Quinn K. | WISHLIST BLANKSWORD ON STEAM

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we wouldn't be where we are without them, and i wouldn't be able to program nearly at the level i have to to contribute to this game's code without their advice and patience.

show them some love. <3

At the end of the podcast, we give a few shout-outs. There's a glaring omission i've made that i want to correct:

shout-outs to @krool.bsky.social . krool is the programming-workhorse that pulls @blanksword.bsky.social forward. they're dedicated, accommodating, a great teacher, and a delight.

Our lead dev @quinnkdev.bsky.social and our partner-in-crime @bustedkeyboards.bsky.social had an extensive interview with Electric Airship!
Game dev and Blanksword were talked about extensively, including some characters we haven't shared much about yet...!

i haven't played it! i'm more interested from a narrative standpoint in its sequel, honestly, but i like the cut of its mechanical jib. it's a cool idea to make walking in and of itself a mechanical challenge.

i was too young to own it and not into horror games enough early enough to have emulated it. haven't played it, as a result, but as i understand it people are super torn between the versions of that game.

(Darkseed 2 is also good, but not for the reasons it wants to be)

played it just now! left me with a tightness in my chest that's hard to describe. excellent playable tribute to a singular artist.
congratulations on having made the (hitherto) best H.R. Giger tribute videogame in existence!

ohhhhhhhh. huh, i didn't find that on the wiki page i looked at before i answered your query. sorry!

in that case i haven't seen FF2 (JP). i watched emcee play FF2 (US) and FF1, but not that one. -__-

i love this donut lady

an old favorite that i'd say still holds up quite well! the game didn't know better yet in a handful of respects, but i think some of the thematic roughness is well-addressed in the sequel, and 1 still wins me over with its great writing, attention to detail, unbridled creativity & level-variety.

don't actually know much about the region differences between the JPN/US versions!
i watched @emceeprophit.bsky.social play through FF2, and liked the visuals, though its unorthodox approach to character-levelling created some severe problems.
not the kind of thing i'd play for myself, i think.

never played it! not really terribly interested in it, either, unfortunately.

i have a hard time getting a read on that game... it doesn't seem like the kind of thing i'd want to play.

i gave an absolutely massive interview together with @bustedkeyboards.bsky.social ! a real tour-de-force, but i love @decenttreatment.itch.io 's editing and style.

if you have the time to check it out, you should!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNb...

I've given it some time last year - overall i adore the texture of love-de-lic games and their offspring, but moon felt pretty punishing with its energy-system (moreso than e.g. chulip, which i got further into). even so: impeccable world-, sound, & character design. i wish i'd stuck with it more.

i'm a recovering smoker, and i know i have an addictive personality. i'm happy people are enjoying it so much, but it's the kind of thing that would eat all of my free time if i ever touched it.

(nodding sagely)

my only overlap with it was what you showed me of it, and it looks pretty good - fantastic sprite art. i want to give it a shot sometime!

oh i wish i'd had a nintendo 64 to play that thing! i think one of my childhood neighbors had it, but i only played Majora's Mask at their house when i was there. i'd never really been much into planes. : (

i've played it a little, but bounced off it, sadly. i need to give it another go sometime, i think i just wanted it to be something it wasn't trying to be when i gave it a shot.

if you have any tips towards how to savor it, i'd be grateful! ;u;

i love its cohesive world, its looks, the pervasive "vacation" feel of everything... i love the Fludd as a platforming aid, the spread of different gameplay area flavors...

there's much about it i wish was better, but i also concede that it couldn't have done much better at the time it released.

oh man. yes, i have, and i...

love? it?

it's hard to really unambiguously love super mario sunshine because it really makes some dreadful choices and attempts to punch far above its weight as a Gamecube start title.

but by god, it's the first Mario platformer that i actually felt had world.

*now one of my least favorites; typo

the leder scene is also just an awful band-aid solution to a big problem of misplaced storytelling priorities. that's a part i used to love that's not one of my least favorites.

Mother 3 isn't malicious at any point, and i don't hate it, but i still wish i could still hold it as high as i used to.

Mother 3! huge influence on me in myriad respects, but just don't see it as the flawless games narrative i once held it as now.

it's bogged down by pacing-issues, baggage from its very different series predecessors, and a touch of racism/transphobia.

what a fascinating game! only watched other people (including the bf) play it, and it just makes some Choices. incredible music by tim follin, incoherent design (both visual and game-design wise).

i'm so glad that game was allowed to be made. an industry that lets Plok come to be can't be all bad.

regrettably, i only played the shoddy Games for Windows Live "Prepare to Die" edition; and even after fixing that one up with a fan-patch, i just could never get into it (it kicked my ass & people's advice sucked).
DS1 has a lot to offer, and i wish i was good enough at video games to see it all.

i think that game has much to say to those who are able to meet it where it is and decode its metaphors.

one of my all-timers.

i adore killer7. one of the few games i've played through more than once. i love its confidence in its art style, its vision, and its voice. i also am one of the few people i know who *does not* believe that its story and the statements it makes about the state of the world ca. 2005 are incoherent.