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By all means, give the random breakable props strewn about your environments a chance to drop currency... Just know that pacing-wise, you're commanding a range of player archetypes to scour and break them ALL, while widening the economy delta between them and critical pathers. #GameDesign

"Live/Let live, no shade, but why is the queer community so DRIVEN to trans everything?" An organic response to being psychologically CORNERD by your fellow pack animals I'd say; parrying threats to your very identity via reflection. "So art is ammunition in a culture war?" Not quite...

ivy sly@ivysly.com · last wk.

"Sweethearts of the stage and childhood heroes prepared canned ideals. Letting thieves off work didn't concern your sweetheart counselor." #fridgle day 2

felt like rngdle's ultralimited poetry composer was the only actually interesting part of the whole thing, so i spun it off into my own daily web "game". everyone gets the same 30-40 words each day to compose a prose poem with fridge magnet poetry tiles. fridgle.net #gamedev

In a situation that is, (naturally) very Homestuck-like, until you actually sit down with #Undertale and #Deltarune, you won't perceive the degree to which these specific works are like the creative background radiation to a third of the entire internet.

Mario Sunshine was never my favorite 3D Mario or anything, but I do NOT remember it as being particularly challenging or frustrating... Was it possibly tuned so tightly around the Gamecube controller that whole generations are being thrown by the very different analog stick and trigger feel?

TQ 🌿@witchytq.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ah, so GenAI is entering the rarely observed, "Go along to get along, ride the hatred out and hope the astroturfing takes" phase... It was vanishingly short and hard to track in Web3, Blockchain, and NFT cases, but we're in for like 18 months of this, bare minimum given the scale of investment.

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hurts to admit this, but... I keep bouncing off every Supergiant game beyond Bastion, (which I remember fondly!) Always love the lore, look and sound even if the gamefeel prior to Hades seems slightly off; and then the Hades games have some sort of gameplay clarity issue I can't seem to get past...

No hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.

what's you "I did not care for the godfather" of games?" written above a screenshot from family guy of the family being drowned by sprinklers in their panic room.

Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · 2w ago

The timeline's inherent algorithmic sense of humor remains unparalleled...

Partial screenshot of a bluesky timeline:
[Comments from Patrick Klepek and SpacePrez]:
"To maximize time" is a brutal way to look at how you should play video games but I 100% understand it"
"I get it, but yeah so much of our modern approach to play is being driven by FOMO and that's inherently unhealthy."

[...The next post on the feed below the above conversation from H-DEE]:
"I wish I could play multiple video games at the same time"

"The initial thrill I had when playing the game was replaced with a to-do list, a checklist of things to make sure I was getting it 100% right. As I was playing, I no longer enjoyed the game. I didn’t know why." https://www.crossplay.news/p/a-link-to-the-past-amidst-an-uncertain

If you're a bouncer at a club where young people go to experiment and explore identity, you simply can't let people wearing the Meta Pervert Glasses in or let folks wear them while inside... right? The little record light can easily be blacked out/disabled; the social contract needs upholding.

Now that so much of the world's data is going to be created by Generative AI, we really ought to think about how that's going to affect The Cloud... I mean, is the quality of drinking water going to change, what with that flavor of information making its way into the water cycle via precipitation?

D.Mon reads like a Yasuo/Yone situation, except AFAIK D.Va isn't anywhere close to being the most popular #Overwatch character... If the motivations were similar I assume that'd look like "Alt/Dark Kimiko" or something?

D.Mon | New Hero Gameplay Trailer | Overwatch

YouTube video by PlayOverwatch

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pixelframe.design@pixelframe.bsky.social · 3w ago

"GTA6 can't actually save AAA GAMES"
album cover graphic in the style of
"NOW that's what I call MUSIC"

NOW has been compiling the most irritating songs for decades, but now you can use the logo style to "call" anything! The NOW THAT"S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! Font & Logo Generator is live now!

🍄Maze🍄@meaninglez.bsky.social · 3w ago

Unrelatedly, I think it would be very cute if it turned out that Ubisoft accidentally added a 'B' to the common/colloquial spelling of "rabid."

I don't think I'll ever understand the rabbid cultish devotion to GTA. Or frankly, most of Rockstar's lutput. The games just feel so dry and repetitive. Decent writing, and certainly very detailed, but the settings and gameplay just don't scream "endless hype" to me. Just always bewildered me

Please tag all your Posts, (Skeet is now an illegal term) as one of the following: * Politics * Sexytimes * Pets (cute/cool) * Pets (euology) * Video Games (derogatory/complaint) If your post does not fit into any of these categories, consider whether or not this is the platform for such content.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sure would be a shame if hundreds of different Google accounts wrote thousands of documents like: "Cool/Creative/Evocative/Best Names for ___: *SmegLord *Jagofferson *xXbrabottomXx *PerniciousPipis" Or if an army of bots kept feeding other outputs in via docs to promote/hasten model collapse...

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

Very vibes, much soulslike; really enjoying the demo for #Mouseward! In unrelated news, it's possible that finally playing Deltarune has rotted out some new section of my poor brain...

Screenshot of Mouseward video game gameplay, depicting a pretty nighttime rooftop scene with the protagonist in armor wielding a badger war hammer.

Mouseward equipment screen displaying lots of icons and stat text... but the main character's name in the upper-left is, ridiculously, "Dess Dreemurr"