well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best

Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.

Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami’s aesthetic especially, I don’t think HD is necessary (again, beyond just higher internal res and whatever other enhancements based on preference).

I think it would’ve been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones that were pre-rendered was just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.

I lost interest enough to delete the models I had before and this headline made me look into deepseek.

EDIT: Not quite the Streisand Effect considering I already knew about it, but still an unintended source of pressure. Like someone stockpiling before a ban of something, even if they weren’t too avid about it before. I’ve had a similar thought when it comes to taking down free streaming sites.

Though this seems to have traded compute for data, so I don’t have the VRAM for it… even running through RAM, I don’t feel like downloading a lesser version with my slow-ish internet.

I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.

These days I don’t really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.

This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.

something gets done and completed

I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.

So it’s more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you’re on is already sinking.

The topic and community have an unfortunate overlap for me, “patient” probably means I’m not doing it beyond some scattered attempts.

I have lurked with the ideas on different low-resource solo-dev specializations. I feel like the pieces are mostly there for me (Godot 4.4 will be closer to that), though I still need to put a lot of work in for no clear end-goal (I don’t really want to really sell something, even if I could).

And thinking about the future (gestures broadly) just makes me feel like

Personal issues sure don’t help.

I am only interested in a niche compiled-to-<C/C++/JS> language due to the capability/speed while keeping readability. With that in mind, I wonder if Python’s JIT and no-GIL update will slow or reverse the stated trend (assuming it’s true at all).

Though it’s still an issue with bindings for something I can already use with my preferred lang, so is one reason why I haven’t tried it.

Pictures I already had:

1st one, the room is made via a gridmap (4 tiles so far for hallways/rooms, not counting a generic cube).

This one is a desktop screenshot, but the models in the background are VC (the eye was made in Godot 2D as well, animated)

Never had one but have family who has their VR headsets and aren’t really using them, borderline useless if you aren’t willing to use their ecosystem. They were having some trouble with their accounts (probably related to account migrations) and seemed too unsettled by the paper wall of text about being part of an organization to unlock dev mode.

Oops I meant 4.3

Alright. For what little I do, I have just been focusing on the stuff I’ve described. The last time I tried something with the default physics, I had a door that instantly flied off the hinges into the sky. (I was able to fix it, but couldn’t do much with it due to it being complicated with a characterbody which I assume will be similar with Jolt)

enabling dev mode on the quest is easy, I’ve done it a few times!

EDIT: On top of what I said below, I think the facebook–>meta transition might be an issue too. They might’ve even originally been using an Oculus account.

Issue is they haven’t used it in a while so that causes issues with the account to unlock it. That and the fact that there is even the hint of it being restricted to someone part of an organization (I am not sure if it’s even still true or if they really just don’t check) sounds overcomplicated at-best and something they will be wary/scared of doing at-worst.

This is not the newest device, I thought I had read that the firmware had opened this up. I got to use the menu for less than a minute (cool hand tracking+overlay and even the grainy AR display was my sort of aesthetic) and decided to apply an update thinking it’d just reveal dev mode in the settings… after the update it seemingly couldn’t do anything other than spinny loading circle (I didn’t see how to get to the settings again).

Neat. I am probably not going to use 3.X though (nor do I want to set up Jolt), and 4.4 is on dev 7 right now (as of ~20 days ago).

I also want to leverage as much as I can from the editor (and have it work smoothly) and later versions offer more. Textmesh is one of those things, probably procedural audio eventually. XR maybe, too (though this depends on my family members figuring out how to unlock dev mode with facebook BS so I can borrow the headset, if they even will figure it out). There are likely many other quality-of-life features/fixes I’m forgetting.

There was a 2D feature in 4.X that I was interested in, but there are viability concerns so it should be obvious that I’m leaning more into 3D given that polygonal art is already well supported there.

For language support I mentioned, it’s there in 3.X too but hasn’t been updated in 3 years.

I haven’t done much. Only techniques so far, which is mostly just vertex colors+low-poly. The meshes are made with the color in-mind (+painted at the same time), also real-world reference scale. Game engine I’m using is Godot.

I’m trying to make a comprehensive set of general-use materials, ideally for an import script. If I use textures, there will not be many. In-engine noise works for some things, I am happy with a metal material and somewhat with glass materials. A billboardY material also works great (distance fade allows it as an easy ‘interact’ icon in 3D).

Not so happy with transparency or object scale (and still needing to mess with UVs), I made a visual shader material that allows adding a color for models that don’t have VC (specifically: textmesh)… I tried to use a shader for a pitted stone with fancy lighting, it didn’t turn out how I wanted and it seems like the possible complexity is too much for me.

More recently I’ve attempted to bring in grayscale watercolor to break up the flat color of the VC. Taking a picture with a DSLR, turn it into an optimized 512x texture. I tried to do a matcap but that didn’t work (maybe the matcap shaders I found weren’t right for non-metallic), a splatter texture seems to be alright. Gives away seams easily, default triplanar is not great either.

I might do unshaded stuff (with-or-without manual VC shading), but I haven’t tried vertex lighting yet. Though I will likely do a mix of styles, especially with obvious reasoning.

I had some example images uploaded but unfortunately my instance currently has all images broken. What I have isn’t much and it isn’t even very cohesive yet, anyhow.

Also, Spyro is one inspiration for these techniques, and I will probably make a vertex color skybox eventually.

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I am using Nim-lang via GDextension, also waiting for Godot 4.4 to release because of Jolt physics (I’m thinking it will make beginner projects more viable).

Huh, my guess would’ve been

gas-station washer fluid

Mount Fuji Bare Again After Fleeting Snow

At this point I think the greater issue is that fans didn’t learn from Starfield (or FO76, arguably FO4/Skyrim too at least enough for a trend line if you care about the RPG aspect of it). Why would Bethesda ever change course if they continue raking in money? It really seems like people aren’t even waiting for reviews.

I was going to say that it’d be a coin flip on if this actually has the same re-occurring bugs that the UOP fixed, though I see that it’s going to be 3rd-party so that may change the odds a bit.

Yeah, I feel like the remakes lost some charm specifically when it comes to rendering tech (vertex colors, losing Spyro’s skyboxes feels like a crime). Particularly with the new data bloat.

That, and it seems re-makes don’t really fix core issues (Medievil’s remake).

I think the original tech/limits can be taken further aesthetically for a different workflow (very general/sparse use of textures), especially in the modern era. Still undecided on some artistic/technical choices, but I have much more here than I do in the ways of (low-scope) starting project ideas that I like.

It is a free and easy way to experience 75% of the experience without even downloading it (data bloat has massively ballooned too, perhaps needlessly in some cases). Also linear stories, or procedural things not being as deep as they seem.

Even when it comes to indie-appearing stuff I often don’t like the direction of the game design/difficulty, so it will likely be a more enjoyable experience in those cases too. The narrator also cuts boring bits or issues, also may do things I would not especially when it comes to skill or knowledge of said game. They may do silly things or tell a story. This may be 300% experience (of a new mix).

EDIT: Also never really been into the idea of multiplayer games, competitive or cooperative for different reasons. So watching is a new avenue for that.

Nintendo has increasingly become a problem over the last decade

Of the other related videos, one by Knowledge Husk (7FWyhlS3kvc) points to the CEOs being an issue and that they just had one (1) good CEO: Satoru Iwata (particularly because he was a computer scientist who was pro-consumer).

Now I doubt Nintendo was fully non-evil in 2002-2015 (considering Nintendo actions with 2010s-era Youtube) but I’m sure it was probably the better side of Nintendo.

Nintendo.

Not just crushing fan games, but also issues with the Smash bros community, pricing and availability, eshops shutting down (+needing to buy those games again on new consoles or it’s not even available at start), stick drift, fan content policy, also Youtube strikes/claims (both newer for specific reasons and an entire era for let’s plays in general). 20 years of content removed from Gmod.

And no this isn’t about Japanese law, they choose to be this way.

For actual specifics (and more issues) 2 videos: UKD_wnB9AMU and xgKY9hmbfgo

That explanation makes a lot more sense for AAA who are very likely using significantly more bandwidth (due to data bloat in their games, day-1 updates), and are much more likely to be making millions.

For indie not so much, and it seems odd that there isn’t even some general incentive for games with lower requirements. Then again, using a platform like itch instead (possibly geared more towards bundles) or even going with some other payment method (donations) might just make more sense in that case.

For bandwidth, it’d absolutely make sense if a game that’s 10GiB+ because uncompressed audio and pre-rendered cutscenes (and likely huge day-1 updates) had to pay more of a cut to its platform than a 200MiB (or less) game. Particularly if the smaller game doesn’t even have multi-player.

You fool!

Be a good grandma: Tussle your grandkids’ hair and tell 'em YOU WILL EAT WHEN THE FOOD IS READY!

Seems a bit odd to have so much standard, correct-era tech. Having anachronism seems like the point, the futurism bit. Like Quadrilateral Cowboy, or often Cowboy Bebop.

The one exception may be the stuff like that Nissan 300ZX (1985) digital dashboard, that feels anachronistic in an entirely different way. I could imagine a 3hr video essay on how expensive the design was, or perhaps a Technology Connections breakdown of the functionality/workings/issues etc.