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pang@birthbydrip.neocities.org · 2w ago

and finally, I wrote this review to coincide with the release of our Regen episode on Toy Commander! @reynhester.bsky.social and I take a look at several missions and detail and discuss the variety this game exhibits www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WXs...

A French Auteur Casts His Dream... - Regen #004

YouTube video by Regen Podcast

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pang@birthbydrip.neocities.org · 2w ago

next up for today... I'm digging back into the dreamcast well after a long absence to explore Toy Commander, a shockingly cool vehicle sandbox experiment from the minds behind Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure. link below!

first paragraph: It’s difficult to judge solely from the cover what kind of game this is, but the first real mission spells it out: drive an RC car up a series of oddly modeled ramps to get onto a countertop, and push an egg into a pot of boiling water using the collision physics. From there the game skews towards more traditional objectives — combat and racing — but the mission design still includes unique geometry as a key consideration. Many missions provide rickety, railless scaffolding for the player’s vehicles to climb even without extraneous obstacles to push them off or impede their progress. Given that every mission is played against a par time, simply lighting a fire under the player is enough to force tight execution on these perilous ascents.
sylvie@sylviefluff.bsky.social · 4w ago

"what are videogames even for?" is an interesting question to me. i think ideally i want them to have a similar richness to spending time with another person, (even if, maybe especially if, they are single player) so i value being exposed to a person's ideas and idiosyncracies through a game

vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 4w ago

kinda wish we'd circle back to the "what are videogames even for?" argument more these days because... passive stimulation delaying people's existential dread and increasing their screen time is not a particularly great argument for a thing to exist in my book. not to mention a really depressing one

HotPocketHPE@hotpockethpe.neocities.org · 4w ago

I have to give respect to Void Stranger because it is at least trying for the type of higher-goal synthesis that I am always looking for in games but also the music is so head and shoulders above everything else in it it's not even funny

pang@birthbydrip.neocities.org · 2mo ago

finally I return to my long-form articles after half a year... backloggd legend drax asks: what exactly does "arcade-y" refer to? in response, I explain my reasoning for three major fundamentals of the arcade style, each of which drives the arcade mechanics we know and love. link below!

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HotPocketHPE@hotpockethpe.neocities.org · 2mo ago

In retrospect TGM2 has changed my opinion on games a lot. I spent a lot of time in thoughtless grinding, and it was satisfying to improve, but at the end of the day I haven't gotten much out of it. If I spent that time developing an actual skill or even just improving at a multiplayer game...