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@electrondance.com

Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence. A place - www.electrondance.com

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Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 13h ago

I've discovered this is affecting all games, it isn't specific to He Who Watches. Why this started happening, I have no clue, but the most robust solution is WIN+P and selecting "PC screen only" before play. If I plan to stream again, I need to fix it because streaming with two monitors is heaven.

Four monitor display options are shown "PC screen only" "Duplicate" "Extend" and "Second screen only"

Electron Dance@electrondance.com · 2w ago

A new problem I'm having with He Who Watches is that in the last week, the mouse keeps moving out of the game onto the other monitor. This wasn't a problem initially and the only solution I've found right now is rearrange my displays so mouse escape is unlikely.

Image showing arrangement of monitors in Windows Display settings.

THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 2d ago

TERRA HYPNAGOGICA 2023

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 3d ago

Was just about to uninstall Carceri as I'm done with it, but noticed there's been an update TODAY. Although against AI art, the dev put some AI imagery in because he was making a comment of AI gen 'art' vs human art - but it just made him increasingly uncomfortable over time. All removed. 1/2

Steam page excerpt with the following text

MAJOR UPDATE POSTED Sun, October 4
Goodbye, AI
All Gen AI Images, in Carceri, have been replaced with human, very human, artwork!

(Here there is an image from the game with the replacement artworks.)

At launch, I was upfront with the fact that 5% of Carceri's total imagery was AI Generated. The other 95% consisted of my drawings, paintings, photography, and Open Access Public Domain Art (sources listed below). Now, Carceri has 0% generative imagery. It's all been replaced!
You may be asking: why use gen AI at all? And why get rid of it now, a year after the game's final update? TL;DR, I had good reason to use it, but not nearly good enough reason to keep it. Let's go back to where it all started.

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 3d ago

My good friends, this is what has happened to me in the last half hour, with a strong emphasis on REGRET

The Big Breakfast

Full breakfast, The Full English, The Big Breakfast. Unless you are running a double marathon, you absolutely don't need one. Me Profile on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hQBk... Itunes/Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/au/artist/tom... Bandcamp - https://tomcardy.bandcamp.com/alb

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charlie @charliemakesthings.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bullet Candy is on sale on both Steam and itch.io at 50% off to celebrate it being 20 years old. Check it out on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/6600/Bul... or on itch.io here: charliesgames.itch.io/bullet-candy

Save 50% on Bullet Candy on Steam

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 5d ago

LOL

@theblackdynamite.bsky.social · 5d ago

Space-age prophet Sun Ra lands in Oakland to save the Black race through music and interstellar relocation. This 1974 cult classic defines early Afrofuturist cinema. 📽️: Sun Ra’s Outer Space Employment Agency #spaceistheplace #sunra #afrofuturist

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 5d ago

software thing?!? imma tech person and fix is to put a mirror behind the keyboard then type caNdyman 3 times

every day is Halloween!@jennatar.bsky.social · 5d ago

okay apparently your keyboard suddenly backward-typing, right to left, is just a software thing that can happen sometimes, do not panic

Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 6d ago

Wired produced a short interactive feature about how israeli checkpoints suffocate life in the West Bank. www.wired.com/story/experi...

Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank

Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.

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Nerial @nerial.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh no...

Unfortunately, another one of those announcements with text on a somber background color. We're stopping the activity of our studio, Nerial.

The Bishop Of Hobb-ins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yes to this.

Jank@jank.cool · 6d ago

Knytt is the platformer boiled down to its most frictionless essence. It's still a classic. www.jank.cool/knytt-remain...

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 6d ago

I was concerned about sharing this photo in case anyone expected a new video from either of us soon. Not before I finish my game, people! Take heart though - I'm pretty sure I'll be done in about two weeks i have never ever said this before

Electron Dance@electrondance.com · last wk.

She's a bird person but I'm a Kat person Thank you for letting me show you around London Pixel a Day Gregg

Joel and Kat (pixel a day) sit beside each other on a bench in the Barbican in front of a camera. There are wires on the bench between them.

Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bonfire Peaks by @toboggan.work released 5 years ago today! 🔥Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island🔥 store.steampowered.com/app/1147890/...

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · last wk.

She's a bird person but I'm a Kat person Thank you for letting me show you around London Pixel a Day Gregg

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · last wk.

Ha ha ha YES (sickos)

A spreadsheet indicating the total percentage done is 13.60%

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

Oh for crying out loud, progress spreadsheet, can't you give me 10%?

Part of a spreadsheet that says 9.96% in white text on a red background

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

I've started to call it RI, Replacement Intelligence.

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

My very last call for the latest, 28-title-strong Crashbook! BOOM: www.electrondance.co... Screenshots shown: 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes, Beat Weaver, Tempus Vitae, Trading Card Inspector

20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes.

The screen is a mish-mash of numerous little mazes with different headings like "YOU ARE THE MAZE-ISH THING" and "EAT ALL THE DOTS". There's a picture in the bottom which has a child's drawing of a goblin overlaid and some turtles with the text "BREAKING NEWS: GOBLIN TURTLE PEACE TREATY" and there's an X in the corner with text pointing to it saying "SELECT "X" TO CLOSE".

Above the picture is the text: "PLAY STRANGE JIGSAWS". And you should, you know. Take it from me.

Beat Weaver.

Sometimes I get upset with myself for choosing the hardest screenshots to describe. But here we are. Life sucks and then you die. All that counts are the screenshots in between.

Anyway, some funky looking craft is riding along a multicoloured athletics track. Yes, I know it's a rhythm chasing game, but goddamn if this does not look like a multicoloured athletics track.

Hovering above the track to the left are two phrases. Flow Switch, which is in red with half a star, followed by Chord Player which is in white and has one and half stars.

At the bottom is a style bar on the left which contains the letter "B" and on the right is "FUEL MIX" I think which is yellow and contains the numbers 11/11. There's a a big colourful bar in the centre bottom with a 4X in it. Underneath are brightly coloured tiny buttons containing levels of ... colour. It's a lot, okay.

Tempus Vitae.

First-person perspective. Futuristic, clean look. We are looking at some experiment-type thing, a giant cylinder containing some floating yellowy polyhedrons. Yeah, I'm going with that. I've written enough descriptions to start taking shortcuts, people.

Naturally, there is a sign overhead, in front of some chunky pipes, that reads RADIATION WARNING with the radiation symbol. There are two doorways at the back, both say "UNLOCKED". In future, doors will tell if they are unlocked or not. That's how you know it is future.

There's a small HUD display in the bottom left. It's got a green health bar and blue power bar. It also looks like the date is shown. Y2185. M11. D28. Time travel, maybe!?!?

Trading Card Inspector.

The whole display is plotted in cyan and black, with the background being black.

The main part of the display shows the back of a card labelled "HABUBIS TRADING CARD GAME" with a knife/blood motif on it. There's a big text boxout beside it explaining the BLOOD CARDS MODIFIER which has some great text: "This batch of cards may or may not have been involved with a violent criminal action.".

On the left is a list of documents that you can select, I would guess, such as HOW TO PLAY and STAT REQUIREMENTS. There is a puppy with a hat on the bottom left above a ball which contains the number 0.

On the right are stats like -1, +1 something called IDK and there's a 911 button.

There's also an alert saying "THEY TOWED AWAY SOMEONE'S CAR OUTSIDE!"

Looks mad, that's all I can say. If you're new around these parts, that is a vote of confidence.

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

My fellow humans, I once again nudge you towards Crashbook, because it contains 28 games that I have not played. What's the point, you ask? THERE IS NONE. New list here: www.electrondance.co... Screenshots shown: The Arab League of Misfits, The House Before, Aerial_Knight’s MrFreezy, SPRAWL zero

The Arab League of Misfits.

The entire screen is covered with cards which vary from "YOUR DAD FEARS YOUR MOM" to "NO TEARS WITHOUT TEAR GAS". The display is at a slight angle and looks incomplete as if it was caught in motion or clipped from photo.

Anyway, it's a card game innit! There's a list of stats down the right side indicating Attacks, Defense, Insult, Power-up, Trap, Ultimate, SHATARA and SUMOUD. I don't know what it's all about, but maybe you will know one day.

The House Before.

We are looking at something that looks like a machine interface, largely draped in a purple hue. There is a large rectangular viewport to the upper right, showing a fuzzy display in which can be seen a rail that goes into closed, barred passage. There are two other barred passages on the left and right.

Underneath the viewport are four lights, the first of which are lit, and a command selector which currently reads "ACTIVATE". There is also another indicator to the right that says "EYE".

The left side of the screen is dominated by a big circular hole. While some of the machinery is connected by pipes, there is an organic shift towards the right, as the backdrop is covered in something more like veins.

Aerial_Knight’s MrFreezy.

In this monochrome, dithered scene, a figure leans menacingly towards you - her eyes completely white. Shelves in the background seems to hold... severed heads.

Ooh there's a candle in the bottom left, I just saw it.

SPRAWL zero.

First-person perspective game. We look out upon some industrial part of a city, full of rusting pipes and girders. The sky is overcast and everything has a sandy, sallow hue. A craft of some kind, maybe a drone, is hovering in the air with lights or jets emanating from ports around its periphery. We are stood on a walkway.

There's a crane in the background and something that looks suspiciously like the Citadel from Half-Life 2. It stretches up the screen and we cannot see the top of it.

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

I mislaid my Crashbook for a few months, so this chapter is epic-sized. Twenty-eight games I spotted on the innernets but have not played. Listed here: www.electrondance.co... Screenshots Shown: MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme, N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO, PUTRID/SHARP, Sarco

MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme.

Okay so I've no fucking idea what I'm looking at here. This does look like a combat game. In the top left a styled hear contains... 1/1. Underneath a cool mace chain motif reads STAMINA 160. The player is using a bow which has offers DAMAGE 1-2.

I guess the player with the bow is on the lower left and it's difficult to see them because their wearing a dark hood with yellow highlights and is smothered in blood. The beast in the fray takes up the right half of the screen, and I think has been hit with the bow - it's head is rocking sideways, looking a bit like a arctic seal with sharp teeth and red horns. He is covered in blood. He also has hands.

Blood is everywhere. Did I mention that??

N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO.

It's everyone's coolest minimalist platformer where death is frequent. In this screen, four different ninjas, in pastel colours, share the screen. There are several rows of gold squares and one ninja, the brown one, is about to exit on the bottom row. The other three are trying to escape several missiles further up the screen. There is an explosion occurring, which is probably one of the missiles.

The background consists of light grey stripes, a bit like the floor of the Red Room in Twin Peaks, if the Red Room was a cosy place.

PUTRID/SHARP.

A impressionistic picture on the left shows two figures near each other. It is unclear if they are sitting or standing or attempting to sleep.

On the right is dialog, like the kind of thing you might see in a game like Disco Elysium, which is totally a game I haven't played. Here's what the text reads:
-
ODE: Eury?

SARAH: It's just me, sorry

Sarah is gently holding Odes arm, assessing how badly he got hurt.

Ode lurches back, yanking his arm away.

Sarah lets him go, but she doesn't create any distance between them.

Sarco.

First-person perspective game where we're looking into a sort of ancient tomb with stone pillars. In the centre is a very important pillar which has a light blue eye motif struck on its surface. That might actually be the player's reticule, though, it is difficult to tell.

Everything is really red, yo.

A small bar on the bottom left indicates your Oxygen.

Cosmic Void @cosmicvoidonline.bsky.social · 2w ago

The witches are on a rampage, harvesting organs from the dead. Special Agent Bram from the Arcane Unit is on the case. Tommy Gun Marionettes is a pixel-art noir point-and-click adventure with witches. Wishlist & play the demo 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/5049150/... #indiegame #gamedev

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

Dear God it's another Crashbook, everyone's super favourite list of games I have not played. A monster deluxe edition with 28 "are-they-bangers-who-knows". Read here: www.electrondance.co... Screenshots shown: Alruna: End of History, Atmospheric Labyrinth, ExeKiller, I SHALL NAME THE DEAD

Alruna: End of History.

A little flower gal stands in the lower left in a room in a chamber that has an image or statue of a woman in distress. It looks like she is shackled and possibly has a crown of thorns. This might be the BOSS though because there is an enormous hitpoint bar at the bottom of the screen and, guess what, it's marked BOSS.

Art style is of a 90s console metroidvania.

Atmospheric Labyrinth.

This looks like a crisp isometric floorplan, entirely in monochrome. It is strange, though, because the floorplan, which looks like a set of normal household rooms, covers the entire screen - as if these normal-looking rooms go on forever.

Not every room has a door. There are small slits on some of the walls, so possibly you have to shift the walls to open up the rooms.

There is no player character visible.

I SHALL NAME THE DEAD.

Cool looking lady stares at you wearing an orange top and orange lipstick; she is possibly blind in one eye as its pupil is white. This has the appearance of a static shot from a visual novel. In the bottom left there is a dialog box indicating Imaculada is saying, "It's... a kid."

If you look closely, the background has a papery texture.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2w ago

DLC ANNOUNCEMENT! Just when you thought the card-flipping horrors were over... new secrets are unearthed. Introducing a brand new story-driven DLC, Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded! Please wishlist and share: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... New levels, enemies, jokers, sigils + more!

Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 2w ago

Earlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...

A complicated game

Who gets credit for Order of the Sinking Star? Where should the names appear for the creators of its source material? And would you notice if a great game designer sat next to you?

gamefile.news

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

Also if you are making gains, don't expect to keep them. People always make that mistake. Capital does not.

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Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 2w ago

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3w ago

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Tilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.

Electron Dance @electrondance.com · 3w ago

HE WHO WATCHES just getting the fuck out of the Chamber of Rigidity, I been in there a week with little progress. Also when you're chained to a block... if the block is pushed, you move with it; but if you are pushed, the block anchors you. This physics incongruity is messing me up a little.

Players arms hold a bow out. We are near a door which has a sun/eye design on it. It isn't glowing yellow, and that means we ain't solved that puzzle. No, sir.

Adriaan @adriaan.games · 3w ago

Official Hidden Folks bsky account just dropped!!! Follow @hiddenfolks.com if you want a once-per-month update on the games we are releasing – starting with Hidden Folks 2, of course.

Hidden Folks@hiddenfolks.com · 3w ago

Hey folks!