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we’ll optimise after shipping

We’ll optimise before shipping

i abandoned core toy

extremely “Lingo (2021)”-coded post, I love it

(this is so not relevant, but) looking closely, i reckon the F is actually a folded out of view R as in ARMY

without being too specific, I loved - LOVED - the final minute or two before the cut to credits

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2? Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has. Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something. Tateishi: … Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack? Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

the gascoigne runback in bloodborne always works for me. through the city gates, past the big guys, down the elevator, across the bridge with the flaming nonsense, and into the narrow back alleys. chef’s kiss

i camembert to go without these rich complex flavours

the question in the back of my mind here is “worse outcomes… for who? over what timespan?”

reading this thread and reluctantly deciding to participate in the time of my life

Thinking About Game Difficulty Periodically a wave of discussion about game difficulty occurs in game developer spaces, so I wanted to share some thoughts that Zach Barth and Keith Holman of Zachtronics [http://www.zachtronics.com]...

If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.

web.archive.org/web/20250107...

playing hollow knight for the first time starts by feels like standing in a dimly lit room in an old haunt. and then by the end you’ve turned on the lights and realise you’re standing in a cathedral. and then bam, credits, at the peak of that feeling.

i think hollow knight is one of those games that reveals itself to be “””a rare game””” with more and more distance, and that synced well with the wait for silksong.

What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?

the thought of ending up with - after years of gruelling effort - “oh no i accidentally made super metroid but worse and 30 years too late” is terrifying.

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.

A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress

But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

there are hundreds of unity engineers who are uncredited here, and many of them have contributions that were likely more profound than 90% of the people actually listed.

is it /useful/ to describe silksong as having been made by hundreds of people?

i think the impulse here is noble, but tbh the longer i spend in games, the more honest the core sentiment of “it was made by like three people” becomes. there are artists and plumbers — sometimes you’re a plumber. there’s no shame in that.

name a more iconic duo than “bluesky users” and “resisting information compression through language”

this is like an alternate universe where game engines evolved into something usable

i love - LOVE - that you had this on hand

low-key inflicting massive self-esteem damage to patrick fischler

yes YES

i’m putting $5 down on the blob

it is always extremely funny to see people refuse to acknowledge the brake pedal as an avoidance mechanism

@toboggan.work @draknek.bsky.social very slowly working my way through bonfire peaks lost memories part 2. I can’t even picture what a valid solution for “Steeple” COULD look like. great stuff :)

this may be your best work. hang it in a gallery