Jacob O'Neill

Game developer interested in complex systems, procedural generation and history.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

Modeling the rise and fall of empires.
#madewithunity #gamedev #IndieGameDev

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@ConstEley @FireEmblemJP Guy who speaks Japanese here. The ‘kou’ in ‘kouka’ specifically means ‘crimson’ in Japanese. Her name is literally the same as the name of Edelgard’s route in three houses which was localized to ‘crimson flower’

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@ErikRobson As a fun side note: Gatcha games are named after gatcha machines which are in turn named after the sound they make when you use them.
“GA….TCHA”

It’s like calling cash registers ‘cha-ching’ machines

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@book_wyvern @MarkHamill Highly doubt you had Song of Solomon on a school reading list haha

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@thatfollowed @MattPirkowski Sign language, Morse code, ect.

Also there are definitely some languages that are faster to hand write than to type non-Roman characters.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@MattPirkowski I think text to speech can only replace typing as much as typing can replace handwriting.
I can’t really imagine writing code without a keyboard for example.

Of course it’s always basically impossible to predict what kind of new technology will come in the future.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@MattPirkowski Keyboards make sense as long as there are common writing systems using small numbers of glyphs.
If we all spoke Chinese we would probably switch to something else.

Definitely depends on how broad ‘keyboard’ is. Japanese swipe keyboards only exist on touchscreens for example.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@AlexRoseGames @ShigorBirdman @sneakypants As someone who has recently worked at companies using both I find Unity still is way faster than Unreal’s hot reload.

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Game research, design, #gamestudies peers: I haven't been as intellectually excited about anything like this in a decade (maybe since SDT). In this paper, we propose a new theory for why we enjoy uncertainty in games, drawing on predictive processing. A 🧵
https://t.co/8KkG74yEs6

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@nookrium I normally don’t like jokes on twitter but I liked it enough you deserved some recognition haha

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@darrenmk @meddlingmike Actually the British burn down the White House in this one

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@a327ex Really appreciate the write up. The longer format was quite useful for hitting more nuanced points than you could reasonably do with twitter. Has definitely sparked a lot of ideas for me.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@ErikRobson Is there a non multiplayer mode to Super Auto Pets? AFAIK it’s only a multiplayer game

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@twittilating @HazelMonforton You seem to be confusing Christianity in general with Catholicism.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

Art I like being turned into war propaganda is my own unique form of dystopia.

War should be more somber, art should be respected more.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Today #HIMARS has a Ukrainian heart beating inside of it. Today #HIMARS wears Ukrainian military uniform.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@AntonHand @ErikRobson Most of the current books / multiple upcoming video games are in a new time period (pre episode 1 by a few hundred years I think?)

Presumably if those do well enough they will take a similar approach to the tv/movies being made

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

Nautilus maintaining its spot as the coolest thing on YouTube

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@Heghoulian Hard to beat ‘Everywhere at the End of Time’ for dark/unsettling

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

@Heghoulian The show The West Wing (which is fictional but tried to be as realistic as possibly) had this exact plot point word for word in a episode from 2003.

So if nothing else that was zeitgeist around that time.

https://t.co/3YbbMKjPqU

[The Bazaar of War @bazaarofwar]

The evolution of warfare and military technology is much, much less preordained than we tend to think.

To illustrate, let’s imagine World War II in an alternate timeline. But this time, it’s fought between the Franco-German Coprosperity Sphere and the Austro-Italian Empire.

[Jacob O'Neill @Fractalphile]

I’ve been going through this (Free!) course on YouTube and it’s insanely clear and helpful. Highly recommended to anyone interested in system dynamics.

[Shane Ross @RossDynamicsLab]

Free course on 'Nonlinear dynamics and chaos' for those new to the subject, in short topical videos based on book of @StevenStrogatz

► Video list https://t.co/CQTNNAe6b4

@DynamicsSIAM #physics #engineering #biology #math