I'd say that a bad tutorial is worse than no tutorial at all. Dozens of times I dropped games because the tutorial was exceptionally bad.

Just checking my to-do list for this week

Most of this "play" time was screen capture and video conversion (OBS and Movavi). One day I'll take some rest...

The new STYX system requirements. Getting my RX 590 out of the storage!

Water shader in Godot

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#Shaders@GameDEV

Ubisoft is raising the team of AI sloperators: the goal is to "find where AI is the most usable in the whole pipeline" (LN).

And I feel a bit of a pain here: Ubisoft were among first who built neural networks over a decade ago. They were used to bake cloth physics (and run it 1000 times faster), merge animations (and make characters switch between them smoother in a changing environment). In general they were pioneers in a very good use cases of what now can be called AI.

And now they are looking to use it in Data, Programing, Game and Narrative Design, and more. Which is not what players want. They do not want games be written by AI, ok?

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#AI@GameDEV

Director Shutaro Ida passed away at the age of 52 after battling against cancer for approximately one and a half years

Via ᚡᛪᛟᛚᛁᛊᚡᚨᛊᛁ

We all knew it already

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These martial-arts trained robots will not be used against people, right? RIGHT?! *Padme face.jpg*

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Fortunately, the test of this "new feature" is limited. Do not fall for it, never turn off ad blocking on YouTube (saying this even as the person who technically monetizes videos).

#YouTube@GameDEV
#Google@GameDEV

My biggest issue with ads on all social media, is that 90%+ of them are right away scams and against the law in many other ways.

- Buy snake oil!
- Laptops for $99!
- Very nasty P*N
- Crypto Scams
- Learn C++ in 7 days

I mean, of course sane people have to use ad blocking...

Steam Deck is completely [OUT OF STOCK] and Valve confirmed that the issue is memory shortage. And it's not just price, they simply can't buy any more RAM.

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#Hardware@GameDEV
#Handhelds@GameDEV

It's a time of great innovation
But also a time of chaos...
And conspiracy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq5KWLqUewc

Also, folks, I remember how we were showcasing Deus Ex Human Revolution, it was just a few years ago... *checks the data* in 2010. Wait, that's 16 years ago 😭

Guys around me are Andre Vu (marketing director) and Jonathan Jacques-Belletête (art director and the face of Adam Jensen).

During that game event we were selling souvenirs from Eidos Montreal. And among them was a USB Flash Drive with some fan kit. Basically a nice metallic 4GB USB stick (cool for 2010), engraved with the logo and packed with art.

At first we were selling them for like $20, they were selling-out too fast. We raised to $50, still too fast. The last few were placed in the store for $100 — PEOPLE WERE STILL BUYING THEM.

We hoped to keep some for giveaways for later, but the convention spirit makes any price reasonable.