i found it. the best possible way to spin "is 100% made of plastic":
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yesterday i managed to get a score of 8,490 in gameplay (forever)! i really wanted to hit 10,000 but this is the best i've done so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDg...
"gameplay (forever)" high score (8490 -droqen's pb; july 30, 2026)
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my first encounter with a genuinely impassible blockage! i do wonder if there's a way to circumvent a situation like this through tricky jumping, but so far all experiments have failed.
an arcade game where pickups give you more points based on complex mathematical formulae while you're dodging bullets or whatever. an arcade game where when you take damage there's a secret rule that determines whether it does extra damage or illusory fake damage that does nothing. an arcade game wh
another book i really love, Ugly Feelings, is also a book that seeks to define a number of concrete/discrete large concepts in a loose way, with no aspirations to deliver straightforward conclusions about them, via analysis of a large number of artworks. my absolute favourite genre of book maybe???
droqen and 24 others@droqen.bsky.social · last wk.after some months of reading The Impossible Reversal slow (and a few days fast) i find that i'm suddenly finished! learned a lot more about fluxus, and the book lays out four really interesting kinds of 'play' that i will be thinking about for at least a little while, perhaps longer. it's great.
after some months of reading The Impossible Reversal slow (and a few days fast) i find that i'm suddenly finished! learned a lot more about fluxus, and the book lays out four really interesting kinds of 'play' that i will be thinking about for at least a little while, perhaps longer. it's great.
wouldn't you know it, the literal dictionary has some amazing examples www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/g... "the Oxford team were able to track actual gameplay, rather than relying on self-reported estimates." from a 2022 Guardian article
Definition of GAMEPLAY
the characteristic way in which the action of a game (such as a video game) occurs or is experienced; the practice or activity of playing games (such as board games, card games, or video games) : gami...
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droqen and 24 others@droqen.bsky.social · 2w agois there any precedent for the existence of subjective gameplay? all usages of the word that sound familiar to me are like "the gameplay" (belongs to the object), there's no e.g. "the gameplay i experienced" (belongs to the player experience)
i'm especially interested in instances from historical records of casual conversation: podcasts, commentary, forum threads? anywhere the actual word "gameplay" is arguably being used to refer to an individual instance of a game being played or something like that
droqen and 24 others@droqen.bsky.social · 2w agois there any precedent for the existence of subjective gameplay? all usages of the word that sound familiar to me are like "the gameplay" (belongs to the object), there's no e.g. "the gameplay i experienced" (belongs to the player experience)
is there any precedent for the existence of subjective gameplay? all usages of the word that sound familiar to me are like "the gameplay" (belongs to the object), there's no e.g. "the gameplay i experienced" (belongs to the player experience)
something that is kinda cool about social media quantification of engagement as score is that people are pretty incentivized to be publicly wrong about things? some consequences of this exist, but being wrong is a great joy and good learning opportunity. i am ready to be wrong about some big things.
Controversial videogame dislike: I hate when games have ‘dice rolls’ involved. If I wanted to be totally out of control of my own life I would not have opted for the designers’ hand for a tenner
reading a paper looking for inconsistencies and details is kind of similar to the search one does in a sudoku puzzle, but sudoku answers are very neatly constrained & come with a specified output format. reading a paper closely i can feel my lack of notion of how organization and completion *look*.
the end of gameplay where it belongs. at the end. (of sylvie's list)
sylvie@sylviefluff.bsky.social · 3w agomessed around with my top 50 games list a bit..
here's how you play my new videogame "photograph of a complete sudoku" 1 get sudoku puzzle (any) 2 get sheet of paper 3 draw grid 3 copy puzzle by hand onto sheet of paper with grid 4 solve puzzle by hand on sheet of paper 5 take photograph of completed puzzle and not original 6 send photo online
i didn't make this for good reasons but i made it and i think it's extremely funny, so i hope you like it too
if you have ever uttered or heard the phrase 'death of the author' i strongly recommend reading the original text, it's only a few pages long (6-7, depending on translation) sometimes these concepts get headlined due to accessibility but for this one it's really very easy to read the full thing
without history, without biography, without psychology; [the player] is only that someone who holds gathered into a single field all the paths of which the [game] is constituted.'
sometimes it takes watching someone else say things i don't like in a way that i don't like to inspire me to say things i do like in better ways, maybe i'm going to kill gameplay again but with less bullshit
update: i stopped enjoying this video once the arguments started to become internally inconsistent! still some interesting game bits being identified, but for a nicely-edited video like this, i would expect a higher clarity of concept
droqen and 24 others@droqen.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.youtube.com/watch?v=IuBI... enjoying this video, will finish and maybe have more thoughts but at 8:28 he says "If you play 10 different platformers in a row, do you really want to remember an arbitrary amount of coyote time for each one[..]?" and like, yes??? why else would you play a platformer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuBI... enjoying this video, will finish and maybe have more thoughts but at 8:28 he says "If you play 10 different platformers in a row, do you really want to remember an arbitrary amount of coyote time for each one[..]?" and like, yes??? why else would you play a platformer
Aesthetic Deception
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this bunny is so sad-looking!!! interesting video, some flaws, but it is really cool to see an effort to kinda unify the disparate pieces. thx dot :) i'm sorry for being so messy
i am a dot.@iamadot64.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlternative Title for the New Video: “The End of Gameplay is a fascinating title filled with confrontational ideas about the future of the interactive medium and while I do have issues with it, I also have immense respect for it and agree with its broader points.” Check it: youtu.be/6qmt9LX8pTI
