sam

no more blue tomorrows

[sam @s0ulware]

respectively The Stanley Parable and Portal

[sam @s0ulware]

though they are things you watch, Severance and Backrooms are both in the tradition of Source Engine

[unlucky chloe @SuperBlizzard]

🏓10S FOREVER 1.1 RELEASE FLASH SALE
behind on rent so the game is $8 -> $1.04 this weekend
(link below)

updated to 1.1 with:
- custom PALETTES (see gif)
- ABRIDGED+BOSS RUSH modes
- other

if it breaks lmk! steam version update later tonight <3

[sam @s0ulware]

I dont know its probably just dumb to get mad about but people will use ahistoricism as a lever to justify their feelings towards someone rather than confront the uncomfortable notion that an asshole could very meaningfully contribute to something big

[sam @s0ulware]

one thing to understand is that basically all discussion online about indie game: the movie people leaves out like 3 pieces of important information and makes very handwavy assumptions. you can have opinions on these guys and such but i think its important to be honest

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

Fez was one of the most loved indie games of its era.

Then its sequel was suddenly cancelled after developer Phil Fish got into a brutal argument online.

He tweeted that Fez 2 was cancelled and locked his account.

A whole game basically died in a Twitter fight.

[sam @s0ulware]

Also just massively discrediting. hate on fez hate on phil fish but a designer is not just an "ideas guy"!! + he also did much of the pixel art (does nobody know this??). 90% chance Fez is better than your game

[sam @s0ulware]

main point of the article aside “Death Stranding 2’s Nicholas Winding Refn” made me laugh. thats what hes from death stranding 2

[Aftermath @Aftermath_site]

Your heroes will always let you down:

https://t.co/fPyAop564q

[sam @s0ulware]

@wookash_podcast @valigo to the first point, see post here (& discussion downthread)

https://t.co/X7Mrt6a5fO

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

this got me thinking, what’s the most token-dense programming language?

One that could fit the most program flow into the smallest context window?

The winner, by a lot, is Array-Based Languages. J, K, that sort of thing.

It’s actually a two-part problem, because you need something that is logically dense (saves length), but symbolically simple. Most tokenizers are optimized for standard text, so if you get *too* fancy with rare mathematical symbols like APL, token usage actually blows up!

Python scores pretty well actually, but whitespace hurts you a bit. Haskell is an interesting outlier; it’s likely the most token-efficient statically typed language.

Now, if you were to extend the problem assuming you’re making your own tokenizer and training a model to *specifically* be as efficient with program writing as possible…

…you probably wouldn’t even use text. Just train/produce Abstract-Syntax-Trees directly, which would eventually start to look like compiler IRs / bytecode, which could eventually start looking like an ISA…

and with hardware/software co-design we’d end up with CPUs where we don’t understand the execution at all ;)

[sam @s0ulware]

it would be great to have a list of these for every games-related conversation i have had. first and foremost outer wilds...

[Dime 🇦🇷 @Dimememem]

List of videogames we are banned from talking about in my 2D Art assignmet for my gamedev course

[sam @s0ulware]

why don't we hold sleeping dogs to the same moral standards as everyone else?

[sam @s0ulware]

@zuhaitz_dev yes see also https://t.co/QnoLjHMZ22

[sam @s0ulware]

@max_spero_ @bruce_lambert @ben_golub @MushtaqBilalPhD when you say modern, do you mean post gpt3.5 in particular? (just curious, i dont have anything atm either way)

[sam @s0ulware]

@miss_inputs it is an unfortunately accurate representation of how bad schemas in the wild can be

[sam @s0ulware]

@spinelessaisha at this stage i would opt for the easiest thing possible to make the game real (playable etc) and then you can either change it later or do something different next time

[sam @s0ulware]

@spinelessaisha first i think you should make it any way (flip a coin to decide even) and then you will know if that works for you or not and you can update

[sam @s0ulware]

@OlexGameDev @Jonathan_Blow @Demruth certainly one is free to like or dislike whatever, but this game was made very carefully!

[sam @s0ulware]

@OlexGameDev @Jonathan_Blow @Demruth nothing you've said here applies to this game, though

[sam @s0ulware]

@aakashgupta @pangram ai?