Patches
@yourpalpatches.bsky.social
Software Engineer. Game Developer. Hater of Generative AI.
I saw a game trailer that was about how the game was made as a pursuit of a dream, specifically to inspire their children to follow theirs... but then the AI disclosure pretty makes it pretty clear they did most of it with genAI. It's not about the journey, it's about the destination. what.
The trash can was very effective. Wound up fueling this hammer thing that would 2-shot anyone.
It's very frustrating to see my former employer paying for celebrity endorsements after cutting 40% of the the company only months prior. Just screaming into the aether on this one.
I am absolutely sick for mashups, me youtu.be/afZu1hxAQQ0?...
This is (not) the greatest song in the world.
YouTube video by camhcom
youtu.be
I feel like Monster Sanctuary and Ultros deserve more recognition in the "Metroidvania" space. They're both games that do things quite differently. Monster Sanctuary does RPG battles. Ultros is an entirely unique experience.
I'm so glad that I put so many of my ideas into text documents. I'm looking back through a document I had used for plotting a behavioral AI framework and there's just a surplus of resources linked. Here's one on shaping functions: thebookofshaders.com/05/
The Book of Shaders
Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.
thebookofshaders.com
I keep mulling over the whole lawsuit between NYT and OpenAI and I still don't know how it's going to play out. Do paywalls become the new thing? Social media with a paywall to keep bots out? Is there hope of an outcome that kills genAI as a consumer product?
Having finished reading Yugioh, I started on GX... it's not good (so far). It's just people playing the retail card game. The original series was basically people playing a tabletop RPG with cards. Like, a character could do anything as long as there was a logic to it.
I love and respect Iron Wok Jan for the narrator providing a factual update on the source material
Daemon's of the Shadow realm has such an emphasis on pairs and twins that I just keep being reminded of Escape to Witch Mountain.
I kinda hope they do a comic run for the new Wolverine game. I think the story is poorly paced, but I really like the foundation of it.
It's wild how there was this era of pinball videogames using major IP and that was the end of it. Sonic Spinball, Pokemon Pinball, Kirby's Pinball Land... all of them are great. I'd love a new Sonic Spinball.
My only doomerist take on genAI is that the technology isn't for consumers. It's for the government and people are paying to beta test and establish legal groundwork. Cyberwarfare, surveillance, propaganda.
I'll be honest, Warcraft Forever is probably the closest I've come to being interested in WoW. Dunno if I'll get into it, but there's a non-zero chance.
I have no idea who this Night Elf villain lady is, but it's clear someone has a thing for feet.
2030!? That's not a real game. That's not even in development. That's just a trailer for something that is already canceled.
Turns out Steam has a limit on how many Developers/Publishers you can ignore. I'd been hitting ignore on every developer with genAI products whenever I'd stumble across them. The popup says curator, but these don't actually show up under the ignored curators page.
Metroid and Megaman? Feels like old-school platformer fans are eating good.
Iruma-kun is very fun and very gay. The anime is currently in a toxic yuri arc (well, about as toxic as this series could muster). Gyari is such a fun character.
The Knight Sabers from Bubblegum Crisis. I'm quite pleased with how this one turned out. Miniatures from Bombshell Miniatures. #Nerdlings
The sequence at the end of the tutorial in FF Resonance is gorgeous. Games out there chasing photorealism and this HD-2D thing is one of the most mind blowing things I've seen. I might stop playing there just to savour it more at release.
Just started the Final Fantasy Resonance demo and the opening cinematic might be the greatest thing I've ever seen. It's so fucking good!
I had this realization that the best ideas are the ones that people will pitch with a line like "I have this dumb idea". It means they thought about it to the extent that they now have doubts about it. The idea was so inspiring that they continued to think it through.
I started watching Shangri-La Frontier and it's actually good? The MC is kinda boring and so far it's solo MMO stuff with a boring class... But it really invokes the memories of old Everquest and FFXI and that whole dream of what MMOs could have been.
