Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now!

I shouldn't play Ghouls 'n' Ghosts when tired. That was a terrible run, probably seven or eight continues. Very poor.

Bilewater.

Worst area, best music.

This one's probably one of my favourite effects in the system's entire library. So good.

Batman & Robin overhead 3D building effect

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Oh, this. Absolutely this. <3

I'd only ever really played the base game before lately, because what little I played of Plague was, well, it's an adjustment. Super fast? Dunno, I feel like it's the opposite.

hi consumer-facing “A.i.” is a tool for racist, fascist propaganda - ban it from you lives!

Why was there never a Ghouls 'n' Ghosts animated show that I could be watching at this time every year? HUH?

Been playing a fair bit of Shovel Knight lately. It's incredible that the game doesn't get talked-about more (overshadowed by the redhaired mountain climber girl?) because it really is kinda excellent.

imma make one someday

Don't make me choose between 4, 9 and 12. Basically the airship-heavy ones (a coincidence, I assure you).

10 is solid too though.

"That's not honey, Pooh! That's unrefined sarcasm!"

Oh bother.

Anyway just make whatever and ignore the YouTube devs.

Except me if I ever make another video, obviously I'm correct and everyone else is wrong. Obviously. I know they all say that but I'm the one. Really.

How to make a successful game:

- have a game you really want to make? WRONG, LOOK AT THE MARKET FIRST AND WHAT'S SELLING
- passion project? WRONG, MONEY MAKER
- love-letter to videogames from your youth? WRONG, WHY DO YOU FUCKING HATE MONEY

On the other hand. Maybe I was born angry. There are dubious reports of me exiting the womb and immediately calling one of the nurses a 'shit twat'.

I think I just get angry at a lot of "how to make a successful game" advice because a lot of it feels like tearing out my own soul and taking a big poop on it.

My design pillars are basically "what's fun to both make and play?" and that's about as much thought as I'm putting into anything.

No, I'm not wildly successful. I'm not telling you to emulate what I do. Please don't. I'm already doing it. Thanks.

Pillars. Design pillars. What marketing type thought THAT one up, huh

I can be pretty opinionated about videogames and things, but know this; if your opinion differs from mine, it's okay!

GREAT IN FACT.

As long as you ain't tryna 'convert' me to liking what you like, I adore your passion for stuff I don't understand. Excellent stuff.

In any case, no videogame released since Yoshi's Island (SNES) in 1995 has had better graphics than that so we can all rest easy. We're not topping such perfection.

Anyway yeah, that's the primary point of a game's visuals; to communicate to the player what's going on. What their goals are, the feedback to their input, how the mechanics work.

If a game "looks good but you can't see what's happening" then, in fact, the game looks like shit.

I was once asked, somewhat facetiously, by a friend "okay, I'll bite, what makes Asteroids so good graphically then?"

To which, my response is "think of anything the games graphics communicate that could've been done better". Won 'em over with that, as it happens.

I say this as a person who believes without irony that the arcade game Asteroids (1979) has some of the best videogame graphics ever.

Okay. But. ONCE MORE, technically-demanding graphics shouldn't be equated to "better". Simpler graphics shouldn't be conflated with "worse".

Make shorter games with *stylised* graphics and fewer shareholders.

Personally sick of hyper-realism in games myself, if I have to be honest.

Good art direction needs no AAA, billionaire budgets. See also: Hades I/II, Silksong, etc… The list goes on. Stylized art is timeless!

DOA4 kicked ass, but alas I only got to it (and DOA3 on OG XBox) when revisiting the series in the hype for DOA5, which I loved.

Some may deride it as 'Titty Tekken', but IMO it's always been more 'Flirtua Fighter'.

Don't worry, you're not making Absolum (the game I had in mind when I posted). ;)

Good-looking new indie that peeps are talking about...

...is a Roguelike. Snooze.

I've clicked off so many Ghouls 'n' Ghosts videos lately (it's October, I get hungry for spooky) because of language like that.

And it's like, these people DO know the buy-in for arcade games was optional, right? They didn't "force" players to pay the money.