Ugurcan

@Ugurcan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do I Validate My Game Idea? (Please Help)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So how did your experience is going with lenses? Do they help you with self-diagnosing so far?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do I Validate My Game Idea? (Please Help)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well…

  One thing is you can’t know if a ‘game idea’ is a good one before battle test it.

  On one hand it’s similar to writing a book or shooting a movie. Sometimes most mundane narratives have something that ‘clicks’, making it a hit. And sometimes most interesting ones have bad execution, to become instant failures.

  On the other hand, of course there are some understanding about ‘what is entertaining’ and ‘how to make things fun’. There are lots of discovered rules, tropes, approaches that worked so far. Like, Game of Thrones books always meant to be a cash cow TV series, and you see traces of almost all the rules that makes a book a good TV material. So there are many sources about narrative and game design that can guide you through your journey.

  Of course the concepts discussed in these sources aren’t definitive and open to interpretation. But they helped me dearly exploring ideas and increase the value of gamers experiences.

  Some I can recommend are,

  • Art of Game Design (Jesse Schell): It comes with a deck of cards which is very valuable for self-feedbacking.

  • The Game Narrative Toolbox

  • How Games Move Us

  So one thing I must press here, is that there’s no relation between how ‘good’ your game is and how much it sells. One giant problem the industry’s passing through is ‘discoverability’

  I offer some professional services about how to reach out to your niche. DM me if you’re interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent?.. Well, your experience might be different but I just checked, even though I clocked way more at BL3, I don’t remember an inch about it. I remember lots of details and fun moments about BL1 and BL2 though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t buy promises anymore, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have Hot Seat either. I instantly refunded when I realized that. How the hell a Civ game have multiplayer but not hot seat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The peak of my career also was definitely when we crashed Steam for a few hours during our EA launch - even though the Steam devs were prepared.

  I’m also really happy that Silksong is getting so much love from players. The team behind it truly seems to deserve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I blew the whistle on workplace abuses at ZA/UM. In return, ZA/UM tried to defame me.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ZA/UM’s toxicity really on par with the Detective’s worst behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™: The Order of Giants - Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a surprisingly decent game which kept up its quality until the end. Devs could able to capture Indiana Jones feeling all around. I’m sure DLC would be fine again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep your hopes down. The project has been restarted 4 times and lastly handed over to a small studio in a turmoil with no experience in the genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re not asking for Linux support, but custom dedicated server support?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux users are no users if a game is brimming with cheaters. Who the fuck plays a competitive multiplayer game full of cheaters only because it runs on Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This, on the other hand, is pretty controversial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They finally patched racism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still can’t get over Varg chosen us, the Turkish people as his blood brothers like 10 years ago.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard there’s this Anna, keeping an archive of those horrible books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s right. Still, it could take more than 6 months to make it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europa Universalis V: Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roads to Power DLC is so WHAT THE FUCK completely different game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT all games dancing around Bannerlord but no one recommended it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synergy, a post apocalyptic town builder with a distinct art style inspired by Jean Giraud (Moebius) released on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking of Moebius, go watch Scavengers Reign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty stoked with Bannerlord’s next expansion, War Sails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huginn is a self-hosted, open-source alternative to IFTTT and Zapier⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. I tried Huginn like 4 times but it’s always easier to write my own python code instead. N8N really saved the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's first bit of DLC is all about taking the lads out on a not-so-nice boat trip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LET’S GOOOOOO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there audio AI that cleans up audio?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually they’ve been here for a very long time.

  DeBird is the oldest commercial ML/Audio product I know. It’s around simce 2017.

  Accentize plugins are the commercial ones.

  Also there’s a Waves one.

  Nvidia’s RTX Voice can do it in real time since 2020.

  And lastly on the open-source end, there’s Intel’s OpenVino for Audacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WEEO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to make your decesion⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it might just be we have a lot to talk if she’s not fixated on only Creep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that’s way more than Bannerlord’s first big patch, which arrived with almost the same filesize with the release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t argue with streaming services go fuck themselves but music industry’s not being in a good place also deeply related with there are shit megaton quadrillion musicians spawning everyday now.

  Making music got easier by decade and it’s around 500$ to have all kinds of tech and instruments better than what Radiohead used in Kid A, and it’s way more accessible to access to learning resources.

  Music related spending (vinyls, merch, tickets) skyrocketed compared to 80s or 90s as well, but it’s also split between 100 million artists, and not 100.000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since Syria goverment has fallen, do we have any inkling of what will replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HTS is currently pledged to Syrian Salvation Government, which is basically the opposition government in exile (operating from Istanbul), governing NW Syria (4 mil pop) from the back seat for the last 10 years. HTS is just acting as its main but not only militia organization, and Jolani said HTS will oversee the Syrian state’s transition to SSG.

  We’ll hear the names of Mohammed al-Bashir and Mustafa al-Mousa in the coming days.

  HTS mostly consists of militants splintered off from Al Qaeda and ISIS, and waged war against them. Apparently they gave up “Salafist” terrorism to turn into a Syrian Nationalist movement instead. Jolani sounded more secular than I was expecting, so let’s hope the new western backed puppet state brings some peace to Syrians after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Deck sold well but there are billions of Steam users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafia: The Old Country will offer voice acting in Sicilian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sophia Petrillo will be exhilarated.