Here is a hard pill to swallow. Conservatives and Right wingers never went to Game Development, the talent and the skills are in the West Coast. Don't cry if the Human Capital has liberal views when you and many conservatives didn't even tried to enter the industry

Do you think Steam raising the game submission fee to $500-1000 per game while reducing its revenue cut to 20% would be the best way to combat the flood of AI generated low effort games being released on Steam? or is there no solution to this. #gamedev #indiedev

NEVER trust future of gaming in the hands of Valve

Everyone's worried the market will get flooded now that anyone can make a game. Most people are consumers to their core. Finishing something still takes hundreds or thousands of hours, and the vast majority will never put that time in no matter how easy the tools make it.

I saw a reddit post earlier by an indie dev that said his game had 14k wishlists at launch, but less than 300 sales after a week. Just curious, what's the main reason you would wishlist but not buy? I'm assuming price, but anything else?

One thing I have come to learn is the importance of having a product you are currently selling. ANY product. Yes, there is no technical moat anymore. The moat is token months. Pre-AI software can mostly be one-shotted because it is shallow and relatively simple, but software built in the agentic age would require the same amount of token time to build from scratch. This means an agentic project that started 6 months ago, which has been compounding daily, stands to be in a perpetual lead against a project just starting today. Pre-AI, incumbents also had this advantage, but they would start to fatigue quickly from the buildout, allowing newcomers to disrupt them. Fatigue is now largely a thing of the past.

To get League of Legends and Valorant onto Omarchy, it'll help to have good friends at Tencent!

MacBook Neo ran out of RAM first day on remote agentic running... Worst offenders: Codex = 3GB XCode = 2GB Steam = 1GB Had to kill them all to make it continue. As expected 8GB is not good enough for dev purposes. AI makes it even worse. But it's a great test device.

We have had democratising game development tools for a while now. Unity, Unreal, to name but two. And while it is possible for the inexperienced to 'make a game' the quality bar between their output and the output of an experienced team is huge. Asking an agent to 'make a game' and see something functional be produced is quite the parlour trick, but don't confuse that with what a capable and experienced team will be able to produce using agents. The quality difference will be enormous. Tim Sweeney is completely correct. Agents help solve one of the biggest problem which has plagued game development for well over a decade... complexity. Strap in, because game development is being turbo charged.

This is bullshit, Kenney. I’m the same tech tree following optimist who moved from C to C++, from 2D to 3D, and from closed source to open source. I run a company. I write code. I contribute to published papers. I’ve upped my expectations of AI. Up yours!

Yes! Fun comes first. Nothing is more painful than a game development cycle where there’s a massive investment in code and content but the game isn’t fun yet. Fortunately AI makes rough prototyping and trying out ideas way faster, and accessible to every designer.