this is a fantastic point. well put.

I’ve seen it second hand; it’s wretched. imho many of these monetization mechanics should be restricted to 21+.

Soon as I realized I had a problem, I uninstalled the game. Couldn’t even talk about it for a long time without wanting to reinstall. F

props and respect for recognizing it and getting yourself out. that takes character.

Also trying to be patient for Clover Pit

clover pit looks like gambling addiction on roids, holy shit did they exploit a good game loop. like, almost scary if you’ve known anyone who’s struggled with it. at least it’s not real currency and loot boxes fuck

I dig that microprose is going back to it’s roots with stuff like Cleared Hot and Tiny Combat Arena. satisfying.

tbh, I loved SuperGiant’s themes and aesthetics, but not their gameplay. So often early games of Bastion and Transistor felt squishy, or like I was playing underwater - the response loop from button push to effect on screen seemed laggy. Tried both on various platforms, never really got past that feeling. lovely soundtracks tho

Godotcon is in boston this week. I love the engine, it’s maturing rapidly.

It’s an alternate timeline where Jessica had a daughter instead of a sun

this is what the bene wanted. a daughter Atreides to mate with Feyd Rutha Harkonnen - but Jessica wanted to satisfy Leto.

and Leto defeated the Harkoenens during their invasion, so Leto rules over Arrakis for the indefinite future, leaving space in the story for fetch quests and base building.

uhhh so this is an entirely different fiction huh

Apparently the firemen disappeared too, so you have to solve the mystery.

I suspect you mean fremen…

why even bother licensing the story if they’re determined to change everything?

how strange

more plausible than anything else I suppose

… a dune mmo?

who thought this was a good idea?

love the frank herbert books. I thought the recent movies were ok. But MMO? what a strange fit for this universe… unless billions of the players die in the jihad lol

The Sims for me is either 1800s Utah polygamous Mormons, post apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale scenarios, or prisons.

lolwtf

gamestop is developing games now?

that relationship always seemed too close regardless.

Mine broke just by sitting in the couch with it in my pocket. That was a huge lost opportunity.

yeah you should have hurled it at a fascist.

edit: ooh the fascists are sensitive today!

it would be so awesome if we could just ship all the fascists to a prison planet with no oxygen.

yeah it’s really got a bad name in the game dev community. but they don’t give a shit and seem to double down on the troubling aspects of their business model. imho the rest of the community is afraid of the kind of regulation and oversight this bullshit will bring.

it’s a child labor machine

you can see the publishers just going out of business because of all that woke money. oh wait. $184.3 billion. nevermind lol

yeah, you’re right, they’re just a chud.

Your bubble is about to pop, thanks to trump.

I mean, goddamn… chudtastic take

you’re a sad little chud. gonna block you now, have a wretched life.

SteamOS

the way I see it, steam machines led to SteamOS, which will lead to a true steam living room console.

so you can’t tell me when.

because you know, it’s always been that way.

what a fucking sad life that must be to lead, to know, yet deny it with every fiber of your being because you can’t accept.

Keep living in your bubble and being angry at the world, it sounds fun!

lol you’re so isolated from reality you can’t even tell

The rest of us just don’t want it shoved down our throats.

and when you put storytelling of any kind that way, it tells me who you really are.

no one is shoving anything down your throat sweetie, you paid your money for a game before checking it out. that’s your mistake, not the devs.

The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people.

but some people LOSE THEIR ABSOLUTE SHIT over it lol.

fuck em, let them die angry.

before it was filled with activists.

and exactly when was this? lol

when did all the activists take over. Pong?

Colecovision?

All they can do is reply Ok while they downvote your valid opinion, because anything else they say will reveal how much it upsets them that people hate nazis and their supporters.

lolol

how many people have to die from hurricanes and heat waves before these idiots realize they’re celebrating the fucking problem.

and coal rollers, holy shit, these assholes

unreal has, at least since the 2010s, an engine that focuses on AAA looks and advanced features. 5 amped that up with nanite and other gpu stressful tech.

I personally found UE4 to be a bloated dev environment, but ymmv.

lol… do you think that only coders go to gdc?

pfftt…hahahah ah, this is hilarious.

Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon

and btw, jeff doesn’t even work at amazon anymore.

other games to take your attention:

https://thrice.geekswhodrink.com/ - trivia!

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ geography!

interesting points, especially about the evolution in language / perceptions re: dwarves. I’ve heard dragon age being described as ‘fantasy, but more mature’; I played the first game and it didn’t click.

and hilariously, Nintendo uses emulation themselves.

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-emulating-own-games-museum-windows-pc/

Hypocritical fucks

they’re streaming world data. I shudder to think about the size of the entire dataset.

the tech debt effect is hilarious

Seems like the gamergate chuds are trying to make stories happen in a bunch of places.

my understanding from a tech artist friend was that simple things like adding a new shader would take a day to make it into their continuous integration builds, making it ridiculous compared to unity/unreal/etc. this was 2019-ish

Hardly Microsoft alone. Sony sunk billions into Bungie. Around 20%+ OF THE TOTAL WORKFORCE have been laid off at bungie just in 2024.

there is a girl

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Kronos’s openXR is looking great on Godot. They’re making good choices and it’s advancing rapidly on the fronts I care about.

I mean, it only took a year…

oof. what the hell man. meanwhile I moved onto Godot and it’s pretty nifty.

troof.