I’ve been doing Game Dev for the better part of 15 years now which is almost all of my career. I’ve been almost solely focused on building Tools and almost always building Editor internals and the interactions with the engine/assets systems.

There’s just so so much nuance to how editing works. You also want to be as close to how the engine will render so there’s also the need to either embed or have an api on your game to edit content live. People need hot reloading, people need things to look and act correct.

Just rendering a model accurately can be a challenge. Don’t get me started on animations

Looks pretty cool! I’m looking around the docs to find some import instructions for a common engine.

> A mirror at the vertex of the arms splits a single light beam into two, directing each beam down an arm of the instrument Mirrors at the ends of the arms reflect the beams back to their origin point where they are recombined to create an interference pattern called 'fringe

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-ligo

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligos-ifo

I’ve done a bunch of playing around with NEAT, a variant of GA using NNs, for various things. Typically for GA stuff though you have a genome, aka some set of instructions for an individual, a fitness function for scoring them, and then you generate new individuals from those genomes for the next population.

Original Paper on NEAT here:

https://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf

Lots of good resources here.

https://nn.cs.utexas.edu/

Real, in the way I believe you are trying to express, is a complicated topic.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

Example:

Fire Bomb 2R Instant

the mana is loaded as 2R instead of 2(Mountain Symbol) and the name/type don't seem to line up with what is generated.

Is there something I am missing here or do those inputs just override what is on the card?

You can talk about some abstractions about how a hydrogen atom works, but we don't fully understand everything about atomic structure. We don't know if there is something that makes up the structures of subatomic particles becuase we don't have particle accelerators that have enough energy for us to peer deeper into what quarks are made up of. We don't even know if we've found all the types of particles.

Nothing is really static in life. So nothing ever really is always just a thing, it was one thing, now it's a slightly different thing.

Secondarily, one can make the argument that due to the fact that you have a nervous system in your arm and your brain loses the signals from that system, in some way you have lost part of your consciousness when you are anesthetized. Since at it's core consciousness is just an awareness of what is happening to you.

Thirdly, whose to say if plants are conscious that their roots don't function in some way as their brain.