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The missability philosophy comes from wanting to steer the adventure experience away from fulfilling linear questlines, which necessarily require more guidance and hints. While Angeline Era does feature a ultimately linear story, it's not the main focus for much of the game so we only need a light touch with guidance. I'm not sure what inspired the initial desire to have the game track minimal main-quest-related state, but it could have been a response to the very linear Sephonie, but, also, we tend to design games where you see everything, so there's always been an itch to make a game where most stuff is optional. And this game was too late to be a core influence, but I have enjoyed Romancing Saga SNES's approach to missing stuff and every player having a wildly different experience, yet not being as loose as a roguelike, which of course relates to the wide history of TTRPGs/CRPGs and nonlinearity. The imagery in the thinking behind the mixed up/loose historical structure of Kenzaburo Oe's "The Game of Contemporaneity" also comes to mind - he was inspired by a temporally nonlinear mural by Diego Rivera. The Oe is a much earlier influence so it's possible that guided my thinking. I have always loved the idea of creating a world that feels more like a 'book of myths' where we aren't seeing all that's there, but are forced to accept an incomplete depiction of the world (e.g. the collected Tono Monogatari, or something like Miyazawa's Ihatovo, Naohisa Inoue's Iblard, or even Hiroshi Masamura's Atagoul... or Sakura Momoko's Coji-coji), so to be able to lean into that approach with making the levels has been fun. I want Angeline Era's world to imply there's more we aren't showing, but also signal that to an extent it's up to the imagination to figure out what that is.

I really like linear stories in that they can give us strong characters and arcs to act as a lens towards the more loose, nonlinear aspects. But not when the linear stories overly dictate the game's design and flow. E.g., I'm not sure I like games as much when they're linear a lot of the time, and the nonlinearness that exists is a kind of choice that feels more like uncovering some 'truth' or conspiracy-esque underbelly of the game - focused around getting characters to say alternate things, etc, replaying sections 10 times just to find one alternate dialogue. I feel that people today are primed to consume work with a compulsive-esque fixation on the 'truth', but I'd like to make something that tries to downplay that urgency. Because the whole idea of singular truth is really out of sync with how the world is full of many contradictions (but we still have to find a way forward, anyways!)

melos actually discussed exactly this a while ago, saved this from twitter in the pre-bluesky days because it was foundational to my understanding of percentage counts as a potential harm to a game's staying power. two images because the alt text wouldn't fit on one

if you want the cultural ecosystem to go along with a new left wing political ecosystem that isn't just a bunch of podcasters and internet personalities you got to build it up. it doesn't have to be attached to any one political campaign or personality, it just has to exist and be visible.

and i don't mean just covering One Battle After Another or some big thing coming down the pipeline with obvious political resonances that you can make some kind of heavy-handed political argument for i.e. Jacobin, i mean covering anything and everything that's interesting

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

10 years ago tonight

didn't know about this, I will have to triple-bill with Ziggy's Gift and the Bloom County Christmas special this year

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The amount of people who’ve let their moral OCD get so fucked by the worst anti-AI arguments (“stealing”) that they’re just like full on “Palworld is PLAGIARIZING the find people at Nintendo” is kinda worrying ngl. A lot of peoples “pro-stealing” facade is gonna flip in the next decade.

if you're ripping a song for youtube and just uploading it with an album cover instead of everything this guy is doing, don't even bother youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6P...

it would take me five seconds to eradicate every cheesehead on earth

please direct me to the people who are interested in thinking about movies. it seems there are still way more of them over there

i need to know what this is and who's responsible

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instead of constantly embarrassing yourselves online can we have decent RSS support at some point

every regular season has felt the same the last four years and each time its impossible to tell if they're headed for the super bowl or wild card exit until mid-December

if the question is "will they continue to support trump with the sheer volume of evidence that he raped children" the answer is and always has been yes, and if this does take down his presidency they are going to want to kill you.

Revival! Eggerland - English Translation - Content This is the full English translation of Japan-only game Fukkatsu! Eggerland, a entry in HAL Laboratory's Eggerland / Adventures of Lolo series. While the original game itself is mostly in English, th...

Revival! Eggerland - English Translation (PC) Added

was kinda feeling this exact way about that tiktok house tour getting shared around here with the blockbuster room and friends' apartment replica lol

i think the whole wholesome/cozy games vs. violent game divide is so endlessly irritating to me because it's so indicative of art viewed through the lens of marketing labels and surface aesthetics rather than anything contained within. i don't know why we accept those terms when talking about art

maybe bsky is a dead site if this is how people here react to a cheeky sports article

Killing Interactive Art…and Loving It! At its core, AOTK has an anti-establishment philosophy, much like the avant garde. Especially with its penchant for remixing, and therefore subverting, bourgeois expectations of art objects and texts....

@phoenixsimms.bsky.social likens thecatamites creative mode and visual culture to Dada and the avant garde movement.

I played that Alien Shooter demo over and over back when realarcade was still a thing

i played some games for Steam Next Fest note: you can also read this post for free on my Patreon . plz consider subbing though, if you don't! chart of Steam demos launched during t...

hey everyone! i have a new post up where i talk more about my thoughts on Steam as a platform, the state of game marketplace, "professionalization"/"deprofessionalization", etc. oh, also - i review several games i liked from Steam Next Fest this year ellaguro.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-pl...

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

ive seen enough of the quoted posts and replies here and im begging iran to nuclear strike my location so i dont have to read any more of it

the goo crew & other streamers raised $50k for @chirla-org.bsky.social today, mostly from people giving $25 or $50. Josh Hawley Go Fuck Yourself

There are people (all of whom live online) who demand more accountability and compliance from random social media posters than elected Democrats, I don't think it's really possible to have a dialogue with them