konami put gray fox on the cover of vr missions, gave him a bespoke moveset, locked him behind 85% (255/300) completion, and then only let you play him for three shitty missions
curse
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commissioner of sewers https://steelonbone.neocities.org/archive https://soundcloud.com/ratshaped
working on a (very small) game again. can't say much other than that i wanna capture what summer carnival recca does the the human eye. with good fortune maybe you'll hear more in six months
i guess it's finally that time: I made a neocities page! I've got all of my favorite Backloggd reviews of mine archived on there, plus a cute lil about page. I had a lot of fun designing it and making it look nice (hopefully it looks fine on your browser/monitor!) scenicsystems.neocities.org
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feel like a lot of modern games inspired by "immersive sims" are so afraid of prohibiting the player that they barely have formal structure or dynamics at all. just a big gooey sandbox with an objective somewhere in the middle
In 1984, Tsukuda Hobby released Roads to Lord. As one of the first original Japanese TTRPGs, Roads to Lord paved the way for the expansion of role-playing culture in Japan. I discuss the context surrounding the game’s release, its systems, and history: ogrerun.com/2026/07/26/r...
Roads to Lord and the Japanese Fantasy TTRPG
Tsukuda Hobby may have been the most reliant on adapting franchises, but they would also be the company to perhaps produce the most successful domestic TTRPG out of the crowd of early titles, Roads…
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wanted to have two articles posted on the website by now. the first was an essay on data brokers that was contingent on evaluating the information they had on me, but (un)fortunately, when I requested it from acxiom and ran a scan on 50+ others, it turned out I was effectively a ghost. didn't exist
brain's fried. just tried searching gg.deals for the jakarta method
telos kind of a drag, but not all bad. neat that czerka npcs acknowledge B-4D4 even in places you have no reason to take him like the cantina
very cute game that i think would be especially helpful & fun for anyone who's curious about digital music production but a little intimidated or unsure how it all works
Save 10% on OFFBEAT on Steam
OFFBEAT is a music-tycoon game where you build the recording studio of your dreams. Collect and upgrade increasingly strange musical objects, complete jobs for cash, and record real, actual music.
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unfortunate that so many people's first experience with rogue is the commercial epyx release when unix 5.2 and 3.6 are both much, much better
I reviewed Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, going over the history of gamebooks in Japan and the affordances of the genre for an independent developer: ogrerun.com/2026/07/11/v...
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle and the Good New JRPG
There are a number of origin points for the RPG including performance, wargames, cybernetics, and literature. It’s this last element that I briefly want to focus on. Following the release of TSR’s …
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vetting another 30+ reviews from 2023-2026.. one or more may make it to the website tomorrow provided they're not all sludge
only reason i archived my one liners was to emulate the experience of clicking a robert christgau review only to find it was seven words, zero of them helpful
ok i archived like 250 reviews here you go systemdrift.neocities.org/reviews/back...
systemDrift | Reviews
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psychbomb@psychbomb.bsky.social · last mo.should i bother backing up any of my backloggd reviews or is it cool to just leave those on the site and let them inevitably die i don't particularly care for most of them but moving them over wouldn't be too hard either