Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)

May May the Nard@maymaythenard.bsky.social · yesterday

Please please please.. we need the Kiwi

Interested in how combat works in Vampirium: 1997? New gameplay video on the steam page.. 10 minutes of tactical timer based vampiric carnage. Share, and of course, wishlist. store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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It seems Genius has confused my track Triumph from Frozen Synapse with Triumph by the Wu-Tang Clan which is both phenomenal and terrifying on a number of different levels

YES GOOD

Alpha Chrome Yayo@alphachromeyayo.com · last wk.

Is this good use of free will? Turning a Densha de Go train game peripheral into a sick acid bass controller 😤🚅💨💥

it's called the odyssey because that guy sees a lot of odd shit

It’s finally out

I was responsible for cueing the wall on Series 1 of hit BBC TV show Hole in The Wall John Romero bought me a slice of pizza because I asked him what percentage of Masters of Doom was true in 2007 My music has featured on Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star and a Fanta advert

Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW)@hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 2w ago

I invented an alien conlang for a game, then invented a poetry format for it I wrote/directed a game that got ranked 47th best PC game of all time by RPS I've built a game engine from scratch I once made a soup so bad that Alton Brown came into my mentions denying responsibility

It is the year 9149: my consciousness has been reconstituted by the Galactic Hardmesh. Harsh glyphs of textual data - infostreams from other Minds - dance across my vision. I begin to read... "An indie game is a game made by fewer than three people." My screams are subsumed by the machinic noise.

I ❤️‍🔥the Postmark games crew (high quality and family friendly designs at an outrageously reasonable price). Master of Coin is THE most excited I've been for one of their games since Voyages. It just hits all of my "yes, please" fantasies. Check it and definitely toss 'em a fiver. 👇

Postmark Games@postmarkgames.bsky.social · 2w ago

Master of Coin is live on Kickstarter! Flip coins to build and manage your fledgling fantasy kingdom in this brand new print at home game from the designers of Voyages. youtu.be/JBABZvlvRgM

Hey who wants to see the least true marketing email subject line of all time?

this exploitation model--perks, rewards, and special services that entice the target to spend more time gambling--is precisely what casinos have been doing for decades (see Schull, Addiction by Design) and tech-gambling has been rapidly workshopping in the past few years (see Cassidy, Vicious Games)

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 4w ago

jesus christ

Content Warning: "Vampirium: 1997 abstracts through a tile-based system a series of horror and action scenarios, including decapitation, drinking blood and general acts of vampirism." General 👏 Acts 👏 of 👏 Vampirism 👏 A huge thanks to the many, many of you who've wishlisted. 🙏

Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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❗ New game announcement coming TODAY❗ We'll be letting you in on our newest project in a few hours. Stay tuned.

Obsession 2 looking rough

The Video Game History Foundation has called on trade groups like the ESA to find a way to "legally preserve" digital-only games for research. "Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it’ll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution." www.videogameschronicle.com/news/video-g...

Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to find a way to ‘legally preserve’ digital-only games for research | VGC

“Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it’ll run in 50 years is not a solution”…

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Most people are gonna find out about our next game next week via a trailer, or coverage.. The folks following this story are gonna discover it via a revelation at the end of chapter 4.. if you’re a fan of my particular brand of bullshit, I hope you’re onboard for this option. You’ll be rewarded.

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chapter One out! Join us mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

ANNOUNCEMENT Forget Starlight is a tabletop rpg set on an infinite feudal space station. Written by me, edited by @deptofmeteors.bsky.social. Out this summer with a print version available as well. More info here: enceledean.itch.io/forget-starl...

Guys this is a really good, atmospheric game, and my favourite from this team. Please do pick it up.

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · last mo.

The Signal From Tölva, an eerie tale of robots looking for the secret of a glitch-haunted world, is -50% off. Explore with your vision modes, navigate impossible mazes, battle with religious robotic sects, and discover if the planet can be turned off and back on again.

My hero

Samuel Mottershaw@samwrotedown.bsky.social · last mo.

oh no, my art

Big fan

I just tried to gravity gun this wall so I can get closer to the sniper on the roof but instead I accidentally made this Ineffectual Dome that just stupidly rolled away....absolute cinema

It's fine - all terminology around games is completely clear at all times and doesn't lead to insane conversations in a legislative setting. This is good and should happen more. Well done everyone.

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social · last mo.

The ESA has clarified its views on private servers after saying Minecraft servers are ‘illegal’ and ‘considered piracy’ during a Senate committee discussion. vgc.news/news/esa-cla...

It's official - 500 reviews, 98% thumbs up, so we are officially Overwhelmingly Positive in both recent reviews and all time reviews. I'm going to celebrate by going to bed early. Rock and roll!

The greatest survival game of all time is for sale at -50% on the Steam computer gaming platform. You may already own it. If not, you should. store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...

Save 50% on Sir, You Are Being Hunted on Steam

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence...

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Feel like basically everyone on this website would enjoy Angel's Egg (1985) - never seen it before and it's...well it's very this:

Yup I've made jokes about this in the past and I probably shouldn't have. Equally we need to disambiguate "the games industry" and explain that "getting into games" means a set of distinct things that are virtually unrecognisable from each other

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · last mo.

I sincerely hope I’ve never put anyone off joining this shit show. While it’s very particularly bad right now, the truth is it’s always been a tough place to get into to some extent. If you love games, make games, and make the rest of us catch up with you.

Weird things happen in digital distribution all the time but platforms really need to drop this absurd myth that customers truly understand the implications of licensing. The *idea* that you would do this without some form of compensation as well is absolutely ridiculous.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

PlayStation is deleting 551 purchased movies from its customers' accounts, reminding us nothing digital is ever truly ours https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013

DRILLER MENTIONED

Sam Barlow 🔥@mrsambarlow.bsky.social · last mo.

A more sensible solution -- just do away with textures all together 2D or 3D *You get like 1 or 2 textures for your UI and a loading screen, but that's it