Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

Post by Fraterkes » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

rootlocus wrote: post #56

Aurornis wrote: post #46

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Jonathan Blow works with extremely small team sizes relative to the big studios. When you only have a couple people working on a project you don’t need all of the same coordination features.

He and Casey Muratory make a lot of cool instructive content, but their condescending attitude towards the industry always made me thing "Huh, must be really nice working alone and making all the decisions yourself."

Post by cjbgkagh » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

somenameforme wrote: post #158

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I think there is an element of audience capture that sets up a self reinforcing feedback loop that drives out the normies and ends up rather cult like.

Is it not also possible that there are an overwhelming number of problems with the big AAA type studios in games right now? I feel right now we're in sort of tale of two cities, because AAA games have turned into barely functioning uninspired parasitically monetized crap, while smaller scale development is in an absolute golden age. And it's likely that LLMs will only add fuel onto this turd burning fire.

Post by hparadiz » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #38

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I can’t remember the last time anyone actually played the game they got for free on epic’s store

Citizen Sleeper, the game that is going free tomorrow on the Epic store is really good. Space Cyberpunk themed RPG/Survival Sim. It is interesting that people are so cynical about Epic giving out free games. I get that people love Steam, but competition in the storefront market is not bad.

Post by Jaxan » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

LtdJorge wrote: post #161

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Luckily it’s an open source project so you could go in and clean up the ux.

Probably unacceptable as many would have built tooling around the specific default behaviors.

Post by gavinhoward » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

MattRix wrote: post #159

gavinhoward wrote: post #153

As someone who has thought a lot about VCS design [1] [2], the chunking approach is the wrong one and will still waste space. [1]: https://gavinhoward.com/uploads/designs/yore.md [2]: My WIP VCS has been named Yore for at least two years; I did not copy Lore's name.

This is a very long document that says nothing about chunking at first skim. If chunking is actually wrong, then just explain why, here. Wasting space is not actually a problem if it’s optimized for other purposes instead.