miomancer

literally every cool idea i've ever had was immediately followed up with "oh but this would cause X problem, maybe it won't work after all." the trick is to do it anyway

it's really funny that the lesson the games industry learned from the success of fromsoft was not "we should use friction as a tool instead of shaving all the edges off until there's nothing left to give our games an identity" but instead "we should make games that look like dark souls"

if you had the choice of $500,000 or the opportunity to use Lelouch's Geass on Jay-Z, you should always choose Jay-Z. worst case scenario you can just use it to make him give you all his money (which would be a MUCH higher sum). honestly i have no idea why people struggle so much with this

it wasn’t really an issue for the tiny games i’ve made so far because the appeal was a lot more limited, but i think it’s a disservice to anything bigger than that, including what i’ve been working on now

i would like my whole game to be a cool surprise, but without revealing the cool parts no one would have any interest in it. i end up posting nothing because i don’t want to ruin that experience for the people who do play it

the catch-22 of making games with cool surprises is that if you post about the cool surprise it stops being a surprise, but if you don’t then people won’t know there’s something worth experiencing

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy in a pawn shop talking to the employee at the counter. He has about half a loaf of bread in a bag in front of him. The seller asks, “how much will you give me for this stale bread?” Panel 2: the unsure employee replies, “tell ya what— I got a buddy who’s an expert on this stuff.” Panel 3: a goose in a hat and sunglasses walks confidently through the shop entrance towards the counter.

from my point of view, it is sonic who is too fast

if it’s good enough to type it’s good enough to post #downwithdrafting

who would get tired of that

ok matrix is pretty cool actually. it doesn't have the venture capital-fueled features of discord but it seems pretty usable? a good alternative to smallish servers probably

discord is dead hop on spire. get on meetplace. join my rumpus guild, i sent you the invite on ballpitt

i really like the art style of gen 4 pokemon sprites. particularly how the outlines are shaded black at the bottom but are colored/lighter toward the light source. i wish pokemon had remained 2D

every channel is a self promo channel if you own the server

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gotta leave some room for games by your enemies

omg i love crystal! her japanese equivalent is great too :)

flug one-panel newspaper comic

you’re not just a pac-boy anymore (opening theme song starts playing) from now on, you are a PAC-MAN!!! (lyrics kick in)

"wouldn't Yoshi's New Island be Super Mario Bros. 4 4" wouldn't sonic 3 be sonic 4 because it came out after sonic cd

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World
Super Mario World (Super Mario Bros. 4) 2: Yoshi's Island
Yoshi's Island DS (this is basically the Sonic CD of Super Mario Bros.)
Yoshi's New Island (or as I like to call it, Super Mario Bros 4 3)

Super Mario World japanese box art. Mario is riding Yoshi.

which is Actually Super Mario Bros. 5

Box art of Yoshi's New Island for the Nintendo 3DS. Yoshi is holding a very big egg.

same naming scheme btw

it's not EVIL or anything, but i don't really have an interest in hearing from a big youtuber vs someone writing a blog or posting on social media (which CAN be similar but is on average much better about this) because it feels more like a person than whatever scott the woz is

youtubing/streaming is similar to idol culture, even the ones that aren't traditional "idols" like v-tubers are. i've always found internet performers uncanny because unlike film actors they often present as themselves, but with an unsettling persona

i think a game that has challenges that aren't the Entire Point can afford to make them easier. this is most commercial games

i usually make games on the harder side because they're centered around some kind of Challenge, and making that challenge too easy would make the game pointless. but games don't have to be centered around a Challenge - that's just the kinds of games i found easy to finish making

99% of coworking stream watchers quit before they get any real work done

i want to release something more ambitious, but it feels like i'm playing chicken because after a certain scope, completion becomes unobtainable. it's hard to know how far i can go before that happens, but that's exactly where i want to be

they're good! and i'm proud of them! but it sucks that it's JUST those that i managed to finish and nothing more ambitious. i have abandoned projects with years of work among them, and it feels like that part of myself is locked away to my personal files