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These are dangerous marketing stunts that normalize using AI for black hat behavior. We shouldn’t be normalizing this to sell the technology. It’s like a gun company boasting about how many times their gun was used in a bank robbery or something.
14 yr game dev, worked on all platforms (mobile, web, console, Roblox/UGC)
This video undersells the scale of Roblox. I’m 37, and a lot of people my age don’t know that millions of people hop on Grow a Garden or whatever is hot there right now every weekend. Valve’s closest peak numbers are a scale less. That platform is going to define how a generation sees “video games.”
I would say the other point missing: China. China is doing exceedingly well at capturing market share over the last decade. While the west is struggling & self imploding, teams of hundreds of devs are working 996: 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. It’s tough to compete vs that.
Finally, and I know people don’t want to hear it, but AI is a great tool to speed up game development, especially in the prototyping phase. Even in production, there’s a real risk mitigation benefit in what video games are NOT: they aren’t legal apps, they aren’t medical apps, they aren’t financial apps, at least in the ways that those apps have serious compliance hurdles, other considerations for what you develop. If a video game is poorly designed, no one’s health is at risk.
I think the benefit is, yes, video games are about to be democratized in a way that’s hard to describe. If you know enough about game design, you can stand up applications that took full teams weeks in a matter of days as a solo. We’re about to drown in a Cambrian explosion of games (if society doesn’t implode separately).
I played maybe 15 games. I won one in 99th percentile and lost one in like 40th.
You main visual is the market line, but I would make the main visual the competing lines of you vs couch, whether that’s bars or also graphed on the market. Otherwise, you’re sort of burying the mental image you want people to take away.
There’s also times where the market went completely south, so I did nothing, and got the “enlightened” position.
It’s a neat micro-game, but it comes off as preachy. Maybe that’s your intent, but being preachy can really turn people off. That maybe not your intent.
Sounds like a marketing stunt. If true, they should pay for damages. Rules don’t stop counting because your kid did something illegal instead of you.
Where’s the rest of the quote Rubio?! What happens to the people who didn’t feed the hungry, take care of the sick, visit the prisoner in jail, or turned away the foreigner?!
I wish mine would. I love her as a person, but she’s so headstrong about it. She’s hitched all these elements of her personality to it (faith, hobbies, community outside family, decorations). I feel like we’d need some sort of reverse Jan 6, like an event that’s so apparent & bad, not fakeable, but I cannot see anything sticking to Teflon right now.
Rubio & Miller’s recent comments suggest a deeper fracturing coming across America. It’s hard not to believe the worst is coming.
I completely agree. My personal faith is Unitarian Universalism, so I like being informed by the Bible. At the same time, I’m aware of the historic context it lives in, how it’s been translated, etc. I’m not reading Aramaic or Greek, and neither are they. This guy seems to have focused on the Old Testament. I don’t get that either (if he’s Christian), except in the case of preaching this hateful rhetoric. Jesus would be disappointed in him.
I wanted something easier on the modeling side, so I made an estus flask inspired potion bottle with fogged glass. I added a dark souls image as a backdrop & put some point lights in the glass to help them read. It’s a little sparse, but I haven’t rendered a ton of objects. This is my first time rendering in a few years.
I added the tag line.
I’m surprised he took this take, because honestly, mobile would be the biggest winner there, but it’s square-peg, round-hole. Most people wouldn’t use their phones for console games if they could, because it’s a different form, with a device that has a different purpose. The way most people play mobile games & console games are very different: sporadic short sessions during the day is different from a 2-3 hour gaming session.
Maybe it can help close a gap between high end & low end users, but I don’t think streaming gaming is going to have a significant impact on the total addressable market. We’ve already seen platforms not succeed in that space. Why would it work now? If you hope it addresses the low end, why would you think they have budget room for another subscription?
I don’t see Strauss’ take panning out here.