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  3. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    Thanks so much for your well considered response. Your final sentence sums things up perfectly. I agree.

    Thanks so much for your well considered response. Your final sentence sums things up perfectly. I agree.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    What are you pushing back on? I'm not sure. Hopefully you don't think crowdsourcing a witch hunt is cool. The point is you don't know, and may never know, the reality. Any version of events you...

    What are you pushing back on? I'm not sure. Hopefully you don't think crowdsourcing a witch hunt is cool.

    The point is you don't know, and may never know, the reality. Any version of events you fabricate without knowing details for certain can only be less true than the version the developer offers, which may be nothing. So your version of events could be worth less than nothing. Which is quite something.

    I appreciate your goal/crusade, hopefully you get the facts you are looking for. Sadly I don't think it's realistic to expect everybody else to approach this exactly the way you would like them to.

    11 votes

  5. Comment on What is your dream game? in ~games

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    I'd love an MMO open world Pilotwings.

    I'd love an MMO open world Pilotwings.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    Thanks for the clarification. Personally, I see the discussion as front loaded so it can only really go one way. You've already made up your mind. From my perspective, I'm a developer that has had...
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    Thanks for the clarification. Personally, I see the discussion as front loaded so it can only really go one way. You've already made up your mind.

    From my perspective, I'm a developer that has had similar, unfounded accusations directed my way. The most recent one, I had to resort to legal action. It's such a huge distraction from the act of making games, which is what I love to do every day.

    All this to say that there is more than discussion at stake. There is the reputation and livlihood of developers of games you are enjoying. Based on a feeling.

    20 votes

  7. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    Crowdsourcing a witch hunt is... not cool. Either trust the developer and play, or don't and move on. That should be the end of it. It could be that you never know, and that's OK. Everything else...

    Crowdsourcing a witch hunt is... not cool. Either trust the developer and play, or don't and move on. That should be the end of it. It could be that you never know, and that's OK. Everything else is supposition, imagination, guesswork, defamation, harassment. Be excellent to each other.

    32 votes

  8. Comment on How mods changed video games forever in ~games

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    My first thought was forum/reddit/etc Moderators. Lol

    My first thought was forum/reddit/etc Moderators. Lol

  9. Comment on Wikipedia's list of the best video games: how many have you played, and what's missing? in ~games

  10. Comment on Wikipedia's list of the best video games: how many have you played, and what's missing? in ~games

    gingerbeardman
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    MaBoShi (Wii & DS) Bubble Bobble (Arcade) Pang (DS) Kururin Paradise (GBA) Flicky (Arcade) That's how I'm feeling today!
    • MaBoShi (Wii & DS)
    • Bubble Bobble (Arcade)
    • Pang (DS)
    • Kururin Paradise (GBA)
    • Flicky (Arcade)

    That's how I'm feeling today!

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Wikipedia's list of the best video games: how many have you played, and what's missing? in ~games

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    Bubble Bobble is such a perfect recipe. So much going on yet all perfectly balanced. Still one of my all time top 5 greats. Don't make me list them!

    Bubble Bobble is such a perfect recipe. So much going on yet all perfectly balanced. Still one of my all time top 5 greats. Don't make me list them!

    3 votes

  12. Comment on WipEout 3: Special Edition at 100 FPS in ~games

  14. Comment on IKEA Kallax “Storageborn” in ~games

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    Madness of the best kind.

    Madness of the best kind.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative

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    Great work as always! The only thing I'd like to see is long press the screen to fast forward the ball flight.

    Great work as always! The only thing I'd like to see is long press the screen to fast forward the ball flight.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    The tools were less sophisticated but still quite capable. I loved using Fontographer, it was such well considered software. The rules of type design were exactly the same, as they had been for...

    The tools were less sophisticated but still quite capable. I loved using Fontographer, it was such well considered software. The rules of type design were exactly the same, as they had been for many years prior.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    I'm puzzled... there is no free version of my app Dottie. And it's on the Mac App Store so payment is via Apple not Google. Might you have tried a different app? Edit: ah, somebody has released a...

    I'm puzzled... there is no free version of my app Dottie. And it's on the Mac App Store so payment is via Apple not Google. Might you have tried a different app?

    Edit: ah, somebody has released a pixel art app called Dottie on Android. That's going to be confusing.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    I designed a font back in 1997 using Fontographer (version 4.1) and got a cease and desist from The Designers Republic because they thought my font was similar to their font 6x6T, even though my...

    I designed a font back in 1997 using Fontographer (version 4.1) and got a cease and desist from The Designers Republic because they thought my font was similar to their font 6x6T, even though my font was a from scratch design on a 7×7 grid. I was young and naïve, and the font was already widely distributed on the internet, so nothing happened. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/1997/06/17/cease-and-desist-the-designers-republic/

    These days, for such a font you could do it in an hour using the FontStruct website. Or using Bits'n'Picas app. Or even my own pixel art app Dottie.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

    gingerbeardman
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    Once you've finished it, there's the even better sequel Kururin Paradise on GBA (which adds some new controls) and Kururin Squash! on GC (which really needs to be played with a real GC controller...

    Once you've finished it, there's the even better sequel Kururin Paradise on GBA (which adds some new controls) and Kururin Squash! on GC (which really needs to be played with a real GC controller as the physical hexagon direction guide makes movement easier).

    1 vote