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GDC Vibe Check – I Asked Nine Game Developers the Same Four Questions [video]

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Make Games, Drink Coffee – A weekly podcast about web development

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swivelmaster
·先月·議論
This is an exceptionally high-quality comment. You on bsky or threads or somewhere I can follow you?
swivelmaster
·2 か月前·議論
Location: Redwood City, CA USA

Remote: Yes, or within a reasonable commute distance in the Bay Area

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm a game developer with web and mobile dev experience, so: Unity, Unreal, C#, Unreal Blueprints, Python, Javascript, Swift, PHP, Ruby. Production and project management experience. Video/audio editing and production, too!

Portfolio: https://www.aaronnemoyten.com/portfolio/

Resume/CV: https://www.aaronnemoyten.com/resume_files/Aaron_Nemoyten_Re...

Email: aaron (at) nemo10.net

18 years of game industry experience, including as the founding live services producer on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes ($1bn+ grossing, EA's most successful mobile game). Game design, production, programming, biz dev/pitching experience, and I produce a podcast called Make Games, Drink Coffee.

Most jobs I've had were direct hires by a founder/CEO - I'm a versatile problem-solver and I'll wear whatever hat is necessary to push a project forward.
swivelmaster
·2 か月前·議論
I don't understand the value proposition here for consumers.

For OpenAI, the value prop is obvious, but that's the problem with modern Silicon Valley product thinking: Company-first, consumer-maybe, with some carveouts for chronic early adopters and tech cheerleaders.

To use a very Silicon Valley term: There's no crossing the chasm here; The chasm has become too big to cross.
swivelmaster
·3 か月前·議論
Douglas Adams would be proud!
swivelmaster
·3 か月前·議論
At least in the goopy days it was VERY clear what was and was not a button.
swivelmaster
·3 か月前·議論
You shouldn't. It was revealed later that Morgan Spurlock, the star of the movie, was also secretly drinking himself to death while he was making the documentary. Not to shame an addiction OR defend McDonalds too much here, but being a raging alcoholic and blaming your health problems on hamburgers and french fries on a massive public stage is/was extraordinarily irresponsible.
swivelmaster
·3 か月前·議論
Yes, it's possible to win with less money than your opponent, but why would anyone want to take that risk?

The problem with money in politics is not that money guarantees a win, but that the presence of large donations distorts the entire incentive structure of campaigning and governing: Courting big donations means spending time with big donors (who expect access in exchange for their money) and when it comes time to govern, studies have shown that campaign contributions and lobbying are dramatically more influential to what gets proposed and passed than the preferences of the general public.

Focusing on the problems with presidential campaigns re: money in politics is missing the forest for the trees: All politicians have limited time to spend between campaigning and governing, and if they're constantly raising money the governing gets delegated to lobbyists.

(This is why people are always so shocked when politicians who don't accept corporate PAC contributions have drastically different priorities than those who do. Of course they do! They don't have to spend all their time hanging out with corporate lobbyists!)
swivelmaster
·6 か月前·議論
Here's what I think is happening:

Market research says "Parents want control."

In the journey from CEO mandate "build a product that gives parents control" to developer implementation, "parents want control" somehow turns into "What parents want is extremely fine-grained controls," which isn't the same thing.

So a bunch of product managers brainstorm a huge list of ways that parents might want "control," hand that off to some developers, and voila: Everything becomes way too complicated for everybody and the company is able to say they offer "control" while abdicating their stated obligation of giving parents the "safe" product that the parents expect.
swivelmaster
·7 か月前·議論
File under "technically true but not particularly useful"
swivelmaster
·7 か月前·議論
Yes, thank you, exactly. It’s a culture and systems issue. Thank you for clarifying a post I wrote in the early morning while waiting for my baby to fall back to sleep!
swivelmaster
·7 か月前·議論
I’m not sure that’s something we get to vote on.
swivelmaster
·7 か月前·議論
You’ve explained this in plain and simple language far more directly than the linked study. Score yet another point for the theory that academic papers are deliberately written to be obtuse to laypeople rather than striving for accessibility.
swivelmaster
·7 か月前·議論
This is so insanely terrible that I’m going to put my phone down now and go do something else.
swivelmaster
·8 か月前·議論
In California, at least, those numbers wouldn't be acceptable.

My daughter's at an in-home daycare with IIRC five or six other kids. There are two adults there full-time, sometimes three.

Two adults supervising 20-40 daycare-aged kids is simply not feasible.
swivelmaster
·8 か月前·議論
> designed by a fiefdom full of territorial managers

What's harder than herding cats? Herding cats with MBAs and OKRs.
swivelmaster
·8 か月前·議論
They have. I don’t remember the specifics but I believe there was some kind of hosting provider that had basically everything in production deleted and had to shut down.
swivelmaster
·8 か月前·議論
Just because the media has failed doesn’t mean we should accept that kind of failure everywhere.
swivelmaster
·8 か月前·議論
At some point we have to be willing to call out, at a societal level, that LLMs have been fundamentally oversold. The response to "It made defamatory facts up" of "You're using it wrong" is only going to fly for so long.

Yes, I understand that this was not the intended use. But at some point if a consumer product can be abused so badly and is so easy to use outside of its intended purposes, it's a problem for the business to solve and not for the consumer.
swivelmaster
·10 か月前·議論
I would go for a chunky iPhone.
swivelmaster
·4 年前·議論
Yup. It’s not that long of a level but it’s very well-paced and ammo and health are very judiciously rationed out.