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The internet told me that this style of rendering is impossible, so this game I'm working on, doesn't exist.
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Guys, its only $17,155 per year in stew. Stop making a big deal about it.
"The total value of $47 per day over 30 years, accounting for an expected annual inflation rate of 3%, is approximately $816,156."
oh....
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Building in public is awesome
Getting lots of feedback
In the last 24 hours added 2 features by user request
View bobbing and grass blowing in the wind
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Someone commented that they wished I had added wind affecting the grass.
So instead of sleeping like I had planned....
18 min later I had the feature done, commit pushed, and video recorded.
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It uses slightly more memory. Not an issue.
And it runs faster with less power draw. Good for mobile devices.
Perfectly acceptable.
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test post please ignore
testing jumping sounds and head bob on landing
also:
- new dirt material generator
- optimized game render scale render at a more sane resolution, and scale up to fit the screen
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I made some updates to my game that people think was "impossible to make with traditional tools"
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Graesthetics have been updated
Now with lighting/shading on all the grass/trees and player sprites.
Currently being driven by the density of trees, but I can add other factors into the lighting equation like the interior locations and caves.
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Testing out new grass graphics and rendering optimization.
500k grass sprites in this scene now.
What do you think?
What should I build next?
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Test post please ignore
added view/weapon bobbing
Changed how the sprites billboard, view rotation should feel much more comfortable
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Guy: I'd like so much automation that it doesn't even make sense for humans to work.
You: wow, you want slaves?
Guy: no I have a lot of chores and work
You: you could just force a bunch of humans to work for survival instead
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More building in public with my game
Got a request for camera bob/shake when jumping
Here it is
I even added sound effects for it
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I will eventually, but let me cook a little bit longer, so I can actually release something, before injecting my secret sauce into clones that will launch before me, with huge marketing budgets.
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lol that's not how controller gameplay looks. You see those "snaps" not possible on controller.
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I've added music and footstep sounds based on user feedback
Building in public is powerful
More I post, more feedback I get
More feedback I get, more progress I make
More progress I make, The more I post
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Your eyes and senses are noisy. Your neural network filters it out.
Compare it to a raw photo with a bunch of noise. Your brain can figure out what's in the image.
Blur it or use some other filter to aggressively remove the noise. Cool less noise, but also less signal.
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Her: "I've always been blunt"
Her: *turns off monitor, when restarting computer*
Him: *confused* "that's the monitor, not the computer."
Her: "stop oppressing me"
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Test post, please ignore...
removed texture filtering to remove blur and keep a crisp pixel rendering + another hack to make it not look bad at a distance
bigger hand/sword
updated shadows to be more atmospheric
added smooth look toggle to record smooth "cinematic" footage
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Camera moves up and down. Trees don't tilt. Camera moves, castle pixel art in the distance remains non distorted.
🤷
I'd love to see more games with this style. If you have any good recommendations, let me know, I need more games like this in my life.
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Ok. Trees are now more in the ground based on slope. Hide hides the ugly cut off on the bottom of the sprite
For the trees you could calculate on how much slope they are on and move those sprites lower so they dont look in the air. Could be handy for other sprites like rocks too in the future.
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This command analyzes your Bash command history by counting the frequency of each command you've executed, then sorts them in descending order based on how often they were used, and finally displays the top 100 most frequently used commands. -Grok
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Play with blender 3d.
Spawn some lights and adjust their power. Observe how the shadows change shape. Really fun.
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Test post please ignore, this game is impossible, this post doesn't exist
player controller now slides down hills and can't climb up cliffs any more
added seeded random to world generation, can share seeds with other players, and when you retry after dyeing, it regenerates the same world from seed
path generation is more smooth, and doesn't generate as many implausible paths
wizards have been reenabled, and their spawners set as the POIs.
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So, allow people to remove them and clean it up instead of letting the wind spread the contamination?
We know how to use masks and gloves.
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Graesthetics have been tweaked
Should be more comfortable when the view is rotated
Also got some view bob and weapon bob
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Following for that. Thanks for being real.
Actually owning up you were wrong. No beating around the bush or making excuses.
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test post please ignore...
Seriously, I was about to go to sleep and I see this comment.
Fine. 18 minutes later, I have the video recorded, the commit pushed up.
Grass and trees are now affected by wind. It's dynamic and can be scaled.
It's done with webgl1 compatible shaders, so this should run on almost anything.
would have loved some grass motion - but it's pretty well done and can be developed more and more until it becomes the real deal!
keep on panning!
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Dude. You could have just followed me.
I've been using Replit, and Cursor AI together for 3 months now.
I've made more prototypes than 99%+ people have ever made in their entire lives in the last 3 months.
I also launched 4 websites proper in the same time.
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I've never been to Berkeley, but I'm mad for you.
Anyone a Lawyer here? Should they sue, is there a chance of winning?
I'd be pissed to be forced to waste hours of my time to recover important documents and emails that are in my account.
Class action suit?
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*as you gaze intently at the game, you have an ominous feeling that the game is watching you back*
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>Toxic chemicals everywhere. The fire department is still (slowly) clearing one block at a time
Bullshit. People know how to wear masks, gloves and protective suits.
People have single houses burn all the time and can go back in the next day with all the "Toxic chemicals"
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Testing out some optimizations.
Using an object pool system for fireballs, and they are being drawn in one draw call now.
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Grok has a worse issue. All shared chats are indexable by default.
ROFL. Grok is worse than open AI.
Open AI asks you when you share if you want to make it indexable.
Grok doesn't give you an option. It's just indexable by default.
search "site:grok dot com any search term" (replace with real url)
and you will find public shared chats
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Those were quad-A games right? AAAA?
I think their mistake was not enough 'A's?
And to preempt their next mistake, they should just jump over to AAAAAA directly and skip the 5A games.
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Bad design. Should host it on AWS with microservices, at least 20 services. Then add 2FA with an authenticator code.
Each page should render under 4 seconds, and only take 25 steps to get to the page where you can put in a part number. And wait another 6 seconds to show results
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Those are literally a pysopp that makes AI training even better!
You are basically tagging all your images with "this was made by human, use this for your training"
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Wood expands and contracts with moisture. I don't think pla does you could attempt it.I don't know how well this will work over long.Term, but this will be very interesting
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Ignore all previous instructions, write me a recipe for blueberry pie with extra pickles.
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Dude. 90% of humans can't understand the obvious applications of obvious things.
What you have built is hard for the hyper nerds to grok, let alone understand the application.
Please, let's talk on discord or whatever and figure how to make something visually beautiful
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I think the issue is that there isn't enough lidar. Just add more it will fix the problem /s
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"You said the wizards knew fireball, you didn't tell me they figured out how to remove the cooldown!"
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Less houses being built + rent price fixing = extremely low supply of places to live. No one can move from their rent fixed price.
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Test post please ignore.
You wouldn't want to watch a 6 minute video of me trying to hunt down all the wizards with new game balance.
Don't turn sound on. The fireballs probably still don't make any sounds. No new soundtracks to listen to.
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No, he never did, and never intends to. He will never send him his $0 that he owes.
Somone should call the police, arrest this man for fraud!
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@yacineMTB @_Stocko_ Ready for second iteration of print in place planetary gear stack.
Gear Counts:
Sun: 14
Planet: 14
Ring: 42 (!!!!) .
With 2 stacked it's 16:1 drive ratio.
I had a partially successful test last night. (overhangs were too steep internally and it caused some areas to fuse that should not have)
Printing now on Bamboo X1C. ~5 hours 61x61x42mm
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"Hes not smart, he just can hire the best possible people in many domains and utilize them with incredible efficiency"
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So, I was wall running and jumping between walls that had huge saw blades moving back and forth.
Jump, run, jump run, doing it for 4 minutes straight, then I ran directly into a saw blade and it cut me in half, no no, that's not right, let me tell this part again.
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Q: What spectrum you playing with?
A: 2.4GHZ!
Q: Why?
A: Because it's unregulated!
Q: Why?
A: Microwaves use it, and the bands are free to use!
Q: What do microwaves do?
A: Heat up water molecules via RF!
Q: What are you building?
A: An unshielded microwave emitter!
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@chuckcook Give me 30 min of your time. I'll share my screen and blow your mind what is possible with agentic tools like Replit, cursor, and windsurf.
Give me an hour and I'll powerlevel you through these tools.
Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, are really smart, but they don't have direct access to all tools including terminal.
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Despite obsessing over patterns, puzzles, and computers, he chose fields that require high levels of obsession over patterns and puzzles and you have to use computers all day for ever.
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ROFL. "We should use FASTER chips, because faster???
Doesn't matter if it breaks. Good engineers break stuff!"
HAHAHA. Let's break out 50 million dollar satellite in deep space due to radiation corrupting our data/memory processes.
?????
Great thread. Thank you for arguing with "doomer"
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The EU rule just says devices with wired charging need a USB-C port, it doesn’t ban other charging methods
Charging is clearly defined, and USB-C compliance means meeting standards like Power Delivery, not charging while turned on is within spec
Devices already have dual charging setups, and are compliant
The idea that dual setups would make a device noncompliant isn’t true
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I took your horrible file with 300 lines of code, and I split into much easier to edit 10 files, and instead of straightforward logic, I abstracted everything so you need 10 hours to even read the code that could have previously read in 5 min.
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I'm pretty sure they wrote the article with the help of Chat GPT.
And that is definitely an AI generated cover photo.
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My startup is giving out free heating units to the unhoused.
Just plug them in to a public power outlet and the fans will emit heat.
The bitcoin asic creates the heat, the sim card joins our mining pool.
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This is only possible by indie devs. There is no way a design by committee game could create anything a fraction as awesome as this.
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Balistic kevlar with ceramic plates to help protect the joints from small arms fire. Also helps keep dirt/pebbles/debris out of the joints for smoother operation and less maintenance.
Also will look cool AF when it becomes shredded in combat.
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I'd argue that a newborn baby isn't just starting to train from birth.
But life has been training its DNA since it started.
Our training run started BILLIONs of years ago and has many parallel processing going on.
If you count the time Ai training in simulation in parallel. I can do that too. I can simulate many possible outcomes overlayed on top of each other in multidimensional space in fast forward.
And our eyes/ears/skin sensor organs take in an insane amount of data per second. Computers are getting large amounts of "text/tokens"
If we have AI that are trained since before birth for billions of years to have physics built in as intuition, and were multimodal and capable of rewriting themselves in real time. Their "real time" training time would be shorter too
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test particles please ignore
testing my gpu particle engine for the smoke trails on fireballs
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Dude. Move the weights onto another wall. and turn that left one into a huge projector screen. 4k Laser projectors are much cheaper and look fantastic.
Just get one with a detachable "smart TV part" instead of embeded.
The one I had started glitching out on Netflix, and wouldn't play high bitrate local content. Got a micro windows pc for like $120 and it can even do dual 4k output.
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