Post AU3a0YNAExw0DMvwfo by djdesign@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AU3ZuAvsTePDmM84no by eniko@peoplemaking.games
       2023-03-27T17:58:38Z
       
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       if crypto weren't so environmentally destructive and a horribly abusive pyramid scheme, crypto gamedev would be almost adorable in its ineptitude with how they keep trying Big Ideas™ that everyone with any actual experience developing or even just *playing* games already knew were awful. like a dumb puppy trying some real stupid shit
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3ZuCBVp0VRf8S4oK by eniko@peoplemaking.games
       2023-03-27T18:08:03Z
       
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       just like, the biggest "awww look! they think they're gamedevs!" vibes
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3Zvl93KFAsNb2ywa by foo@fosstodon.org
       2023-03-27T18:08:09Z
       
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       @eniko I picked a random company from that Blockchain Game Alliance GDC photo going around and looked it up, and thought "wow, this looks boring at best and actively hostile at worst". This impression repeated for every "game" I looked up.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3ZzdnmZKMGlPwtkW by jessechounard@hachyderm.io
       2023-03-27T18:55:38Z
       
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       @eevee @eniko This isn't a new idea. Magic the Gathering Online (the old one, not MTGA) allows players to trade cards and items, and so a secondary market popped up where you can buy from websites and have things delivered to you in game.This leaves the devs with the options of removing player trading, banning the practice and policing it, or intentionally enabling it. (Like Steam's marketplace.) If crypto wasn't garbage, it could allow devs to enable trading without building the marketplace.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3a0YNAExw0DMvwfo by djdesign@mastodon.social
       2023-03-27T19:18:52Z
       
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       @eniko Tell me your only goal in making a game is $$$ and not entertainment or joy without telling me etc etc"Games is a passion industry" is an idea that absolutely gets abused by the $$ side of the equation, but it's also just *true*. My #1 drive in life is to create happiness - I do that by making games (backup career? bartender).I think if you don't have a drive to share joy with the world, there's a ceiling on what you can accomplish in game dev. It's a fundamentally giving profession.