deep//maker

Solo dev building "Aetherborne": sci-fi survival horror, deep base building, tameable creatures, corp-vs-corp PvPvE. Built in Godot, from scratch.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

Day 155
I was whiteboarding the crafting system over the last few days. As of tonight, crafting works! I'll tighten up the UI for it later- just happy to have it working. Also fixed a hotbar bug. :]

#gamedev #indiedev #GODOT

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

Watching the WARDOGS ban wave reminds me of all the other times I've seen this across games like Tarkov, Ark, CoD, Rust, etc. These moments always get me thinking about my own game of course.

Farming is easy to catch. Impossible XP rates show up in telemetry. ESP + Aimbot isn't. And when a cheater has been recorded a dozen times and spectated by a dev, it's not a detection problem at all, it's a review queue nobody staffs.

Realistically as a solo dev, I'll probably never have a review team due to my current scale (unless my game blows up to where I can start a small ragtag team- which would be awesome). So everything has to be prevention with zero tolerance out the gate:
• server-authoritative state, so there’s nothing client-side for ESP to read
• hardware fingerprinting so a ban survives a new account
• server-side replay capture on reports, so every case comes with evidence instead of eating an hour
• behavioral flagging to sort the queue; headshot ratios and snap angles are computable from data the server already has

There’s also an uncomfortable incentive baked into the model: a banned player who buys a new copy is revenue, and a review team is a cost line that generates none. I don’t think studios set out to exploit that, but it’s telling how few are in a hurry to close it. I’d rather build something people want to stay in for years.

#gamedev #indiedev #godot

[WARDOGS @WARDOGS]

Yep, 185,000 cheaters. Banned.

There'll be more ban waves coming and further improvements to our Anti-Cheat systems next year. Giving players more control.

Share your feedback via reviews on Steam
https://t.co/bXo2yinV6e

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@karutaXkun @Pirat_Nation ESP and aimbot are ruining games people (myself included) actually love and the tooling is sold in the open by a 2 sec Google search. That’s why I’m designing prevention into my game I've been working on from the start instead of planning to moderate my way out of it later.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@sentrygoinup @2sallads Keep splitting hairs for no reason. My point clearly stands regardless of your opinion. 💅 /end

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@True_Neutral @2sallads "Your problem is you are trying to say something it bad when it's part of the job."

A technique can be part of a skill set & be overused in a particular era regardless.

You're acting like this idea is mutually exclusive when it's not.

I'm also allowed to dislike it, buddy.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@3DGlyptics This is so unhinged. lmfao

Also me waiting for Steam to approve me as a partner:

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@Pirat_Nation Ah yes. Lets whine about privacy concerns but then give out information willingly for the memes. 300 iq type of shit.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@True_Neutral @2sallads You do know you're trying to argue with my point when all you're doing is proving it.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@sentrygoinup @2sallads "It's not this, it's that- which is the same damn thing."

At least you deleted the em dashes in the message. The format of this response is giving Chatgpt.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@BTVO17 @IndieGameJoe Meanwhile I'm seeing crying and doom-posting about AI 24/7 on this app. ☕

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@bergers_thomas @jaredabides @WARDOGSNow Just play a different game. This one is for the sweats.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@WARDOGSNow They banned people cheesing XP and money farming. They didn't ban anyone paying to use ESP + aimbot cheats. Until they do, the game is unplayable much like every other competitive game.

https://t.co/eFNte8xtqP

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@Pirat_Nation @grok tell me more about this information that OP has provided and share some links to the sources

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@BTVO17 @IndieGameJoe Some guy is going to cry about someone using Claude rn.

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@PartyofOneGames @IndieGameJoe Why only men? No women?

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@IndieGameJoe I had no idea. Thanks for sharing. 🙌

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

Every version of the Veloxumbra, lined up.

61k → 1.1M → 1.45M → 50k → 27k. Spent this week on retopo so I can actually put a crowd of these on screen.

#ScreenshotSaturday #b3d #indiedev

[deep//maker @deepmaker_us]

@dpmndave @WARDOGS Cool story. Can they do something about this bullshit?

https://t.co/CE94cvgk7y