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David Gaider Reflects On 15 Years Of Dragon Age 2 - A Fan-Favorite Story That Was The Team's First Draft David Gaider talks us through a story that had to be written so quickly that his team had no time to doubt themselves.

It's here! This has been an utter joy to work on for Dragon Age 2's 15th anniversary. Huge thank you to David Gaider for taking me through how he and all of the writers managed to get this fan favourite story finished, with no time for redrafts www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-2...

building a pit trap inside the heavenly palace felt just a LITTLE silly, you see

... whoops, forgot I'd cut the entire 'Trick Jade into a pit trap to make her scream' option, good thing I caught that, spiky would have been confused about suddenly getting edit notes for it...

#GalaxyPrincessZorana #gamedev

Hey, WQXR is playing music by women composers all day today.

www.wqxr.org

Purple background, white text, which says This essay and its sequel trace 120 years... of how women have wielded science fiction to dismantle patriarchy, caste hierarchy, colonial legacies, and capitalist exploitation, often simultaneously, and how they've asked the questions that needed to be asked. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee's two-part history of Indian science fiction makes sharp observations about the themes covered in that fiction, and what impact it can have. Warning: you're likely to come away with a significant reading list...

Read it now for free! www.speculativeinsight.com

and skating reddit was so, SO mad about it!

ERROR: INFINITE LOOP

it's almost always ice dance that's the worst offender. people will wear a particular movie costume and then cut the entire back out of the girl's dress. or dress AND coat. coats don't need backs! MORE SKIN! 🤢

at least the other team doing Men In Black has the girl dressed in a completely separate Cute Space Girl outfit (which also has random cutouts because even underage girls gotta show skin)

I love figure skating but some days I LOATHE skating costuming.

You are brother and sister. You are skating to Men In Black. You are both wearing suits. WHY does the girl's version ahve to have big transparent panels cut out of it???

Sure, but it's the rule - I had to buy or delete NOW.

Save 80% on The Pale Beyond on Steam You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and moral...

I am CLEARLY not going to play it now if I buy it and will probably forget that it exists. But it's 80% off. I have to get it or give up on it. And it's potentially-relevant research for the kinds of games I make. aaaaaaaaa.

store.steampowered.com/app/1266030/...

My general rule for wishlist management is that if things hit a certain discount level I have to either buy them or accept that I don't want to buy them and delete them from the list.

But I have such a huge unplayed backlog this gets hard at times.

Current dilemma: The Pale Beyond.

Spells of Gold is interesting to examine -"what if a Space Trading Sim, but as a Diablo-like?"

There's a main questline and even good/bad paths, but weaved around tons of trading & deliveries between towns (and avoiding/killing enemies) to earn money & grow stronger. Repetitive, but I see the charm

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.... since that probably obligates me to make some kind of promotional post, hey, i have a patreon, news posts are free!

www.patreon.com/c/hanakogames

i know i'm overly timid with marketing sometime and don't promo my stuff much, but OTOH i just unfollowed a kickstarter for having mailed me four updates already in the week before the campaign even launches

this late replacement french skater is not going to score any points but she's fun to watch

every time i see someone post that there's only one possible way/build to win LLTQ i cry a little inside 🥲

Clever little budget-priced CPRG just left early access with a good launch discount, too.

A weird swampy fantasy setting, semi-real-time combat ala Vagrant Story and a cool claymation-esque art style. Also hugely undersold so far.

Go check it out, RPG folks.

YouTube video by JosSs_Jose Manuel Perez (JosSs) JosSs - Eppe! (.MOD)

Today's chiptune recommendation: "JosSs - Eppe! (.MOD)" 🔥 | www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiw... #chiptune #protracker #trackermodule #trackedmusic

Back half a year ago, with retirement making me feel bereft of my opportunities for deep data analysis, and in the wake of being a Hugo finalist in the Best Related Work category, I decided to ask the question "just what have fans considered to be a 'related work' anyway?" 1/n

nobody asked for this game but I'm making it anyway 👍🚄

Heyyyy…anybody excited about audiobooks? How about the brand new audiobook for The Raven & The Reindeer? Available now!

podiumentertainment.com/titles/13338...

i finally watched kpop demon hunters and it was fine but a little underwhelming after all of the SCREAMING HYPE (which is not the film's fault at all)

I am in this, as are many other Cool People.

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

Interested in a collection of mystery games for March?

itch.io/b/3533/march...

Since the topic is RPGs & cultural lenses, I'll repeat that Xuan-Yuan Sword 3 is a must-play in this sense store.steampowered.com/app/1638230/...

Set in the 8th century, you flee religious fanatics in Europe to pursue knowledge along the Silk Road. A wild contrast to the usual Europe-centric views

YouTube video by join-indie-io The Abbess Garden | Launch Trailer | indie.io

My historical gardening game is out on Steam!

If you're feeling for spy plots, queer romance, discovering plants and caring for real plants, you can now join the Abbey and embody Agnès! 🌿

store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

Launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Ev...

#cozygame #indiedev

It's worth reading her obituary. She went through a lot and witnessed a lot of destruction, but created even more light.