Balthazar Auger @baltauger@mastodon.gamedev.place

Today I got angry at Win/Lose ratios for being a shit statistic and started looking for a replacement. How was your day?

Experiencing a new brand of IS in which I, a senior Game Designer with over 12 years of experience and currently working as a creative director of a 10+ ppl team, feel guilty for not doing enough progress on my personal side project.

Also I am the father of 3 small children but evidently my brain feels that is somehow not enough

I got to do some very very basic math today at work and you know what it felt GREAT

Its pretty telling to how insidious the USA's cultural imperialism is when we complain about some US-based festival's duty to improve representation of other countries and cultures, instead of building our own events and make them just as or more relevant...

GDC to me has always been that mix of FOMO and JOMO, regardless of the fact that I'm attending or not

But for reals crunch is for losers and bad planners

And in case you were wondering, yes, I am already writing an inspirational LinkedIn post about the power of good teams and leadership #not

Oh wow that playtest must have gone down pretty well because the lead programmer made a WhatsApp group and we're all sharing heart emojis and wholesome gifs with each other.

Showed Billy Elliot to my kids and they got to the point of the movie by themselves in the first 10 minutes. We've certainly come a long way in these last decade or so

What's the German word for when you fork a repo thinking it will be a good base for a project but as you become more and more familiar with it you begin realizing it is actually a mess and end up replacing every line of it?

If Graeme Devine sees ypur game and loves it, then that means it's not shite right?

If, however, like me, you work in videogames and want to give players a more hopeful / fair number, use a small amount of fudge and use (W-(L/2))*WinLossRatio.

This rank overvalues winning and motivates you to keep playing to improve your score.

Not like that horrible naked WLR which only makes you want to not play if you got a high enough ratio in few matches blegh

For instance, WinLossDifference * WinLossRatio a.k.a. (W-L)/(1+(L/W)) is a much better indicator of a team being either consistently good, average or too young to tell, or consistently shitty.

Run the formula on this dataset and see for yourselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all-time_Major_League_Baseball_win%E2%80%93loss_records#World_Series

Today I got angry at Win/Lose ratios for being a shit statistic and started looking for a replacement. How was your day?

This is going... well?

For my office's GGJ keynote, I shall now attempt to meld good wholesome jamming advice with the 6 rules of the KonMari method. With no safety net.

Am I preparing bread to leave overnight and bake in the morning? Yes, I am preparing bread to leave overnight and bake in the morning.

Git folx: I am hacking together a Twine format based on snowman, plus a couple of other js libs, mainly for presentation purposes.

What would the "correct" way of structuring my repo in case I eventually would want to publish the format on GitHub?

Is it ok to work on all my own forks and include them as submodules? or should the supporting libs be statically added to the main repo?