> Am I missing something serious here

Only just that the video games industry as we've known it for the past few decades is basically already dead—at best, it's a hollowed-out husk of what it once was.

- It opens to the editor mode rather than the gameplay mode on launch

- It makes a .run/ directory next to the executable if one doesn't already exist

- It makes a timestamped directory within .run/ for this current debug run

- It automatically records stdout to stdout.txt, stderr to stderr.txt, and a crash.txt if the game crashes, in the directory for this run

- When the “take debug screenshot” function is invoked (which can be done by pressing F12), it saves a timestamped (based on time since executable launched) screenshot in the directory for this run

- Editor actions and 3D camera movements are recorded to playback.txt in the directory for this run

With all of this in place, I can do a debug build, run the game, do something in the editor, and take one or more screenshots where things went wrong. Then, Codex can see the log files and screenshots and try to diagnose the problem. When attempting to fix the problem, it can automatically recompile the debug build and rerun it with a launch option that plays back the latest recording file, which does the same sequence of editor actions/camera movements and takes screenshots at the same points in the process. Then it can compare this to the initial recorded run and see what needs to be fixed.

We could be having a GUI renaissance right now but for various primarily aesthetic reasons people are churning out TUIs, and personally I think it's a huge mistake.

There are entire classes (even genres) of video games that don't require substantial third-party library support, and it's frustrating to see that this seems to be more and more of a minority view as time goes on.

Perhaps if you're completely devoid of imagination.

It is in fact possible to make video games without deferring to open-source libraries for every single aspect of it.

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This is apparently in reference to this NYAG press release: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-...

> In addition, although this case is about illegal gambling, it is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence, particularly among young gamers who can become numbed to grave violence before their brains are fully developed.

Shameful!

What's interesting though is, at least in my experience, LLMs are terrible at generating Inform 7 code specifically because it's so uncanny-valley-similar to English.

Is it the context menu key? Or did they do another Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win+L thing?

Think of how dramatically this hypothetical alternate reality differs from the one we live in, and then consider just how galling it is that these people have the nerve to piss on our leg and then tell us it's raining. Things are not getting better. This supposedly-magical new technology isn't observably improving things where it matters most—rather, it's demonstrably hastening the decline of the baseline day-to-day software that we depend upon.