Aura/Moom

Cookie’s Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World (Rodik, Mac/Windows, 1999)

Trump administration debates whether to let Tencent keep its gaming stakes, FT reports The White House ​is debating whether ‌to allow Tencent to ​keep ​its stakes in major ⁠video ​game groups as ​U.S. President Donald Trump prepares ​to meet ​Chinese President Xi ‌Jinping ⁠in China in A...

Oh boy.

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A diagram on a piece of paper. 21 grey boxes are placed inside a larger box's outline. They are all rotated at different angles. Text above reads: 'This is the mathematically optimal way to package 21 equally sized boxes inside of a larger box - minimising the space taken up as much as possible.'

The AAA4 fundraiser went from $1113 to $1288 in one day! That means we only have $112 left to reach our goal! That means we could hit 100% TODAY if a few more people give us their support! We're so close! Please chip in if you can!

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there are a lot of genres where you absolutely _cannot_ just hire some animator on contract and keep them isolated from the design team and "rhythm heavenlike" is maybe one of the tops on the list. Your animator(s) NEED to have an intimate understanding of the gameplay or it will feel: Very Bad

bits&bops is definitely the best indie entry in this genre for sure

man there are a lot of nextfest demos this year by devs trying to do a rhythm heaven with bad animation and bad music and. you can't do that. if you don't have good animation and good music there isn't anything _left_ of a rhythm heaven. it's the None Burger of games

bsky is sabotaging its own servers in the futile attempt to stop me from posting radirgy yuribait
the fools. nobody can stop yuribait

now seems like a fantastic time to mention that while all of the dmca shit was going down, someone put out a fully playable english translation of cookie's bustle! even runs on modern windows (as long as you install quicktime v6.5.2, which is not what the game comes with)! cookies-bustle.net

Cookie's Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World (Rodik, Mac/Windows, 1999)

An unreal blueprint function, something like ReturnEvenOnly(value): if(value % 2) return value else (unhandled)

Event graph using that function Event BeginPlay: for(int i=0; i<=10; i++) Print(ReturnEvenOnly(i)

The output from the code, showing that for unhandled odd numbers, the function outputs the previous output (as opposed to a default value of 0) 0, 0, 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10

Just got reminded of an absolutely cursed piece of unreal blueprint lore

If you don't add a return node on some paths in a function, and call it from the event graph, the callsite will just return whatever the previously returned value was, instead of say, a default value like zero

The big question is: Why so many takedowns?

Turns out, it's because Graceware was abusing a legal resource for game devs! The UK trade group Ukie offers free legal services for their members, including "real-time" automated takedown notices.

Do you see where this is going?

We retained digital rights lawyer @kendraserra.bsky.social to help us get to the bottom of these takedowns and determine just how bogus they were.

Answer: They were very, very bogus.

Some background: For several years, a copyright troll has been claiming ownership of the game Cookie's Bustle and sending out mass takedowns for anything related to it on the internet.

Unfortunately, our digital archive was impacted by this as well, which is why we decided we had to fix this.

oh SHIIIIIIIIIT

You Are Elon Musk by Kris Lorischild A Billionaire Simulator

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:

YOU ARE ELON MUSK

200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY

direkris.itch.io/elon

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com

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ABSONET and "OVER" By using Absonet, you become invincible. The score gets multiplied quicker so move quickly before it runs out. By collecting enough [symbol], your plane becomes OVER status and you're able to fly faster, but with more risk. By using Absonet and collecting [symbol] and achieving OVER status, you'll be flying fastest to the moon.

ABS-NET and OVER STATE ABS-NET is great; it makes you invincible and boosts the multiplier. Collect speed items to enter the OVER state for high-speed high-risk shooting action! ABS-NET, Speed items, and OVER state are the keys for reaching the moon fast! At least, I think they are! [big symbol] <- Speed item!

if you've ever wanted to see an incredibly stark comparison between a bad and good translation, check out this section from Radirgy Swag's manual: pic 1 is Dispatch Games' slapdash loc and pic 2 is the new steam translation

are you all ready for Tadayo
are you ready
she'll be here in just over 24 hours. you'd better be ready

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'Difficult decision': All Vancouver Car Free Days cancelled in 2026 | News Just months after the Honda Celebration of Light was cancelled in Vancouver, popular Vancouver event Car Free Days has pulled the plug.

How many more popular community events are going to wither and die under Ken Sim’s mayorship? dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... ht @city-duo.bsky.social

sure you should check the food bowl and all but riffing is typically a sign that you're housing your writers in an overstocked tank. you're going to need a bigger enclosure and/or to rehome some writers. otherwise they'll get their plots tangled together and form a "writer king"

Kojima isn't really sure what a woman is but he thinks it might be a type of space alien

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your writer can't stop riffing? on dear, they only do that when they're very distressed. are you sure they're getting enough food? have you been grooming them properly

In 2019, I created #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after I was stopped by security 3(!!) times while picking up my speaker badge. I’m a small Asian woman with pink hair, and I guess I didn’t visually meet their expectations of a speaker.

Ironically, I was at GDC to speak about inclusive studio cultures. 🫠

a bunch of gaming video essays I like!
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I feel like the answer to this is probably "does the article have any english-language citations or are they all ported over from another lang"

a compilation of my photos of maine, "A Place Without Bodies" volumes 1 and 2, to advertise it for my early spring sale. in the top left it says "Early spring/"FUCK! I got bills" sale!". in the middle, over a moody photo of a gas station, it says "Over 600 atmospheric photos of Maine in 2 volumes for $20! (That's 2/3rds off its normal price!)". and on the right, over a foggy photo of a bridge, it says "Licensed for commercial use! Use 'em in games, art, albums, more!"

hooooo heyo! some surprise bills have come up here, so i'm doing an early spring sale of my photo packs of maine, "A Place Without Bodies"! over 600 moody, atmospheric photos, WITH license for commercial use! normally $60, cut down to $20! and it lasts all march! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

With a little over two weeks to go, the AAA4 fundraiser is at 79%! Less than $300 left before this issue is fully funded! If you want to support high-quality human-created writing about porn games, now is the time!

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I'm sorry but if you take paychecks from the New York Times some segment of people will simply not take you seriously, morally or intellectually, because you're working for an organization that has spent the last 10 years deliberately building a hate movement.