I'm creating a discord server, Responsible Fun, for those who are working or interested in working in the betting and gaming industry (gambling). Still in its infancy (empty) but happy to have a chat there if you are interested. I have more than 10 years working in the industry so happy to share insights as well. Add suggestions to the suggestions channel https://discord.gg/c5gAZBmk #betting #igaming #gambling

... 35 years later, and I'm still in awe of what the achieved, back then. :)

This is *how* they did it! :)

https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-beast/

#gamedev #amiga #retrocomputing

How do you analyze reviews from players? I know that steam has analytics but it won't give you the insights from a review. What is this review talking about for example. Is it performance issues? Is it graphics? multiplayer? How do you know what to improve. Do you read each review one by one? #game #analytics

Happy 30th birthday to Doom!

So lets celebrate all the random crap we've managed to get it running on.

Top picks include:
1. A pregnancy test
2. A calculator powered by old potatoes
3. An ATM (cashpoint)

Truly testaments to human ingenuity!

Here's to another 30 years of porting doom to everything under the sun🥂

#DOOM

@jzillw there is always https://o3de.org/

TIL: you can have multiple email accounts in gmail if you use the "+" symbol so you don't need multiple gmail accounts. for example, emailname+gaming@gmail.com, emailname+payments@gmail.com #gmail #tip

If you use Unreal Engine for game development, what are the top 5 features or improvements you would like to see added to the engine? #unreal #engine

Everyone gots this syndrom

#gamedev

As I continue a months long exploration of the LLMs, my opinion hasn't changed much. High quality human content is king.

You can do lots of productive things with GPT et al, and as long as you verify their work they are great resources, but if you want to write something - write it.

After some forays into AI a lot of companies are now circling back to the importance of copywriters. Don't let the hype get you down. Write.

#amWriting #writingcommunity #AI #chatgpt

Holy _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.

You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.

You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a few lines of python and a novel application of _gzip_.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

this is fun https://apes.io #fortnite #clone #fps

@aras FYI https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-tootroot-bug-lets-attackers-hijack-mastodon-servers/

From a city councillor in #Toronto and a reminder why government shouldn't abdicate the town square to unaccountable private apps like #Facebook, #Twitter, or #Threads.

Governments host their own email; they can now host their own social media.

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”—Arthur C. Clarke

@jake4480 I like grunge metal like when playing with my Necro listening to Them bones from Alice in chains

This is very cool. AI generated QR codes as works of art https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/redditor-creates-working-anime-qr-codes-using-stable-diffusion/#p3 #generativeai #art

“The #AI Dividend”

A very interesting idea, proposed by Schneier.
I really like the simplicity.
Most critical question: How could that be turned into a global solution?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/the-ai-dividend.html

If you create art for a project that will use it to train a genAI model how do you expect to get paid? One-off payment? Other way? #genai #art #payment

@sashabilton wow I’ll give it a go and see what happens!

@sashabilton sounds delicious! Recipe?