Chris Allcock
@taskbaarchitect.com
Writer and Video Game Designer for hire. Wrangles words, finds fun. Opinions are my own!
Can we just get Super Mario 65 already I'm sick of all these spin-offs
Was looking forward to Whisper of the House and its strong Unpacking vibes, but sadly, the text is miniscule. And you need to read the prompts to work out what item you're holding.
Okay, just hear me out, right, a chronological video series going through every video game that's got cavemen or dinosaurs in it and then I put them all in a big tier list at the end. Then, as an epilogue, a Prehistoric Gaming iceberg. Yeah! Yeah?
You've got to practice jokes about docks, harbours and piers, because timing is quay.
The fact the Peter Cullen's passing has made it to the front page of BBC News shows you how much he meant to people. I can only think of a few notable voice actors who'd receive such acknowledgement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime and Eeyore voice actor dies
Cullen voiced the heroic Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV series and then the Hollywood films.
bbc.co.uk
I don't know why but I saw this and immediately had to freehand-mouse draw it. I think it's the way his pupil exists in 3D space.
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Bittersweet memory That's all I am taking with me Goodbye, please don't cry And I will always love you
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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The puppets episode of Strange New Worlds would have been fine as a curio in a larger season when we got Trek on the regular. When there's no more on the horizon, and it's 10 episodes per season, the whimsy just can't hit in the same way no matter how well-made it is. Like the puppets, it's fluff.
I'm genuinely stumped. Why do we give a shit about where Harry and Meghan might live, where their kids will go to school, anything like that? I could sort of get it if they were an active part of the Royal Family, a institutional curio that drives tourism. They're not. They're just rich and posh!
Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Game Writer: why did no one tell narrative there's a glass in this game
Scavenger@paigehix.bsky.social · 2w agoOptimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Combat Designer: The glass is entering its second phase with elevated and more dangerous abilities.
Looking back, it's so wild that OG Mortal Kombat only had these few characters.
Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2w agowhat the fuck is this
The five minutes of rain we had today was incredible; I took lots of pictures, and am really glad I took the time to make the cardboard pinhole thingy so I could look directly at it.
Last night I had a dream in which someone jostled me while I was using Photoshop, causing me to cut myself with the Path Tool. 🥺
I tried to submit my band to a recording label and the producer told me "We'll only sign you if you have seven members." "A septet?" I asked. "Only when you get more people," she insisted.
*ITYSL music intensifies* Tonight was also the night that the spiders came insiiiide... 🎶
Last one, I promise, but when you get to the likes of Super Mario Odyssey and Bowser’s Fury, Mario’s shadow is still always under him but can now deform to run up the wall when he’s partially over a ledge, like it’s a goop-monster chasing him. A useful visual aid that’s kinda creepy in retrospect!
Super Mario Galaxy has the same shadow but not the same problems. The camera frames jumps from the side to help you get a better sense of Mario’s elevation, his spin drags you towards anything you’re close to, and look at the crazy level of ‘snap’, ensuring the player can get onto this swing.
Spatial awareness, especially in bonus stages, has always been my bugbear in Super Mario Sunshine and I think it’s his shadow’s fault. It’s always directly below him and barely changes size, making it really hard to tell how high above the ground you are. Like, that ledge grab totally surprised me.
"There's actually a very simple explanation. In *their* universe, Howard Stark's mother remarried into the aristocratic von Doom family. Wealth enough to provide for her grandson, Anthony Victor von Doom, until he was old enough to read from his first spellbook. Anyway, bye." "Bye, Doctor Strange."
Met a young step-sibling for the first time today, and immediately ruined any social standing I might have had with them by admitting a) no, I've never met Toby Fox, b) I only play the OG Plants vs. Zombies, and c) I don't have a main in Brawlhalla. That side of the family is BIG on Undertale.
What's with this "BlueSky is dying" panic? No, we're just off battling wildfires and drought and oil shortages and exhaustion and erosion of basic human rights and... ...As someone who's been online for 25+ years, general online discourse ALWAYS dies down every summer. Every year.
One of the nastiest things about this is that the option to turn it off is NOT in your channel's settings; it's buried in the "Security" settings of your account, which makes no sense whatsoever. Unless, you know, they were trying to hide it away in a tab you only visit if there's a problem...
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 3w agoTwitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Excited for this evening's partial eclipse because it might actually cool things down for an hour or so.