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YouTube video by Gaming In The Wild 10 Best New Indie Games Coming Out This Month

This month's game release video is a fun one. There's an ambitious made-in-Iceland AA game, a creepy lighthouse keeper simulator, a 20-min indie where you play as the final boss, a Brazilian solo dev fantasy platformer, and more.

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It's not a visual novel. Visual novels are something else. It's a role playing game because of the checks, decision making, buildcrafting, skill tree, items that give buffs, etc. Visual novels are a much more minimal genre.

Promise Mascot Agency is a stand out indie for sure

Yay, the Ludocene game finder is nearly ready 🔥

If you dress Sam silly enough, the cut scenes become bearable by way of unintentional comedy.

Some other places to listen!

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ep...
Pocket Casts: pca.st/h7uyyer6
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
Browser: redcircle.com/shows/33888f...

264: Scrabble Meets Balatro In 'Word Play' Listen to Gaming In The Wild - Video Game Reviews on RedCircle

If you like Scrabble, and you like Balatro... have I got the game for you. Made by @gamemakerstoolkit.com in under a year, Word Play has dominated my evening game time this week.

In the roundup: Cipher Zero, Wheel World, Ritual of Raven, and more.

I saw a communications manager job listing today that included "ghost writing blogs for the CEO". The idea of using a regular dash as a disguise to sound normal is funny. Or wondering if they're the fancy kind of person who might actually use an em dash.

You are coming off as a bit of a social media crazy here, buddy.

I would object to the general characterisation of anti-AI sentiment as "toxic and hostile", given the very real job losses, harmful/fatal self-driving car incidents, widespread misinformation from LLM, and so forth.

Anyone who even describes games as "a cultural medium" gets so many points in my book. I rarely hear it said. "Product" is much more common framing.

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My god...

Yeah. I love it too. I didn't at first but now I just love how it works on the page, a visual pause to match the intended function.

If you're on an iPhone, hold down hyphen! :)

Also, I don't know why I hyphenated em dash. That is an open goal, feel free to shade me at will. 🖤

Others were agreeing, piling on, seeing other fake signs of GPT use. Are people on Reddit stupider than people online generally? I fuckin hope so, or it's worse than I thought.

On Reddit, a guy argued that one of my articles is GPT. The smoking gun? The em-dash. "GPT loves the em-dash," he said. "A dead giveaway—it's not even on the keyboard."

Ofc, the em-dash is easily typed—and it's in the AP Style Guide used by Reuters, Wall St Journal, CNN—all GPT-written, I guess.

Wondering what keen-eyed observer @matpiscatella.bsky.social makes of the disjoin between their jolly profit report and the rough reality.

Game Pass itself grew just a little, not 10%: it crossed a line from 34 to 35 million subs in this period.

Idk man, the financial report has optimistic framing, but everything else they're doing—closures, layoffs, high profile cancellations—looks like the company is having some kinda disaster.

That's +10% "gaming revenue", "with Xbox content & services revenue, which includes games and Game Pass subscription services, increasing 13%," to be specific.

Worth noting: an estimated 85-95% of that growth was from buying Activision Blizzard: "without that deal, it would barely have growth."

Microsoft Achieved Record Annual Profits, Increased Xbox Revenue, Prior To Layoffs Quarterly Gaming revenue also grew by 10%. The company's 9000 layoffs occured days after the reporting period.

Record profits, 10% Game Pass growth, five studios shuttered, and ~7000 game-related employees laid off. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/microso...

Hey, I was wondering - is it possible to reset progress or start a new save file? Couldn't find a way!

Hey folks! Stoked for Star Birds - it looks great. I tried to play the demo on my handheld during Next Fest, but it didn't seem like controller support was in yet. I was wondering if it'll be optimised for Deck players. Good luck with everything!

A golden month of MinnMax :)

Lots of websites adopting the "accept all tracking cookies or pay" model. (I'm adopting the not reading those sites model.)

That was a low-key Nintendo showcase given the sparse Switch 2 launch lineup, huh. Some new entries in long running series, some ports. A release date for Cronos was.. something. Was expecting to see Clair Obscur, maybe... some Xbox presence, a Hades II date, maybe a sniff of... Silksong? 🤡

Pretty big typo there

Is Darks Souls running nicely on Switch 2? Or still 720p

I'd be interested in your take on the difficulty modes. It's supposed to be:
Easy, Normal, Hard, Legendary

But I found it to be:
Easy, Easy, Easy, Crazy

Accidentally burned through four worlds last night, I'm hooked

I'm spoiled for choice with games right now. Death Stranding 2 is a masterpiece, (regardless of the script); Bananza is peak Nintendo. Cipher Zero has addictive logic puzzles, Wheel World is nice, Scrabble-Balatro remix Word Play was an instant hit.

Carving out time to play is the only issue, rly.