And there’s a talk going around about single-player campaigns won’t come to PC, they’ll be PlayStation only.
Where it all went wrong was the industrial revolution
They will exploit you right up until the point where you commit crime. So steal and pirate your way to liberation.
The future of PC gaming is the community support of vintage games that you loved.
The future of consoles is amatuer AI taxidermy remakes of your childhood memories. A distorted uncanny-valley resemblence of a game you once held dear, stuffed to the brim with synthetic fluff and hung on a generic skeleton twisted and bent to roughly resemble a once vibrant and living thing.
SO RIGHt
Also with microtransactions
I wish I had more than one upvote for this.
Mines more like 15 years or more lol
In my mind, the current timeline always starts with 2013 and the death of Aaron Swartz. You could argue it was his prosecution that started it, but his death was the moment it began to become clear. Maybe he saw where we were heading. He was being over-prosecuted. Almost everyone who wasn’t part of the establishment came to that conclusion.
He represented everything that the new digital age could be: self-educated, a lover of learning, a humanist, an activist. A common man fighting for the common people. Everything he did was to spread information and protect our ability to learn, grow, and fight against injustice.
Maybe he had a Howard Beale moment with someone when his plea deal was rejected. Maybe he saw where we were heading and knew that he would never be able to fight it again. They had done everything to make an example of him…to make it impossible for him to enact change. All he really did was find ways to use the system to share information and help people.
I know, this was about PC gaming, but everything in this current dystopia ties back to this loss for me.
Such a tragic story.
I recently pulled out my old PSP from way back when. If I don’t have an options to buy anything to own, guess there’s less incentive to buy anything new. Give me options pls
Well hold on there, son. You just need to take up a hobby. Have you ever considered working with your hands, sawing up wood, drilling screw holes, learning to balance chains and then build a guillotine? Work proactively - damnit.
I’m making a lo-fi, offline, singleplayer card game designed to be completely moddable in every way so people can add custom characters, enemies, features just by putting JSON into the userdata folder.
Some of us are trying!
Magic the Fappering?
Well that’s the joy, I’ll build it so you can just draw tits and penises in.
Sounds interesting. Any way I can wishlist or sign up for a news letter to be notified about development and release date?
I’m a ways off from that I think. About 11 months in (mostly the odd day at weekends) and I have a working card system and the AI can play a card that beats you if it can but it’s very simplistic and all the art is either drawn in paint, a text or untextured placeholder, or royalty free avatars I downloaded from itchio
I’ll plug it in a few game-making communities when I have a demo It’s (very early) working title is “Cartoquaria” (as in a place where one stores cards, in Latin) and it uses a deck of tarot cards you imbue with mystical powers - but I’m easily a year or two out.
For Americans the answer to ‘where did we go wrong’ is normally Reagan.
More in general, our biggest problem is that we let billionaires buy our politicians and didn’t riot. (Eat the rich, when?)
same people that got reagan elected got nixon elected
Regan was so bad John Carpenter made a movie about it
Where did it all go wrong?
See that part where millionaries became billionaires while everyone else got, at best, just enough raise to be stagnated with inflation? Yeah, that’s a good starting point
remind me, what do we need billionaires for again?
Food
No, we are not.
We can go back to the basics, focus on not graphical realism, and/or, invent new rendering paradigms that lead to new art styles, and compute with less overhead, have modest system requirements.
It isn’t impossible.
Look at MGS5, Titanfall 2.
Shit looks pretty good, its a decade old, from before all this modern graphical absurdity.
There has literally never been a better time to become an indie dev, make a small team.
No publisher, no marketing.
Just don’t overpromise, and don’t take people’s money untill you actually have a minimum viable product.
Godot is completely open source, and completely free, and quite capable as an engine.
No one is coming to save us, but ourselves, if we choose to.
Unreal 5 alone is responsible for a lot of A-AA games looking like utter shit, both standing still (dithering every-fucking-where) and in motion (enough ghosting to fill a cemetery)
Godot is fairly unkind to old hardware, unfortunately. Much preferable for people to just use SDL or something.
I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard anyone say Godot is fairly unkind to older hardware before.
Sure, yeah, if somebody is futzing around in 3D, in the Forward+ renderer, and has no idea what they are doing, yeah.
But… broadly?
How… old of hardware are you talking about?
Like, 15+ years old?
Also, SDL isn’t … a game engine.
Its… a rendering/input/output layer/library.
Sure, if you want to write your own game engine, you could use SDL… but… that’s a bit much to ask of a novice indie dev, who wants to complete a 3D game that’s maybe roughly as or more graphically advanced than say, Fallout New Vegas, in under what, 3, 4, 5 years?
I did try to use SDL, while it’s like the only library that gets controller support remotely useful (still not ideal, but at least it doesn’t still use DirectInput for everything), it still uses a lot of ancient API, that is only applicable for XP machines.
Also any good modern engines come with well integrated editors, that are like 80% of the reason why they’re popular. I’m making my own engine, and the hardest part is the editor.
Ok, so you are building your own engine, that makes a lot more sense, and you do realize that… the editor itself is actually quite substantial a task, to get everything coherent and also functional.
Honestly, best of luck to you!
No clue if you’ve seen these before, but maybe they could be helpful?
https://david-delassus.medium.com/trying-out-sdl3-by-writing-a-c-game-engine-c9bb13156b74
https://github.com/linkdd/sdl-game-engine
https://blog.conan.io/2023/07/20/introduction-to-game-dev-with-sdl2.html
My main issue currently are:
- rewriting the editor to be more usable (embeddable into projects),
- using Linux API for my own direct media layer iota in ways many did not expect, to add support for things like HD rumble (regular rumble will also use HIDRAW, because of how overcomplicated the evdev rumble is).
BTW, I’m in the process of stripping the D runtime out of iota, so it could join the ranks of SDL, SFML, GLFW, etc.
But anon isn’t happy, why would he say that if he didn’t think he would be happy? Is Anon retarded?
There are tons of great games you can play with old hardware. Relax and start half life 2
Where did it all go wrong?
When we stopped publicly executing politicians and millionaires (there were no billionaires yet at the time).
Elon Musk is on the path to become a trillionaire.
