Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by __loam on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:29PM
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Don't be a prick in public man, it looks bad
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by whoknowsidont on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:48PM
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I mean it's a simple fact that the baseline for creating a game, roughly using the average developer experience/capability, is not months. Making a _good_ game might take months, it often takes years.
And that's the part AI is not going to be able to help you with.
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by 3036e4 on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:27PM
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Making a good boardgame, with zero need for programming, excluding artwork, is months or years of work. I would expect that much at a minimum for a (good) simple digital game, unless it is just going to sell on graphics and marketing alone (or luck).
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by hcnews on Sunday August 24, 2025 @09:45PM
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Maybe you are a games developer and are overlooking the fact that people have to first learn the basic apis/models/etc. of graphical systems, engines, etc. before using them. Not sure how you are saying that it wouldn't take a few weeks to code even a simple production game like chess or more complicated but still simple Jump king etc.
Just think of the speciality in which you aren't an expert, javascript/storage/networking ...
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by whoknowsidont on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:04PM
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I've dabbled and continue to dabble in areas where I know nothing about. And in this case, there's nothing super special about making a game.
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by hcnews on Sunday August 24, 2025 @09:43PM
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What is the contradiction? I am guessing it will take me a non-significant effort to learn game mechanics and code them etc.
Re:Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with...
by whoknowsidont on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:02PM
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You've never worked on games yet you are exceedingly confident about your estimation or the difficulty involved.
It's not that difficult to get a base level game up and running; ESPECIALLY with modern tooling.
You're contradicting yourself. I promise it wouldn't take you months, unless you're just a really bad developer.