Jack of many trades. Programmer, game designer and artist.
Australia
Joined July 2016
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When working on the Katie's Room/Katrooms game for her b'day I was working 14 hours a day for weeks. The vision of the finished game and how people would react pulled me along, and in the end I was richly rewarded.
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So, Terry Pratchett was once asked what books aspiring fantasy novelists should read if they hope to write great fiction. His advice was telling. He encouraged authors to avoid reading much of what passes for contemporary fantasy (what he called “Extruded Fantasy Product,” derivative of Tolkien). “Do not write it,” he said, “and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees.”
Any great fantasy series you can name, from Star Wars to Narnia to Discworld, was written by authors who read voraciously, who read old books and loved old myths, whose minds were so steeped in history and folklore and obscure pulp fiction that they couldn’t have written derivative works if they had tried. We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era.
Hayao Miyazaki on modern anime, via Roland Kelts the author of 'Japanamerica'
"Hayao Miyazaki said to me at one point: 'The problem with young anime artists today is that the only thing they study is anime. When we were young, we studied French literature, we studied impressionism, we read Dostoevsky. We swallowed everything. And then we went and created original anime. But if you grow up and all you watch is anime, you're just regurgitating spinning wheels.'"
He also spoke about his work on the upcoming documentary 'Tezuka! God of Manga'
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Those Al generated “art process” videos can’t generate the human struggle of drawing a hand wrong for half an hour and losing your mind
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Valve has changed how to verify your age for Australian Steam users.
Instead of requiring a credit card, there is a new option now:
- Automatic Age Verification: "your account age verified if it is at least nine years old and has had a consistent email address or billing info."
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A potential client earlier this year told me my rates were too high for "someone not famous" and that other artists he had hired that were "big names" in the genre charged less so how could I justify my pricing? People are clueless both about pricing and the industry.
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found out about CSP EX's layer comps and it's been amazing for VTuber model toggles
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Hello, Video game and Toy advertiser here, you would need to spend up to half a million dollars to reach the 33 million concurrent high interest users you get access to on steam, a fee you only pay if you actually get that user.
And that's to hit them once, and it generally takes 3-4 times to get people to purchase things because we are busy, distracted and get paid a couple times a month on specific days. You are entering a walled garden where everyone is there to play and buy games.
I understand it sucks and you feel like you're taxed, but amount of money you'll spend hitting people that don't even like games (and actively complain about them) due to the way advertising algos often work would definitely cost 99% of game developers more than that steam tax.
If you are able to spend less than half a million dollars and get enough people to download yet another vibe coded steam platform by all means, but it's unlikely. And yes, people who are on steam do still paid advertising, but if you weren't automatically niching down and getting interested parties that are boosting your credibility on steam, you'd probably spend 1.5m dollars.
It's really sad that the games industry is drained by a 30% tax on gross revenue.
You could vibe code a Steam alternative in a week. Cloudflare egress is basically free.
The industry is in desperate need of a distribution platform that allows developers to keep their revenue.
Networks effects and the fanatic obsession with "muh Steam library" will make this very difficul.
But if devs could actually keep their earnings, we'd have a greater selection of better games and far more financial success stories.
AI has some huge problems. The biggest one is the trillions of dollars business idiots have bet on it being real intelligence. It's not, it's a vector database technology.
This leads into the 2nd problem: Trying to use these as a "Do Everything Machine" gives them ADHD.
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