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Just found out about this. Hell yeah!

The point was more like, hey get that bag lol. Job market sucks right now. Lots like to hand waive that they would turn down an AI job if they had an offer. Others saying they would take any job AI or not. But not many actually have had the opportunity to do either. All I'm trying to say is its better to have no job than none.

It's undeniably good that any money you take from a job and put in the local gamedev scene is better than someone else putting in the s&p500. Plus some extrapolation for like, if you have the knowledge to swing a tech meetup, you should even if it's AI branded. You never know when you'll meet a dude with a fat salary that wants to bankroll his dream game.

For your other question, AI is low key not helpful at all haha. Self interviews are good to jog the brain, and occasionally it'll connect an A and B that you didn't expect. Otherwise, it never writes something that matches my voice at all and it'll often context rot itself out of new ideas. I actively have to very closely monitor the inputs and rewrite the outputs for anything useful. The thing above is all text by me.

Thank you for reading and taking the time to reply. It means a lot to me genuinely.

Thank you for the response. I definitely didn't mean to say that impoverished should "just make a better ai" or that those pushed out of a job by AI should accept a fraction of what they had before it was taken.

My feelings are more like, it's hard to type hence why I did a poor job in my 8 hour thingy above haha. I'll try my best. If I had more time I'd write a shorter letter blah blah and all that.

My first beef is the strawmanning that happens in anti-ai crowds. There's loads of good reasons to hate AI. I think even the same reasons progressives say to hate AI are the reasons to hate it. But the "head in the sand" method that's really popular is just not a convincing way to do it.

GenAI as a term falls flat. All AI is genai. It's all guesstimations of what's next based on the input. Text to code is just that. Agents are the automation of copy-pasting chat interfaces into your terminal. Image generation is looped de-noising until an image looks technically in the ball park. Model generation is literally text to image to voxel de-noising to voxel to mesh de-noising to topography optimization algorithms all glued together with a side of text to image gen for textures.

(Shout-out the marketing based argument too. Customers don't wanna buy this stuff, so it wont sell, so any cost savings are moot. Gamers have our backs for now)

The further away you get from utilitarian use and proper codified verification of outputs, the worse of a use this stuff is. But instead, all the san fran weirdos are convinced that AI is a marketing problem because "the people just don't understand it". I think people are smart, but the lack of proper debate (ew debate but ykwim, talking on the same language) is causing both sides to strawman (and I believe progressive have a really strong side).

This is so long, my part 2 is just, lots of people use AI in inoffensive ways in their jobs. Generating emails and summarizing emails etc. It would be cool to not shout them out of art spaces and instead let them take money from those jobs and spend on us. That's it.

Thank you for both reading and taking the time to respond. It means a lot to me as someone who doesn't ever get attention on the internet heh.

Very nice, as always :)

Omg! Thank you sooo much for this!!

Thanks!  We and the team are super proud of it!

Thank you everyone who donated to the Palestinian Relief Bundle and ended up here! If you have any questions or comments the team is here to see them 😊

Thanks :p It seems like when you exit a minigame vram usage goes up, so you could use task manager to check if that's happening or not. I'm guessing some kind of overworld shader is getting remade and the old isn't deleted.

Does your laptop use integrated graphics? iirc igpus use regular ram and so you wont ever get an out of memory crash. It'll try and pagefile old stuff and keep going.

Popup box after playing one too many minigames. Causes the game to crash. Windows

Whoops. Happy you found it and had fun anyway!

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Thanks! That's a fair point. We've heard from other players they feel the same way.

Yeah! I think it's really fun when it looks like Plop is rolling them around haha

Thank you! We had a lot of fun making it :)

I'm not sure what's going on but I spent all the money and there's a lot of dudes on screen

I came, I jumped, I died many times before realizing you can jump mid air

Super cool !!! I HAVE to know what shaders you used for this!

Pretty cool. Needs a reference to the scariest virus of them all, the terminal window that shows up for half a second and closes itself haha.

Interesting game. I think it could go one of two ways.

For a more fun game, action would work better for the fantasy game. Then its like you run around and shoot things and need to find a safe places to respond to emails. Lots of humor on the work side with fuming bosses getting impatient lol.

For a more artsy game, I think there's clear ways the real world sets you up for failure mechanically that could be used. The work could be easy but if you do it promptly, all you get is meaningless praise and more work until it's naturally too much. The fantasy game could have gatcha with a lot of duplicates and grinding mechanics that go nowhere. Maybe even money you get from work you can funnel into the game with no real benefit. What would the ending be? Not sure. Hopefully some sort of realization that without a fun game (or hobbies, dreams, passions), work is meaningless.

 Just some random thoughts. Cool idea!

So cool. Super fun once I got the hang of swapping in time.

I don't have a numpad so the numbers are pretty tricky lol

I beat it! It's kinda fun having to think twice as much ahead as you do compared to regular chess

Super cute. I really liked the CRT shader

Haha, I thought it was funny

I am the most unfair boss fight ever. Most games with summons have you dodging attacks, but I really liked the dynamic of instead baiting "heroes" into my minions instead.

Super cute! Very filled out. I ended up getting a string of recipes with ingredients I didn't have though.

Has potential to be very artsy. I ended up roleplaying as a broken printer. Can't be a cog in the system if all you do is grind your teeth

super cute clean game!

Setup is pretty cool! I couldn't figure out how to go to the next level though

Humor shines through. Fun to play. Winner for sure

Cute! I didn't get it was supposed to be mash spacebar but I figured it out

I love it. Fantastic for a first game

Seems straight forward but super hard in practice. My brain is chugging real hard to get everything in juuuuust in the right place haha.

Everybody gangster till the dirt block starts movin. Haha. I really like the idea and art. The "player" moves slow but the timing to get to place in time is still really tight. Fun to play once you pull it off though!

Holy shaders haha. I love the aesthetic.

Cute game! Jumping out of the water is so fun I wish there was a reason to do it more!

My man wheels really tried to do me dirty. I think if the monsters were more dynamic it would've done a whole other level for the horror element. The 1 bit color scheme just screams for them to crawl out from the sides of the room randomly rather than spawning in statically. I also got a bit lost since the newest area unlocked isn't necessary where the next meetup for wheels is. Other than that great game!

Got a soft spot for vector graphics. Nice work

Very concise and cute experience! A lot of people went abstract rather than literal with the theme this year so I give it a pass. Great first game!