On: Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest

[nullstyle]

IMO, We really should be centering these discussions around the lines that separate Remix versus Ripoff. I want to live in an age of less effortful remixes that push the culture forward, but we are mostly getting ripoffs that slopify the culture at the moment. Shun the ripoffs, praise and boost the remixes, same as it ever was.

[andai → nullstyle]

Are you talking about Minecraft in Dark Souls and that kind of thing?

[nullstyle → andai]

I’m speaking about it in the same context as this indie dev: https://youtu.be/3Vm6WqoaNZ4?is=GJh6kjOLA2Rg2WbX

This is just something I’m starting to ruminate on, so I recommend that you go watch the video. As a lifelong gamer and sometimes game developer, I want to live in a world where everybody and their mother can implement a game idea that they have. we just need better mechanisms to critique those games at a similar scale.

[andai → nullstyle]

>his game was cloned before he released it

Damn. Yeah that sucks.

I'd say his actual problem was lack of visibility. You wanna be in a position where people say, "oh, this is a clone of That Guy's game."

The actual "product" becomes the game dev, and his brand, rather than the actual game.

Or more broadly... marketing is more important than game development. (Or at least as important.)