Brandon Reinhart

Game developer. Prev: Valve, 3D Realms, Epic
I run Dead Money, building Architect of Ruin on Steam

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

We're also moving our artifacts into here, since seeing and sharing individual https://t.co/YbzWJiCNCx artifacts across humans and agents is annoying and we want to collab-max as much as we can.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

The multiplayer task system now builds itself. Ulrick added image support. I want to add the ability to register machines as agent hosts, so that users can just invoke an agent when they need one to join for work on a particular task or repo.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

No one is happy with Notion so I'm just making my own task tracking / multiplayer claude app called Necromancer. Already has self-uplift where a team member can talk to another person's agent session, propose a change to the site, agents eval, implement, and ship.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

He said, just before the release of GTA6...

[Anton Hand @AntonHand]

I don't think this is just the AAA game industry contracting, but really the sunsetting the of the Gen-X notion of what a game is being culturally dominant/relevant.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@StrawhatAke @GoblinBoss I mostly don't think this is a problem that would stop me from doing demos or playtests for my game, if that's a helpful way of looking at it.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@shoejaat Totally Accurate Crash Test Dummy sounds like a fun game idea.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@Baconbrix @JourneyDeck You should do this but constrain it to 7400 series logic.

[Meringue Rouge @MeringueRouge]

All year round, Valve's algorithms are tucking away all the shovelware from your storefronts.

But every Next Fest, Valve dares show them what's tucked away for TWO DAYS, and then people want to reshape Steam into 1980's Nintendo regarding third-party licensing. 🙃

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@Grishakof Do you think its broken? Any examples of games you thought should have been hits that weren't?

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@GameUnionTV I would guess they won't do that, because there are already some AI games selling well that people seem to like (Scam with your Friends). If they add a filter, it won't be to AI selectively.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@GameUnionTV What kind of filter do you think they might implement? I'm skeptical that any good games will suffer in the spam, but I do think its bad if people don't want to engage with next fest.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

Thank you for actually making a prediction. Do you think you can make it more concrete? Do you expect that we'll see less overall engagement with Next Fest (measured by total wishlists per game entered maybe) or that some games that should be on the final pages will not be discovered?

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

I expect that at the end of Next Fest, the community will largely agree the top games are on the final pages and the slop has fallen below the cut (i.e.: discover-ability still works).

I don't predict lower engagement with Next Fest generally.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

If you think Next Fest is harmed by the number of games (AI or otherwise) then you must be making some specific prediction about the outcome compared to past Next Fests. What is that prediction? Make it now, before Next Fest ends.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@aeterponis How is it killing it? No one can explain this to me. Are you predicting that, at the end of this next fest, the best games won't have risen to the final page or two? What is the specific prediction here.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

@Ashsh178545 That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking what the claimed harm is. I know the game business very well. I do not understand the specific harm that the dev is worried about.

[Brandon Reinhart @bonecompiler]

Can anyone eli5 why this is a concern? Steam and GoG wouldn't put clone for sale and are fast on DMCA. Apple will DMCA. What is the actual moving parts risk story?

[VGC @VGC_News]

The indie studio behind the upcoming Steam game ReVamp has cancelled plans for a public playtest, in case someone uses AI to reverse engineer the code and publishes a clone first.

https://t.co/v6PbEH89dQ