mike

extra-generalist developer, maker of many things
@2ndhandstudios |

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@WARDOGSUpdates My 4k monitor and 5090 is giving me a greater edge than a 3080 that has shadows forced on. The line is totally arbitrary, I'm mostly advocating for everyone else.

FYI turning black levels up basically removes shadows in wardogs anyway

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@WARDOGSUpdates I'm the kind of person who removes shadows in every game that will let me in order to get a meaningful edge.
Either it matters or it doesn't. Banning people for a setting based on their hardware is ridiculous, and competitively unfair.
Zero shadows for everyone is ugly but fair

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@sleitnick I'd respect this take if you didn't previously act as though AI was a step backwards when it clearly was not.

Otherwise most talented people share your opinion.
They're using AI to shortcut the things they *don't find fun*. This improves their creative bandwidth and capability.

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@ScriptOnRoblox yo what's your rank

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@MrChickenRocket Yeah I wouldn't call that overselling necessarily, but I agree with the overall point. AI doesn't allow for many excuses anymore.

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@SigmaTechRBLX just use script sync with git. am I taking crazy pills

[Melancholie @Phantasmerie]

A game dev secret nobody tells you is that approximately half of dev time per day is the dev staring at the screen thinking deeply about how to design or program something and not actually doing anything.

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@MaximumADHD I've always loved your work. It just wasn't fun.

I am certain it's salvageable bc it did have tons of polish. More time on the outer layer mechanics maybe?

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@MaximumADHD The way I work with AI leaves absolutely nothing unspecified. I treat it as a dumb tool. Specify networking, libraries, APIs, boilerplate, style, foldering. And I try to spell out areas meant to be left empty.

Mostly I find huge .md files to be bloat, but ymmv

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@Brammflakes No matter how accurate it might be, I hope you seriously consider finding a way to respect people's time. People with jobs are not going to grind every reset. This will cultivate a hyper sweat audience who races for the best gear every season.

They could lose you everyone.

[Peter @Peteralm_]

I gave up from Server Authority.

Insane tech, bad implementation.
The API is not good, many limitations and it does not work well enough for real game purposes.

I recommend to all devs to don't use Server Authority, make your own rollback/lag compensation.

My arguments: ⬇️

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@MrChickenRocket because it's just creating something generic. and generic hasn't been fun.... ever?

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@DecimalCubed i'm sure some of them are making cool things. i get just as annoyed by old men shaking their hands at the clouds.

"noooo!! you can't make cool things with AI assisted programming!! it's not artistic and special like mine!!"

also AI doesn't write bugs into code much at all

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@rblx_tyridge77 we've literally had the same journey. maybe with different heights 😅

i've been coasting on passive income for half a decade just making cool games and technology for games, learning what i like about gamedev. i'm not even the same person that released my old projects.

[tyridge77 @rblx_tyridge77]

Cool game. To answer everyone always asking me if I’m still working on games - these are the kinds of games I make and that’s why it takes time

We needs more innovation and people trying to make long lasting games that they actually want to play and that makes Roblox look good

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@donvalderath @adamlyttleapps this is just a performative post. parents can already disable every social feature on Roblox for their children, including chat and more

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@BSlickComposer @Lias5544 @Koiverse_ I can afford it I just think the game is bad

[mike @micromakesstuff]

@KenneyNL @jaystar524 @threejs Shakes stick at sky