Of all the unnecessary AI integrations; firefox is the one I am least concerned or annoyed about. I will however be disabling anything AI related they introduce.
The presence of the code itself is a threat. There's no good reason it shouldn't be an extension, beholden to all the same "security" restrictions other extensions are.
Old man here shaking his fist. While I acknowledge and appreciate the technical effort and let’s face it, an exemplary example in preserving games long after they are maintained by the original creators.
But this is not an “rpg”, it’s a gathering, crafting, and hanging out simulator. That’s fine by its own definition, but I don’t see any mechanisms which allow for actual roleplay? Please prove me wrong
RPG designates a game with less reliance on a player's actual execution and more reliance on their character's simulated execution. Video games aside, plenty of people run full TTRPG campaigns without ever meaningfully engaging in RP.
A chromebook or an ipad with a keyboard. Don’t over complicate it for her or anyone else. Give them something that makes what they know even easier, and also open up new avenues without having to learn a lot.
Ubuntu if it’s just an os replacement. She doesn’t know or care what debian or chromium is.
Honestly thanks to Lutris, I have no want of a native linux GOG client and would rather GOG and others contributed to an already excellent solution and for there to be less distributor owned clients.
I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.
This is excellent news. So many artists are now using procreate on iPad Pros as their primary platform. I do not miss the days of using puppet to juggle the configs of various overly expensive and user hostile dcc software. The barrier to entry used to be so high for designers.
I teach digital painting, and Procreate is slowly becoming my enemy. I fully appreciate its ease of use, its fantastic union with Apple Pen and certainly my students love it. But doing design/creative work on a small screen is not healthy, especially for complex images. neither is it easy to maintain a complex workflow, such as that required by matt painting and multi-layer compositing. Also, any presence of tablets in a design teaching lab is never pretty... I can't easily review their files or integrate their output into a pro desktop app.
Cost is likely another big reason it’s popular with students. A $13 one time purchase is hard to beat… even with edu pricing Adobe CC quickly gets more expensive. Clip Studio Paint falls somewhere in the middle.
While I definitely advocate for Ross Scott's effort behind https://www.stopkillinggames.com, there are still many titles I think that really don't qualify for the level of effort to keep them preserved. I am too old for Roblox, I have tried some Fortnite, but in my day shakes stick, new ideas were expressed through some kind of mod. DOTA and CS are exceptional examples of this.
Not every idea has the automatic inertia it needs to be the next big hit.
I also speak as fan of games like Deceive Inc and First Class Trouble, I applaud Garry's effort in this case. The game engines and distribution platforms make it a lot easier to push your idea as a product instead of being just that, an idea.
Yes sorry perhaps a little more context helps for others that don't understand what we are talking about. Roblox and Fortnite are creative platforms as well as gaming platforms that rival if not excel the older modding tools because they make distribution so easy; good ideas flourish in these spaces.
Lethal Company is a great example of a Roblox game mode(?) that excelled beyond the Roblox boundaries.
I don't have the evidence at hand, but for anyone spending an afternoon in any modern game engine (UE, Unity, Godot) with their built in asset marketplaces and game templates, will see just how many games out there are just asset flips and not worthy of preservation.
Assets and templates don't make a game. Ingenuity does, and folks...the fledgling game designers are using platforms like Roblox and Fortnite as their jumping off point.
It kinda feels like unreal engine and unity are the new baseline "games" -- but not games -- and the games are mods on top of all that existing machinery?
Making a game used to mean writing an engine too and that just isn't true anymore it seems.
Before Unreal there was RenderWare. Usually you choose between making an engine and making a game. And why not if its covers most of your use cases. But games like this are still being made, see Animal Well.
Yeah games being made on custom engines is still done, but probably hasn't been what the majority of companies at the AAA level have done since... the mid to late 1990s probably.
Roblox is a gaming platform. Popular among kids, yes, but that's like saying you're too old for Youtube. You can absolutely find a game with like-minded and older players.
Wish it wasn't so rare to get good modding tools. From your examples, Valves commitment to their SDKs (for CS) and Warcraft's WorldEdit (DotA) are both nice ecosystems to work in.
No point in making them. Almost all big games now feature some multiplayer, if it isn't the primary focus entirely, and most games are designed from go to resist any and all modification lest people get in and ruin the fun for everyone else.
It's tremendously sad. Modding scenes in various games were huge on-ramps to development, game and otherwise, for lots of big industry figures today. Where's that coming from for the next generation's when every product is locked down from factory to where DRM regularly cripples peoples PCs?
I'm certainly no huge name in industry, but my first experience with anything even resembling code was when I discovered you could edit the scenario files in Driver (1999) on the PC to give your car all kinds of weird abilities, change how the game ran, give yourself god mode, disable time limits, all kinds of stuff, just by changing the text in the files. And like, obviously that's not software development, but I was a little kid and that was my first experience of "if you change the files inside the program, it does different things!" and that was tremendously exciting for me at the time.
The modding scene still seems pretty healthy to me? R2modman's plethora of mods and games as one example. People seem to be very willing to make ways to mod games that don't come with official support, at least from some of my more recent modding experiences. It doesn't seem like the knowledge gets socialized as much as it used to though, or it's hidden from the public web more than it was (e.g. it's in Discord groups and DMs). Those who might tinker with files still seem to get by by installing other people's mods and then messing and remixing those which is kind of cool. But for most games it's _all_ community driven.
It's still rare to get modding tools from the developer though. Only a couple recent games I've played do that I've seen. Like Teardown for example
Plenty of games still being modded, even multiplayer, have you looked? And is no problem even in multiplayer as long as server enforces which mods are enabled.
GTA 5 RP mod is big, Arma series are very bare bone games where modders created scenarios and game types. Both pubg and dayz comes from arma 2 mods.
Steam Workshop has made it easier than ever before, no need to run 3rd party launchers or visit a number of sketch websites to get your mods.
Companies shouldn't be forced to support their games for long. Only for the duration of the copyright. (/s, but consider the now aligned incentives for sensible copyright duration limits !)
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