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YesBox

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About YesBox

chase@yesboxstudios.com

I'm creating Metropolis 1998, a 2D city builder/simulation video game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/

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    Except. . . (accept)... SaaS solves the problem of needing one piece of software to communicate between multiple (many) users and/or other pieces of software. Can't picture a funct…

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    As an aside, there are large portions of the US where coastal folks dont want to live. These places are 2-4x cheaper (compared to costal game industry hubs) and could be cost compe…

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    Video game industry analysts are predicting the same is going to happen to their (my) industry. Contract out more and more work to SEA/China/Poland et.al. It's extra painful becaus…

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    Most people want the convenience of things just working at the tap or click of a button. LLMs are not going to change that.

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    Hmm. Am I right to be concerned? One of the benefits of hiring people to do work is that it eliminates single points of failure. The last few decades have had technology automate a…

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    I use C++ every day and this feels like an entirely different language and philosophy. I know this is the reality of C++, but I never go searching for it so when it pops up randoml…

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    > what is the competitive advantage in maintaining your own engine? It's still a product-distinguishing decision you can make at the indie scale. What I mean is, you can create an …

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    IIRC, when the company was formed, everyone got an equal split. They may have issued more shares when some other key people joined. But, when someone quit or was fired, they had to…

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    I've found a few cycles of > works quite well. Box breathing is 4 seconds inhale, 4 seconds hold, 4 seconds exhale, 4 seconds hold. IIRC you are supposed to take in as much air as …

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    You are not alone. I like to read Harry Potter fan fiction [1] and I have started checking the publication date when Im searching for something new to read. I started doing this pa…

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    My bet is working through an abstraction layer (LLMs) will make crafting a fun game more difficult. The art of designing a (great) game is in the details. English is not sufficient…

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    > It reminds me of the campaign in the 90s against video game manufacturers for "corrupting the youth". The government did intervene though. They threatened to regulate the industr…

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    Forgive me for not wanting to write up the history of the game's development. It boils down to product market fit, innovation, and fantasy fulfillment/fun. See for yourself: https:…

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    I just counted 35 online profiles with nitro. Same ~300 people online currently

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    Comment #48347995

    They're players, not devs.

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    Discord subscriptions seem to be working. People like to customize their profile (ie express themselves), even though profiles are not something frequently interacted with (that's …

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    Some people, if not most, will at some point look back (and forward) in their life and wonder if they made anything out of it. And what they are really asking is "how much of an im…

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    You'd have a point if Cloud ^tm didnt take off into a multi billion dollar industry.

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    Just sharing another story: A molecular biochemist PhD I know was forced to redo her advisor's experiment over and over again because it wasn't getting the results he wanted. She k…

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