Ryan Florence

Latter-Day Saint, family man, "retired" web dev building a game
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[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Pretty happy with melee combat and controls. Solid base to work from to move on to ranged

Also this music was a first pass with fable creating its own software instruments/renderer, pretty cool

Still using WebGL, UE 5.9 soon, but I just can't work at the speed of agents there

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@jeremdow Yeah man, it's going to be unlike anything you've ever seen before. I can't wait. Actually going to take this seriously.

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

> Add rings around my character at 1 yard, 3, 5, and 10 that I can toggle on/off with Y so I can design the AoE of the attacks

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@kenwheeler amazing

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@adamwathan dang ... Jarvis

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@wagslane https://t.co/4Cs84R7az6

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absolute beta behavior

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

I hate being right and not making any money for it

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@zeeg @jarredsumner yeah most stuff is super sus to me, in the weeds all day everyday on this

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@kenwheeler this is my favorite project in a long time

also i didn't realize how gross singing is inside there

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

"I've read the music thread, Riley's saga and the existing tools. Next I'm building a set of new instruments of my own (a lamp-glass bell, a double-strung cittern, a reed organ, a music box for Merrow and a few more), then writing the songs on them."

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

> have a fable 5.2 extra write some phenomenal songs with its own instruments, different moods and contexts and pivotal parts of the story, with the three melodies we came up repeated throughout

I realized i don't need to download instruments. Instruments are software 🤘

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> add a view to see it in the HUD grid

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

> I want to work on combat and make some pretty big changes. Make a skill tree visualizer for me for everything in the PoC where I can edit notes on each node

2m later

A year ago I was making a component library. You can just whip up anything you need. We are in the Jarvis era already

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

absolute beta behavior

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@jayair chat, chat, chat, and chat

UI is over

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

@RyanCarniato @zwily dbmon forever in the weights

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@jatingargiitk dude go away

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Might have been the prompts but my Fable 5.2 game combat playground was a lot worse than my Opus 5.5 one last week.

It's doing all the same "AI design" stuff that's gross, music mix was way off, physics were weird.

Done with that.

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Fortunately I know a bunch of music theory. The AI conversations are weird (but understandable) when people think "AI made it, not you".

I am absolutely going to be the author of this music. Going to have a melody that's repeated in a lot of the tracks but in different modes, different harmonies that accompany it, different timing, different root on chords, etc.

I don't need to be able to play the piano though. Just like I don't need to know how to code. But if you know the *core thing* you're doing (which isn't code, and isn't plucking a guitar string) you are still doing the core thing.

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Working on the music between art builds for our game.

Gave claude all the lore and the primary storyline we have so far, discussed what I'm looking for in the music and that we'll start with the primary melody.

Claude just pops open a page and let's me sample stuff. I've got my guitar playing along.

Nearly my entire life has come together at this moment 🥲

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Working on the music between art builds for our game.

Gave claude all the lore and the primary storyline we have so far, discussed what I'm looking for in the music and that we'll start with the primary melody.

Claude just pops open a page and let's me sample stuff. I've got my guitar playing along.

Nearly my entire life has come together at this moment 🥲