here as VCs indirectly pay most of my income, but as you also observe the standard playbook doesn't quite seem to copy paste well
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by kyriefh 3y ago
>there is also a place for large VC funded teams that's a good point. i was at a large dev for a while myself and a fair number of coworkers have gone on to start their own studios, taking VC money in the process. a second dinner or
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by kyriefh 3y ago
you're correct, this was a basic error on my part - it's #5 all time ( https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak ). apologies / thanks for the catch, and i've fixed the text
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by kyriefh 3y ago
hiya, author here. Palworld is a wild, wild game (think pokemon meets ark:survival evolved, or simply pokemon with guns), and it follows a number of other super-successful indie games that got made with no VC funding. i myself work heavily
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Games don't need venture capitalism(iatia.substack.com)
69 points by kyriefh 3y ago|76 comments
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by kyriefh 4y ago
i don't know that it would be fair of me to bemoan the slow progress of long covid research given how new it is by medical standards, but at the very least i am glad that mainstream awareness and reporting seem to be increasing it&#x27
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by kyriefh 4y ago
i have some familiarity with sentiment / intent detection in context heavy environments (gaming and VR) and absolutely agree that labeling is both a fundamental and very nuanced problem. an ML PhD was hired to work on toxicity detectio
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by kyriefh 4y ago
this is a good example of the importance of comms and user education. robinhood didn't lock trading - or at the very least, they were far from the only brokerage to do so and had very little choice in the matter. however, they were t