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I use this all the time, and it's got new features! If you use Blender for game engine, go grab it!

“studio flat in PCG city, 20sq ft, $7500 per month”

It’s been in everything forever though hasn’t it, like when Mumford and sons came out a thousand banjo bands turned up to copy them.

It’s equally dull in music too 😂

i remember playing with these as a child, you had handles you could pull to try and match the locomotion IIRC

An interesting thread. The thing that always gets to me is the vast amount of money spent on things like Concord and Highguard, entirely derivative projects that were never gonna make it. I just end up thinking about all the amazing indies you could have had for all that money.

So though I see masses of talk about seeking out Indie titles and so on, there seems to be such a tiny number of people who actually do that these inexpensively made small-team games still struggle to get noticed, even if they're good.

The hardest thing of all to change is consumer behaviours too, as an example I know musicians who make practically nothing in a post-streaming world, but still pay Spotify every month. Those with the greatest incentive to change still just go for convenience. The words/actions rift is quite broad.

I think it’s well-meaning though at least: people are saying it cos they like they idea of games being cheaper as well as cheaper to make but with more money going to plucky developers,

Like all utopian ideals it seems to be hard to manifest in real life…

Every one of these sorts of posts is written by chat gpt too. They ALL have

“This isn’t x, it’s y”

And

“This is x. this is y. This is z”

And other patterns, over and over. It makes LinkedIn unbearable.

“Slow pace” isn’t necessarily bad, but equally having nothing happening isn’t automatically “clever” or “wise”.

Plenty of slow-paced things are good. Pluribus was dull and badly constructed at a deep level. Dislikable shallow protagonist, dragged-out ancillary sequences. One idea and no payoff.

It’s Bandcamp Friday again, here’s my last record, you can have it free or throw me some gil

Its easy to be cynical about “in medias res”, but then you play something that insists on beginning the game with the most boring, dry and slow tutorial and exposition and remember why it works 😂

You’re gonna lose most of those you lose in the first half hour, so do make it count.

HDR definitely makes a way bigger difference to immersion than more resolution too, when you walk out of a building and you actually squint, it crosses the boundary into real experience, it’s far more immersive than even sharper gravel 😂

The result is ray tracing is just a subtle 10% graphical tweak that tanks your performance 😂

Yeah for sure, a reduced percent for the first big chunk of revenue would hope many people massively

Obsidian is free and has a built in Canvas similar to Miro. There’s the plugin Excalidraw too if you want even more in depth cavas drawing etc. I think it’s also free. I remade all my Miros in Canvas a couple of years ago thinking enshittification wouldn’t be too far a way.

Jam - Quake Brutalist Jam III Quake Brutalist Jam III is a megalithic community project more than a year in the making. It features an entirely new arsenal, a set of new monsters, new powerups, and a complete visual overhaul of Qu...

The Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is great fun to explore and has lots of amazing design.

Gameplay wise it just proved to me that I'm just terrible at Quake, getting absolutely wiped out non stop in easy mode, I'm sure I used to be able to play this 🤣

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Permut8 Permut8 lets you modulate, manipulate and mangle your audio in countless ways. The sound of Permut8 is inspired by primitive digital hardware. Raw and complex but noisy and warm at the same time.

An amazing VST processor a lot of people don't know about is Permut8.

It's essentially an 8-bit computer in a VST plugin, can load up different "firmware" and make all kinds of evolving mayhem.

It's also Eno approved 🤣

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ORB

The keyboard search is never over 😂

Low profile linear mechanical ergo would a great combo come to think of it…

Dammit another side quest…

I loved running around this map! I wanted more of it

My Keychron also developed issues really fast. Chattering doubling keypresses, if you type and it’s gone to sleep it doesn’t buffer and send the letters so you just lose the start of it.

I have a Nuphy that’s exceptional, I just wish they did 100% board.

The Callisto Suggestion

Oof… a lot of signs of stick drift in that picture 😂

I remember playing this on the nes, PAL version. I had to use a Game Genie to have a chance of seeing all the levels 😂 I loved how it had loads of types of game in one though.

D I K

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Often I think it’s just used for ATS to auto-reject a bunch of applications, though that’s just a guess.

Yeah it’s a good idea, it should be in all “yellow paint games” I think

Luckily you can now turn it off in the menu. I played it on release and absolutely despised the patronising yellow paint everywhere. I finished it before they added the option to switch it off.

that's a great idea!