Justin 🔜 # PAX East

New SSR pull dropped

Manifesting for Mili

Watching the Project Sekai Movie got me to do an 8-hour-total round trip solo drive the next day, and I don't know if there's anything I can say to match that energy.

I've never watched the series, and I still thoroughly enjoyed it. I LOVE MEMBER INTRO SONGS. Something special about characters each taking turns to show how they'll burrow into your brain.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live got me crying at song one. HELP??

Finished this in 2022 but decided to finish the last few achievements I had lying around for the 100% - one of my favorite games of all time.

TogeToge at Anime Expo JPOP Sound Capsule on Thursday but I'm only going Saturday 😭 - Manifesting that this means a North America tour sometime in the future

Quick Recap of Ender Magnolia experience: I hate teleportation. Yes, I did sob a little when I saw her again and heard that song come on. Yes, I hate Vel. Yes, I did expect something bad to happen to an NPC after I got that last piece. And no, I did not get much sleep while playing this game.

Next step: grind scraps and material to 100% the game.

Ender Magnolia feels like a fresh take while still not losing the core appeal of Ender Lillies (Counters, among other things) - trading eldritch nun monsters for machinery and blight for fumes. Outside of some annoying hidden rooms (I cheated on a couple), it was a smooth adventure. Massive props.

Speaking of relationships, Ender Magnolia starts off with one of its biggest changes: the main character talks.

Seriously though, I love that there's more talking in the game. Spirits get more personality, and you even get small skits. Really helps you avoid losing track of who's who.

Without getting into spoiler territory, the relationship between the main character and the bosses you encounter are a lot more direct. Whereas Ender Lillies focused on the decaying of the world, Ender Magnolia's major throughline feels very personal, with a focus on loss and relationships.

Finished Ender Magnolia, and it really is a perfect sequel. I love all of the gameplay and setting differences - I think they all combine into an amazing contrast to Ender Lillies.

While Ender Lillies leaned into horror and systemic tragedy, Magnolia focuses primarily on personal tragedies.

Ender Magnolia is fun but man, has it been a roller coaster of "am I actually good at this game?"

The iconic 1-2 combo: dying when a boss is at 10% and then immediately getting deleted by the boss's first moves during the salty run-back.

Everything comes back to Gundam...

"if I just work hard enough, eventually I'll make it"

No. cause if you don't make it that means you didn't work hard enough. And that isn't fair to your efforts.

there are so many factors outside of your hands. So much success is luck, and failure is not always your fault. cut yourself some slack.

That cool artist you admire is probably struggling real hard right now and trying to make it seem like things aren't as bad as they are. You should give them some love.

My arcade habits are biting me really hard playing Rift of the Necrodancer because I keep dropping my combo by pressing keys as an idle action. Going to have to break this habit before I can comfortably get through story mode, it throws me off so hard.

Will say, Mash Up Dual Sides does kinda go crazy. They were kinda cooking on the music side of things.

Think this is at the top of where I'm at for first day of Mash VP! I really need to work on something very similar that holds me back in ONGEKI - that being I'm really biased to use only the buttons on the same side as the notes.

Also, 4 lane mode is just beyond me right now, just too insane.

I also really should turn off Sticky Keys

Confirmed that all levels of the tutorial are still the tutorial. So I guess RIP to people who just like the track. I'm sure there's probably some harder sections but with all love and affection for this game, I'm not sitting through the tutorial two more times to see what's different.

First impressions on MASH VP! Re:Vision - blame it on having just come off a Round1 Trip + GDC but man, so many Steam rhythm games literally just drop you off at Free Play like a schoolchild and I am not nearly dedicated enough to actually get good at this game. However, Save The Night is a banger.

Coming up with working titles for my projects and wondering if there's some unexplored passion for ornithology that I need to address.

Hey everyone, I'm looking for work

Award winning freelance video game composer, and I also do sound design.

If you or anyone you know is looking for contract music or audio, I can write in any style and like doing dynamically layered soundtracks.

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Project Crow by warspiteful A 4 Key Rhythm Game

Thanks for doing this, Rami!

I'm prototyping a collection of rhythm games systems: warspiteful.itch.io/project-crow. Finished lane-based gameplay and exploring Groove Coaster next.

Also, fresh off GDC, I've been ideating a single-button rhythm game. Looking at Symphogear and Katana Zero for inspo.

Introducing BOSTON GAMEDEV WEEK - May 5-11! 🥳

Traveling to Boston for PAX East? Join us early for a week full of developer-focused events including meetups, roundtable chats, GodotCon, indies demo night and more!

Full schedule at gamedev.boston

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