Rani H.

Game designer, entrepreneur, dad, founder @tarbooshgames #indiedev

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

Staying home can be very productive! In the last 6 weeks we published 3 new games with #Voodoo along with updating Bikes Hill! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev @tarbooshgames

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@TommiPedruzzi Easy

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@bradsmith Tool :)

[Lamine Yamal Fan Club 🇪🇸 @Lamineeyamal__]

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[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Ramadan Mubarak to all of those observing around the world!

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

According to Christopher Nolan, there's a lot less information on Google than you might think:

“Google are not as powerful as people think in terms of information collation. They’re more powerful than people realize in all kinds of areas, such as collecting data on your movements. They’re very good at that. But in a data search, the outcome is always limited. An interesting experiment would be to walk into a library, and go to a book, open the book at a random page, find a fact or piece of information, write it down. Do that ten times, and then go online and see how many of those ten you can find. Our feeling is that 90 percent of the information is online. I have a suspicion the real answer is 0.9 percent.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨WORLD'S FIRST 'LIVING COMPUTER' RUNS ON 16 LAB-GROWN BRAINS

Swiss firm Final Spark launched Neuroplatform, using 16 lab-grown brain organoids for computational tasks, consuming a million times less power than silicon chips.

This system integrates hardware, software, and biology, using Multi-Electrode Arrays (MEAs) to process data.

The organoids now last 100 days, a significant improvement.

Neuroplatform is available for research at $500 per user per month, moving towards creating the world's first living processor.

Sources: Tom’s Hardware, NowThis on IG

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@SneedArray Me! 😊

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

The Drifter's an old school adventure game, but that doesn't mean it's a sedate experience. https://t.co/cPhpH7zS6V

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Unity's actions are unacceptable, I cannot keep endorsing this.

[Sea of Thieves @SeaOfThieves]

Deep in the Caribbean...

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@NoContextHumans ChatGPT 4 got confused!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy.

He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17.

But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because…

He got a new coach.

“I was a naturally creative, aggressive chess player,” Waitzkin explained.

But the new coach forced Waitzkin to play like the great chess players Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian—“the most positional, conservative chess players.”

When he was forced to play in a way that didn’t align with his natural proclivities, Waitzkin said, “I lost my love for the game.”

So he quit.

He later took up martial arts, and after just 2 years of training, he won his first national championship in martial arts.

Asked if he took anything from chess into the martial arts, Waitzkin said he leaned into his unique physical and mental traits:

“And in my observation of competitors in any discipline, this a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline.”

Takeaway 1:

Waitzkin said he was at his best (as a chess player then a martial artist) when his style aligned with his personality.

This is known in economics as “match quality”—the degree of alignment between the traits of a profession and the traits of a person.

The NBA executive turned venture capitalist, Sam Hinkie, was asked how he thought about shaping his career path.

Essentially, Hinkie said he tried to optimize for match quality.

“By nature,” Hinkie explained, “I think in decades, and I have a steady temperament.”

So, Hinkie thought, “Can you get to a place where there is leverage on that kind of thinking, where that kind of steady temperament is rewarded?”

Takeaway 2:

Waitzkin writes in his book, “The Art of Learning,” that “one of the most critical factors in becoming a high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.”

The music producer Rick Rubin is a good example of this.

Rubin is a voracious consumer of art. He’s constantly listening to music, reading a book, watching a movie, at a museum, or driving around just to look at beautiful architecture.

“It’s all I do,” Rubin told screenwriter Brian Koppelman. “But not because it’s my job. It’s like, my job is my job because the person that I am loves to do those things.”

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

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[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy some brain candy.

Here are 16 oddly satisfying "pull to refresh" animations.

🧵👇

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@ScottApogee One of the best games ever!

[Rani H. @ranihasan]

@darrenrovell @DKSportsbook Shit!

[Ken Williams @caboken]

A favor request for those who considering our new game, and who know what Steam is. Steam's willingness to hype a game is partially tied to the number of copies wishlisted. If you are kind of thinking about the game, PLEASE wishlist it and retweet this.
https://t.co/9LJzBgedux

[Summoner's Tale - Negm World @NegmWorld]

Check out our new trailer shown at #MonsterTamingDirect thanks @GymLeaderEd for making this happen we are proud we were part of it 🥳

#monstertaming #trailer #indiegame #IndieGameDev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

[Ken Williams @caboken]

We did the red carpet .. felt very strange

[Ken Williams @caboken]

We've submitted our game for certification at the console companies. I couldn't resist asking the test lead at one of them how the team liked the game. The response: "Hi Ken! The team are really enjoying the game, it's quite unlike anything any of us have played before." Perfect!