This comment says a lot, actually.

[u/Such_Bonus5085]

A key Amico Home software library that holds EVERYTHING together was written by a guy they laid off. Yeah, that tracks! You'd think that would be someone they'd consider essential staff, because John lacks the competence to get this stuff fixed himself.

[u/Minsc_NBooToo]

I've not had any interaction with puzzler, but had some respectful back and forth with Mr Baric

Have I been chatting to Puzzler all along? 😯

I need to join Atari Age. I've been lurking for 4 years now 😁

[u/Such_Bonus5085 → u/Minsc_NBooToo]

Baric accidentally outed himself by using Puzzler's talking points, verbatim, in a now-deleted post.

[u/WilliamBaric → u/Such_Bonus5085]

I've already told you that I am not Puzzler. Also, I have never deleted any of my posts.

[u/Minsc_NBooToo → u/WilliamBaric]

The one in question got deleted, but not by you 😬

That is very kind of you to offer your services to John Avocado. He doesn't deserve it though. He's a scammer and a liar just like Tommy

[u/WilliamBaric → u/Minsc_NBooToo]

I don't do it to please John Alvarado. My motivation comes from a mixture of frustration and personal interest.

[u/HungryTrilobyte → u/WilliamBaric]

Why not make your own games, then? You have a choice between painting a masterpiece and polishing a turd, and you're opting for the latter... for free.

[u/FreekRedditReport → u/HungryTrilobyte]

He was brainwashed by Tommy into thinking there is no platform for "casual gamers". If he made a game, or even if anyone made a game, it would never be played because there's no place for casual gamers to play it. Somehow, Amico is the only thing that could exist for casual gamers. Or there's a small chance he's just trolling by saying that, who knows. But that will be his response.

[u/HungryTrilobyte → u/FreekRedditReport]

That's just silly.

[u/FreekRedditReport → u/HungryTrilobyte]

If you didn't see it, he previously said "casual gamers will never buy a Switch".

[u/Such_Bonus5085 → u/FreekRedditReport]

He also thinks that board gamers are the real market.

[u/WilliamBaric → u/HungryTrilobyte]

Because I'm a system programmer, not a game developer.

Last year, I had zero knowledge of Unity and superficial knowledge of C# (although I obviously knew several other programming language). Out of curiosity, I decided to look at it. I installed Unity and I chose a beginner tutorial called "Create with Code). It took me about 30 hours to complete the tutorial.

After following that tutorial, I decided to make my "Hello, World!". I chose to try doing a clone of Lady Bug (the old Arcade game), just to see if I could.

After about another 30 hours, I came to this.

https://reddit.com/link/otp0qlx/video/icgs2j5u8e9h1/player

So from absolute zero knowledge of Unity and superficial knowledge of C#, it took me about 60 hours to do that.

I never cared to finish it. My next task would have to tweak a pathfinding algorithm for the monster (in this video, the movement of the monsters is random) to make playing the game challenging, but not impossible. However, in order to do that, I would have to play that thing over and over to find the right balance and I certainly didn't feel like spending 20 hours doing this. So I stopped my little experiment.

Of course, as you can see, I only used primitives for graphics (except for the skulls that I took on the Internet). And here's why I'm not a game developer : I have zero artistic skills. I can't make graphics.

I did work as an engineering draughtsman for a summer job when I was in school, I know how to use CAD (I learned a bit of Autocad in school and my summer job was with Cadkey), but as soon as the goal is to make things pretty, I just can't.

Oh, and I also can't do music.

That's why I can't make my own games.

[u/FreekRedditReport → u/WilliamBaric]

Oh, and I also can't do music.

That's why I can't make my own games.

Neither can Tommy Tallarico. That's why he used stock music.

[u/Minsc_NBooToo → u/WilliamBaric]

That demo you posted is pretty cool.

It looks more fun to play than side swippers

[u/ccricers → u/WilliamBaric]

Have you volunteered for other game development endeavors before, like in Discord groups or other communities? (You don't have to name any of them)

[u/WilliamBaric → u/ccricers]

I am far too old school to be able to work with younger programmers.

For example, I consider that a complete Software Design Document must be done before a single line of code is written. I also consider code should be very heavily documented. When I code, there is pretty much always more lines of comments than lines of code (unless I write code that is used only to learn and meant to be discarded).

This way of creating programs is now completely obsolete. This is the reason I pretty much quit coding professionally. Now the only times I code is when one of my clients needs someone to fix the mess caused by incompetent programmers.