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Thanks.

I absolutely love the text based game era and tried to work with that limitation, but on a mobile browser.

Eventually I want this as a framework for building similar games, but that takes time.

I tried to remake Slay the Spire as a text based game. With buttons though. I used Godot.

https://beatquestgames.itch.io/textbattlegd

Completely open source if you ask and promise not to make fun of me.

I wouldn't attach myself to it, the community( Amazon employees mostly) are friendly, they'll even offer to help you with any issues you run into.

But seriously, no games exist, no real demo projects with it exist. For some reason it uses Lua instead of strongly typed language like C#.

Seriously, games NEED types. At scale projects get really messy without them. Oh wait, O3de pushes script canvas on you.

At the end of the day , I find myself getting sucked back into Unity. Unity could be better, but it's still the best engine for most people. Much of that is just due to documentation. For some reason Amazon decided effectively hide all of it's old Lumberyard docs and examples when they rebranded as O3de. No one will ever know why.

I would love this as a Visual Studio or VS Code plugin.

Using it as a standalone website looks fun too, can't wait to dig into this !

I really like the idea, but Humble Bundle Choice does this much much better and has been around for well over a decade. With Humble I get Steam keys and I don't have to install another client.

I honestly don't see how this business model can work, the competition is really really good at what it does. I have Gamepass and Humble which frankly gives me more than I can even play.

Now what could work would be a publisher offering whatever games it sells for a monthly fee. As in, you get the September game( maybe it's 6 months old at this point) and get to keep it even after canceling. Then again, Humble publishes a ton of games, so their already doing this.

Honestly this post is like complaining my new car only has manual windows.

Everything else with Unity is pretty easy. I hate Blueprints or any visual scripting. In the long term Blueprints don't build any real skills, and I learned to program with Unity.

Godot has potential, but it’s no where near Unity in terms of ease of use.

With Unity I can typically buy an asset for whatever I need, but with Godot I might need to implement it myself. Unity has tons of problems, but better off with the devil you know

I vastly prefer code over blueprints, and C# is much easier than C++.

I've tried learning Unreal like 3 times. I still can't even get the build chain working

Same, I'm a Unity dev but we desperately need a FOSS option.

How is the inspector/menu system compared to Unity.

C++ and blueprint spaghetti, no thanks

Exactly.

I enjoy writing my own small tools and slightly modifying some assets. I do hate that much of my current game is a black box since I don't know exactly how the asset actually works.

But I have fun working with Unity, Unreal always felt very hostile for some reason. Still can't get the C++ complier to work.

It's not a toy if you use Gaia + HDRP.

Unity doesn't have as much built in, but the asset store is miles ahead of Unreal's. You can build almost any game you can imagine ( within reason, MMOs are hard) fairly quickly. I am biased since I find C# to be much much easier than C++ and I don't like visual scripting.

One of the coolest tricks during gaming's golden age!

I even remember Nintendo power running an article telling people NOT to buy these.

Are you going to develop this project solo?

Actually, publishing a game is already a challenge, and adding mod support is a very nice stretch goal. But unless your game is wildly successful, it's very unlikely you'd actually have an active modding community.

If I was in your shoes I would use whatever game engine you're comfortable with, if Godot works for you that's awesome. Once you sell a million copies, you can hire someone to figure out how to add a modding component. Godot is also completely open source so you can change the engine to allow modding if your game takes off

According to Micro Centers website they actually don't have any in store. I might still just ask though.

How exactly does it boot.

If you do something really stupid and somehow fry your SD card in your Raspberry Pi, that's fine because you can always pop in another SD card. I wouldn't want to accidentally burn out the internal storage on this tablet and have no way to replace it.

I wouldn't be that negative, as long as certain things need to be on prem, we'll always have some people who can get the internet running again.

Most of these people just happen to be employed at AWS or azure right now.

It's all good until you remember you have to now higher an entire team to manage your bare metal servers. Companies don't like adding new employees, even when it's comparable in cost to hiring an outside vendor or paying for an outside service. Firing 10 people is very messy, reducing your AWS budget by 20%, however is not.

Actually this isn't a bad idea, anyway to save on shipping or get a promo code.

Once it's shipped, it's 60$ or so venturing close to what a WearOS watch cost ( I'm seeing older ones at 80$ or so)

Good point, assuming I can cancel the order I already made for a P8 watch( one thing I do love about Amazon is canceling is very very easy compared to other retailers )

This is pretty amazing, I'll buy one as soon as possible.

Can you modify the OS itself.

I want to program a watch that doesn't actually tell time.

This looks closest to what I want, I signed up for their waiting list

Yes, I want to actually make apps for the tracker. Other watches do support this, according to other posts in the thread.

However, your use case did spark my interest. Were you running a fitness company or something, was the tracker a key part of making sure your customers stayed on track.

Fantastic, I think I'll go with the Colmi P8 and try to build something silly with it.

Thanks

that ran on Raspberry PI devices

You were able to create a companion app, but I'm talking about actually running custom apps on the tracker itself. Do you know if that's possible

Can I write my own apps for the sealed version?

The dev kit seems a bit too low level for me

That's cool, but I was trying to find a company that publishes it's SDK. Ideally some app examples as well.

That said, given how cheap these watches are I'm open to trying anything. Were you able to write your own custom app too, or just consume existing data ?

I really love spaCy, it's trivial to throw up a server which handles basic NLP. No complaints here, very happy to see it still being updated

You may be correct, for some very specific use cases. No matter how much corporate clients want to holler, a few hours of downtime isn't going to hurt anyone.

I know I'd rather someone else do it, then having to drive 2 hours away to a data center at 4:00 in the morning. But I don't know exactly what you're working on , I definitely can't imagine some use cases where a few hours of down time is just unacceptable. I know I wouldn't want to run a logistics firm with servers that go down all the time.

Would you rather have to fix your own data center, or wait 4 hours.

AWS works 99% of the time,plus it's someone else's problem

The existence of super high level conversations, which normal developers could never have, is concerning.

You shouldn't be able to make your own rules just because your a billion dollar company