Stompworks, A small book's worth of prompts in about a week.

Cel-shaded fully customizable mechs. Buy the right parts, take out the enemies, and don't die. 18 torsos, 14 sets of legs and 27 weapons. Mostly finished, and hope ya'll dig it.

This was a lot of fun to make, I think the key is to build everything in small steps, and mix up prompts between bug fixes and features.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5383780/Stompworks/?beta=0

u/crumbaker — 5 days ago

Iron Maw, First time showing here, a tale of trains, guns, and corporate rule.

The game is a mix of a 3rd person shooter on rails, a survivor-like, and a dash of tower defense. You upgrade your rail cars as you go along that assist you in defending the last cities free of corporate rule. Features Co-op where your friend can control the back engine once unlocked. Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5311750/Iron_Maw/?beta=0

This took about a small books worth of prompts to get right, initially with just a picture as a reference of what I wanted. Honestly if you're specific enough, it seems like just about anything is possible with ai now.

u/crumbaker — 11 days ago
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Iron Maw. A tale of trains, guns, and corporate rule.

The game is a mix of a 3rd person shooter on rails, a survivor-like, and a dash of tower defense. You upgrade your rail cars as you go along that assist you in defending the last cities free of corporate rule. Features Co-op where your friend can control the back engine once unlocked. Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5311750/Iron_Maw/?beta=0

I started on this once Astra was released. It took a small books worth of prompting to get what you see here. I'm on the $100 plan and luckily had a lot of banked resets. As far as tips go on how to make something like this. I'd say you start off making a character model, then use a screenshot for the basic environment. Combine those into a basic level then branch out from there. Being super specific about everything helps a ton. The models were all designed via the blender mcp.

u/crumbaker — 13 days ago

Warning Ebay no longer promoting my listings despite me paying for promotions.

So my listings went from getting 50 to 150 views in around 3 days time. To now less than 10 over a couple weeks time. This has just started happening about two weeks ago. The same items I sell as before. I even tried a higher rate, same result.

It looks as though not only are they not promoting but actually might be hiding my listings from general results. Same quality pictures, same items. No defects on my account. I typically do about 7 to 10k in sales over a 90 day period in time. This is happening in multiple categories. I am now getting almost no sales. Has anyone else been seeing this in the last two weeks?

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u/crumbaker — 1 month ago

Massive deflation and inflation in the used market observations.

Just wanted to see if everyone else is seeing the same thing I'm seeing. My niche is computers/parts, and vintage/antiques (especially non sport cards and ephemera).

Two very different niche's but I'm seeing the same patterns. Highly sought after items keep going up and up. Things that while they could be good items that sell regularly, if they aren't the top tier nobody wants them unless they can get a deal that's completely unreasonable.

$300 laptops used to be on of my easiest sales, had no problem selling them even 10 to 15 years ago. Now all anyone seems to want are $150 laptops, specs be damned. If the laptop is worth $150 you'll get $150 for it, if it's worth $300 good luck on selling on marketplace, or it's gonna sit way longer than normal on ebay. However if you have something you could run some basic llms or for high end gaming, it should go pretty quick, maybe more than it should really sell for.

High end vintage/antiques the same thing, highly sought after items going through the roof in prices right now. Cards like the 1966 batman that could be had for next to nothing only a few years ago, have now soared in the thousands of dollars. However good Stollwerck sets, that were slowly creeping up in price, are just sitting and sitting unless you have a Leonardo. Ephemera seems to be completely dead, unless you have some really weird piece that everyone wants, same with ceramics.

I think it's a sign the economy is getting worse. Rich keep getting richer and the poor are barely hanging on right now, and the middle class is also just getting by. You all seeing the same patterns?

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u/crumbaker — 2 months ago

Rickshaw Pizza Dude, made with 5.6 Sol High

Rufus has to make rent in 2 days and has taken on multiple pizza jobs at once. You have to pick up pizzas at the different job locations, and deliver them within the allotted time frame so Rufus doesn't get fired and evicted again.

This was a fun project to do, and I think the result is a really fun game. 5.6 Sol High is the highest logic you can go without having to worry about running out of tokens on the $20 plan. I'm going to mostly be focusing on using 5.6 Sol max for other games, but I'm obviously limited on how much I can do with that while sticking to the $20 a month budget. So its good to see we can get some alright results with the unlimited high mode.

This took a little over 50 prompts to get it to this state.

u/crumbaker — 3 months ago

How about 6 qbs?

I know qb's go early in Superflex, but I've never seen them go THIS early, so I channeled my inner Griddy and leaned into this disaster.

u/crumbaker — 3 months ago

Something a little strange.

Not normally one for getting backup rb's from the same team a lot, but I like the value here in somewhat ambiguous/could easily lose the job, type of backfields. Only 6 wr's but I think it could be fine here. High floor qb's. Thought this one was worth sharing.

u/crumbaker — 4 months ago