the thing about nintendo is, they're at least evil in a normal, traditional way. they aren't introducing bold new modalities of evil into games like microsoft and ea

palmer luckey looks like the hobbit who wants to turn the shire into a theme park

second attempt at a post about Witch Hat Atelier, such as it is https://ponti.club/witch-hat-atelier/

Witch Hat Atelier

from the Witch Hat Atelier anime adaptation. one hand holds a pen; other hands reach for it. the lie that "magic is a power only a chosen few can wield" I...

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let people dislike things

Please connect to Object 30·79·49·13.

Connect to Object 30·79·49·13 by Thaliarchus

Survey. Interrogate. Reflect.

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never let this fucking guy do anything but ff14 again

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last wk.

A Final Fantasy 6 remake is a difficult prospect because it would need four or five games to do the story justice, Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says. "I understand the feelings of the players, but you’ve got to think about it," he says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-final...

this started out with me drawing aerith with an overbite and then i kinda just kept going

you can't release splatoon diablo and a grim dawn expansion on the same day, you can't do this to me

hey gamers, today I'm doing a challenge where I play splatoon raiders through like four hours of consecutive work meetings without getting caught

"to see rpg maker pushed to its limits, play fear and hunger or look outside" wrong. if you want to see rpg maker pushed to its limits seek out the 23 view untitled youtube video by a guy called some shit like "paul01101035" where he inexplicably recreates the entirety of smt1 in rpg maker 2003

it's a living

Against the Storm is a pretty fun game that I wish I could write a nicer post about https://ponti.club/against-the-storm/

Against the Storm

from the game Against the Storm. the overworld map at the end of a run, showing a few settlement icons and the big glowy nonsense symbol that's obviously thi...

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I have complex feelings about the main thing I spent my creative energy on for two years being a derivative work of a mod patch of a fan translation of a derivative work, but minimum three people told me they enjoyed it, so I guess quantitatively it was a net positive for the world's gestalt spirit.

Iro | Obsidian Moonshine@iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 4mo ago

Reminder if that if you were a Real One on Cohost or otherwise have an affinity for old-school screenshot Let's Plays, my LP of an obscure fan-translated JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fangame made by a self-professed autistic housewife wrapped up a couple weeks ago. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/3-pro...

Character portraits in Phantasy Star IV (Genesis/Mega Drive)

Given that MS obliterated the institutional knowledge of what's good about fallout (hint: it is not the setting) idk how or why I'm expected to care about a new fallout at this point

in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress

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the secrets of art are 1. none of this shit matters if it looks good and 2. you are not actually obligated to make it look "good"

dooderoni (no comms for now)@dooderoni.bsky.social · 3w ago

not even kidding, but i do think that something that makes art so intimidating for newcomers to approach is that every other youtube tutorial for like drawing and stuff looks like this

happy fuckin monday, I played that earthbound hack that's a full remake of mother 1 https://ponti.club/earthbound-beginnings-remake/

When porn is talked about, I think that a lot of people confuse the symptoms for the illness so to say, when it feels weird and degrading it's because it's the product of an unequal society, not because eroticism by itself is something inherently degrading

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

Someone told me I haven't drawn enough fanart lately so here's fanart of the protagonist from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

They act as if this was all inevitable, when we all know that it wasn't. They've deliberately been putting things in place to make the state of gaming as crumbled as it is. #blog #gaming

Consoles Acting as Gods

innerspiral.lol

the weekend at mitch mcconnell's saga is extremely funny but I really just want to know if the shortlist of worst people on earth is shorter now or not

so some good news for people who were upset about the rpgmaker forums closing down... some awesome people are archiving the ENTIRE forum and building a new forum on top of that archive! 🎊 rpgmakerchat.com

RPG Maker Forum Archive — 14 Years of Community, Preserved

Threads, tutorials, and plugins from the RPG Maker Web forum — saved and searchable before it closes Dec 11, 2026.

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witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions

A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

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I am using the world cup as the perfect excuse to make people listen to me talking about Despelote and why everyone (especially if you are Latam) should play it

Panic@panic.com · last mo.

🇪🇨 Good luck to Ecuador's soccer team in tonight's game against Mexico—a rivalry that happened before in 2002, as depicted in the game despelote (on sale on Steam right now.) ¡Sí se puede! ⚽️ despelote.game

smt5 is a cozy game to me

am cosmos@amcosmos.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh wow $20.99 is a greatly good price for the updated SMTV! store.playstation.com/en-us/produc...

here's a review of a review https://ponti.club/jeff-gerstmann-ranking-the-nes/