So, a bunch of other IGF jurors and myself are posting a statement on (and against) the encroachment of AI in the competition and the industry in general.

We're not gonna vote for any game that uses AI in any capacity, including coding. It seemed important to state this plainly, in the open, so:

(No AI too, natch)

There is this legend named Karsiori on Itch who has an entire line of thankless-to-animate things like "fridges" and "trash bins" all CC0? Like I was prepared to pay for these (I'm paying anyways dangit you can't stop me) and I just want more people to know about how amazing this is https://karsiori.itch.io/

Like EVEN IF the concern were genuine and this whole thing was earnest, it would still be a stupid idea! Because in that reality, China or pick-your-favored-contender goes "lol wow you guys just gave up huh" and pushes ahead.

Weird how that's what they said WAS the threat but now actually it isn't.

What infuriates me is that enough people have bought into the myth that the scam might actually work? Suffice to say, I'm bumping this because we urgently need like, Everyone, to not buy into their stupid regulate-me-daddy trick. It's so stupid. This whole thing is so stupid. It shouldn't work. Agh.

Yep, this Hacker News post has the right of it. They're pushing for a "great slowdown" because the gains have been incremental for, uh, a while.

Like I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's nowhere near enough to get them to profitability, so they need an escape, and now. Or their valuation poofs.

I probably shouldn't toot before coffee

What is constipation, if not the Boat Stuck we have at home

Like oh sure it's so funny when a major navigational channel Others rely is blocked, and yet when-

Been a while so a new #introductions post! SkateBIRD was my last release, and that's #unity3d, but that was my last game in that thing: lately I'm thinking #godot might be my forever home? Got a lil side project cooking in it and damn if it ain't cozy.

But yeah, I'm a #gamedev that makes #indiegame curiosities n stuff, been at it for. Yeesh. A while now.

Also done a bunch of other games you've probably never heard of: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/glassbottomgames

What did a bird do to make some ancient writer want to kill two of them with one stone

Did a seagull steal some squire's sausage and he started scribbling his thoughts down all "lo, eif any maen couldst reahd, fain wood hei wont to kill two of ye wit yon singulair stuhn"

Besides its right there in the game is a Pirate game I think you go to jail for buying a pirate game that's illegal counterfits

If the team that made a game gets immediately laid off it's perfectly legal to pirate it

Look I don't make game law but I do fancy myself something of an expert on this so you can definitely steal the pirate game whose devs got laid off and they didn't even let em have a real launch party its legal

Like it's 2026 bro, NFTs died, take down your NFT posters, find a new thing to wank to, I'm begging you, your mum and da are really worried about the noises from your bedroom

So peeping the Epic talk here and there and, "Now, let’s talk about the second guiding principle of UE6: Content and code should be portable across games and engines." is a genuinely insane thing to think or say?

It's pride again and now the game is actually announced, so this time I can point at this and go "eyyy, Verminsteel is pretty gay!" instead of going "hey look at these kooky cartoon characters, I wonder if they're about to do a crime"

I now have market data that proves, beyond all shadow of a doubt, that my audience is pretty gay

I think this is rad as hell

Gotta gay up Verminsteel more, it's only like 3 gay right now, and those are rookie Gay numbers, I gotta pump that Gay

Lol, between Mastodon and bsky I appear to have managed damn near 1k boosts?

And like those are Good Boosts (tm) that people see, not the fake xitter/etc ones the algorithm mostly eats

This was FINALLY me having an excuse to actually test my assumption that hopping off that site years ago was the right move and yeah I don't think I need Xitter lol, rest in piss nazi-bar

Like to be clear I think I can get this working eventually if I take the Chess move permutations route, and if you squint at a Musou map, you can kinda see the grid/board, so that approach might work too? Just.

Hrm.

Also if anyone just somehow knows EXACTLY how Musou AI works, by all means, hit me with that too. I've been focused on making the brawler part fun, but now I gotta get the enemy-over-AI part working more fully, not faked.

Somewhat obscure AI (not the bad kind) question: anyone got a good reference on stuff like RTS AI? Like, if I wanted to make an AI opponent for Command and Conquer, that kinda thing.

I THINK that's the basis for how a Musou AI works. You're basically playing an RTS in a really zoomed in perspective by controlling a hero unit. I kinda know how Chess AIs work (scoring out move permutations), but RTS? Is it the same thing? Hrm.

Well my aunt's partner who I've never met (but I gather is a Dynasty Warriors fan) messaged my aunt about the game unprompted, because my dumb ass didn't even think to tell family about the launch, so I'm pretty sure I escaped my filter bubble?

YAY!