OdysseyPoint

Still problems with the reticle floating away on it's own.

Are they called Forever Entertainment because that's how long it takes for them to get it right.

He's making modern games to sell to modern gamers (the biggest audience). He wants to make money.

The real fault here is misusing the Shinobi name to sell a game that doesn't play like Shinobi.

"I can't even put into words how much this simplifies a port like this, but to me working on the GB Bridge version seems almost stupid now."

He doesn't even understand why his own work is valuable to himself.

All that matters to him is the output (that he didn't create).

@slider1983

"AI reporting can be programmed to be more unbiased. "

And who programs them to be "more unbiased"?

Why would you spend your time reading an article written by AI which you can easily generate yourself with a google search. It's worthless.

I do find it funny that Generation Amiga prevents copying of text on their website, when all their articles are generated from stolen source material.

@turboxray

Proximity to the hardware doesn't make you a better or worse programmer.

Major studios like Sega, EA, and Konami weren't coding every game from scratch in the 90's either, they were using shared internal low-level libraries, engines and tools.

AI is also not the same as a dev kit. SGDK provides a framework for a human to express themselves with their own logic, artwork and music, while AI replaces the human's creative and logical decision-making entirely.

If I know AI/LLMs were used in a home brew game it's a sure sign there is a lack of care elsewhere in the game. Expect to find bugs, unpolished game play, and bad generic artwork (that they think looks good).

"Işık Şekercigil"

Who?

Yeah, I'm gonna give this project a miss.

FIFA games have never been about deep game play, it has always been a shallow experience compared to Sensible Soccer, Superstar Soccer, and later Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer.

FIFA has relied on presentation and grabbing all the official licenses, particularly from the 2010's onwards.

These people are a cancer in homebrew, the Mega Drive in particular because of it's ease of development.

Players and especially reviewers simply have to start telling the truth about new homebrew games, most of them are very badly made, or outright criminal cash-grabs.

There are too many youtube reviewers giving everything 8 or 9 out of 10 and barely playing the game.

"The only people that I give a Call of Duty get-out-of-jail-free card to is the military. They're out there serving..."

"Serving who?", is the question.

Never join the military.

@slider1983 Unfortunately for you, calling me a troll does not refute my arguments.

Your position is currently "I like AI and everyone that doesn't is either biased or a troll."

AI use in the creative aspects of game development will continue to be a red flag to indicate cost-cutting and/or lazy work, and you are doing nothing to disprove that.

@slider1983 AI/LLMs are used in game development predominantly to cut corners and not because it's better for the job. As such, notifying potential players of games using these tools is valuable as it tells them that shortcuts were taken and to be wary of the quality of the game.

Use of AI also indicates a lack of human creativity (more so in the case of writing, art, and music) which may also put some people off.

There is also (perhaps most significant of all) the issue of how the AI tools are trained on stolen data, people could also be against AI for that reason.

Instead of trying to shame the writer of these articles for being bias against AI, you should ask yourself why you defend AI use in game development (or any creative field) given the above?

@nokber AI is not "just a tool". It's often a useful red flag to indicate lazy work, in that case these articles are valuable.

A great example is home brew games. Any game that uses AI artwork has almost certainly taken shortcuts elsewhere (usually shallow cash-grab game play) and is a useful warning to steer clear.

There are numerous reasons to port games to old consoles beyond as a passion project:

• Development of tools and knowledge that benefits that homebrew scene
• Increases knowledge and skill of the dev
• Increases visibility of that scene, which in turn increases the viability of new commercial games for homebrew

The guy that complained about homebrew ports makes badly researched and edited 4hr long youtube rants that only his other bitter gameplay critic friends watch.

@Quick_Man They are copying the Sony's employee's work and expecting credit, I find that as distasteful as you do me not crediting the copier.

Aside from the ethical reasons for not using generative AI (using copyrighted work as training data), it always just looks like you're trying to take a shortcut.

There are shortcuts in real creative work, but they have to be earned. The AI kind of shortcut is lazy and tells me you aren't that bothered about the result.

Why then should I be interested in your work if you aren't?

@Quick_Man 1-for-1 copying the work of actual creative people does not deserve credit.

This comes across as more of an opinion piece than a news article (even though I agree with all your takes on generative AI here).

@HappyFuzzy Except it's not their work, it the creative person who was working at Sony.

I can't feel sorry for the guy that made the logo, even if the response was rude.

It reminds me of sprite rippers getting upset when they don't get credited. Well done but they're still not your sprites.

@Damo "If this were a man we were talking about here, you wouldn't even have commented, would you?"

If this were a man your article wouldn't exist.

@theconstellationiris "Many people of many walks of life find careers based on those of their parents or family..."

Would you be excusing nepotism if it were a man? We know the answer.

@flibblesan The opposite is true. Because she is a woman you're saying we're not allowed to question her path and experience for the role.

You wouldn't hesitate to question it if a man was given a CEO role by his father.

@Damo "As noted in this piece, she has industry experience."

Which her father also provided:

"she joined her father Henk’s company Blue Planet Software, Inc. as the director of business development, a position in which she served for four years. In 2014, Maya then became the CEO of Tetris and the parent company Blue Planet Software. "

"Everybody knows me, because I'm a girl, right?"

I think it's perhaps because you were promoted to CEO by your father, the founder of the company.

This is what remains of the BBC. They're losing licence fee payers by the hundreds of thousands every year, all they have left is rage bait to get attention.

@Mrakey None of which are a SNES game.

@Mrakey "Waste of time, emulators already fix NES games."

If you had taken the time to read the replies to the dev's twitter post above he said: "I like the challenge, and I hope that in the future others will take my ports and make them look/sound 16-bit."

Isn't it nice to see devs just working on a game and sharing their progress instead of slinging a Kickstarter with plushies out of the gate?

@retrosumus It's hard to take criticism (whether it's right or wrong) so it's to your credit that you've responded calmly and thoughtfully. Thank you.

@retrosumus I appreciate that things will change as the game develops, but you have to ask why the funding may not meet it's target. In my opinion that is because it looks substandard and uninteresting. I hope that you hire a pixel artist to oversee the visuals.

I also recommend you remove the Soviet symbols and references from the game, to be honest I'm shocked that you thought this was a good idea as there are bound to be a certain amount of people put off by it (including publishers), why risk it?

First thing I noticed is that they're using the RoboCop font in the game. Not very professional.

Secondly, they do not have an actual artist on staff only a "3D designer", and it shows in the product. A retro game (even with rendered models) charging money without a pixel artist on paid staff is not a good start.