Off the top of my head I can think of a bunch of companies that are showing off the industry, making an impact, whilst maintaining a lean footprint (at least by the release of their noteworthy titles)
Housemarque (Returnal) ~80 devs Kojima Productions ~80 devs IO Interactive (Hitman 2016) ~70 devs Media Molecule (Dreams) ~50 devs Hello Games (No Mans Sky) ~25 devs Unknown Worlds (Subnautica) ~25 devs Bluepoint Games (the best remasters we’ve seen) ~70 devs
and there’s surely more, or many have grown after their successes etc.
What I mean is it doesn’t seem to me we’ve seen a big shift since the previously mentioned “indiepocalypse”, it’s more a continuous cycle of people establishing new companies and achieving success despite size, thanks to better tech available, more talent available (including outsourcing studios). So I don’t expect to see a whole lot of companies all of a sudden pop up, maybe a gentle increase. Ofc great if I’m wrong!
I don’t understand why we’re talking of the “return of the indies”… as if they died, when?
Since the “indie revolution” led by Jonathan Blow & co haven’t we seen a constant stream of great titles from small teams?
If anything, I haven’t seen any standout performance from the AAA industry.
Binged very quickly through The People v OJ Simpson. Can’t believe how little I knew of the case despite being so prominent. I only knew/remembered for proximity and pop culture the couple bits like the chase, the glove… i but had no idea was such a long trial.
More details on fight system
Quote from Vaya21 minutes ago, Vaya said: i thought the new compilation was still using renderware though?
I couldn’t find an official press but several articles report as official the use of UE. Basically they’ve remastered the mobile versions.
On 11/19/2021 at 7:22 PM, 0kelvin said: I was watching a psychiatrist talking about why we delay and postpone important things. It's all related to emotions and feelings down the road.
So I read the book "Ego is the enemy" and came to realize why I was able to read it without struggling to concentrate. Because I read it slowly. I never forced myself to read it all in one go.
Have you ever heard about "Divide and conquer"? Pretty sure everyone has. Why not use it in everyday life? You have an article of ten pages to read. Most of the time you delay reading it, you are doing it because reading is hard or the text's content is hard to grasp. Divide it, set a goal of spending 2 minutes reading ONE PAGE. Then read the next. Depending on the case you might want to subdivide the task in "READ HALF A PAGE" and then take your time to think about it.
Why is game development a complex process? Because it has so many pieces that you need to spread out the tasks in multiple areas at the same time. Everyone is doing a smaller task with the ultimate goal of completing the whole product.
I remember years ago when I was failing to complete any maps. What made me complete maps was that I began to make lists of tasks such as texture, pillars, water, lights, so on. Years and years later and I still have similar issues and they all relate to the lack of direction. I need to have a clear direction before I start a map. I can relate to a teacher who once told me that during her bachelor in astrophysics she had to make a plan to concentrate on what subjects she would take per semester without being overloaded.
This post motivated me to check how many tabs I have open on my phone. It’s 282, including Mapcore.
The limit for tabs on iOS seems to be 500.
Not sure how I’m supposed to sift through all this shit. Surely most stuff can be closed after reading the title, probably now irrelevant articles I opened “as bookmark”. A bunch of stuff is game-dev articles I was meant to archive.
Just like reading a book, I should force myself to spend a bit of time every evening…
Quote from Bunglo8 hours ago, Bunglo said: Oh there's plenty of action bro, like a fuck ton. The focus is on the action, that's what makes you see how shitty war actually is.
What I mean is that I agree you can feel a different tone from BoB really. Not sure how, to me feels more introspective (from ep 1-2)
Just let GOG patch it greedy corp
On 11/19/2021 at 1:28 AM, ┌HP┘ said: I'm just bummed that if you wanna play the old versions now, you gotta pirate them.
You mean if you have the DVDs they won’t run ok on modern windows?
Wonder if would work through emulation, although that’s a big faff to setup.
Quote from BungloOn 11/19/2021 at 7:19 AM, Bunglo said: Finished The Pacific. […] Once I realized this mini series has a greater emphasis on how shitty war actually is and how it fucks the men over mentally and physically who are in it, the entire thing is damn good.
It seems that all the war stories set in the pacific focus more on that than action. The Thin Red Line was hard to digest (in cinema, than bought DVD and loved it), the Eastwood films set in the Pacific region… what’s up with that? Is it they face Japanese? ?
Well this was unexpected
What the actual fuck
Ad Astra was such a disappointment for me.
No.
The only action is seen in the trailer. It’s kinda pointless, as in just a padding scene, nothing to do with the mission objective.
I wonder if they wanted to create an “Odissey” feeling (I’m talking about Homer), but I don’t think it works if that’s what they had in mind.
It’s a slow film, which I wouldn’t have a problem with but there’s nothing insightful I feel. It gave me vibes of Solaris, a film I fell asleep on a couple times and decided was too shit to give another chance.
The final scene is ridiculously competes with The Martian in absurdity, but at least that film was meant to be funny.
Not a talk but a really great look at Disco Elysium, dialogue and skills in particular.
Great for UI designers, but also game and narrative designers I guess.
I intended to watch that 20 min presentation, or at least part of it, last night… searching for it I saw there’s a bunch of people saying they played 70-80 hours!!?? Thought the game was still being promoted… is that a demo, or is it out now?
Wish the netflix animation was about this rather than LoL. They’re doing some nice short promo trailers for characters
Inferno banana vibes, but not as claustrophobic 
15 hours ago, ThunderKeil said: Nope, just working off pictures. I'd love to go someday but the past year(s) have been . . suboptimal for international travel.
Whenever you are able to go, I suggest you go around the corner and enter from the back entrance. There’s normally massive queues (due to bag checks) at the front as people don’t know there’s another entrance (I guess, or they just want the selfie at the front).
Quote from BungloOn 11/14/2021 at 2:22 AM, Bunglo said: Finished watching Band of Brothers for the hundredth time, still absolutely incredible. I'm going to start The Pacific next which, apart from 20 minutes or so when it first came out, I've yet to see.
Lol, I was in the mood of watching it again (but gave it up cos I pay for subscriptions and just want to use lol).
Pacific I’ve started the first episode a couple times, maybe got to the second, but didn’t feel as engaging so it’s still on the list ? I was thinking to try again.
