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Does Super Mario Bros. (1985) Have Rules? Yes! No? Maybe? Why do you care? Why does it matter?

i wrote an article about that stupid little question i asked a couple weeks ago, why i asked it, and how the answer to the question can be tremendously beneficial for ttrpg designers
possumcreek.medium.com/does-super-m...

YouTube video by Andrew Rousso When your bro signs an NDA

youtu.be/0QzHyMIK9wA

Lancer Tactics' next build is going to have some big improvements to the map editor, incl:
1. a "palette" picker for blocks/setpieces/doodads
2. eyedropper tool
3. hold shift to draw lines (pictured)
4. see preview of ramps before placing them
5. can mark tiles as off-limits (for interiors/hallways)

lancer, the role playing game

From interview to story: Putting together a story about sex game censorship I interviewed New York University Game Center director Naomi Clark last week about game censorship on Steam and Itch.io

This week on Save Spot, I published the full interview with @halfrobot.com that I used in the Game File piece published last week about sex game censorship and the power of payment processors — and talked about how I turn interviews into stories.

nicolecarpenterwrites.substack.com/p/from-inter...

this is not because they are smarter or stronger or better than you, but because they are ORGANIZED. They have a structure that orients and persists in a way that a bunch of people, even if they're really mad, never have and never will. You have to get offline (to the extent you can) and connect

Top games tagged LGBT and Transgender Find games tagged LGBT and Transgender like Lookouts, one night, hot springs, Secret Little Haven, Heaven Will Be Mine, Ad Nauseam - The Wrong Side [DISC 1 OUT NOW] on itch.io, the indie game hosting ...

No? They didn't?? Source: itch.io/games/tag-lg...

Eesh, that's rough. My architecture wouldn't really allow that without a massive overhaul.
I'm probably going to either break my subresources out into their own files or find a different way to do that `is` check... thanks for sharing, though.

My minimum project repro efforts failed though so no opened issue for this one. Just going to purge all subresources from the project.

I really need to find a way to run my GUT tests in an exported build, they would have caught this then.

Tests did *not* save me, pour one out. I keep getting suckerpunched by bugs in the Godot engine where the editor and exported builds act differently.

(this time it's something to do with `some_var is Subresource` evaluating to true on dev and false for prod)

YouTube video by Pall Sigurdsson Octo in a cup

And of course youtu.be/DTJbdy097m0

A lot of wonderful animals in these replies! People love sharing animal facts.

Ones I can think of that I haven't seen mentioned:
- acorn weevils (similar to galls but the acorn heals & plugs the hole)
- epiphytic plants, sorta
- bison wallows (similar "create an ecosystem" impact as beavers)

I do appreciate how we all seem to collectively understand at this point why nsfw media getting delisted is a threat to everyone.

I've been considering that... Starting to realize moving from Cohost to here was like going "man it's too bad that cookie is gone. I'm gonna eat this sponge"

For real. Itch at this point has demonstrated that their hand was forced & they're working hard to navigate to survive with the resources they have.
We all would've loved them to have had a more prepared response, but directing your protest up the chain will better get you to the world you want.

From an employee on the discord (identity blanked out here to stay focused on the info):

we should take some form of collective action to protest in the wake of steam and itch censorship.

banning adult content and themes not only affects our peers making adult content, it also limits the ability of feminist and queer game makers to exist in public and discuss any mature themes at all.

They still need to resolve their holding of payments for nsfw creators quickly.

We as users still need to figure out how to not be monopolized by digital payment puritans.

Got it, thank you!

Update: I'm glad to see they responded, a same-day explanation is good enough to restore the revshare for me.

Having slept on it, it makes sense that the place we value for its looseness of structure and freedom would fail an organizational challenge like this. All fun and games until a disaster.

Delinking this from the comments that spawned the thought, because it's not useful there. Brief thoughts about itch, payment processors, fault, blame, and harm.

Bottom line: no, itch is not pure helpless indie baby uwu, DO be upset at them, but also be aware of who is CAUSING the fault & aim there.

Infuriating for them to have caved with no comms or warning. Moved LT from a healthy 15% revshare down to 0% in protest. Heart goes out to devs affected by the delistings.

Do payment card processor threats come with gag orders? 'cause it seems like it would have been SUCH an easy win for itch to have said "hey we're facing an ultimatum and our hand is forced, y'all should do some political organizing to fight this" and boom most of the backlash is directed upwards.

Wickworks is hiring a VFX & Technical Artist We’re looking for someone to help us develop Lancer Tactics by creating visual effects for abilities & adding overall polish.

Wickworks is hiring a VFX & Technical Artist for Lancer Tactics — help bring tactical mechs to life with killer visual effects!

🛰️ Remote, Freelance
🎮 Made in Godot
🎨 Create VFX & polish for abilities

Work with @wick.works and apply:

Not late at all, we'll be collecting applications for a week or so before we start to sort through them. Thanks for the msg, we'll get back to you when we have more info!

(though I keep nerd-sniping myself by thinking about ways I could in fact potentially pull it off)

Loading screen with the tip: "Did you know you can Prepare an action to— wait, you can't? It would have been a nightmare to implement? That's fair, I guess."

hahaha this is literally one of the loading screen tips submitted by the community

Tumblr post: Every time someone asks why Lancer Tactics isn't on hexes I buy myself another boba tea to cry into. What would you remove for your vaunted bestagons? The map editor? The portrait maker? H0rus mechs? Time is a zero sum game. Everything has a cost, and you know not the weight of what you ask for...