not enough video games are made by people with an intimate lifelong love of video games that extends back to their earliest memories and also the same tastes as me
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instead of reading reviews to decide whether or not you should play a game, i think it's probably way more satisfying to play a game so that you can read the reviews
twin peaks season 3 part 8 really splays out the crux of lynch’s cinematic endeavor: there is light. there is darkness. tremendous work !
Death to the self-playing game. www.jank.cool/death-to-the...
Death to the self-playing game
You auto know better
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sometimes i feel such a deep need for everyone to excise the term “lore” from their lexicon
fujoshi with a time machine: i have brought a gift from the future mao zedong: one hundred lines? but which is the line of the proletariat?
of the Devil is a part of Steam's CYBERPUNK fest! Also merch news! Is coming Soon™!!! But a much Sooner™ Soon™ than it's ever been before!
One of my favorite games of all time, a title I think about constantly and that has influenced me in multiple ways -- there's no excuse now, you all MUST lose yourself to kamaitachi
Talking games | Kamaitachi no Yoru
Losing my mind searching for answers in 1994's influential obsession simulator.
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Game Vecanti@gamevecanti.bsky.social · 4w agoAn English fan translation of "Kamaitachi no Yoru" for SFC has been released by "ButThouMust": github.com/ButThouMust/...
genuinely, this is a huge missing link I the development of Japanese adventure games and the whole visual novel genre its influence is felt in so many of the most popular works even today I wrote a huge piece on it and the way it's influenced the genre canonfire.net/post/7022178...
024: Kamaitachi no Yoru かまいたちの夜 (Night of the Sickle Weasel/Banshee’s Last Cry)
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Game Vecanti@gamevecanti.bsky.social · 4w agoAn English fan translation of "Kamaitachi no Yoru" for SFC has been released by "ButThouMust": github.com/ButThouMust/...
i like words and i like puzzles
Kars@karoshimyriad.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Urban Myth Dissolution Center" developer MOCHIKIN created a website that lets you share 9 Steam games that you would like to see more widely known. The website will also provide recommendations to similar games based on your picks. 9games.pages.dev
This looks incredible. Nonogram puzzle combat, body horror and romance?
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 3mo agojust saw a really cool looking game i'd never head of before come up on the AUS/NZ stream, this is why you watch these folks store.steampowered.com/app/4682620/...
Absolutely invaluable writing advice: make sure every story beat and event can be linked together with the words "but", "because" or "therefore" Everything should have cause and effect
I wrote some confessions about being a chronic people-pleaser. It was a lot of fun to write this honestly! There were moments I thought "PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT THAT" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/confession...
Confessions of a People-Pleaser
On the unpleasantness of being very, very pleasant
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do you ever feel Unedited Footage of a Bear calling to you late at night like the One Ring
no joke I think this is like the number 2 most beneficial thing an indie developer can do (after learning how to make a game lol) because I don’t think this is a universal thought process and becoming a more well rounded person is free
TAHK0@tahk0.bsky.social · 4mo agoassuming this really is one of the inspirations behind pikmin, this is a good example of one of many somethings inspiring a game (and how that can lead to something unique) VS one game inspiring a spiritual sequel which is just that game again but less budget
the back-ordered case arrived yesterday and we are in unprecedented Thingamabob territory now
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5mo agothis has to be the most bizarre gizmo i've bought in ages. i don't even think it reaches the level of a gadget. it's a proper doodad
everyone please stop calling ai glasses the "pervert glasses". this is appropriation of swirly glasses from pervert scientist women
watching a playthru of great ace attorney while also watching a friend play thru 1-3 and i am being pulled back into my contrariness in believing ace attorney is only good during 1-4, 1-5, and aa3. i will not speak on 2-4 also aa7 is just never going to happen. we’ll see aa1-3 remade in 3d sooner
