rowan kaiser

I also thought of that, surprising amount of weird-ass Origin games

I was also thinking of The Manhole, another edutainment type game (and a direct predecessor to Myst)

The educational game Operation Neptune (1991) from The Learning Company is the earliest game I remember using this. But System Shock 1 definitely also used them.

with UBI we can have a flock of really angry looking goth girls sit around in town and glare at passersby

if I know any Columbuskers who want to see USA-Canada (and Argentina-Colombia!) tomorrow, there's an option

I know that journalism dying is part of what has led us to this situation but let us not forget that journalism also decided it deserved to die in so many ways

no one will ever remember that

well adventure games it was usually "clues" more than "lore", although obviously the two are mixed together

okay that's legit disorienting

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Introduced to a mysterious late-night TV show—a vision of a secret, supernatural world beneath the suburbs—teenage Owen’s reality begins to crack.

Oh, I Saw the TV Glow is on Tubi now. tubitv.com/movies/10005...

a friend in Discord asks if Resident Evil pioneered the log/lore collection model of information dissemination in video games. My gut reaction is System Shock did this, but I didn't play the first one very much. RE may be where it went to console/Japanese games?

@pugmane about a year ago Jedi accountant “I see here Qui-gon purchased one ...boy on Tatooine. Wait that can't be right.”

which timeline

who could have predicted,

www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

wow, I didn't know that. Origin is the, well, it's in the name, of so so much. even when you know you don't KNOW

BREAKING NEWS in the world of Sticky Toffee Puddings

now I'm curious if the original jumping puzzle Ultima 8 actually exists online

it's a bad game, and it's significantly better than the release version of the game

For games I've worked on, the vertical slices that shipped with the game are:

* Fallout: New Vegas (Novac, REPCONN Test Site + surroundings)
* Pillars of Eternity (Dyrford + Crossing, Tempe of Skaen, Clîaban Rilag)
* Deadfire (Tikawara, Poko Kohara)
* Pentiment (Act I lol)

At last we have created the Disastrous Overseas Engagement from the classic Don't Create the Disastrous Overseas Engagement by Thucydudes

"Want my take? $20, Venmo in bio"

Probably peaked with The Fool's Errand (1987)

Tarot: It's Not That Interesting

Probably past time for a moratorium on tarot cards as video game aesthetics/mechanics

Help them reach their true potential

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Kris is back, helping you help billionaires!

"the gang thinks the a font is the same thing as a joke again" written into the pokopia title generator that everyone is just writing random words into and posting on bluesky

ah,