Ugurcan
@Ugurcan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 6 days ago:
Well, first I’m not “that lot”, been using Windows since 1997 and will continue to do so because my line of work.
But, I think you can see what’s going on with Android over Google, where there’s not so much “versions” around.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 6 days ago:
Yesterday I’ve installed Bazzite (as a dual boot) for the first time. As a long time Windows user, Steam Deck convinced me lots of previous problems are solved now.
It’s the first ever I’ve installed a Linux Desktop distro willingly. And so far it’s working very, very smoothly even with my complex set of hardware.
WINDOWS USERS: Installling Bazzite is very, very easy. All you need is a some disk space, and a 16gb USB stick. You won’t lose any of your Windows data - even you don’t need to re-download any Steam game! Your Windows library will plug-in easily into Linux Steam.
Follow this guide and you’ll be grand: youtu.be/JxPsKhJGTrs
- Comment on How Do I Validate My Game Idea? (Please Help) 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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,
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Art of Game Design (Jesse Schell): It comes with a deck of cards which is very valuable for self-feedbacking.
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The Game Narrative Toolbox
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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.
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- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I won’t buy promises anymore, sorry.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 3 weeks 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 weeks 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. 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 months ago:
- 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.
- 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' 4 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 4 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 5 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. 5 months ago:
Talking of Moebius, go watch Scavengers Reign.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 5 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 5 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 6 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 7 months ago:
WEEO
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 8 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 9 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? 9 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? 9 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? 10 months ago:
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.
