A train simulator game for console hackers

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12 points·avaraujo··5 comments

I got a poor first impression from the readme - it looks exactly the same as every other project vibe coded over a couple of weeks and I immediately assumed that's all it was.

One of the other comments mentioned a video from 12 years ago (pedigree!) so I went and had another look, finding the old readme from 2023. That one was incomparably better! Much more informative about the game, much more interesting, shows why you wanted it to exist and persuades me also that it should exist. It has its own little signal programming system, that's so cool!

We all know how powerful agentic development is these days and it's clearly enabled you to make massive strides on the project but please my god do not let them communicate to the outside world about your project. They do not know what they should say. They do not know how to say it. They will write the exact same thing they would for any other project and that's the worst possible way to put yourself across because you're unique.

Thank you very much for your comment. It really helped me understand my mistake: AI is great at generating marketing and technical texts, but a README needs to be something else entirely. I’ve changed it—I’ve restored the old version and updated it. I think I’ll take personal charge of the project’s communications from now on. Best regards. Antonio

The only Youtube video I found on this game is a 1 minute-long video from 12 years ago. Are there more recent videos showing gameplay?

Their github page links to the github site. That site has up to date videos, albeit unlisted, ex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_J0J8-_m4

Console as in the terminal :)

And yes, I clicked the link thinking this was about PS5 homebrew.

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