Aside from Sega I was going to toss Atari on that list but TIL they are very much still making new hardware, except it's all targeted for retro gaming. Different focus and not a true competitor to Sony but technically still kicking.
The sagrada familia is really cool. I highly recommend people get a guide (either the audio version or a real one) because the amount of detail is overwhelming.
This is an uneducated take, pixel art is hard to do well. It's fine if you don't like it but if you insist on calling it lazy I insist you look into what it takes.
But if video games are ever going to be taken seriously as an artistic medium, they have to grow up, and that means learning how to love authentically.
No. That take is horseshit. They don't have to do anything to be taken seriously as art. They already are. If you can't see it because it doesn't tick some of your boxes that's a you issue.
I don't really play fighting games anymore but previous titles like SF Ex+Alpha had a killer training mode which scratched my completionist itch. There were scores and gates and progressions, though I can't recall if you got anything like XP (in truth that bares no relevance to a fighting game anyway).
I would recommend taking a crack at some frameworks and engines while simultaneously reading up on how games work (in general, as there are no hard rules).
Broadly speaking though, games are basically control systems. It's one big loop where the output of the previous loop affects the state of the next loop.
Modern engines and frameworks schedule the game updates and rendering separately to provide better/consistent frame rates.
Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
That reminds me I need to login and transfer some funds to my fleet carrier, if it hasn't already defaulted. Love the game but shallow depth for sure :(
Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I'm not on Lemmy because of federation, that's incidental. I'm here because it's another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.
Yeah you're really killing it in this thread.