Moorwing comes back eventually, don’t worry about it for now.

Moorwing filtered a lot of players because if you don’t move the flea caravan, it blocks the entrance to Bellhart. That change makes sense imo.

As for Sister Splinter, I’m not sure why they nerfed her. I guess some players got overwhelmed by the spawned enemies in phase 2.

It’s been 2 hours since the game launched and I STILL can’t check out. Not even steam sales had servers this busted!

Yes, it should work just fine. Use something like Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher.

I was in both communities at the time… Only the OGs will remember when the only thing we had to go off of Elden Ring was a random rumor that called it Great Rune.

It looks fantastic, I’m glad they took their time with it and didn’t cave to release it early.

Bloomberg also did an interview with the team which is a good read.

We made it. We freakin’ made it. I hope it’s a shadowdrop because I don’t wanna wait much longer.

Some of my favorites:

• Bloons TD 6 (paid)
• Levelhead (paid)
• Fancy Pants Adventures
• EDGE Extended (paid)
• Mindustry
• Data Wing
• Streets of Rage 4 (paid)
• Epic Battle Fantasy 5

I had a bigger list around somewhere but I can’t find it… These games are all pretty darn good though.

Agreed. I’m starting Dawn of Sorrow now and man, that game suffers from the most generic early-mid 2000’s anime art style. The portraits are very uninspired, and I think Soma Cruz maybe has the most boring main character design in the franchise. He’s the generic anime pretty boy with a cool coat.

The game’s still very fun though, but I just can’t take the character portraits seriously.

Start at Symphony of the Night then make your way up! I wouldn’t recommend playing the '80s and '90s Castlevania games unless you enjoy borderline unfair arcade games.

This project is definitely a parent studio decided that they didn’t like the game, so they decided to cancel it.

If you’ve read the past few development updates, it’s very likely that the team leadership is at fault and not Riot. They basically spent the last ~3 years moving the game to a new engine and the most they had to show was some concept art. I hoped that they were developing in secret to have some big reveal down the line, but it seems like the game really was going nowhere.

I’m reading it more like the longest “we blew our budget and had no game” post.

I’ve gotten as far as I could, but didn’t do everything.

I guess it just wasn’t in my circle because I haven’t heard much about it since release, but good to know it’s more popular than I thought

That’s… Kind of insane! I’ve been following Bitcraft every now since it got announced but I never expected them to go to this direction. The blog post makes sense but I’m curious what license they’re going to use. It could be a legal minefield to try and stop people from stealing the game, re-branding it, then profiting off of it.

It’ll be really curious to see how this plays out because there isn’t really any major games that went open source, much less one that’s going to be actively monetized like Bitcraft.

Our focus will be on a smooth and successful Early Access launch on Steam, which is our highest priority. Only once we are happy with the state of the game will we start the process of open sourcing BitCraft.

Anyway, it sounds like open-sourcing the game might take a while. I hope early access works out for them.

I also bought a PSTV when they were on clearance for less than 20 bucks, makes for a nice little gaming console for the bedroom or guest bathroom.

The… Guest bathroom???

I owned a PSP Go a few years ago, it’s a great device. I loved how tiny it is, but the screen was a little too small for me, and it didn’t handle emulation that well. Loved playing Lumines and Patapon on it, though!

I agree, it’s about the perfect size for me. Just small enough to fit in my jacket pocket.

I honestly wish PC handhelds had a similar size, but they’re all tablet-size. Someone had an image comparing the Vita with the Steam Deck and it puts into perspective how large handhelds have gotten.

You can backflip in mid-air which is useful to go a little higher or cancel the direction you’re moving in. I don’t remember the exact control for it, but I think it was double tapping after jumping.

Absolutely, it’s a great game.

The fun part of this game is hearing such differing opinions, I had someone explain that Block Koala was their favorite. I personally didn’t gel with Planet Zoldath, it’s conceptually neat but I found it very tedious. Glad you enjoy it though!

TL;DR you’ll enjoy it if you like casual puzzle games lol.

Voxelgram is a spiritual successor to an older game called Picross 3D. Picross 3D is a 3D version of a popular logic puzzle called Nonograms.

Levelhead is a fantastic mario-maker esque platformer. The official campaign is a little over 10 hours long and is pretty good but its main draw is its incredible level editor and infinite number of quality levels online. I can’t recommend it enough. Sadly it never got as popular as it should have but there’s still a massive backlog of online levels to play.

Someone else mentioned Distance and I agree. It’s a futuristic racing game with some horror elements. The campaign is short, but there’s a great amount of levels in the workshop. The multiplayer modes are also pretty fun if you can grab a few friends (there’s split-screen too).

Inkbound is launching from early access soon and while I wouldn’t say it’s the greatest roguelike out there, it’s a lot of fun and very unique. It’s essentially a co-op turn based RPG where you and other players play all your turns at the same time. I’ve played a lot of singleplayer too and the game feels well balanced there.

Voxelgram is Picross 3D for PC. Must-have for people who like nonograms.

Fiiiinally some good news on GameMaker. I honestly don’t know what they were thinking with a subscription just to use the engine, their main audience is indie devs that are just starting out so they just chased them away to engines that are free to use like Godot, Unity, Unreal, etc. You can’t even export web games in Gamemaker for free unless you upload it to Opera’s website.

I briefly used gamemaker 2 and it was a pretty good, polished engine. Shame Opera sabotaged it so much. It was becoming clear that Godot was quickly taking its users, so the timing of this announcement is good.

Someone asked for the raw dataset in the other thread, here it is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MkuZG2MiGj-77PGkuCAM3Btb1_Lb4TFEx8tTZKiOoYI

Have at it.

I feel for you. A few people said the human art I put in the survey were lackluster but I thought they were pretty good, not everyone is an S-tier artist.

77% of people guessed this was AI generated, and a friend of mine kept saying it was weird and inconsistent so “I doubt a real artist would put random food in the back”

It’s actually a cropped image of https://www.deviantart.com/tsaoshin/art/Strawberry-Taiyaki-Cat-905271835 . I wouldn’t want to be an artist right now.

Absolutely horrifying, thanks

DALL-E 3 is the only model that gets text right. It usually yields consistent results but can still jumble on words if you ask it to say too much. It’s a big step forward regardless.

Unfortunately it seems like google forms resizes the image to fit the forms. If I had known this before I would’ve used something else, but oh well. I’ve stretched the images as far as they can go now, which seems to be around 740x740.

They were fixed after posting but that may be after you opened the link, answers should be good now.

Fixed both right before seeing this comment, I’m really not awake enough for this :P

Fixed, thanks for reporting.

Pretty interesting, reminds me of Vintage Story. Thanks for sharing.

I used to play it a lot about a decade ago. Good times.

These are great resources, thanks!

I hope the rumors are false. Hasn’t hollywood ruined enough franchises by now? At the very least give us a remaster of the original trilogy, they’re timeless masterpieces.