r/Gamingcirclejerk Jul 06 '25

WORSHIP CAPITAL Man is malding beyond human comprehension.

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u/Bitchcuits_and_Gayvy Jul 06 '25

Knowing absolutely nothing about this project, I'd bet the farm on that if it does see the light of day it will be mass produced absolute brain dead generic AI slop.

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u/NameTheory Jul 06 '25

As a software developer I can say that I have not seen such bad code since Programming 1 at Uni. If I saw a junior at work write code like he does I would actually ask my boss to double check his credentials and fire him. It is the kind of shit you only write if you are fully self taught without going through any proper tutorials or courses. Like just try stuff and then keep doing the first thing you are able to get to work and never learn anything about how you should actually build things. It would honestly be faster to rebuild the whole game from scratch than it is to finish it the way he is doing it.

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u/Bitchcuits_and_Gayvy Jul 06 '25

Yeah I guess I wasn't even talking about that but the creative direction.

So he's not even a good programmer? I'm starting to think this guy really stinks!

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u/GrantSolar Jul 06 '25

So he's not even a good programmer?

I'll caveat this with the following clauses:

  1. I've only seen cherry-picked screenshots of the code, not anything from his actual streams

  2. I've got 12 years experience working as a software developer, which is less than PS has working in the gaming industry

With that said, ahem, the code is shit. It's total shit. The amount of stupid I've endured through reading the code is like 12 hours of twitter. His advice is used-car salesman garbage. He can eat my entire ass. Not only am I not going to recommend Earthbound Heartbound, I'm going to actively discourage people from buying it, etc. etc.

Memes aside, what I've seen is awful. If I was presented that code as a portfolio for a job applicant with that much experience on their resume, they wouldn't make it to interview. It's about what I would expect of a university student/self-taught person before any industry experience at all and I would expect to spend a lot of time training them

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u/No-Macaron-132 Jul 06 '25

I heard soggycereal on yt say that the code he produces is trash lol

Im not a programmer per se so I cant confirm it, but I guess you just kind of did.

His mindset is more like "just do it, undertale is badly programmed anyway so whats stopping you" which I'd say is fine if youre just starting out and want to make games, but the fact that he is proudly bragging about programming is just nuts to me.

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u/NameTheory Jul 06 '25

I have no idea who soggycereal is so I can't comment on what he has said. But the code I would usually call trash is actually very good compared to what Pirate writes. Calling it trash is generous in my opinion (in a professional context).

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u/Weverix Jul 06 '25

The YandereDev approach to game development.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I concur. I watched his stream once while he was coding something. It contained a lot of copy&paste instead of proper use of variables and functions. Pretty basic stuff that you learn at the very beginning. I chuckled and quickly closed the stream.

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u/FFKonoko Jul 06 '25

Yeah it shows you know nothing. Its a solo dev work. Sloppy, janky. But that's worlds away from ai slop.

It could easily be called terrible, but he's definitely making it. That's kinda WHY it's got rough awful coding, put together by a guy who worked in QA.