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Games as software and as storytelling: how they are made, by how few, and what the medium does better than film.

What people on korrents have said about video games, newest first — 15 positions from 9 people.

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Who Everyone TSTim Sweeney 3 CMCasey Muratori 2 DHDan Houser 2 FLFrank Lantz 2 JKJeff Kaplan 2 EMElon Musk 1 HTHelen Toner 1 RVRahul Vohra 1 TSTynan Sylvester 1
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  1. CM

    Casey Muratori quoted

    Our readingOnce the barrier to making a game collapsed, making a good game stopped being enough: no game gets noticed organically any more, so shipping without a marketing plan is unwise.

    Their wordsIt's it's so massive that there is no way that your game will be organically noticed anymore pretty much period.

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording

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  3. CM

    Casey Muratori quoted

    Our readingGraphics have stopped selling games: most of the market by revenue no longer cares how a game looks, so new games now compete with the entire back catalogue.

    Their wordsBut a large portion of the gaming market by revenue doesn't really care what the game looked like all that much uh in a sense that whatever we're doing today is good enough. So 10 years from now if the games look much better for some reason no one will really think of that as a huge differentiation differentiator in terms of sales.

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 18th of 26 in this recording

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  4. 6 days earlier
  5. EM

    Elon Musk quoted

    Our readingMost people do not reason about politics at all — they adopt whatever their tribe hands them.

    Their wordsThe reality is that most people unthinkingly believe whatever their political tribe tells them to believe. Like an NPC in a video game.

    ↗@elonmusk on Xx.com

    politics

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  6. 5 months earlier
  7. JK

    Jeff Kaplan quoted

    Our readingA game must be incubated by the smallest possible group with whatever technology is to hand, and the team expanded only once the idea is proved.

    Their wordsThe right way to incubate a video game is you have the smallest group possible and you try to get the idea across with whatever technology you can get your hands on, using other engines, using art from whatever. You prove out that idea, and once you know what you’re doing, then you expand the team.

    ↗Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493youtube.com 19th of 29 in this recording

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  9. JK

    Jeff Kaplan quoted

    Our readingSmall studios are the future of gaming: the genuinely new ideas come out of them, and the big studios acquire rather than generate them.

    Their wordsSmall studios are the future of gaming. The big studios basically acquire the small studios for new IP and ideas, and the small studios grow in. The really compelling, new, innovative ideas are gonna come out of small studios.

    ↗Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493youtube.com 29th of 29 in this recording

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  10. 4 months earlier
  11. DH

    Dan Houser quoted

    Our readingA video game character has no inner life, so what they say is the only thing that can make a player know who they are.

    Their wordsAnd then how do they speak? You know, because fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in their head; they haven’t actually got one, but what they say is what’s going to make you realize who they are.

    ↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com 4th of 22 in this recording

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  13. DH

    Dan Houser quoted

    Our readingGames and film are better at different kinds of story: a long discursive adventure belongs in a game, a short tight experience in a film.

    Their wordsYou know, I think, I think if you want a long, discursive adventure, a video game is better. If you want a short, tight experience, a film is better.

    ↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording

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  14. 6 months earlier
  15. TS

    Tim Sweeney quoted

    Our readingThe metaverse does not require VR: VR is hardware that may or may not improve the experience, and it has a much smaller audience than social gaming already does.

    Their wordsVR has a much smaller audience. I don't think you need VR to have anything like this. VR is hardware that may or may not enhance the experience for some usage cases.

    ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording

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  17. TS

    Tim Sweeney quoted

    Our readingThe metaverse is a harder technical problem than a web page, so it needs a language more powerful, safer and more scalable than JavaScript.

    Their wordsBut the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.

    ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 14th of 22 in this recording

    JavaScript

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  19. TS

    Tim Sweeney quoted

    Our readingA game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.

    Their wordsIt is the number one trend for pervading the world of gaming today. And it says that your game is quadratically more valuable the more percentage of a user's real-world friends they can connect to.

    ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

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  20. 4 weeks earlier
  21. HT

    Helen Toner quoted

    Our readingAny given AI capability becomes cheap and widely available within a couple of years of first being reached, so nobody can be kept away from it for long.

    Their wordsBut with AI, it’s different: it’s often only a couple of years between when you need a world-class computing cluster to do something and when you can run it on a high-end gaming chip on your laptop.

    ↗Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misusehelentoner.substack.com 1st of 5 in this piece

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  22. 13 days earlier
  23. RV

    Rahul Vohra quoted

    Our readingReferral growth is driven by whales — single users who invite fifty or a hundred people — not by many users each inviting a few.

    Their wordswe've definitely found that there are whales to use the gaming terminology that one person is going to be responsible for inviting 25, 50, 100 people

    ↗Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)youtube.com 1st of 24 in this recording

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  24. 5 months earlier
  25. FL

    Frank Lantz quoted

    Our readingThe video game audience has come to embrace the medium’s worst traits as emblems of the hobby rather than treat them as flaws.

    Their wordsSo many of the worst things about video games are not just reluctantly tolerated but enthusiastically embraced because, through association, they have become emblems of our beloved hobby/artform/lifestyle.

    ↗Are Games Bad?franklantz.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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  27. FL

    Frank Lantz quoted

    Our readingVideo games are the cathedrals of the modern world and nobody yet knows what they are for.

    Their wordsThey are the cathedrals of the modern world. Only we don’t know what they are for.

    ↗Are Games Bad?franklantz.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  28. 11 years earlier
  29. TS

    Tynan Sylvester quoted

    Our readingIn game development speed is quality, because the faster you can work the more times you can iterate.

    Their wordsIt’s my strong belief that in games dev, speed is quality.

    ↗Email dredging: Cutting polish and nonlinear resultstynansylvester.com 1st of 5 in this piece

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