Uhm, actually, that’s about right for many, many games. Witcher 3 employed dozens designers (of various specialties) to ‘fill’ out its game world. So did Skyrim. And Fallout 4. Now, admittedly, for ‘levels’ as simple as these, one person can churn them out pretty quickly based on some loose direction (a text prompt,…

This reminds me of a situation I said something about very recently. A friend watches a lot of ‘true crime’ docuseries. I happened to notice a running theme — when it’s a white person who dies, the media goes crazy and everyone loses their minds. I’m still waiting for an episode where a black person or someone of…

The funny thing is, when Trendy closed its doors on Dungeons Defenders and surrendered it to the community, it actually *DID* ‘wind up’ the game’s development. The community developers are more active than Trendy ever was with it.

While I haven’t looked at the EULA that undoubtedly comes with the modding toolkit that CD Project released to the general public, one should not assume that CD Project has to *ASK* for permission to use mods. If you’re using their toolkit to create the mod, and the EULA specifically states using the toolkit gives CD…

Depending on viewing angle and pose, the number of ‘visible’ fingers can vary dramatically. And because these AI tools ‘break down’ the image data into generalized principles based on *regularity* of features, the fact that hands are so irregular and variable makes creating a unified output structure for anatomically…

Pro-tip: being called out for being agreedy piece of shit is not defamation if it’s *TRUE* no matter how much it hurts your fee-fees, Brett (a man whose entire family line apparently has no idea how phonetics works).

And how would you propose to do that? White folks outnumber black folks, especially in that region of the US, they’re more than happy to take up arms to ‘protect’ other white people, and have law enforcement backing them at every level of the government. A field mouse has a better chance of taking down a mountain…

Particularly since many of them are *members* of said terrorist groups or, at the very least, willfully and knowingly choose to support and protect them.

The 40% ownership of Unreal is probably the single biggest factor here, because that engine is driving a *HUGE* segment of the market, from AAA to indie. Steam has it listed at roughly 25% of all games on its marketplace, with the next closest ‘competitor’ being Unity at just a little over half of Unreal adoption…

I’m looking at the header image, and I still can’t decide which one is the vacuous bag of wind and which one is MTG...or Boebert, for that matter.

No, you said something incredibly ignorant and are trying to pass it off as ‘just joking.’

The voice of ignorance, because you clearly don’t realize the extent of developers who are hired straight out of the modding community.

You have a minor point regarding 3rd party assets. However, both Skyrim and Fallout 4 use them, and while those 3rd party assets did complicate getting the customer version of their toolsets out (certain parts had to be disabled), they *STILL* managed to do it without real issue. Which, ultimately, invalidates your…

There’s a lot of things that many developers just can’t ‘grok’ about gaming. This is just one example. Another is modding. The Elderscrolls series is proof that *IF* you design your developer tools around providing access to them to your customers, the time and manpower spent on those refining those tools pays for…

“I have no idea what I’m looking at, what this game is, what it’s supposed to be about, or — no offense to Ella -- what this character is prattling on about either. None of this is selling me on spending my money or my time on it.”

Bigots are always going to bigot. I’d say “Just ignore them” but I’ve come to the conclusion that simply ‘ignoring them’ isn’t enough. They won’t just ‘go away’ if you ignore them. All that does is further embolden them, so they consistently get worse and more underhanded and toxic in their reactions and attempts to…

A raging alcoholic, drug user and peddler, and unapologetic MAGAt denies allegations by a former coworker of him acting like a sexual predator, despite video evidence of him acting in that manner on at least one previous occasion.

It doesn’t matter if the conditions are tough or not. Shitty people rise to the top because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get whatever they want. Ethical, moral, decent and honest people *WON’T* because they have lines they won’t cross. Shitty people don’t. They have no qualms lying, cheating, stealing,…

And you aren’t the person at whom those tweets are directed either. You’re not a c-suite exec. And as we have already established, most of them are also horrible people. It’s from one horrible person to a bunch of other horrible people. There *IS* presence of mind in said tweet. What there is *NOT* is any concern for…

It should *NEVER* come as a surprise that someone with wealth or power is a shitty person with shitty ideas, attitudes, and behaviors. They get that wealth/power specifically because they’re horrible people, not because they were honest, fair, ethical, moral, etc. Wealth and power — by the positions in and paths…