(German) X4 GamesCom Demo

I think the voice actors overdo it with the "cool".
When everyone tries to act "overcool", then it feels pressed.
In GTA5 for example, the was a much larger range of personality in voice acting, making the characters more interesting, and giving more options to present them.

I wonder what the state of the economy simulation and ai-agents is currently.
Isnt that more fundamental to work on than optimizing UI code?

My money is one some clumsy research assistant dropping a vial of smallpox from an old stash.

If this thread makes Josh convert LT to a 64kb game, it would have been quite productive. Imagine that: a whole complex procedural space game in 64kb: that would get some media attention! For interest: here is the sourcecode of kkrieger (a 96kb game) by farbrausch https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_pu...

All take the RED PILL

MY PC BOOTS, HAS WINDOWS, AND HAS GAMES! Freaking finally! (Another happy customer) http://whereamiwearing.com/nfs/c04/h04/mnt/68177/domains/kelseytimmerman.com/html/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/India-call-center.jpg "Please plug in cable according to instruction, and press power button to turn on co...

and end up having the entire game run from a single 3 kilobyte file that contains everything. :ghost: 3 kb is quite a challange... Ive made a little 3D space flight sim once, with the ship chasing trough canyons and caves of different planets. But that was in 4kb. But a game with graphics like LT a...

The only problem: I dont see another way than using a nuclear heater to power the melt down. Anything powered electrically or mechanical would require a huge (mobile) platform. (cost) Might only be viable when humans can land there and operate the drill. But having a nuclear probe left behind is pro...

If the top is ice all the way through, they could build a rover with an drop-drone on a cable with a (radioactive decay) powered "melting-head". The cable needs to be heated too, to keep sliding down / or is released from the drone itself (probably easier). Sounds much more doable than a similar mis...

Blizzard sounds exciting.
I just hope you will have the chance to work on a variety of systems, and not just be locked to developing a very specific sub-component. (As it often happens in large dev-teams)

Heatmaps for a steering-algorithm style AI seems to be the right idea. Was stuck on how to make Agents work as a group last year, tried genetics with limited success (post-conquest diffusion broke it), have since considered Trust: a heatmap of who/where/what was involved with a successful outcome (...

Josh should make middleware, not another neverending gameproject. Node-programming, procedural asset generation, dynamic topography (maching cubes), texture generation, etc something of that kind, licensed to game companies or sold as plugins for 3D software or engines. ..or join a company that need...

In the 80s and 90s, TV and Horror movie VHS where the evil ones.

Before that it was Rock'n Roll.

Before that it was the Swing.

Games like XCOM and JaggeAlliance use an RNG that always behaves the same, unless an action was changed. It basically resets the seed. This was done to prevent people from just reloading and trying the exact same action again for a different result (like not missing a shot this time). There could be...