JamesClouD

| Solo Game Dev: The Last Resistance |
| Working on @PlayHyperVyper |
| Former: @EpicGames, @MethodicalGames (co-founder)|

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Hyper Vyper won't be in the October Next Fest. Ugh - I know, right? But here's a lil' progress vid 🥰Running from the latest Steam build.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Starting to feel some of the stuff I’ve been building toward in UE5 compounding 🥰 here’s a video about it

https://t.co/mcS0RQ2jUP

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@jdcollado Intrigued by the engine broadly getting some of the big wins that exist mostly in isolation currently like Niagara projectiles and entity stuff. Overall skeptical tho - UEFN is tough.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@jdcollado Finally able to relate to the people still using UE4 🤣

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Zohran keeps it lit man, this shit is ridiculous.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@SHL0MS bro?

[Hyper Vyper @PlayHyperVyper]

Hyper Vyper Devlog 3 - Talking about how runs have changed on the live build, what's working and what comes next.

https://t.co/JFlk0Gflyb

[Hyper Vyper @PlayHyperVyper]

Hyper Vyper Demo is live

https://t.co/O8Jcp0hHLA

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Gonna experiment with blog-ish stuff here also. There's some stuff I"m more comfortable keeping as "things you have to seek out" for now. Art especially, hype as shit to write about the process.

[Hyper Vyper @PlayHyperVyper]

https://t.co/ogXsM6vHG1 is live! Hub for the game that also will host future dev content and events.

[Hyper Vyper @PlayHyperVyper]

https://t.co/ogXsM6vHG1 is live! Hub for the game that also will host future dev content and events.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Over the moon to be reliving one of my favorite game dev experiences - yoloing things into the release branch

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@Dreckerr @xSUND0WN Shahs damn forgot this one! Athena fucked so hard

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

[Hyper Vyper @PlayHyperVyper]

Slide surfing! Crouch when landing to maintain and build your momentum. Chain it together as many time as you can.

Hyper Vyper Demo Releases 4.17 on Steam

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

Hyper Vyper Marketing effort is ramping up! Will be keeping most posts about it on @PlayHyperVyper, check her out.

Will prob keep dev diary-ish stuff on my personal page. Needs a reason to exist other than talking shit about sports and yelling at nazis.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@TreVeyonH4 Bro said "What path will you choose ?🙏🏽" Like he's Jigsaw and not some man child who can't accept himself. Yeah man, Jesus was all about hate! 100%

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@Dreckerr

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

One of the dudes who’s exactly who they say they are and then some. He’s actually majorly underselling himself here. Crazy shit.

[Evanosaurus “Unrawrl Engine 5.8” Rex @evankinney]

i have done so much for this company and our games

so many late nights
so many weekends
so many live events, and competitive events, and new features, and new seasons

solid performance reviews every time
with multiple people mentioning how critical i am and what an impact i make across multiple teams

just to be thrown out
i don’t get it.

[JamesClouD @OGJamesC]

@evankinney You deserve so much better. One of the baddest mfs out here.