This is a piece of advice I always give when I consult: you need someone to have final say. Even in a co-op, even in a group of peers. There needs to be someone who can say “okay, we are implementing this” someone has to take on responsibility for the decisions

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · 4d ago

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

Jack Haven gave one of the best performances of the decade in I SAW THE TV GLOW, they were hilarious in BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC and terrifying in CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY ii, and TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH is one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Now they're begging for ANY work. At all.

Matt R. Lohr@mattrlohr.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jack Haven is a vital part of one of this year’s best films. And they’re in need of some help. The film industry, man… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqB5...

Jigsaw but really only in Saw 6.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · yesterday

Name a horror villain who kinda had a point.

IT'S OFFICIAL: ROMchip's 4TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER is set for Saturday, March 13th, 2027!🎉 To celebrate, we're dropping the names of our first two streamers: Everest Pipkin and Chris Kohler! Mark your calendars and join our newsletter to get all the updates📰: eepurl.com/crCul1

Starting my first day at Drexel University! Not as a professor, but as a grad student! This has been a long time coming. Excited to get started!

applications for this coming year's Experimental Games Showcase at the Game Developer's Conference are officially OPEN!! send us your weird games and game-like experiments! www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase@exgs.bsky.social · 3d ago

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC! 📣 You have until October 23rd to send us all the weird, innovative and unique things you are working on. More info and apply here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Have you seen BROS. for the Atari 800? That game is charming cursed

🧵I've seen people talking about how great Chrono Trigger's lack of random encounters is for the player, as you can avoid battles, but I think this system is not really built to benefit the players as much as it benefits the level designers of the game.

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It's weird to think of me having an 'origin' game, I was pretty locked into video games before my brain could form memories. It's probably more apt to say that Chrono Trigger when I was around 11, and then later Resident Evil around age 13~14 were games that changed my idea of what games could be.

Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 4d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

somebody with knowledge and decades in the biz should do a breakdown on the economics of review inflation, how true the idea actually was, and how the landscape is so different now that this chart is ancient history

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 6d ago

Seeing a lot of people “worried” because CONTROL RESONANT is getting 3/5’s and 6/10’s and I think this chart perfectly captures how gamers perceive modern review scores:

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

Oh hey! Saw a tweet long ago begging a journo to look into why trying to buy quality video game merch sucks shit. So I did that.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last wk.

It sucks trying to buy official merch and genAI is only making it worse. https://kotaku.com/why-does-trying-to-buy-a-video-game-t-shirt-suck-so-much-2000730574

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My honestly kinda lukewarm take; E.T. is a pretty good game for the time period it was released.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

What really caused the video game crash of 1983? aftermath.site/podcasts/you-a...

Contrary to popular belief, the video game industry didn’t crash in 1983 because of E.T. and a glut of bad games. The real reason is both simpler and more complicated. @theycreateworlds.bsky.social explains:

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

What really caused the video game crash of 1983? aftermath.site/podcasts/you-a...

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I'm not totally sold on the art design in the new Ocarina of Time but there's some truth to this. The lack of vocabulary people seem to have for describing its style is a shame. I think we should generally refrain from insulting any human made art design as "AI" especially.

Nintendo Patents Watch@ninpatentswatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Scratching my head over influencers calling OOT Link “AI” and Epona “yassified”. It seems stemming from a lack of art critique vocabulary or limited frame of reference outside of pop culture. Apart from OOT being a pun on ceramic ocarina, Aonuma said that the visual is to evoke nostalgia (懐かしさ). 1/

We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.

Ok NOW I’m hype for Kingdom Hearts IV

This is a part of the game's second level that exists only for you to go watch the birds and enjoy some serenity. It has its own location and scrolls the rest of the level off screen so you're not interrupted, it's very intentional. It's absolutely wild to see something like this on the NES.

DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 2w ago

GIMMICK! SUNSOFT 1992 FAMICOM

The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that

Someone claimed to have uploaded the SNES prototype of Project Dream that they had in their personal collection on Archive.org. This is footage by OlieGamerTV. We don't know if its authentic but it works.

I was in a meeting. So is Eternal Anima like, a new Grandia? Because that battle hud makes it look like a new Grandia.

After seeing this and carefully examining screenshots with @rainknight.bsky.social, I've come around and like the look of the OoT remake (even if not the direction I would have went with).

erin@dracula3d.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is an interesting perspective from imamura i also assumed it was mostly meant to look puppet-like, but it's nice to have an opinion from someone who actually knows the man

Added a fun new quest giver in our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends. He’s the Rarebit Fiend, and he gives cheese-related quests and rewards! (Pardon the non-final text and spelling errors)

Husband is playing FFV and has finally gotten to the final battle. The spritework on bosses like exdeath and Kefka is so od extravagant in ways modern ff games have failed to recapture. Even safer sephiroth is a let down.

There needs to be room for people to be able to say 'I like this thing' or 'I don't like this thing' (definitively, with no need for rationalizing) without whinging from others that they saw opinions that do not match their own.

I guess the only thing I'd add that I haven't seen mentioned, as someone who wasn't impressed with the original Ocarina of Time either, is that the 3DS remaster looks great. The ideal up-res of the original already exists.

the most slanderous thing I can possibly say about the OOT remake is that this is unironically what most Pokemon fans want their franchise to look like

this is so funny, everyone who isn't link has less details and directly because of that they look better