controversial statement; this has far less to do with engine tech and for more to do with what skills are more easily trainable in a broad population. Technical parameterized realism is one of the easiest things to systematize so the labor market for realism is much deeper with lots of documentation
✨️ finally officially announcing my first game ✨️
WATERFUL: a peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through desert valleys
🏜️ make tiny ecosystems blossom!
🌴 grow a variety of plants
🦊 discover animals in the new habitats
⚙️ unlock contraptions to reach new areas
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so I've been looking at my finances, and all my income sources have plummeted
I'm gonna have to shift my focus away from #half-edge and giving talks, because unfortunately they're huge money sinks I can't afford
if you can, I'd appreciate your support, especially now ❤️
www.patreon.com/c/acegikmo
Justin Oaksford (Play Spirit Crossing on steam!)
Extase, Cryo Interactive, Commodore Amiga (1990)
A French concept album video game from developers already well known for them. Compete with a rival player to send electrical impulses to the mind of an android going through a cycle of awakening, all while shaping the soundtrack playing.
I feel this viscerally
cool paper arguing LLMs can be implemented as a shitload of goats in Age of Empires II... thus it'd be silly to assume / project human-like consciousness onto it
my one big takeaway from this years pile of Showcases is that Unreal Engine 5 has co-opted or sort of, I dare say, polluted the visual language of games, where nothing stands out
theres a kind of mediocrity that comes with being "photorealistic I guess". PBR substance everywhere, but not distinct
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hey everyone, i've got a new narrated video! you know stock music? the stuff you hear in cheesy old instructional videos and such? it's good actually. however...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pFb...
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"On social media, Japanese users have begun sharing the hashtag #推しエスニックといつまでも —roughly, “may my favorite ethnic restaurant stay with us forever”—alongside a petition (...). The phrase is affectionate, even playful. But beneath it lies a serious anxiety".
Even in the '70s, the Takahata–Miyazaki style of pacing was unorthodox. The way they slowed down to focus on tangible details made the anime industry nervous.
It went against the accepted wisdom. But it really can work, as we explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/slow-stori...
This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures.
It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
my Z.O.E shrine
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Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)
Hideo Kojima Says He's No Longer Interested In AI https://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-says-hes-not-interested-in-ai-maybe-ai-could-create-art-but-while-i-live-i-dont-think-ill-see-it-2000703473
Animation Obsessive
Matthew Sheffield
The Death Stranding 2 directly recently appeared in an AI-generated promo for a new art exhibit
