Liz England

Painting: Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

so like Dwarf Fortress but this…?

And to be fair, I haven’t read it in ages, and actually read far more of The Decameron, which, if I recall correctly, has much less subtlety in its satire / comedy

Yeah, there’s quite a number of “medieval” sims and many of them lean away from religion and toward a seriousness that I might associate with, say Westerns. There’s not a lot that leans into the absurd, Four Last Things / Death of the Reprobate does but as an adventure game not a sim

I was more thinking satire, vice/virtue, and little things forging saints relics or selling of indulgences

This all started as “how would I adapt beowulf to games”

Tonight’s intrusive thought is, “What if Canterbury Tales but as a colony sim?”

(absolutely not)

(happy thanksgiving)

I dread this day every year because I know you are going to post a photo of that green marshmallow alien goop.

this is the most unhinged fix and I am here for it

I appreciate every single one of you that took the time today to tell me how they fixed the Arc Raider's door glitch by setting the players on fire.

oh no I have no food in the house except for all the ingredients needed to make fresh Belgian waffles topped with fresh strawberries, bananas, and whipped cream, what ever will I do

stuff you always want to hear as the playtest starts, "I really hope my latest changes are not in this build."

yes you can and it is multiplayer!

also conveniently I adore jigsaw puzzles and have played so, so many digital forms and have strong opinions about what they do right/wrong (mostly wrong)

one day (it's my new years resolution) I will start blogging again and actually commit this incredibly niche design analysis to writing

I picked this game up as part of judging IGF ~4 years ago and while it didn't get any recognition (it's an odd fit for IGF) it was one of my favs for its UX design

was trying to explain what makes Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams so good to a friend and I feel like saying "full physics jigsaw pieces" always undersells it

you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted

This is good, the one added thing I believe is that we underestimate how easily we overwrite our own memories, and especially under pressures that make us psychologically uncomfortable. So sometimes this “gaslighting” is from someone who rewired their own memories and you can’t argue them out of it.

Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes!

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Cheap grocery delivery when you live in a city is both fantastic (keeps me from takeout) and terrible (ice cream is on sale).

New Save Collective plans to continue holding future events and organizing gamers. The fight for these communities online is far from over. “Gaming wasn't kind of a random genre that we chose,” says Siggelkow. “We've been tracking anti-immigrant myths and disinformation digitally for years. We really grounded this campaign in a lot of data and research. This really is a space that is critical for immigration narrative.”

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

door problems are always a trap that so many people can't resist: if you propose a solution from the outside, you have failed the test

For one guy, I kept ‘accidentally’ doing it wrong until he got frustrated and decided to quit, at which point I said “Wait I have another idea!” and just… swiped the keycard I’d been carrying for it.

The doors are excellent and give me great joy.

I have to admit: like three different solo players have asked me to help them with the door glitch and I agree every time because it gives me, personally, great joy. I do pretend not to know about it and make them explain it to me in great detail each time though.

So I don’t speak on things I just don’t know much about, and not many companies/projects publish climate impact reports.

I can only speak for myself and say that while there’s an easy line against large corporate LLMs that rely on massive data centers, I am unsure what the cost of small language models or very targeted LLMs or if it’s any different than other processes we also take for granted (cloud, ML, etc).

one time at work someone recommended it while I was in the room and I said "that article is sooooo good the writer must be sooooo smart I wonder where they work now" because I cannot help myself

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

Perhaps it's because the value I found in is less related to Arc Raiders specifically, and far more related to broader ways to evaluate generative AI. It is a useful game to jump off of to unpack sticky issues related to voice acting specifically because it's not in the obvious misuse bucket.

Like I said to someone else in this thread, there's very little space for nuanced public discussion because it provides cover for bad actors who use the technology to profit/exploit, but I really didn't find this article to be among those misinformed polarizing pieces.