When present-you is done with past-you's bullshit.
Past-me be like "well it's LOGICAL the options are lower-case here right? I mean you wouldn't want case differences to matter in persistence right? So really this was correct right?
Present-me be like "FUCK. YOU. I GENERATE THIS DEFAULT FROM AN ENUM. WHICH IS CASED. YOU IGNORANT FUCK. SO OF COURSE MY DEFAULTS SHOULD MATCH THE STRINGS BEING FED INTO THE SYSTEM."
(to be clear I realize I am a muppet for feeling this way but FUCK IT I AM DONE)
Anyways past-me can eat my entire ass, because present me has WORKING CREATE-A-BIRB, yoooooooooo
It's really, really satisfying to tie all this together. This of course existed before! As... arguments in Unity Inspector, that relied entirely on knowledge of the prefab names. Now it's localized strings and nice wrap-around slider buttons and it saves and
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They have a tiny, tiiiiny bit of the Big sound that Devy has. Not the same thing at all, but absolutely nobody sounds like Devy, so honestly even a little bit of that is fantastic!
Yeah! It's that Evanescence vibe that makes this really cool. Not sure what to properly call it genre wise (I'm not willing to call this Screemo), but it's there and cool.
I have learned Cursed #UnrealEngine knowledge and must pass it on:
UE4 has a kind of Cursed Reflection, in the form of the "ke" console command. They let you call an arbitrary event on an arbitrary actor, by string-name.
So! The statement that deals have gotten worse, with pubs asking for 50% after 100% recoup, is quite accurate.
The counter of "but they give you tons of money!" is also off-base, because
lately they don't take concept pitches either!
So the deal isn't "we give you tons of money, but want all the profits."
The deal is: "we want you to come to us after investing hundreds of thousands of your own dollars. If we like it, we'll give you enough to finish it, and then also never let you earn back your own money"
The deals are predatory, and that so much of the industry is moving this way should absolutely be called out.
It doesn't help that all the budgets are being dragged upwards (by the same pubs), so they'll go "oh but no we NEED a million in marketing funds to stay competitive!"
This is WILD. I don't think folks are as excited about this as they should be.
It's a sea change for how to make 3D platforming/action games more accessible. This generalizes in so many ways, if you start designing from the idea that perspective dictates reality.
This is coyote time for 2022. It's the same idea, extrapolating intent that diverges from physical reality, but applied to perspective. It looks like it should work, so it does.
Will this make 3D platforming/action games easier in an easily exploitable way? Of course.
Does that matter? Come on. There's clearly an audience for harder games in the space (Hat In Time), but Banjoe Kazooie wasn't really about perfectly timed and aimed melee attacks.
Utterly shocked at how extensive our SkateBIRD credits are on Mobygames. I really hope they found the credits.txt I left for them in the game files (or at least I think I did), cus hand-transcribing all these from the scroll would have been hell D: mobygames.com/game/windows/s…
They actually found the right account to link to for @PartlyAtomic.
Even I didn't know that! (and I still won't list it, cus I just list what folks want, so I don't accidentally unmask anybody)
Speaking of, if you DO see your credit in here in a too-accurate way? You gotta contact them, I don't control these, sorry. But if you need help yelling at 'em just let me know.
(but try to be kind, it at least used to be 100% volunteers, just folks doing their best)