I realise I am going to come across exactly like this stock market trader the BBC was interviewing ages ago but I totally get the mentality. I've had a long plan of setting up my own game dev/media business and I am absolutely thrilled at all the bad shit that is happening to these awful companies. I know that traditionally it's bad karma to celebrate people losing their jobs and everything but in these particular instances and given they really are the absolute worse sorts of people getting the axe I think I can get away with it.
Hollywood, going down? That's fucking fantastic, can't stand the paedophile people traffickers. On top of that back in the day it would have been unthinkable for an outsider to come up with any kind of movies or short films to compete but now they're shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity and the AI dispute with the writers and actors might be the thing that finally kills them or at least severely weakens their hold over media.
Games companies dying? Great, fuck them, they hate their own playerbase anyway and openly show they do. Not only that, like Hollywood they consistently produce shit and haven't made a single improvement in their workflows with the overall quality going to hell.
Journalists getting replaced by AI? That's even better, all of the stuff they spew out is going to be unwatchable and the AI could well be exploited at some point that even with left wingers the news is going to be discredited. Adding to that journalists simply won't have the same power as they once did so they won't be able to form convincing twitter mobs against specific people who stand up to them or just get in their crosshairs.
Everyone who cares about the state of journalism, films, games should be excited about what's going to happen and there's a lot of money to be made from these stupid fucks. Indie creators will now be able to get their foot in the door with films as Hollywood's reach diminishes. Indie game devs can compete with the big corporations even if they're shamelessly cloning other titles as long as it doesn't suck which I find hilarious. Citizen journalists as well are probably going to get far more attention online as the normies get fed up with the AI bots everywhere or react with horror as some 4chan autist manages to get the AI to spam gas the jews live on air to be edgy.
I'm already making stuff, I've messaged the gaming mods to see if I can post a shill thread there and put up my stuff now because I've been getting a few 'challenges' from idiots who get mad about me criticising games they like and they claim I don't know anything about how the mechanics work even though I code. I figured as well of course it wouldn't be good to be one of those people joining a site right away and purely posting ads like a dick lol because I know what that often looks like. Dunno if I should maybe do a post on this place instead or what people think.
Hey man, you can shill to me in the comments here, nobody needs to know...
Also, I see from your post history you're using Godot. Very based.
lol thanks, I feel like it would be polite to contain it all in one thread though.
I just started entering the industry because I got fed up with the direction of the game market. Finishing an internship now.
Are you just looking to do solo stuff, or are you looking for more people to go against the grain to really start something? Most of the people I find really just mean they're web3 shills obsessed with forcing NFTs into their games when they think of "going against the grain".
Well I posted a thread awhile back giving resources to people for making their own games including my own workflow, I think I'm just going to go ahead and make my own topic and see if the mods tell me off because I'm getting an increasing number of questions. When it comes to my own work no, no NFTs or any of that crap and you're right that's just people looking for a cash grab. I've been doing a heavy amount of research myself into all genres of games and I'm now at the stage where I'm confident I can make pretty much any genre of game I want. It's exciting being able to properly get into the design phase.
I should also post my github again because I do update the code and I've put up stuff like box selection code I worked out from an out of date tutorial that's now all completely functional among other things. I use the Godot engine by the way and that's been another part of my research to make sure on the software side of things at least I can't be compromised.