https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CfLt2jwZZs

Zacktronics

have made a few really really good programming / puzzle games.

Brace yourselfes

made crypt of the necrodancer and phantom brigade , both of which are really good ideas and if you haven’t checked them out, you should.

Also, I’m not sure how much this applies to helldivers specifically, but from what I’ve seen, teams didn’t really teamwork. Because they didn’t have to.

This can be very bad because if it follows these steps:

1. game is easy, no teamwork required, players learn to play the game without teamwork
2. game gets harder, but some people can still manage solo, complain about “newbs” and tell them to “git gud”
3. game gets even harder, now it’s impossible to play “quasi solo” but the environment is no longer fit to learn teamwork in the context of this game. “How” to work together effectively.

Then people will complain, justly, that they don’t have the tools and methods to beat the challenge. Which is correct. They don’t. But you can’t just tell people to “go play easy mode and learn the game”, when they are “max level” and put 40-100 hours into the game.

Of course the synergy tools still have to exist and I’m not knowledgeable about helldivers whether they do.

There is no good choice to “encourage” teamplay, except via creating “natural” funnels that people will “end up at” “organically”, and putting a challenge in front of them that they can only work with teamwork. But that means the challenge has to beat them, until they get it. And that may never happen.

One game I have found exceptional as a case study for what is “overpowered” and what isn’t, and why, is magic the gathering. All the “code” is public. The complaints are public. The bans are public, and explained. So if anyone here wants to nerd out about balance and doesn’t know mtg yet, there is a rabbit hole for you.

Factorio works, but it would probably help to give a guided to tour the store and genres, to figure out what she would like.

If she has really no exposure at all, playing just factorio is limiting yourself to eating one flavor of ice cream.

Eh. Seems alright. Definitely not going to a cinema to see it. Gearbox milked the franchise to death, I really only liked Borderlands 2. Looks like Krieg is in this, which isn’t canonical. But fun. He also says nothing in the trailer?

My hate for what they did with tiny tina is unmeasurable. The character does not work when she is not a child. If they had put an actual child actor in their shoes and THEN made them blow up a lot of people, with gore, that would be the level tina is at. Like, if Borderlands had realistic graphics, it would be as PG 18 as Doom (2016) +. For understandable reasons. She is a traumatised child that got ate up by pandora and lived. On a revenge quest. All other characters +1 or +2 Tina gets a -20.

Not hating on the actor, lots of things can go wrong for the “magic” to not happen, most aren’t on them.

I actually don’t care for the prequel or BL1 backstory part. I’m not hooked by the premise.

Expectation is “mid”. If an opportunity to watch it falls right into my lap I might, but realistically I will probably forget it exists when the ad campaign is through.

Yes, but you have to remember that the developer community is absolutely tiny compared to the number of gamers.

It’s a neat gimmick, but 98% of the people who could be your audience will get nothing out of the game being open source.

I would really like it if certain specific games were more open source and more moddable, for example stellaris has an annoying formula hard coded that makes combat balancing and weapon modding very difficult. On the other hand, games like openRA exist and I’m not playing that and I’m not doing anything with the source either. That one even has fully functioning multiplayer, but it’s so built in that it’s hard to reuse for anything else. So you might end up being torn between making the game really good and making the tools and code really good.

I think the biggest appeal of open source games is as a learning resource. Maybe. idk.

Also, may I suggest panda3d, which I’m shilling for at every opportunity that I get, because it’s neat, 3d, open source and runs with C or python?

“a AAA single-player shooter in today’s market was a truly awful idea”

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2009100/Immortals_of_Aveum/

1.1k reviews 75% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/379720/DOOM/ (2016)

125k reviews 95%

Git gud, EA, and make an actually competing product.

Would you like to get some info going back to 2005 regarding the interest and effort Microsoft puts into PC gaming?

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ms-promises-to-bring-more-first-party-games-to-pc.710494/page-4#post-88868188

So, this is kind of funny, because when you think “cyberpunk” “high tech, low life”, there always was/is the question of how this tech abundance but also poverty can coexist. Surely it takes a lot of money to build all this?

It’s waste. That’s the answer. It’s the repurposed, discarded corporate trash that didn’t meet the quarterly goal. It’s all starting to make sense you guys!! In new and terrifying ways!

The game Mindustry is one example.

Yes. And as you can see it has 14k reviews on steam while factorio has 141k reviews.

It’s also a game, so there is no productivity gain or loss associated with it. There is no on call IT support, but you also don’t need any and if something breaks, you lose nothing except the ability to play THIS game for a short while. It’s not a… webserver you run your online shop through where every hour of downtime costs you X hundreds of euros or dollars.

The game was also made by what looks like one guy. It’s not, you know libre office. With hundreds and thousands of contributors and a huge problem of how to distribute the money.

Of course you’re allowed to distribute it. And of course you’re allowed to charge for it. But realistically, nearly nobody would use it.

The cost of switching to an unfamiliar Interface and workflow is high enough, charging money to do it will further increase the barrier to entry.

Paying for open source software sounds good on paper, but if it is required, the software will never accumulate the users to make the development have any meaning.

There has to be a “try it before you buy it” too. Otherwise the permutations of scams are obvious and nobody will fall for that. Idk how you would prove that the software works, without giving an actual copy of the software.

Also, legalities between different countries. You will just not get your money back from “trustworthy nigerian software dev who just needs 50$ to give you some software”.

So no.

Do donate if you can though. If you value the software you use, you will pretty obviously recognize the utility and the cost to you, should it go away.

I mean, I won’t deny that small bit of skill it took to construct a plausible sounding explanation for why the public should support your investment, because it’s “not illegal (yet)”.