The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Every once in a while, I come up with a clump of topics too small for their own posts. A post that drew so much abuse that Substack literally added new moderation abilities because of it. Posting this chart every year only gets more and more fun! Geneforge 2 - Infestation Demo Available! They contacted me personally!)

Indy 96

Indy Demo Games Balance 96

AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This sort of information could be used to influence matchmaking decisions, for example, preventing players who are more sensitive to abusive content from being matched with players more tolerant of toxicity. This service can be used for many purposes such as extracting entities, topics and key phrases from text.

Content 120

Content Data Scripting Point and Click 120

Game Daily

MAY 12, 2023

GameDaily: To go back to your example of the cat with a red hat, it seems to me that if the AI is scraping copyrighted material to deliver results, a person who claims original copyrights – say a photograph of a cat that was used carelessly in the AI result – can try and bring a case of copyright abuse. Can you talk about that?

AI 98

AI Game Developer Game Development Development 98

Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Surely, an algorithm could help there… Anyway, more on the topic of the incredible eco-system of pirated APKs, in a future report. Further questions for clarification were politely declined, again pointing to above policy but refusing to be transparent about particular reasons. – Patrick Klug. Greenheart Games.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Culling Content Writing 52

Filmustage

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Dae-su Oh (the protagonist) has the opportunity to take revenge on his abuser almost at the beginning of the second act of the story, but he backs away and begins a brutal investigation into his imprisonment. And then the first plot revelation occurs. A more beautiful, subtle, and majestic story about a lowly subject cannot be invented.

Film 52

Film Animation Animation Cinematics 52

The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with charming, reassuring stock photos. Public figures have always received hate mail, abuse, threats, and messages from the unhinged, and they always will. If you are a public figure, you will be abused eventually. How much abuse can you take?

Writing 93

Writing Fighting Internet Point and Click 93

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The other chargeable item I put together after this one, which I’ll be sharing next time while discussing a different topic, is actually a utility. It also really depends on how they want to be balanced in the bigger picture, as well as how people abuse, I mean use, them :P This is the first post in a series on new item mechanics.

Balance 52

Balance Mechanics Beta Alpha 52