Kris Asick

The amount of game review requests I am receiving by eMail has gone up considerably the past few weeks... ...also nearly all of them have been made with GenAI... ...and yes, they all LOOK the part but don't seem to have any substance... Beautiful on the outside, hollow on the inside. :(

Edited the About section on my YouTube channel for the first time in years... Have a simple little message at the bottom now which reads: "Note: I do NOT use Generative AI; Crafting everything myself helps me learn and stay motivated!" I'd rather do that than plaster notices on EVERYTHING I do. :P

Curious... I was recording the last bit of gameplay I needed for the next ADG and thought I recognized a voice actor... but apparently, there's no credit for them and while the internet had a theory for years, only ONE WEEK AGO did said person confirm it was not them! :O

Finally got to try out hand/finger tracking with a few things in VR now that SteamVR and Steam Link support wired USB connectivity! :D ...I think for MOST things, I'm gonna prefer using the controllers, especially since they provide haptic feedback, but hands DO work better for some things! :B

One thing that's tricky is that hand tracking is noticeably lagged because of all the effort it takes to map and report hand tracking data. It's also surprisingly bad at figuring out which of my fingers is touching my thumbs so actions like movement, turning, jumping, it misses them a lot. :P

Whoo boy... Someone just contacted me as a solo dev wanting me to check out their game... ...except they're actually somehow making EIGHT games... all surprisingly far along, none of which are finished yet... ...I don't see any GenAI disclosures... ...hrrrrrrrrm...-

BTW: With Flash being kinda dead, the original three GemCraft tower defence games ended up lost to time... BUT, they just all got re-released as a three-game pack over on Steam with some QoL updates! :D store.steampowered.com/app/4207990/...

I originally covered the third game "Labyrinth" in a filler video MANY years ago, which was a Flash game you "could" play for free, but paying a one time fee to unlock its advanced features (like registering shareware) was the best way to play it if you enjoyed it. It's part of the new pack. :B

Wholly geeze... trying to change the anchoring of a user interface control in Godot Engine AT RUNTIME is insane. Why did they NOT make a function which just does what the editor does when selecting presets? (And no, the commands for using those presets at runtime DO NOT work as you would expect.)

I mean, I get that there's few instances where you would need to do such a thing, but I hit one of those instances and it's turning into a nightmare. >_<

*sigh* ...it's so discouraging the number of people going down the path of Generative AI, all thinking it's helping them, not realizing what it's going to do their motivation and skills in the long run, not to mention the damage it's doing to their credibility. >_<

Even more sad... I got into gamedev at a young age but video games are only most THIRD most favourite thing behind two others, both of which are industries which are getting CRUSHED under the weight of the digital world, thus ALL THREE of my most favourite things are being strangled to death. ; - ;

*sigh* ...it's so discouraging the number of people going down the path of Generative AI, all thinking it's helping them, not realizing what it's going to do their motivation and skills in the long run, not to mention the damage it's doing to their credibility. >_<

Project AB is up to v0.077, having gone up by .001 increments each time I complete various core tasks. Looking back at where I'm at now compared to what I struggled with when I started, there's a certain irony in knowing I could've done all I've done so far twice as fast knowing what I know now. :P

So a couple people in Finland who've been watching my vids and such haven't been able to access my website for over a couple weeks now. I've done checks using online tools but none of them check Finland specifically and nearly every other country can access it fine. (Except Ukraine and Singapore.)