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Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made

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Post by zdc1 »

Tade0 wrote: post #314

In my region of the world this title (and also the title of being "the worst ever made") was reserved for the unnecessarily detailed electric locomotive simulator MaSzyna: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033030/MaSzyna/ Turns out that such a vehicle, even though simple in principle, has quite the startup procedure and a layman would have trouble making it go.

Reminds me of when I was younger and tried the F1 cars in Live for Speed racing simulator. Turns out it's actually really, really hard to keep an F1 car on the tracks.

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Post by globular-toast »

natas wrote: post #320

I bought it yesterday, not too hard to get running on linux, and played for an hour, it's immense fun.

What do you have to do to get it working on Linux? Is there a way to signal my hatred of Windows when I buy it?

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Post by Barbing »

wrsh07 wrote: post #306
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #167

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Lifetime royalty fee on any related worldwide gross revenue is a happy problem?

The question is about counterfactuals If unreal cost money up front, would this have been built? No. Unreal is saying: hey, we contributed to 1/20th of your success, because you could not have done this without us. Thus, in the event that you're extremely successful, yes, you'll owe unreal a million dollars. But that's only because you made 20mm and keep 19mm for yourself. That's an incredible bargain.

Shiny, that's why I thought you might've felt it fair, but couldn't have put it this well.

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Post by mrguyorama »

Jtarii wrote: post #218
dmix wrote: post #90

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All journalism is terrible these days. They just want a catchy headline for the ad view and nothing else matters, including whether the headline is true or not.

There is like 1 or 2 actual "video game journalists" everyone else is just a glorified blogger.

There's an entire microcosm on youtube of former games journalists, generating a variety of content from good to slop. Most of them are from when "Games journalist" was still a classically trained journalist, and had real credentials and knowledge of how to critique the art form. Which is why they were generally pushed out, to be replaced with know nothings who are just there to parrot a script.

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Post by IshKebab »

3form wrote: post #257
topgrain2 wrote: post #73

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Almost every time I see a halfway polished “solo developer” game, they did not do all the work themselves. Especially, they usually hire out the music, maybe other sounds, and much of the artwork. Sometimes they also have freelancers doing marketing and such. Sometimes even some paid help writing the software. I highlight this not to bring those developers down, but because I think it’s important people understand ho…

Even the famously brought up cases of solo projects often end up hiring help once they become popular. Stardew Valley and Dwarf Fortress come to mind. I think for the later stages it's common to contract someone for other platforms, especially mobile.

Dwarf Fortress didn't have any assets at all initially...

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Post by Planktonne »

chaostheory wrote: post #293
topgrain2 wrote: post #73

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Almost every time I see a halfway polished “solo developer” game, they did not do all the work themselves. Especially, they usually hire out the music, maybe other sounds, and much of the artwork. Sometimes they also have freelancers doing marketing and such. Sometimes even some paid help writing the software. I highlight this not to bring those developers down, but because I think it’s important people understand ho…

The Stardew Valley dev did do everything himself though

Which is impressive, but he is both an outlier and was heavily supported by his partner during development.

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Post by mrguyorama »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #70
wccrawford wrote: post #68

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I started playing Farm Simulator 2025 recently because a friend wanted me to. Even now, I really long for a proper game with progression, etc. But it's really just a way to drive machines. And I find myself wanting to do that, even without the progression I crave from a game. But then I also feel like I'm massively wasting my time, and I could be playing other games, getting stuff done around the house, or just readi…

What would progression look like in a farming simulator? I tried it a few times but have had a similar feeling.

In Farm Simulator 2025, progress for me was felling and processing every single tree on the map. They were "in the way"

I have problems.

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Post by esseph »

n64controller wrote: post #256
esseph wrote: post #132

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Everything. The story, how the game works, the art assets, voice lines, music, etc. Programming is like 10% of a game. The world building and UX is the juice. Anybody can make Lord of the Rings, but there's only one.

Absolute nonsense. There is no cookie-cutter formula for game development, despite what the idea guys think. Mario 64 was literally just Mario in a single small room until the last six months of development. They focused purely on the actual game - the mechanics, physics, movesets, items, and enemies - inside that tiny room until it felt perfect. Then, in one final push, they quickly slapped together all the levels a…

Most of my favorite games don't have physics engines, and many are story sequels. One of my favorites is the modern Equivalent to Myst.

Good luck with your idea tho

I vouched for you

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Post by esseph »

simoncion wrote: post #255
esseph wrote: post #130

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I was just playing Sand: Raiders of Sophie. Before that Arma Reforger. Before that Arc Raiders. There are a very small minority of games that use kernel-level anticheat that won't work, including newer BF6 and COD. Tbh I wouldn't play those anyway because of that feature, which sucks because BF series was fun.

> ...which sucks because BF series was fun. Was , yeah. I enjoyed the hell out of BF I and BF V. I also enjoy shooters that have "modern" weaponry. Given how fun BF I was at launch, and V was when I picked it up, I purchased a copy of BF 2042 at launch because -given that that's the time before the "I'm going to do nothing but snipe from spawn to maxxximise my KDR and get Sick Youtube Clips" crew comes to be the majo…

Big BF fan from the first one up to BF1 (WWI)

Bad Company 2 is probably my fav next to BF4

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