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finally some innovation

yeah, that's about where i am w/ it. some things irk me but it's pretty usable once you understand the paradigm it wants you to use.

it feels like everything is slightly clunkier than i want it but i'm slowly learning to avoid the gotchas

your game looks v. cool. how is godot treating you?

i made this today.

this audacity setting actually changes your windows mic input volume everywhere iirc so watch out in other programs!

the witness has a more directly antagonistic relationship with the player -- early examples intentionally lead the player to believe simplified versions of the rules that then get dismantled or refined by counter-examples later on. witness constantly forces the player to challenge their assumptions.

witness actually spawned a new subgenre of puzzle (teach yourself the rules by example) that inspired quite a few games in the space. i don't think his game design is lacking, exactly, but he's certainly way too full of himself and has actively harmful ideas about a lot of things.

excellent

try re-contextualizing the controls in your head as an intentional design element rather than a mistake?

there are plenty of good games with clunky controls -- stuff in the Prince of Persia lineage (even the original 3D Tomb Radiers) are all about precision and getting stuck in animations

even in games with very imbalanced first moves, you can usually fix it with the pie rule, (e.g. first player moves, second player decides if they want to play from that position and become first player, or respond and stay second player)

Save 10% on A Solitaire Mystery on Steam A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.

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idk i think this just makes sense -- even without malicious intent it's hard to verify the hardware and firmware and software are working correctly, especially for the layman. a physical cover is always preferable in a situation where you want to KNOW it's not seeing anything.

hmmm -- maybe i don't think that personal context is on the same axis as pursuing something. i chase what's interesting to me, otherwise i don't have much motivation to make anything. but in that pursuit the boring invisible me seeps in anyway.

isn't genre just the cultural context in which your work exists? what's distasteful about pursuing genre if you want to invoke that context? is defying genre substantially different than pursuing it? would it be different in other media e.g. music?

this was great! love hearing people talk about games they like!

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my new song "saturate" turned out so nice!!

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would rather argue w/ you for 90+ seconds than wait 90 seconds for a game to start

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happened to me to -- in my case i had to scroll up, but it looks like in your case the puzzle number is covering the top clue lol

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i dislike invincible dodges for similar reasons -- makes positioning not matter as much

we've traced the call... it's coming from inside the house!!

gonna start marketing my game opposite of @droqen.bsky.social's kill gameplay aesthetic -- it feels so good to move in my game that it's immoral

Headline that says "Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way better"

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a menu screen: pixelart lined paper with mode names and cute stickers

an active game of drop10. it seems to involve gravity

"Make Lawn", one of the modes. There are a lot of green threes littered on the board. There's an "undo" button and no timer.

The post-game summary screen for the Daily mode. "Next sticker: 300 points (they're just pretty)". Three options of modes to unlock next: Drop10(long), MakeTen(wild), and MakeHeaven(classic)

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