There are four new art levels and six old art levels left in the game right now. Everything is going to die when the Steam version launched, so I need to get all this content debugged in the 10 days between the announcement and April 12.Įverything has been hit.
You remember what the game used to look like? Here’s Balcony, and this is what it looks like now. Hecker: I have a giant content drop of all the remaining old art converted to new art. But I’d like to keep working on this game, because it’s coming out really well. I don’t think I’ll be homeless or anything, thankfully. I can program a computer and I live in the bay area. It feels like I’m 18 and going away to college. Do I have to get a job? I have no visibility. It’s this weird thing, to be 47 and have a kid and a mortgage in the bay area and not have any idea what my life looks like in 30 days. But does that indicate that Steam will sell well? I have no idea. The fact that I’ve sold 24,000 copies off of Steam, just a Paypal link on my website, is a very good number for an indie game. Who knows? The indie game business is pretty scary. Hopefully there’s more than that once it goes on Steam. Hopefully that’s not the sum total of the people who want to play the game. It’s sold about 24,000 copies, which is great for an indie game, knock on wood. It’s been for sale on for about five or six. The game was actually started before that, at a game jam. I got laid off from Maxis at the end of 2009.
#Spyparty full
The game has been in development full time for eight years. Hecker: I have a Steam early access launch date. But what it means for society as a whole is really interesting. I can think of 20 different places in SpyParty where you could do a deep learning thing, from a testing and debugging standpoint to playability and stuff. It has such wide-ranging privacy concerns. Hecker: To some extent, that’s not even the most interesting question to me. GamesBeat: I don’t think anybody’s gotten to what this means for games yet. SpyParty is a perfect platform to do this kind of thing. But this feels big enough that I should learn this stuff. The GPU prices went through the roof, but nobody does real mining on graphics processing units (GPUs). All of Google’s stuff apparently runs on that. Hecker: Then there’s these that are custom coded for it. They show a CPU recognizing flowers, which is pretty slow, and then they turn on the GPU. GamesBeat: Nvidia shows that video about flower recognition. Now there’s so many positive feedback loops that you get a Facebook and you get a Google. There’d be a big one and a couple of runners-up. It used to be, if you went to a small town, there would be three stores that sold the same kinds of things, and fourth store would struggle, but you could have a top three. That’s why I get a little creeped out by every time there’s one of those Captcha things on a website. We just didn’t have a billion images to train it on. It’s the same neural net tech from the ‘90s. A lot of what happened was, now we just have so much data. He saw that transition, and I was talking to him a lot about what happened and what it felt like.
#Spyparty code
He started his image processing PhD when it was like, “Now I’ll write the code to find the mustache.” By the end of his PhD, because it takes six years, you just throw all this data at the thing and something pops out. I was at Foo Camp a couple years ago, and I was talking to a guy who was-I can’t remember the name of the package, but he was at Cal, working on one of the big open source packages.
The deep learning stuff went from basically not working at all to, “Now I can talk into my phone and a text message comes out.” Something happened in there. Hecker: Well, I specifically mean the deep learning kind of AI. GamesBeat: You would think that you had AI as an idea in this game from way back.
GamesBeat: How are you feeling about this?Ĭhris Hecker: In some ways, I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time on this, and in the meantime things like artificial intelligence have become so big.
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