What is a game marketplace In this article I will use “game marketplaces” to refer to platforms like Steam, the Epic Games Store, Roblox, GoG, and the like: sites where you can find different games to play (paid or not), who offer hosting (you access your games through them), and...
Yes! I've made short story games (for game jams and the like), silly experiments, and a game that actually got "on the algorithm".
Anyone who has played Roblox on PC already has the editor installed (called Roblox Studio), it's always come bundled with the normal executable. If you're familiar with other game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot) you'll feel at home and if not, if you already know how to code Luau is pretty easy to get into.
Publishing experiences has some hurdles that didn't use to exist (you have to be +17 or ID verify, I believe? The changes didn't specifically affect me as I already had all of that) because there's been a certain political pressure put on the platform and they've tightened up prerequisites to get your games to the public
In this article I will use “game marketplaces” to refer to platforms like Steam, the Epic Games Store, Roblox, GoG, and the like: sites where you can find different games to play (paid or not), who offer hosting (you access your games through them), and have some amount discoverability for the games on their stores. Outside of this definition are sites like Humble Bundle or other key [re]sellers which usually just redirect the user to one of the main platforms to claim their games.
There’s an odd one out on that list: Roblox. Some might not consider it a “traditional” marketplace, in a sense, because Roblox only offers games... (read 2239 more words →)
Mentally Outsourced Murphyjitsu.
I've recently been reading the CFAR handbook and after the Murphyjitsu chapter I realized that I use a similar technique that starts from a similar but I haven't seen mentioned.
When thinking about a problem or a project, Murphyjitsu calls to think of a future that went wrong and asking oneself "what went wrong?" to come up with possible paths to tackle that you might be glossing over in your thought process due to different biases or cached answers. What I usually do is, instead, make up a fictional critic; it can be a smug smart-ass, a user for your app, or anything that ideally doesn't see the world the way... (read more)
I agree with your review, and Eliezer's afterword, in that this story misses the mark on effectively transmitting Economic knowledge; though I still have to see how the FAQ compares. Overall it makes for a light read and a nice intro to the topics in question to start building intuition and show possible topics to learn more about.
This is the second time I've come across Eliezer's fiction writings thanks to a review on LessWrong (the other being Review: Planecrash), thanks for bringing the story up. I wish there was a more easily/visibly accessible list of his longer-form writing; it hadn't occurred to me that he had more stuff other than The Sequences, HPMOR and IABIED if it hadn't been for posts like these.
I also had the same impression and would like a disclaimer/confirmation as well