Igor Konyakhin

Developer (game-dev, web-dev, blockchain, ML).
Working on - esoteric coding game.
Digital nomad & traveler: visited 53 countries.

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@OlexGameDev So ... are you going to spend 10 years on your game?

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@kamikaz1_k @valigo He said approximately ≈"when you have multiple people working full time for many years, it quickly adds up".

There weren't details about the number of people or salaries.

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@Ashsh178545 @valigo These low-end numbers are almost definitely too pessimistic: the review multiplication heuristic works for "stabilized" games where most people already had time to leave review.

You'll see the review number will keep growing quickly.

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@JDWheelerCo @guilleflorvs Done ✅
Just sent you 20% of payments from all 0 clients you brought me.

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@valigo The traditional heuristic to get approximate sales number is to multiply the number of reviews by 30-50x. In this case, since the game is new, it will need some time to stabilize, but considering the costs of the game it'll need to sell at least 1.5+M copies to pay back

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@rsalimx This sounds reasonable - gotta try!
What's your best tip to farm karma?

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@VitaBrevis00 @PeterSweden7 Do you accept Russians?
I won't be breaking the law but leeching some social support would be nice 😈

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@drfckyou @JimDMiller Underrated tweet

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@julianweisser @grok guy in the picture seems to have a legit complain, @julianweisser puts him straight in the wrong without providing any reason - explain

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@valigo As a game-dev, you captured it very well. I experiment with vibe-coding in the spare time: LLMs are still very bad at game design at catching intention.

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Just 5.2 hours in and I already have 100% Steam achievements for @increpare's "Stephan Sausage Roll". For comparison, it takes an average player 30 hours to beat the game.

This is what happens when unsolvable puzzles meet unstoppable brain.

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4/4 Yes, a syscall + network round trip + SQL parser + query planner + WAL may sound slightly heavier than lock cmpxchg.

But premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Follow for more technical advice.
I am working on my esoteric coding game: https://t.co/KtayWW7LIw

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1/4 Atomics and locks are one of those things we accept because "that's just how multithreading works."

But they’re slow, difficult to reason about, and surprisingly easy to misuse.
There is a better primitive: PostgreSQL.

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3/4 Need a mutex?

SELECT pg_advisory_lock(42);

Unlike your mutex implementation, this one has been reviewed, profiled, fuzzed, deployed at enormous scale and optimized by hundreds of extremely talented people.

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@defyneric @foundrceo @stripe @FlexSuperApp Only for Americans?

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@MikeLangleyCPA @foundrceo @stripe @elonmusk So what are another options?
Genuine question - I'm looking for a way to accept payments for my coding game ... and Stripe is only accessible for first-world countries anyway

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@yassratti @grok what "slideshow" means in this context?