@LariscusObscurus @davidgerard
It has a singular negative review. This guy didn't even bother to do any marketing - anyone who cares about reaching people via steam knows that you get friend, family, early enthusiasts to post a couple reviews as the game launches, because that's how the algorithm figures out you're a real project.

For the record putting a game up on steam costs 100 euros.

@LariscusObscurus @davidgerard
Some real gems in there
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4596000/CODEX_vs_SCIENCE_Not_Talos_Principles/
" CODEX vs SCIENCE (Not Talos Principles) is a [...] game designed to address the deep-rooted cultural drivers behind severe human conflicts: the friction between dogmatic religious extremism and anti-dogmatic scientific skepticism. Set against the backdrop of current geopolitical crises, such as the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, the game serves as a cultural intervention. "

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

@zzt really good essay about the whole "just the code" thing. https://lia-sae.net/articles/2026/02/code-is-a-wedge.html

@zzt People trampling over each other's expertise has been the #1 constant every time LLMs and game dev are mentionned. Someone will loudly declare "Oh, we could use the bot to do X" and I'm not sure they even realise there's someone in the room for who X is their expertise and how violent of a statement that is toward them.
If mounting bugs and burn out don't destroy your game, social corrrosion between different jobs will.

@glyph @0xabad1dea

I was the unfortunate witness of a Fable-generated review of a game engine prototype and a non- negligible portions of output tokens were spent on how the offline video game might *gasp* not be memory-safe.
But it congratulated the author for their "serious warning posture" of compiling with -Wall -Werror so there's that.
I think you could probably point it at Hamlet and it would identify at least a couple vulns.