As someone who has been using the relatively recent advent of effective offline-only LLMs as an opportunity to finally learn how modern software engineers use the tech for coding, the strangest concept is that somehow using the maximum possible amount of tokens is considered optimal

Out now? Out now. Genre defining sandbox? Yeah we got that.

Great time to pick up Dropshot on PlayStation

it's crazy to me how much of an influence i had with marvel vs capcom infinite & beyond. people are still playing that a year and a half after its release, and over 2 years after i started working on it! wild to me that something i started took off this much

@merriam-webster.com I tried to leave feedback on your website but automated security is preventing me from sending it. Do you have a support email I could reach out to?

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

A little over 12 hours 🤯

Skipped the Direct because I can't afford the console, much less the games. Had an unpleasant call, too. Watched half of the new ep of Wistoria. Feeling a lot better now. I'll save the other half

Given that shmups are a dead genre, it's unfortunate that a thriving, popular new genre is taking up nearly all of what little space there is that rightly should go to shmups.

Duppy Detective Tashia is out now on Steam! Help Tashia crack the case - in this Short, Sweet, Spooky, Narrative Mystery game based on Caribbean Folklore! 🔍Gather Clues 👻Meet the Suspects 🎶Bop to the Music store.steampowered.com/app/1958800/...

I adapted the Automatic candidates feature for my game after seeing it on the NYT sudoku, but using it got me to solve an 8x8 in under 20 mins when not using it took me over 30 mins to solve a 7x7. Maybe too easy, but I guess I'll leave it up to players.

Beatdown City Survivors is out June 10th! It's currently sitting at the top of Popular Upcoming in the Bullet Fest. Run those wishlists up! store.steampowered.com/app/3383040/...

I had the bright idea of modifying these two extensions my offline LLM uses: one for iterating on a long todo list until it's done, another that conducts an interview to basically pre-decide on how and what the LLM does for implementing a feature.

The news about Crazy Taxi and Tomb Raider hurts to see. In the game industry, everyone is using a PC that can more than handle running its own local LLM. For coding, to me, it feels totally valid. Instead, we have dev teams using cloud LLMs to generate AI slop assets to use in their games.

Jamaicans launching games back to back weeks?! Y'all weren't prepared 🇯🇲😎😌 Duppy Detective Tashia 👻 launches June 8th, and Ourlands 🌴 is out NOW! Happy Summer Games SZN!

Been laughing at this for 45 minutes straight

Just pushed update V9. My game is now feature complete. All that's left is music, sfx, and menuing haptics. After that's done, it'll be out of early access, likely within the next week. The demo will follow. Also, I'm approved for Steam!

My understanding of this "agentic engineering" stuff grows by leaps and bounds. I've been running the whole gamut. But I think I have it down pat now. Before, I would type the feature I want into a prompt. Then whatever decisions I left out are randomly picked by the model.

It took less than 10 minutes to pregenerate all of my game's puzzles, after I tripled the limit from 100 of each size to 300. 2100 puzzles total, which is not bad when you consider that a 6x6 takes 15+ minutes, and it goes up to 9x9.

All this time, I've seen certain visible software engineers have egg on their face talking about how the genAI is sentient, on some foolishness, but it is right now, at this moment, that I understand where they're coming from.

I did chores while my computer iterated on the puzzle pregeneration system. It took about 20 minutes. There were 2 minor syntax errors I got it to fix. When I ran it, I noticed that the UI didn't match the spec I gave it.

Surprise! This evening we shadow dropped 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces into Early Access. It's a big swing for us. It brings online multiplayer to the Tight Spaces world for the first time, and it's our first self-published title since SkyScrappers! And it's boss! store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...

This stuff is so cool. I just had a fairly technical "interview" with my computer about how it's gonna implement the next feature I asked for. This new method solves the problem I've had all along: any detail left out is a decision made at random by the model.

Kind of Gundam

Something really cool about my experiments with game dev using a local LLM for code is that, despite using the same model, the quality of what it does has been skyrocketing because I've learned more about how folks use these models effectively.

The main issue I've been running into as I've used a local LLM for coding is that every space where this kind of thing is discussed is full of AI-brained people. This youtuber just shared an anecdote about someone using an agent extension to write a eulogy for his own mother. wtf?!

Had a feeling of dread when the file manager app on my steam deck was freezing up whenever I tried to open a folder on my 1tb microsd card. So I started backing it up to my secondary card. 1 hour left but it feels satisfying to know that I won't have to worry about my save files and setup anymore.

I noticed a bug in my game last night. Explained what was happening and what I wanted to happen to my local offline LLM. 3 attempts, no fix. Pushed it off til today. I asked it to explain the code flow. It broke down the flow into 12 steps.

After some Steam Deck testing, I'm realizing that my game's unique calculator is kinda annoying when it's time to divide a target cage value to come up with other ideas to use to try to fill a cage. Maybe I should have a button that toggles it between cage calculation and being a regular calculator

Spent all day fixing bugs created due to automated overnight offline LLM vibe coding. I think I just fixed the last bug. But instead of rushing to push the new build, I'm gonna play some more to make sure nothing is missed. The game now has full gamepad support, so I'll test it on my Steam Deck!

This sequence made me emotional. The future of #VirtuaFighter looks bright. Hit me up if you're looking to learn VF5 or connect with the community in the meantime.

Virtua Fighters Crossroads - writing team includes David Hayter, Brad Kane, Tsuyoshi Furuta, Shinji Yamamoto. The team will work on the narrative for the game More from the showcase: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fbs...

I have to admit I flew too close to the sun here. There are a lot of bugs. I don't think this is an ideal tactic for game development. It would take longer but doing this one at a time would've made it a lot more manageable to fix the bugs. But I'm gonna press on instead of reverting the build

I just had a thought. Assuming these systems are using your email address as the unchanging thing that makes the AI shortcut your points evaluation or whatever instead of reading whatever changes you made to your resume, would dropping or adding a dot to a gmail address be enough to fool them?

I had to fight back tears watching this 2-minute tiktok clip. At a certain point in my life, I realized it had been more than a full year since I last got a human response to a job application without the involvement of someone who knew the hiring manager. We really can't win. I really can't win.

TLDR: Work by Sara Bana and co-authors finds that a handful of AI hiring platforms can define the job market trajectory of thousands of candidates because they don't update resume scores. Let those platforms be biased, and guess who bears the brunt? Black and Asian people.

TIFA!

LAO SHAN LUNG!

I don't know how to explain how hot and cold I feel about these SGF reveals, but if it's a series I care about, I'm excited to see it look good because I have confidence in the game design, but if it's not, then I assume they're leaning into graphics because they don't have much else.

You can't drop F-bombs in a T-rated game. VF 6 about to be rated M with a bomb-ass brawler story mode wtf?!

Nintendo rejected my dev portal access request. Welp

I really miss that decade, decade and a half or so when "based" was said exclusively by Lil B fans

I gave it 50 iterations of up to 10 minutes each to get 37 tasks done. It concatenated the work into 13 iterations and finished in about an hour. Some stuff is off. An icon replacement too big, pause menu colors wonky. Buggy overall. But god damn.

Aight. Now that I had one mostly-successful attempt at a Ralph Wiggum agentic coding loop with my local offline LLM, I decided to see what would happen if I gave it the entire coding todo list. 37 tasks, 50 iterations max. Let's see what I wake up to tomorrow! I'm coding in my sleep! Lmao!

Block or mute me if I am bothering you so much

There's a C++ documentary out now, and it is entertaining as hell. Must-watch for any software engineer or gamedev Or even moderately-technical folk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7t...

It finished in about an hour. I had to add some config info to the project manually, and then it was reversing the x axis, plus a few other bugs, but... it did enough that it'll probably take just a few more minutes to get the feature done enough for early access for now. I'm kinda shocked.

Okay. I've tried a couple different Ralph Wiggum plugins. Gonna actually stress test one right now for the next few hours. If it works out, it'll add a whole feature to my game without my having to step in at all. I broke it down into 23 steps, but it has 30 10-minute iterations to get it all done.

I hope I'm able to get a dev Steam Frame unit, because I am quite serious about having VR support in my little puzzle game. But I think I'll carve some money out for one if they don't get to my application before these go on sale.