Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game
by gamegod on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:28AM
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Related: I don't see how any kid is going to have the motivation and patience to learn how to program a game like this from scratch now when you can just conjure it up with an LLM.
Why would I sit through years of education? The number of competent programmers is going to drop significantly, but also, people are not going to learn the patience and commitment necessary to do hard things, which is part of learning to program.
- punch and kick don't seem to have differences in effect, just animation - bosses don't have obvious gimmicks to beat them
But the main take-away for me is that this takes me back to computing in my youth, where you could dream up a project and bash it out in a few days. It wouldn't be polished, it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be yours. It would do what you wanted. Computing was ours, it didn't yet belong to big corporations controlling what we could do and how we could do it.
Projects like this give me hope that a new generation will experience that. Aiden won't ever forget this game, even if it's nothing special to you or me. Aiden won't ever forget that feeling of imagining a change, and having it happen. The price for it would've been somewhere around $300-$500, so not exactly broadly accessible - making AI efficient enough to run cheaply should be the main goal of humanity, but we're letting computing get locked up by a few rich sociopaths once again.