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100% agree, but this is ultimately a societal problem, not a technological one.

Even though I myself place some anti-AI features on my webpages, I don’t expect it to work indefinitely. It’s a cat and mouse game, same as adblocking or DRM, and the only way out of it is though spreading the message, something I don’t think is going to work anyway. The majority of people will always go the degenerate route, no matter the consequences.

I mean, it’s a bit lame but let’s face it, we all do it.

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By coding it?

There’s Arcane Cache. I only know about it because my game happened to get reviewed, though.

Well then sounds like you need to learn programming. Ain’t no game engine going to save you.

but I don’t know how I should follow a path in the multiple choice situation.

Could you be more specific? This doesn’t sound like an FMV problem.

If your choices are discrete and not too high in number then you can easily model the story as a tree of scenarios. I don’t know anything about your FMV game, but it could be as simple as assigning to each node a video to play.

Then you did it wrong. Neither Celebrity Hunter nor Cursed Overlord appear on the Popular page for me.

Those websites cache the images indefinitely. There’s nothing Itch can do about it.

You can try changing the URI minutely, like adding a useless query parameter or maybe a fragment (e.g. #asdf).

OpenGL itself isn’t supported on the web at all, so you can’t use it if you wish to run there. According to Emscripten, they support a “WebGL-friendly subset of OpenGL ES”, and they also try to emulate the unsupported features at a performance cost.

I don’t know anything about SDL3, but I know SDL2 supports Emscripten just fine, including its native 2D graphics engine. If it’s enough for you, then you can entirely ignore any OpenGL and let SDL handle it for you.

What Frontline Studios said is basically correct, although in practice it’s much more involved. Because none of us know what you mean by “messing it up”, only vague advice can be given.

Firstly, for performance reasons you want to divide your world into chunks of some size. It’s usually a power-of-two but it doesn’t matter too much. You should keep only chunks closest to the player loaded. That means when a player comes close enough to an unloaded chunk, that is when you load it. Same thing for the opposite.

The way you generate your chunk usually relies on a whole bunch of noise functions that’s mixed together, but you should be able to get something recognizable with a single Perlin noise. After that, you come up with the logic yourself. Water is always generated at a height level <= 0; if you generate a dirt block and there’s air above it, then it’s actually grass, etc.

Structures that spawn across chunk boundaries are a different topic.

The guy’s sole purpose of existence seems to be giving his two cents on literally every single topic on the Itch forum, no matter how little he knows of it. Don’t take his words to heart.

I do this method and it certainly works.. until you inevitably get stuck in all of your projects, and your depression is proportionally as intense.

There is a minority of Christian developers here, yes. You can find other threads about them.

I mean, all you’ve said is correct and all, but knowing the average person on here, I think you’re sort of speaking to a brick wall.

I suggest we just let Itch die.

They can’t sue for use of the original weapon shapes, forms & colors, but they probably can sue for use of their 3D models and textures used in their video games, which is what you would actually be deriving from.

You would be using CoD’s assets, which would make it a derivative work.

Whether that can be proven in court is a different matter.

That’s PyInstaller’s own code being caught by Windows. It happens even with a Hello World.

If you go to a specific version download (e.g. 3.12.4) one of the download options is called “Windows embeddable package”.

That’s a normal, vanilla Python installation, in which you’ll have to install all the necessary modules again, but after that, you can insert your own code and distribute that.

No, that’s the point of PyInstaller.

HOWEVER, PyInstaller programs are considered viruses by Windows’s builtin antivirus, and you basically have to report a false positive for each version you publish. The maintainers have practically given up on the problem.

If I were to make an easy-to-use Python program, I’d just redistribute the “embeddable Python package” you can download from the official website, along with your source code.

I cannot show you A* pathfinding with Tensorflow because that’s got nothing to do with it. Look it up.

Is this not just a pathfinding problem? Discretize your world into tiles, slap on A*, where the cost function depends on distances to buildings/turrets/anything unwanted by your enemies.

A custom website addresses most of your complaints:

• You may post at your own pace. People subscribed to your website may get notifications via e-mail, RSS, or whatever modern way the kids use now.
• The website is about you, so nobody may drown you out.
• Your site, your algorithm, if any at all.
• This is really a you problem, not the platform’s. You’ll always find something to trip and get depressed over, e.g. low hits in your analytics.

It needs more effort in marketing, but it’s not like platforms like Itch and Facebook do that for free, either.

To answer your questions,

1. Most of the time, tech and programming-related things, but really whatever I feel like.
2. Hobbyist.
3. I do run a tangentially-related Discord guild, so the overlapping demographic helps, but the guild itself isn’t centered on me so I try not to spam it.
4. The only external website I ever advertise at is Reddit, but results are always mixed, and I don’t really try that hard, anyway.

My analytics on Itch are satisfactory for me, with a mean of a hundred 7D impressions, with CTR bouncing between 0 and 4%.

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The machine is fine. UE5 is trash.

Because you’re lying about the true price of the product.

If you publicly set a price, just to let yourself yell “100% SALE” at all times, that is deceptive pricing.

That’s illegal.

Added an appendix.

Amen to that. Better to get no answers at all than ones like those.

Where do you think it’d fit best? I’m thinking to put it at the paragraph right before the appendices. Not sure on adding a new appendix for the only one document on ARB there is.

No license implies “All rights reserved” in pretty much all jurisdictions, unless Itch’s ToS overrides it, which I don’t think it does.

I would say it is not practical to have two separate worlds, because they will inevitably desynchronize over time as numerical errors add up.

On the other hand, it is completely normal to switch between views of the same world, and have different control schemes for each.

I have no idea what you mean. There are games that switch between 2D and 3D, but they’re still 3D internally. Sonic Colors, for one. I think the Super Mario Galaxy series also does that from time to time.

You don’t create games on Itch. You just upload them.

10 year-olds means ten 1-year olds.

My point stands. Your vision is to basically destroy the usefulness of the tag system, by muddying things together. I, OTOH, don’t assume people are stupid.

Neither gorillas or chimps or orangutans are equal, nor are femdom and dominatrix, nor hide and hide & seek. Stripping hyphens also leads to potentially different meanings: 10-year olds vs 10 year-olds, man eating vs man-eating, big-ass vs big ass, etc.

This is a slippery slope if implemented automatically and continuously, and the above are already signs.

No, I am saying tell them to install SDL2 themselves. I would never ignore the 0.01 percent :).

Your particular example is tricky, because from what I remember, either apt or the Debian repos hate having both 32-bit and 64-bit SDL2 installed at once, so I would make SDL2 an exception.

I switched away from SDL2, though, partly for this reason, and now use either GLFW + OpenGL or just GDI directly.

I see no reason to tell people what packages they need to install. They, as the users of their respective system, ought to know that better than I do.

I also haven’t had many problems with distributing basic Linux executables that load dynamic libraries. By far the worst thing to deal with is glibc’s versioned symbols, but there are ways around it.

Alright, there’s now left shift to sprint (the save.xml save file can be transferred without issues).

Not to mention cheating potential

Your first mistake was in looking for an engine.

Game development is programming, not a battle of game engines.