Can you not just create a local social club account and use it to save your game progress? Iirc that how it supposed to work at least

Well, that’s an absolute exception and no one should even consider such an occurrence to be a new standard ever

/s (just in case)

In the end the people who ran the hegemony of cable TV just got their hands on the TV streaming services and turned it into the hegemony of TV streaming service.

Nothing have changed the goals people at the top had - they just needed time to adapt

DAO+Awakening is just a chef kiss, nothing is perfect in this world but as far as games are concerned DAO is an amazing experience.

DA2, huh, I did finish it like twice I’d say and I don’t remember much. Can’t say much but I guess this fact is something in itself.

DAI got a joke for a story, from the very first minutes it’s just laughable. I did enjoy the crafting and fighting in DAI but even those have a fair amount of flaws (limited number of abilities cause of console support and so on)

“DAO does have some age” sure thing - it’s in the name

I don’t know how much programming experience you have so I won’t assume yet the stuff I wrote down the line are quite basic.

Generally speaking you always want to use the latest stable (!) version of whatever tool you want to learn, just be sure you’re watching/reading tutorials for the right version.

As to how to learn, I’d suggest to start with videos on YouTube - get some free assets on itch.io (maybe ones being used in the tutorial, maybe not) and just do stuff along the videos - figure out the basics, build the base and move from here.

You want to get the feel of the process, what works, what doesn’t, try to break the whole game in pieces and just do one at a time. Make an animated character, make a level with collision, map some inputs to the character, run through the level, add something the character can break, add means to attack, break the thing that is breakable, add an enemy, realize there’s no health, add health and damage and so on… Don’t really focus on getting it right - focus on getting it done, you’ll have a lot more understanding how to do something better after you’ve done different parts of the game.

As to the docs - it’s great, but you don’t need to read it as a book to start something, it’s a hefty time investment and you won’t get much out of it at the current point. Just remember that the doc exists and go there with questions you have. You’re stuck with the collision BS? Go read the docs - the answer is there and you’ll understand and memorize it much better as you apply it to a problem you’ve faced.

Also don’t be disappointed or harsh on yourself for being “stupid” and doing something in a weird/ugly/inefficient way after learning how it’s done properly - it’s part of the learning process.

For the publication of your game - it’s up for you to decide, I mean you can just share it with friends or relatives, it’s all good as long as you’re having fun with it.

Well, Twitter is a mobile game now… Is there something to consider it a gacha?

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I don’t think it has anything to do with being a programmer or not, it’s just about being a human and that’s basically how human are in general.

So yeah, I think if a person is ‘meant’ to be mean and arrogant they will be mean and arrogant no matter the job.

Overall you can make many mistakes in almost any field before mastering it. The only things I can think of that are kind of specific to programming (not exclusive though) are that you don’t have to be nice to people(which is kind of a requirement for sales, for example) and access to feeling of accomplishment that you have created something possibly great.

Plus being slightly more disagreeable is generally a good feat for a programmer (depends on the company and position) which also may contribute to the cause.

Yeah, overall I don’t think I really felt any correlation between being a programmer and being an asshole.

Edit: On the second thought I think there’s a possible correlation between being a programmer and how much of an asshole they could be…

It depends on the data you have to work with but SQL is quite capable in itself. Yet SQL might be tricky for some specific tasks (like unwrapping dimensions from a plain table when you have to partially rotatate the table, building multidimensional datasets) and for those cases more traditional approaches tend to he far easier to grasp and use.

Like… Can you use it? Yes. Should you? If you’re highly skilled and proficient in SQL then sure, why not… But would’ve you asked the question in the first place if that was the case?

I don’t have to do such tasks often enough (once in a month or two) to be bothered and when I need to I’ll just smack my head against the table (ha-ha) until I make it (remember that part about being skilled in SQL - I’m not skilled enough lol)… Maybe I’ll polish the result with some script or a bit of Go. But that’s not an approach I’d recommend to use on regular basis.

Well, I prefer not to put a “\n” in dates but you do you mate