ai is changing gaming every single week, and nobody was tracking it in one place. so i'm super excited to launch: @gamingfuturist . weekly insights and ideas on the intersection of ai and gaming. just last week: ▶ Epic vibe coded its new launcher ▶ Sega is pulling a Total War edition after bugs and AI upscaled art ▶ a top Steam game cancelled its demo over ai copycats Hiro (the snow leopard) will guide you through every issue. issue 1 is out: thegamingfuturist.beehiiv.co…

About 5x faster to prototype right now with Unreal Engine and 10x with ThreeJS. Working to reverse the gap by year end.

When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows: - Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking. - Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results. So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks. What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files. I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks. What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.

@threejsassets I've added all 4 times of day, the night scene look nice 👍

@threejsassets I put your "Icon" pack into a Meta VR game 👀 @KevinBlumson will upload the actual VR recording later / tomorrow. This is the desktop version. Bet you never thought your icons would get getting smashed up by nunchucks in the Metaverse? #Replit #MetaVR #Quest #ThreeJSAssets #GameDev

@threejsassets still not finished but did a bit of work. Also mobile optimised and PWA. Might put it on the PlayStore? Might need to change the name 😂 #Replit #ThreeJSAssets #GameDev #BuildInPublic #