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I genuinely think that's what JSR could've been if it has a sequel that further refined its mechanics and systems and didn't throw it in the trash for glorified Banjo-Kazooie with rollerskates and graffiti.

This also heavily bothers me when I see people gas up BRC and its sequel.

Penny would've been so sick if it had an arcade mode that just went through all the levels and had a countdown timer (perhaps it's constantly low and you had ways to extend time that disincentivized skips).

Games like this suffer from lack of systemic structure that arcade design could help with.

Why tf am I thinking Twin Peaks when I hear this.
Also you did a great job. It's very authentic!

No more Goemon?

I feel like that almost looks like I didn't even respond directly to what you're saying LOL

Those are all patterns that have emerged since games have become bigger and more technically advanced.

"property bigger. Foundation wider, Depth is afterthought. Exponential peaks and valleys inevitable"

Digging wider requires exponentially more labor when you start digging deeper. It's what people mean when they say "mechanics" slop. When games rely too much on expanding systems and tools, rather than design. Limitations clarify design. So does difficulty but people don't wanna hear it.

Imma need you people to learn how to engage with good faith discussion on equally good faith terms. This kind of dunking on people to "open discussion" KILLS DISCUSSION.

This is the most Bluesky response. I know you're making a point about Discord alternatives sharing less similarities than BSKY even does with Twitter, but this right here is an example of what I've had many of my friends list as one of several reasons why they avoid this website like the plague.

Certain services don't have competition just because of hosting costs (it's why YouTube still gets used) but basic timeline feeds, messenger services, gallery websites, there's a lot of choice out there. When a service isn't properly serving its users anymore it's a reason to look for change.

I hope people can become familiar with the concept of not putting all faith into a single service/platform again. It was ten years ago that Skype became inconvenient so people switched from using it. Even further back people manually opted to download and use other browsers than Internet Explorer.

Clip on my discord that reminded me I made a pretty cool game 🤓

in light of today's "The Big Game", it is my pleasure to report that avgn's football rant is highly compatible with laura palmer's theme

Oh, sorry. For a second I though No More Heroes was one of my favorite games. Apparently it's not and I threw my Wii out the fucking window after mowing lawns and Suda telling me I don't get a real final boss.

As the straw falls out of my arms.

Rules/laws, failstates, game design fundamentals aren't represented here and I say that affectionately. I'm not a fucking conservative.

To rope everything into the same basked doesn't help anyone, in fact this kind of lashing out at good faith discussion is harmful towards progress.

Calm down with the strawmanning.

I like Visual Novels, narrative focused experiences and the likes. One of my favorite games is Outer Wilds and you could literally trace most of its design back to Gone Home and Dear Esther.

We need more people who condemn shit like GG and everything it stands for, but aren't afraid to call out how rotten to the core the vessel, that good faith journalists, writers and critics unfortunately stand on to this day, was all along.

That includes that fucking Cuphead clip. I'm sorry.

My entire point is that this constant insistence that every person, who's otherwise just ignorant towards the distinction between Investigative Journalism and the entire rest of the capitalist cesspool that is Games Media, must be a Pro-Gamergate Chud in disguise doesn't help.

Games media isn't completely devoid of integrity, but it's plagued by decades of bad actors and corporate interest. People like Geoff Keighley, the entire executive staff at G4, several games magazines that followed the money, not integrity.

Who invited Catly to the TGA's?

Gamergate sucked ass. I fucking hate everything it caused. It's also a scapegoat for any fair criticism towards games media.

Investigative games journalism is possibly legitimately different from what the average Joe calls "journalism". It would be more productive to help distinctuate those.

None of that excuses the deep history of bias in favor of narrative/progression design, discrimination against arcade/action/skillbased games and orientalism rooted in decades of games media.

Gamergate wasn't the Alpha and Omega of sabotaging the integrity of games media. It was twisting the knife.

"How far you've come as a player" is already built into the game, by replaying the game, which you should strive for as a quality to have anyway.

All this really adds is "how far has the character come?", which requires the narrative tension of a first playthrough to have any weight to it.

It's good narrative, but not necessarily good game design. It works maybe once or twice, but the appeal of a moment like this falls off with every playthrough.
If anything, you're adding something that feels somewhat repetitive and anti-climactic to returning players. It's theme park appeal.

Can't get over this wallpaper Gainax sold in the 90s.

He did it! He won!

Getting the 1cc in a game that takes less than 4 minutes also gets you to think about "how tf do you turn this into a circa 20 minute game?". Whatever worked best here shouldn't suffer by having the game be blown up 5 times in length.

Bog lists Elevator Action and Rolling Bird inspo, but I also see Pac-man, Bubble Bobble and perhaps a tiny bit of Bonanza bros.

Tiny games like this are so important to feel out what works. The dev for this already said he regrets the Oblique perspective. The game is still fantastic in spite of it!

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Both Arrangement and CE(1, not plus, not 2) would like to have a word with you.

Got the 1-ALL in Caramel Action Micro today!
Go play it! It's free! The first loop takes about 3-4 minutes!
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Me when I fucking get you