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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)
@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
mastodon 4.7.3Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.
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Thimbleweed Park 2 podcast episode 2. I bet you thought we'd quit after the first one. Yeah, you and me both.
https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/twp2_podcast_2/
For Sunday chores day I suggested to my wife we play prison chain gang music. She was not impressed.
Yet another exciting Thimbleweed Park dev blog post. Lock the dog up and grab some coffee.
My DVD ripping pipeline might be out of control. I blame streaming services for erratic behavior.
New Thimbleweed Park page tracks build numbers in realtime. Line goes up!
Back from NZGDC. Reminded me of GDC in the 90's, before it jumped the shark. Less people, better conversations, good times.
"People Training AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI"
Real or The Onion headline.
What are the odds of a new Thimbleweed Park dev blog post? I'd give it 97.3%
I'm heading to NZGDC in Auckland. Not sure why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's my proof of life Mastodon post. If I haven't posted on Mastodon in over a week, send help.
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With Meta perv glasses, Apple new always listening AI watch and Smart TVs tracking everything you watch, I fear that all my future meetings will be conducted naked in a Faraday cage.
No! Your 23 year old son that moved back home doesn't get to be a "Production Baby" in the credits.
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With the upcoming release of classic inspired World of Warcraft: Forever, Thimbleweed Park 2 will be delayed indefinitely. Thank you for your patience.
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The first podcast is live! The first podcast is live! The first podcast is live!
https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/twp2-podcast-1/
Why was this note left on my desk? It isn't in my handwriting. Should I be afraid?
If I had been born 70 years earlier I could have gone to Minor League Baseball games in the town I grew up in, instead I got stuck learning to program computers. Look where that got me.
The latest Terrible Toybox Contractor agreement has a 218 word section about how you can't use AI and it was written by a real life human lawyer, so you know I'm serious. AI is a cancer to the creative process and I do consider programing to be a creative process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCSzEtZcUw
How AI Poisons Creativity
The Thimbleweed Park 2 dev blog is live.
https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/first_post/
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Current status:
If you use AI to generate any code or data and it's wrong, I will hold you responsible as if you'd done it yourself.
There are some narrow and very specific uses for AI. Pretending to be a human to do customer support is not one of them. I spent 20 minutes hopelessly confusing a AI customer support agent until it connected me to a human and they solved my problem in 15 secs. Don't tell 10 year old me this, but the future actually sucks.
After waiting 37 minutes it logged me in and then said I was disconnected. How dare their beta servers not work perfectly.
Thimbleweed Park was 10 years ahead on the whole AI thing. The key is Tron Tube technology.
“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman
"Extra ++true when playtesting"
― Ron Gilbert
How are steam keys generated?
- Randomly generate a key and if it's taken, generate another one and loop.
- There is a database of (millions) available keys, when it runs out make more with step 1.
- Key aren't random, it's a algorithm (seems dangerous if figured out).
- Something I haven't thought of because I'm just a simple game designer.
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"AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad"
https://www.404media.co/ai-fiction-is-easy-to-detect-because-its-stupid-and-bad-research-finds/
Being a pessimist means you'll never be shocked by bad news and always surprised by good news.
Vibe coding is like coding when your stoned.
"Yeah dude, this code is awesome."
Fun fact: 3/4 of the water produced by the USS Enterprise is used to cool the computers during AI training, not to keep the crew alive.
I've spent the last 3 days writing unit tests, because like eating potato chips, you can't write just one.
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Does the 3 second rule still apply when food falls in the toilet?
Interesting stats for the Thimbleweed Park website.
Working on enemies and enemy AI (the good kind, not the horrible tech bro kind).
Next NPC is a police officer that randomly tracks down a person, arrest them and sends them to jail for set amount of time. Art imitates Life.
I gave up on using physics to define the dungeon, I spent a day screwing with it (math is stupid) so I decided for my use-case, a simple height map works better. I don't have rooms under rooms so this was much easier.
Yes or No?
Yes or No?
Multi-level Dungeons with stairs. You can also make prefabs of a collection of objects and put them in the dungeon as a "set piece". The wooden stairs work that way. It's prefab of 4 separate objects and all get placed as one. A height map is auto-made from the 3d model so you can walk up the stairs. No special logic.
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@joshbressers@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social Get ready to be surprised at what people will do.
I upgraded to Raylib 6.0 and everything broke. Looking for a good guide to updating to 6.0. Yet to find it. Looks like a lot in animation has been removed/changed?
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@kokos@mastodon.com.pl Everything I do is digital publishing. We do have CD's via Limit Run Games, but they handle all of that.
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@vampiress@eigenmagic.net Rickety stairs are the least of your worries.
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@kokos@mastodon.com.pl I think all games should come on enough floppy discs that its take long enough to install that you can read the manual.
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@raysan5@mastodon.gamedev.place I figured it all out. Mostly my fault for trying stuff around the API.
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@martin@social.just-a-shell.dev We live in a sad world.
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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net I'm just fucking around learning 3D. No real game yet (or ever).
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social There is a little bump at then end, look closely. No, my mistake that is dust on my screen.
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@lardratboy@corteximplant.com So true!
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@kokos@mastodon.com.pl You're pinging the wrong person for that. Unfortunately this is the future and it's unlikely to change. Boycott all you want, they don't care. I just wish they would change the name from "buy" to "rent" to it's clear what you are doing.
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@iancamsd@mas.to I run it like the mob.