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Easy explanation: Rich people are not good people. Having more than everybody corrupts your mind into thinking you are special. There's no secret sauce here rich people are just selfish.

Maybe Doom: The Dark Ages didn’t need mechs and dragons after all Why punch demons when ya got a chainsaw shield?

I agree the mech and dragon sequences feel superfluous in Dark Ages, and the game would be better off without them.

But going back to what I was saying before on game design?

Nobody could tell you mechs would be boring on paper. It SOUNDS great. Big Doom guy mech!

www.polygon.com/opinion/6012...

slight spoilers but this random-ass stock photo bit is one of my favorite parts of creepy redneck dinosaur mansion 3 (which you should wishlist by the way)
store.steampowered.com/app/2116510/...

can we take a moment to celebrate the magnificent economy of the phrase "dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them"

Love this idea introduced to me by Adrian Hon's newsletter: "Para-academic: serious treatments of subjects under-examined by academia, by writers outside or excluded from academia."

Aka almost all serious and broadly used game design writing and theory.

I just wrapped up a 90m sneak peek and Q&A for our Kickstarter launch day for Stars Reach.

What a day. Running on 2 hours of sleep, barely got to eat... but the amazing response has just floored us all. Funded in less than an hour, front page of KS and Project They Love...

STARS REACH: A Living Galaxy Sandbox MMORPG🌌 Explore a living galaxy in a shardless sandbox MMORPG from the visionary team led by Raph Koster, designer of Ultima Online & SWG.

HOLY COW! Stars Reach hit its funding target in less than one hour, and is currently the #2 product globally on Kickstarter.

I cannot express how grateful we are here.

We will start unlocking stretch goals and more Early Birds (they went FAST)!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

THE #STARS#REACH #KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!

The journey has begun. Stars Reach is now live on Kickstarter. Be part of the adventure and help us reach for the stars.

Back us now:
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Reports REPORTS 2022 2023 2023 Understanding Systems Suspense Why is it fun to learn the rules of a videogame? Not just to play the game, but to learn it; to travel from the state of unknowing to knowing, to ...

it's unfortunate that for various reasons Polaris Game Design Retreat can only be attended by ~30 people every year, but it's EXTREMELY fortunate that those people tend to write up their findings and learnings, and give it away FOR FREE, check it out: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Wildkeepers Rising - a Pokémon/Vampire Survivors hybrid bullet heaven game with monster taming - has a new demo available on Steam now, and looks pretty fun!

store.steampowered.com/app/3184800/...

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government 404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

Since the summer I've been trying to figure a simple but accurate-ish wing folding rig, and I think I finally got it!

#duck #3d #lowpoly #blender

2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

It's really important to correct this.

Trump won 49% of counted votes.

36% of eligible voter didn't vote or were not registered at the time of the election (see: purged from voter rolls)

Trump won about 31.8% of adults. Dems did worse at 30.8%.

No one who hasn't shared or donated to this gofundme is allowed to talk about Disco Elysium ever again.

I know! I'm poor too. I don't always eat either.

A single dollar. One currency.

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature.

Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn

I see Wii shop Wednesday, I like. Those are the rules.

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Hyper Light Breaker on Steam Enter the Overgrowth, a new realm in the world of Hyper Light. Play alone or with friends to explore open worlds, create new builds, rip through hordes and overcome the Crowns and the Abyss King.

Hey folks, I know a lot is happening right now, and it feels inconsiderate to talk about it...

But the game I spent the last 2.5 years of my life on, Hyper Light Breaker, is out today as early access. If you could check it out, it would mean a lot to me.

store.steampowered.com/app/1534840/...

I just got laid off.

Gutted. I loved Heart Machine. They were good to me. My only regret is that I couldn't stay.

Character rigger of 12+ yrs, 2 GDC talks, 1 Gnomon talk, VES nominee, etc. Spider-Man PS4, The Order:1886, Hyper Light Breaker.

All info here: tinyurl.com/3ccdcmdc

#gamedevjobs

Announcing:

🦆 A Waddleful Life 🐤🐤🐤

A sweet little game where you play as a duck raising ducklings.

Wishlist now on Steam!
#indiegame

*slamming the button* wii shop wednesday don't fail us now

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

📌

Thank you!

I am not the OP, but am always interested in a couch co-op list!

A screenshot from Shadow of the Colossus, with the tiny player on the left and a huge colossus - twenty times their height - standing up on the right

Twitter thread re-post (05/2022):

"How do games intrinsically motivate players to explore" is a favorite #GameDesign topic of mine.

Many of the games that do this achieve it partially by evoking a sense of awe while exploring their worlds.

Let's talk about how that works in games

a sample screenshot of the notion page with vertical rows of links to gamedev related starterpacks and the title "BlueSky GameDev Starter Packs”

Alright, here it is:

I collected ~100 #GameDev starter packs and put them all on one Notion page! ✨

They're categorized by:
🍃 Location
🍃 Discipline
🍃 Game Genre
🍃 & more!

It also includes tips / labellers / block lists that I've stumbled on. I hope this helps you settle in & reconnect! 😊

👉 LINK

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