Praneet Sahgal

Senior software engineer at @BlueOrigin by day and indie game dev by night. Check out my game projects, @SolarCommand and @StarAgeCombat! Opinions are my own.

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@SimuLiu I liked him better in Kim's Convenience.

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@soychotic Software president! We can make an official seal and everything!

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Thanks to my coworkers at @blueorigin for sending this man up to space!

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Ed Dwight was our nation's first Black astronaut candidate but only recently achieved his dream of spaceflight at the age of 90.

As Chair of the National Space Council, I am celebrating Black Space Week by uplifting Ed's story and the achievements of Black Americans in space.

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@VP I'm proud to work for the company that finally sent this man to space, @blueorigin.

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@TheVTran Gotcha, so I just have to make a completely ridiculous game that you and the rest of Innersloth will be obsessed with.

Incidentally, what is your stance on playing a homicidal gelatinous cube escaping a secret research laboratory? Just asking. Not doing market research I swear.

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@mayfer Cobalt be like:

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@soychotic My Anaconda don't
My Anaconda don't
My Anaconda don't
My Anaconda don't

(That's the whole song, it just keeps going like that, I'm sorry.)

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@soychotic Please don't give my scrum master ideas.

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Excuse me, I did not ask for snow in Chicago on Halloween. Can I please speak to the manager?

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The Sonic Symphony Orchestra was a wild time! It was great to hear all of my favorite songs in concert.

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@TheVTran Just be happy you haven't heard about "software as a service" as a service (SaaSaaS, if you will.)

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@Kesswylie Other unfun mechanics in MTG include...
- Counterspells
- Stealing cards
- Land destruction (the ultimate in unfun)

These mechanics can still be a part of the game, they just have to be used sparingly, and cards with these effects often have secondary fun effects.

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@Kesswylie Milling is an unfun mechanic for decks without graveyard interaction.

An unfun mechanic makes one player win harder by restricting the other player's ability to enjoy the game. Newer players in MTG like playing big scary cards and feeling powerful. Mill destroys that experience.

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@unormal I've been out of iOS development for years and this is still, without a doubt, the worst developer experience in existence today.

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@SimonNordon @unormal Google can only track installations from the Google Play store on Android phones. If you sideload an app using the Android debug tools, Google won't know you installed it.

And it turns out "sideloading" on PC is what we in the business call "normal installation".

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@unormal Unreal seems way better as a platform for bigger 3D titles and Godot is way less risky to use for 2D projects. I don't think Unity makes sense for new projects anymore.

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@krishnanrohit There are still software engineers that can build this! But it's like ordering a handcrafted rocking chair instead of the latest in chair technology. Not many clients want their new site to look like this, so it's a dying art.

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@unormal Ooh, ooh, I did something similar to MVC for my first game, Solar Command! Although because I was new at things, it ended up being more like model-view-action? So I guess I dodged a bullet.

Entity-component architecture seems way better for real time games.

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@nathanwpyle "Engineerist" sounds so steampunk and I love it.