joon

q up might be the greatest video game ever created

It’s definitely not supposed to.

Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.

Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me

stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...

let me know if you find one

We hipsters use the rich interplay between skill and chance to talk about ideas and feelings.

Assholes developers use it to take our money and time.

Q-UP is content with simply being about that relationship. It’s formalist in the way a formalist painting is about line, color, medium, or texture.

I really thought Ball X Pit was going to be this year's Balatro for me but it turns out that game is actually Q-Up

#q-up #qup #art

q-up is the only game

Q-UP is like "what if Cookie Clicker was Enterprise Balatro but GitHub Actions"

steam machine de la abuela

Prophet Margin on Steam The Gods hunger for tribute! Build settlements and weave trade routes, feed temples and earn divine boons in this Eurogame-inspired strategy game.

Announcing my pagan trading game Prophet Margin
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

Sharing appreciated!

ah yes New Business Model - 0% chance!

curious about what you bought

you can turn 3D off fyi

gottem

A bunch of nodes set up across a page for leila in q up

a bunch of equipped items in q up

glass cannon build for leila the medic

The Kaisers fleet approaches! Use timing, tactics and telegraphy to thwart the attack and learn a lost language. MORSE is now available on Steam, give it a play and start your journey into amateur radio!
store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...
#hamradio #gamedev #morsecode

spoilers for the game q-up

Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!

Your homecoming is not what you expected. An alien fungus has claimed your past and your present. Fight back with every tool at your disposal before it takes your future.

Maeve is waiting.

ambrosiasky.com

we were just as surprised

more here
www.owenhindley.co.uk/fallax/

nanna holding up the award

key art for fallax

My friends' film Fallax just won award at Imagine Film Fest in Amsterdam!

Go follow @owenhindley.bsky.social so he feels compelled to look at bsky more and then he'll read my funny jokes.

Just because you can't see Legolas doesn't mean he can't see you.

Lil Kobold's Big Stew by Adam Saltsman Help a little kobold make a really big stew.

folks it is time for game #15 !!! i am proud to present!!

✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨
adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-...

🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD
🍄 TONS of puzzles
🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it
🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS

happy halloween !!

Mentioned this in my post about Unfair Flips, it's weirdly the mirror image of that game. By which I mean that Unfair Flips looks like it's got clicker meta-mechanics, and it kind of does, but they soon abandon you to pure chance and desire for a particular flip. And Q-Up – well, it's kind of the opposite. It seems very briefly like you should care about what flips you get, but soon you realise that the flips are the tiny bit of grit at the center of a palace made of pearl. It's all about the meta-progression - the skills, the items, the various currencies, the narrative structure built up in in-game messages. The various prompts "in-game" advance themselves, allowing you to, for example, start and game and then tuck your Steam Deck behind your laptop while you write some blog post about it. Oh let me amend that last paragraph. I just unlocked challenges as well.

So, I mean, it's both seriously doing these things and it's also a piss take. A piss take of a genre I don't really play, but it's serious about taking the piss. The amount of intricate design that's went in here to balance this stuff while also keeping it funny... it's pretty impressive. Both the visual design and also the complexity of the thing. Ah, I was just thinking I was feeling a little too satisfied with the experience I was having and then the demo ended. Good demo timing!

here's my thoughts on the demo (= first hour of the game)

hey that‘s my car

Q-UP OST, by kariomart, Blue Cayman 9 track album

afaik it was curb your enthusiasm’d yeah.

OST is out on Bandcamp, streaming and Steam in a couple days/weeks

kariomart.bandcamp.com/album/q-up-ost

Thank you 🙏 . that’s all James & Frank and the actors but it’s nice to stand this close to greatness

Also even if discovery was “solvable” I’d have bandwidth for about 5% of games that are in my goblin niche that I think defines me as an individual

Thanks!
(it’s maybe because I’m retweeting many of them)