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Making, breaking & playing games.

Decentralization maxi | Collecting toys & retro games | PFP by @boldleonidas

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[QCARD @qcarddotfun]

We are working with the @hookitfun team to launch $QCARD on $INK! Stay tuned.

NOTHING HAS BEEN LAUNCHED YET!

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@gyuforge There's no simple answer here. I've found it to vary a lot. This is where the effort comes in.

It's a combination of your prompting + source/reference images and then how much back and forth you want to do vs. where you want to take over.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Been working with Astra and Opus on a bunch of games from my game design journal.

Here's what I've found regarding the best results and the current pipeline I'm using.

Back in 2020, I started working on a puzzle game called Mount Cylius.

I got some concept art made (see below) and then started designing the levels on paper.

Recently I set up my @tripoai + @Scenario_gg pipeline with Opus 5.5 to create the missing cut scene images and also generating 3d assets from these illustrations to start working on the levels.

I've tried Astra and Opus both, Opus seems to be working a lot better than Astra in terms of how close it gets to the illustrations using tripo and blender.

For the game itself, I prototyped it using three.js but I will probably release it using Godot.

If you're building something and want any advice, tips, happy to help! I've been having a blast recreating some old games that no longer exist as well as getting so many of my games out of my game design journals and actually building them!

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@BradyMck_ Yup! Too many open doors is definitely a problem 🤣. Gotta focus and close some of them first!

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@BradyMck_ I made my first game in QBasic, my first iPhone game in Objective-C etc.

Like you said, it is so gratifying to see that it is being easier. A lot of the code stuff is the same for many games and now I get to spend time on gameplay and game design!

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@ALPLA_Coin If you're talking about $QCARD, there is going to be a launch on @hookitfun. The launch hasn't happened. Will announce updates via @qcard

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Very Morgoth of them.

"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them..."

- Frodo to Samwise about Orcs.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Warhound launched from stealth today with a $200M seed at a $1.2B valuation. Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey are cloning gene-edited bio-enhanced dogs and equipping them with custom Anduril vests, goggles, and sensors for the military and law enforcement.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Much wow.

[Daniel Scuteri @daniel_scuteri]

Absolutely nothing to see here with "optimised" Netflix...

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@foxenflask what's your take on the whole warrant situation? I honestly haven't been following too closely. Been holding for years and will continue to hold.

I do think that 100 in the long term (next 2-3 yrs) isn't a crazy thing. Higher if ebay happens.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

I started designing a puzzle platformer back in 2020.

Had some character concept art and designed many levels on paper.

In his sleep, an innocent Cyli is knocked off the peak and you as the guardian of the Cylis must help him find his way back home.

Mount Cylius.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@Hello_World

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Apple is at that point where Microsoft was in the late 90s early 2000s where they were super dominant that momentum just carried them through.

Until Apple disrupted them and the iPhone killed Windows Mobile and BlackBerry.

Oppo Find N6 or Honor. Both runs circles around the Duo.

We need better hardware and more competition in the States.

Never going back to the Apple eco.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

The current state of apps on iPhone Duo: https://t.co/1jJt58zXN8

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@Hello_World I'm talking about phones. Microsoft had a large market share with Windows Mobile (pre Windows Phone) and they completely exited that market and had to write-off Nokia for 7.6B.

Yes. Microsoft has grown a lot but phones are exactly 0% of their growth.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@Hello_World Phones were already computers at that point. This is just semantics. Apple changed the experience by fundamentally rethinking how people could interact with their phones, thus disrupting incumbents.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@prunecookie I was actually impressed with ColorOS - Oppo's Android flavor. They've done some really good work on multi-tasking.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

innovation.

I'll give you one example - the iPhone was radically different. So much so, that Steve Ballmer famously made fun of "no keyboard" and said no serious user would use it and it would have no place at work. You've seen what happened.

The Huawei Mate XT (world's first trifold) was released in 2024. They released an update last year.

The time that Apple took to release their first foldable, I would have thought it would have something different, something unique.

They could have done a trifold and it would have made more sense because it would literally be an iPad.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@Hello_World i don't understand this at all. PDAs were computers. there was no single microsoft phone. HTC and a ton of other OEMs used to make unique devices!

they disrupted them because of they had a unique take on the phone. all touch. no keyboard etc.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

articles are always clickbait now. it's actually not the minor ux stuff for me personally. Don't you feel like the updates, both hardware and software having become boring and very incremental?

like foldables are not new at all. the "old" apple would have had a more unique take on it. something more like huawei's trifold imo

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Take all my money and 10x it. Make no mistakes.

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.

The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.

Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.

Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.

Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/Q3bda5In8q

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

Totally agree on the better specs don't mean better experience.

The Blackberry part is true. Windows my dominated the "PDA" / Smartphone market. They were so dominant that I'm sure you'll remember the famous "it doesn't even have a keyboard" interview that Steve Ballmer did. That's another example of being too comfortable and failing to see a threat.

[TCG @TheChainGamer]

@LibertyStSoft 🤣 I'm dealing with it ok.