i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko I don't know how you do it - if I make a post that gets 10 likes all the notifications bug the crap out of me

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@banjofox @eldersea @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Yeap!

[mocelet@mindly.social]

@datarama @eniko I still maintain that IoT stands for "internet of things that don't need to be connected to the internet"

[twistylittlepassages@weirder.earth]

@maia something tells me @grumpygamer would approve

[bredroll@mas.to]

@badtux @me @eniko 15 years ago i started writing a game, i lost the git repo until i found it again on monday! i added some cmake files and it compiled and ran! C and LibSDL2 !

[justjanne@mastodon.decentralised.chat]

@eniko I want to buy software on CD with nice packaging and printed manual.

I want to go back to an era where you buy one release of a piece of software and can use it forever, and updates are another boxset with new features released two years later.

I want software to be tested by an actual QA department, and manuals and CHM help files to be created by technical writers that get paid as much if not more than the developers.

[woolie@mastodon.social]

@eniko there is a certain app I use that has daily updates, sometimes several a day. And yet, it works like shit, and in some cases will freeze at startup for 10-15 minutes. Oh and takes a ton of memory and CPU.

[oscherler@tooting.ch]

@eniko I’ve now caught up with that cursed level and completed world 5.

I’ve also reached the conclusion that it’s a game for speed runners. Because you can’t be affected by the SMB3-physics-that-won’t-let-you-stop if you never stop.

[gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko how about mine? 18 of 21 are small enough to fit on a floppy disk. https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/fits-on-a-floppy/

[deedo@mastodon.nl]

@wpeckham @eniko real innovation takes place in scarcity.

But the market's approach of conquering markets first, burn the ground for newcomers has replaced true innovation with literal scorched earth tactics.

You could call it digital colonialism if you'd like as well, the parallels are there...

[cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Handcrafted software (the opposite to autogenerated, mass produced, vibe coded one), with a seal of authenticity ​​

Software that you can't download from the Internet and you only can get by going to a street flea market where somebody will offer it to you in a 3.5" floppy that you have to wait to get home to try on that old Amiga 500 ​​ (or an Amstrad CPC, awawa... ​​)

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@eniko The best commits are the ones with more - than +.

I know that's a tangent to your point, I just find it satisfying.