Tyler Glaiel

Tyler Glaiel

@tylerglaiel.com

Programmer / Game Designer. Closure, The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, Succubox, Fracuum, Aether, and more! Current Project: Mewgenics! tylerglaiel.com

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Tyler Glaiel
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As someone who still prefers to make games in a custom engine I wrote, the code is kind of an inseparable part of a game's character, decisions about engine structure and every little bit of code have ripples that can absolutely be felt in the end product, even if hard to pick out specifics

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Like when I make my lists of my favorite indie games, ~50% of them are custom engines or cobbled together on top of frameworks, despite like 95% of games being made in Unity or Unreal now. This isn't a coincidence

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I'm starting to think that a lot of the rage bait looking "Look at how good this AI generated thing is now" posts are just automated from researchers to get a giant list of feedback from people making specific criticisms of the quality of it to feed back into the training

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Google's weather model has been absurdly terrible for me lately, frequently saying "It's currently 65" when its 80+ outside. Location is correct. It's apparently because they use an AI model instead of reports now. I DONT WANT AN AI TO GUESS THE CURRENT WEATHER. I WANT A READING FROM A THERMOMETER

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note that essentially every single other weather service gets this correct. It's just google's that doesn't. Which is especially annoying because its what shows up above the fold if you google "weather", and its what my phone lock screen shows with NO WAY TO CHANGE IT

Tyler Glaiel
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AI solving more and more complicated unsolved math problems is really interesting to me as it feels so wildly different from its attempts to do art from like, a philosophical perspective

Tyler Glaiel
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Like I don't care how "good" it can get at doing """art""" since one of the main things I care about with art is that its an expression of lived human experience, a thing that computers don't have. Math is like, somethings either true or false and it doesn't really matter who or what proves it

Tyler Glaiel
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but that also just feels kind of weird if you think about it, like idk in 20 years it might just outclass humans entirely by orders of magnitude for mathematical proofs, so what role would humans have in the field? would it even matter at all? "this thing is true" "oh cool i guess"

Tyler Glaiel
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love how one of the rewards you get for making a successful game is just having a hoard of angry people yell at you for dumb shit online constantly, forever

Tyler Glaiel
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Sometimes still think about how Doom 2016 had doomguy destroy a thing that was trying to explain lore and story to him, rejecting the very idea of exposition and lore in a doom game and then the next 2 games just decided "you know what? this game needs more lore"

Tyler Glaiel
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hate how if you ever found a really good thing that lasted you 10+ years or more its basically impossible to ever get the same thing again if you need to replace it for some reason

Tyler Glaiel
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previous 10 years I was living in a place without AC, and now I got AC again and man its fucking sick to be able to be like "75? slightly too warm" and click a button and be comfortable again

Tyler Glaiel
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switch to moving right, most recently pressed key takes priority in ties

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Time to start a #GameDev argument. If a player is holding down the go left key, and then also presses down the go right key, what should happen? Bonus round: What should happen when they then release the go right key?

Tyler Glaiel
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"Ideas are worthless, its execution that matters" has always just been a polite way to tell people their ideas suck. I think people actually underestimate just how much a good idea is worth.

Tyler Glaiel
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vibes only and no numbers to back it up but I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft putting their first party releases day 1 on game pass ended up losing them a shitload of money long term

Tyler Glaiel
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adding chinese localization is a never ending stream of "wait... this font has 40000 characters?" "wait... there's no spaces for word wrapping in the text" "wait... none of the fonts chosen have the symbol for Poop (㞎㞎) in them"

Tyler Glaiel
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Reading any amount of media discourse online makes me realize just how many people are basically just being Soulja Boy (from indie game the movie) without realizing it

Tyler Glaiel
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On a walk exploring my new area and have apparently wandered into the non-euclidean suburbs. Google maps is blank. Every turn leads back to itself somehow. There is an old lady staring at me at every corner, saying nothing. How do I escape?