Michael Brough

YouTube video by GameSpot Trailers 868-Hack Announcement Trailer

Listening to the 868-HACK episode of @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social where Doug recommends the 2015 release trailer which I’d never seen and oh wow 🤣❤️ youtu.be/PRTSoVxxElQ?... @smestorp.bsky.social 👏👏👏

oh man i can try again, i do not understand why it isn’t there now i did all the things

it‘s absolutely 3d, you have to line up from the side view and the top view to shoot a target and it’s super confusing moving on 3 axes in 2 different views

it's "internet meme language" for reminisce about a thing from your childhood

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE FLIGHTMARE: THE ULTIMATE EXPEDITION INTO HORROR STARRING PETER ADAMS COPYRIGHT 1984 PRESS THE SPACE BAR TO BEGIN

LINED UP WITH MOTORCYCLE

GET THOSE SLIME FACED HALF WITS

DOCK WITH BLIMP

post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

point is reducing interface complexity by not having too many controls, so no (but maybe they have aoe attacks or something that can affect diagonal tiles without extra inputs)

enemies don't have inputs so they can do whatever

enemies move freely on diagonals, player orthogonal-only

i miss those libraries of aotearoa, they're pretty very good

Cinco Paus by Michael Brough Available for Windows, macOS

ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)

smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus

Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show

PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)

Two panel image Top panel is a door, the hero, an enemy, and a chest right next to each other. This is labeled "GAME" Bottom panel is the same except large empty spaces have been placed between the hero, the enemy, and the chest. This is labeled "GAME (open world)"

White sweatshirt with 50 magic sigils from the game cinco paus drawn on it

White sweatshirt with 50 magic sigils from the game cinco paus drawn on it

Drawing in progress of White sweatshirt with 50 magic sigils from the game cinco paus

I made myself a Cinco Paus shirt. Fifty magic sigils 🤘🤘

The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - 868-HACK We're joined by Shawn Alexander Allen (Beatdown City Survivors), Cole Wehrle (Root), and Drew Wehrle (Pax Pamir) to discuss the first title in our year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough: ...

All Systems Brough - 868-HACK

Nick, Doug, Rob, Sarah, and Andy are joined by @shawndoublea.bsky.social, @colewehrle.bsky.social, and @wehrlegig.games to discuss the first game in our yearlong series covering @smestorp.bsky.social's work.

secretlives.games/all-systems-...

right?
* get clippy to fill in ten thousand generic npc barks to make a game, incidentally destroy a swathe of land
* get michael to make a game that doesn’t even need that shit

oh no i can’t choose

how are guys saying it costs hundreds of millions to make a game, in broad daylight, largely unchallenged. eeeeeverything is cheaper to do than it's ever been. these dipshits who happen to have $300m they're too dumb to spend well would be annihilated overnight if indies could ever access a mil

we’re indie game dads and that’s what counts

Caves of Qud update: poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.

professional is for when they're paying you :)

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

868-HACK on Steam You are a computer hacker. You steal precious data while the world sleeps.

One week left until the recording of our 868-HACK episode, the first installment of All Systems Brough, a year-long (monthly) exploration of the work of @smestorp.bsky.social.

It’s not too late to play along with us!

store.steampowered.com/app/274700/8...

apps.apple.com/us/app/868-h...

What this underscores is the sheer danger of market consolidation in gaming. While companies like Valve and Epic do not legally have to carry a game, to not do so is functionally a death knell for that game on the PC; Santa Ragione has said it threatens the studio’s continued existence. This is not equivalent to a theater chain declining to carry a movie; this is two (mostly one) American companies more or less deciding what content is commercially viable across most of the world, in ways that are somehow more vague and opaque than the MPAA. This is a hegemony of American prudishness, applied globally, incoherently, unevenly, and unseriously. Anybody responsible for these decisions would be vaporized in seconds by a Pinku movie from the 1970s, and if a single person in this chain of command has an arts degree they are pretending they don’t for the sake of an ill-defined idea of business. Horses cannot be the ceiling for what is artistically and commercially possible in games, because otherwise we are in deep horseshit.

Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).

aftermath.site/horses-indie...

At least read this paragraph:

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

incredible sentence here

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

yeah mentorship! been thinking a lot lately about how even tiny little bits of that helped a lot, and it feels like there "ought" to have been more but the **industry** just doesn't work like that, and now i'm old and esteemed and.. still just trying to make it, not with space to mentor others

YouTube video by smestorp rl celebration - The Roots of Roguelikes in Fantasy Fiction: bonus ending

oh hey my @roguelike.club talk is up on youtube
"The Roots of Roguelikes in Fantasy Fiction"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpX2...
i messed up and didn't fit in everything i wanted to say so i recorded a few minutes extra:
youtu.be/MRd3xu7nkF8

yes! thank you very much