Nigell Dennis 🧠

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[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

🚨 First issue is live!

Kojima's never written a line of code.

Here's why that's the actual job, and why solo devs can finally do it too.

https://t.co/7LJIb5zuHn

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #Indiegame #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

This new issue breaks down what game direction actually takes, and why AI can’t skip the judgment part.

Read it here: https://t.co/eJ36jdhHdQ

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[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

AI lowers the cost of execution. It does not lower the cost of judgment. That’s the part everyone skips when they say AI makes game dev easy.

🧵⬇️ 1/4

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #AIgamedev #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

Real example: ask AI for dialogue from a guarded character who doesn’t trust easily. The first draft always comes back too clean and too eager to explain itself. You only catch that because you already know how the character should sound.

🧵 3/4

[OrcDev @orcdev]

I have a theory that every cracked dev is (or used to be) a gamer.

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

@endel @colyseus @KenneyNL @joaobaltieri This is so dope!

[Endel @endel]

Fable of Legends is a MOBA I've been working on for a few weeks... (with Fable 😜)

The game is playable at 200ms+ ping thanks to the client-side prediction tools I'm about to release on @colyseus 0.18 💜

Game assets from @KenneyNL and custom characters by @joaobaltieri 💙

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

I loved this game as a kid! ☀️

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

It rained on the release day of “Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand” back on July 17, 2003. ☔

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

It rained on the release day of “Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand” back on July 17, 2003. ☔

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

New issue is live! 🚨

AI might lower the cost of execution, but it doesn’t lower the cost of judgment.

If you can’t tell good art or code or dialogue from bad, you can’t direct AI either.

Full breakdown here: https://t.co/eJ36jdhHdQ #IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

New issue is live! 🚨

AI might lower the cost of execution, but it doesn’t lower the cost of judgment.

If you can’t tell good art or code or dialogue from bad, you can’t direct AI either.

Full breakdown here: https://t.co/eJ36jdhHdQ #IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

The bottleneck in game dev was never talent. It was always time and hands.

You either learned every skill yourself for years, found funding for a team, or you didn’t make the game. Two hard doors, one dead end.

🧵⬇️ 1/3

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #AIgamedev #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

AI can write the code, draft the art, generate the dialogue. It still can’t tell you if any of it is good.

Issue 2 is about the one job AI can’t do for you. Drops tomorrow at 10am.

Subscribe: https://t.co/4uylJPGl5K

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #fyp

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

AI can write the code, draft the art, generate the dialogue. It still can’t tell you if any of it is good.

Issue 2 is about the one job AI can’t do for you. Drops tomorrow at 10am.

Subscribe: https://t.co/4uylJPGl5K

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #fyp

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

You don’t need to master every skill to make a game!? 🤯

The game you’ve been putting off is now possible!

https://t.co/n7iHoMFntb

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

I’m writing about how to walk through that door, every Thursday.

https://t.co/7LJIb5zuHn

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[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

The bottleneck in game dev was never talent. It was always time and hands.

You either learned every skill yourself for years, found funding for a team, or you didn’t make the game. Two hard doors, one dead end.

🧵⬇️ 1/3

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #AIgamedev #IndieDev

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

AI just opened a third door. It won’t do it perfectly, and it won’t do it without you. But it can draft the code, the art, the dialogue, the audio well enough that direction matters more than execution now.

🧵2/3

[Nigell Dennis 🧠 @TheMDRNGameDev]

🚨 First issue is live!

Kojima's never written a line of code.

Here's why that's the actual job, and why solo devs can finally do it too.

https://t.co/7LJIb5zuHn

#IndieGameDev #gamedev #SoloDev #Indiegame #IndieDev