Electronic Arabia.

The uber-wealthy should've footed that bill. A proper welfare problem would've made the donation a nice to have, no essential. #TaxWealthNotWork

!twnw@fedia.io

Also, these people can now start a gaming company no? Make a better one than the companies they were fired from?

FR, this changes nothing for me because I've go nothing to do with EA.

Although if anybody has had an account in the past they should go and delete it now.

The worse Triple A becomes, the better indie looks.

"Propaganda, it's in the game."

It's yet another reason to support indie devs?

A Short Hike is great! It is short though

The consensus I've seen is either "A short Hike" or "Skatebird" depending on your interests

Excellent tool for propaganda...

Any stand out games in this bundle?

how the fuck is this indie game dev discussion news and promotions?

LOL...who's EA these days????

I really wanted to make another attempt at using Stride, but their editor currently only works on Windows and I'm not going back to that without a fight.

fun to read on mobile

Exactly! It's not even that revolutionary in my eyes... heck that's effectively what it does most of the time.

But nevertheless, it can write a ton of code and it will for the most part achieve what you want. It'll still need to be reviewed, trimmed down and optimized. To me it's just like a college essay. I can write 2000 words in a 20 minute blitz as I am sure any decent dev can write a ton of lines in the same amount of time. Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be acceptable for the level you are writing? A college paper of 2000 words I'll rewrite 4-5 times and keep maybe as much as a paragraph's worth of text from the original draft.

Like what I just wrote above, I could probably condense into a few lines if I was trying to make it a ''professional'' statement rather than casual writing. There's these degrees of competence that I think LLMs haven't reached yet.

No different then copying questions from stack overflow.

You always have to wonder if they even have the skills to debug the thing in the first place. Having tested generated code or code suggestions, its just like the age old practice of copying code off a google search. You need the skills to at least understand what the code does and why its the right implementation for what you want to achieve.

I wished more people tried their own machine learning experiments in video games, rather than only using existing models. Would be a really interesting way to develop procedural map generation or NPC/Enemy behaviours trained on your own work in progress builds. Probably difficult to tweak but I'm still curious to see someone try it out. I just see this persistent lack of genuine curiosity from those most interested in Ai technologies.

Otherwise, using generative Ai in general is just bad for business. I don't see the controversy and lost sales outweighing the benefits. Heck, even in business relationships: working with publishers, outsourcing etc... A number of partners will just flat out not work with you if you use Ai.

Throw in the morale effect on your team who is most likely spanning from apathy to open hostility. Its just not a good way to retain your best contributors,

Tokens are and will moreso get really expensive, so its just not a sustainable long term strategy. Creating a dependence on the highest end models will backfire financially and likely cost more than labour very soon. We are already seeing this with some of the largest tech companies busting their Ai costs.

Generative ai creates the environment where, I believe, the market will be dying to see genuine artistic creations and expressions. I think games, and most creative works, will soon be permitted to be of ''humbler'' qualities, as long as they are genuine. People want to interact with things people made. There's an opportunity here.

Compare it to game playing Ais, we have been able to beat all humans at chess for years, yet people still prefer playing other humans at chess. Chess is probably as popular now as it has ever been. I don't see people stop playing chess or making art just because some machine can do it ''better''. Better isn't even the point of those things and it misunderstands the human condition and experience.

There should be less generic video game/technology industry news and a more specific focus on indie game dev stuff.

Is it even a very atypical bubble? Or is this expected for completely unregulated capitalism? We don't get any interest rates on savings any more, so I believe since 2008 the stock exchange heated up. Money is being printed. I've read that people believe the stock index will never never go down again because if it ever does, everything collapses.

This is just a bubble that happens to affect RAM. It's not really AI's fault lol. It's just that the entire enshittification strategy came with AI even before it launched. We have advances so much as a civilization that we can pre-enshittify new technologies when they start now lol.

It definitely doesn't make any sense and we can only hope the data center boom bursts before the insane energy requirements completely cook the planet.

On the bright side, I believe this is fueling breakthroughs in compute hardware and software. So after the AI bubble pops, we might be able to run large models cheaply at home with solar power, once those hardware breakthroughs move into production. There is also competitive 1-bit ternary version of LLM that can run locally on a smartphone. The AI hardware embargo on China definitely fueled their investments so we will see vastly more production capabilities and lower prices.

I always thought that would be kinda cool in a self hosted home. Like powerful system in a closet or basement and several terminals in various rooms with low power. Imagine being in your living room playing I don't know elden ring then oh it's time to cook dinner move to kitchen start dinner and then keep playing as you keep an eye on it.

Ridiculous... And for what? AI slop that nobody wants?

This whole thing is possibly history's biggest waste of resources. None of this makes any damn sense.

Won't really work in Germany, our internet is shit

Was this slam from the top rope, or was it more like a folding chair to the face? The people demand clarification.

Oh fuck. We are actually downloading more ram...