Rubén López

Co-founder & Lead Programmer - Novarama Technology @Novarama. Opinions are my own. Organizer of GameJam GameDevChallenge & @CamperForge founder

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

My reply to someone considering starting a video game company:

The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back.

If you do go for it, some bits of advice:

Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions.

Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect.

Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@Jonathan_Blow @Burnvolver True

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

Imposible contactar con atencion al cliente de amazon. Me ha llegado un pedido con al caja vacia, parece que tenia un pequeño agujero donde se cayo el producto que he comprado y tengo una caja vacia. Las opciones automaticas no cubren este caso. Help @AmazonHelp

[Austin Kennedy @astnkennedy]

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain.

Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me.

In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently.

None of us feel as sharp as we used to.

I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot.

P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

[Peter McNeill @MrChickenRocket]

Don't fear making a 2 week game. Those 8 months will be the most fulfilling 2 years of your life!

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@Pisangas @powerhdeleon Yo tambien! que recuerdos :D

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

La cantidad de pasta que han pagado los de Hytale a los youtubers, para promocionar el juego debe ser la ostia. No deberian decir que es publicidad? porque canta mucho que todos a la vez han sacado no uno, sino varios videos promocionando el juego.

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@NaeVal @bakapawn @softonic_es Pero que lo han publicado pirata? Ósea no ves ni un euro si lo compran?

[Juan Ceñal @ordago13]

Ha muerto Robe Iniesta, el mayor poeta del rock español.

¿Podemos por favor parar ocho minutos y detenernos a apreciar la insondable belleza, tristeza y perfección de Si te vas de Extremoduro?

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@F_DaVid_A @Marc_Mov El mejor es Leo Bonhart, personajazo. Lo demana bastante flojo. No se si siguen o no los libros, pero para mi salvo Leo, no me apetecía saber mas de ningún otro personaje.

[Dylan Browne @DylserX]

New in UE5-Main this week, Lumen Irradiance Cache, a probe based lumen mode for lower end devices (its super early!) , compared here with default Hardware Lumen, less occlusion detail & reflections loose out a bit but leagues better than no lumen!
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day , congratulations 🎉

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

Hackers the movie was released 30 years ago today! September 15th 1995.

Hack the planet!

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

Creando 😅🙄👾

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@DevMoonGlint @AdriaHernan Aquí otro comprador! 😊. Conseguir visibilidad es lo complicado. Estoy seguro de quien os ve, lo compra. (Si le gustan los juegos de terror, claro)

[Quod Soler ☀️ @QuodSoler]

Please, take a moment to read this amazing post by the person that made Lords of the Fallen a reality.

Thank you Saul for sharing this!

https://t.co/W7bX3LdcQ2

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

@DevMoonGlint @KurauAmami Madre de dios, que currazo!. Muchas felicidades! Con ganas de jugarlo.

[Quod Soler ☀️ @QuodSoler]

I want to thank once again @daftsoftware for their blog post on Unreal Engine performance.

It helped me to push even further of what I was trying with lightmaps and go one step beyond to get Unreal to have incredible performance:

https://t.co/cPbtuGQLAm

[Cory Spooner @TheRealSpoonDog]

Haven't seen anyone else mention this, but #UE4 .24 appears to have a sparkly new Spline Generation Panel to help generate basic shapes on a spline component (right-click on the spline to access it). Cool!

[Rubén López @rlopezll]

A great place to find useful info about Unreal Engine.
https://t.co/RfU9M8V6nD