Intentional Dissonance -
A story about an addiction to Sadness. From the author of the popular blog, `I Wrote This For You.`
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Wednesday, 15 January 2020
quote [ A satirical revolution 'em up from the creators of Dwarf Fortress ]
WARNING: The scope of this game is narrower than that of real life. We have attempted to include foul language, graphic violence, politics, religion, sexual references, adult situations, narcotics, prostitution, bodily functions and bad pickup lines, but Bay 12 Games recognizes that there might be omissions which will make some players uncomfortable. In light of these facts, use your discretion when making decisions about downloading LCS.
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Sunday, 12 January 2020
quote [ ?You?ve been shooting at Afghans in your games for so long that you?ve become oddly immune to the self-loathing you felt when you were ?rst massacring wave after wave of militant ?ghters who looked just like your father.? ]
Oh, this is very good. There are oddly several good articles linking video games and relations to fathers, this is indeed one of the best. Full in extended.
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Saturday, 11 January 2020
quote [ VVVVVV is such an important game to me, I barely even know where to start. I wanted to do something special to mark the occasion: so, as of today, I?m releasing the game?s source code! ]
You got the source that can open up their eyes
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Saturday, 4 January 2020
quote [ In some cases, clever tricks allowed Another World to run on hardware built up to five years prior to the game release.
This series is a journey through the video-games hardware of the early 90s. From the Amiga 500, Atari ST, IBM PC, Super Nintendo, up to the Sega Genesis. For each machine, I attempted to discover how Another World was implemented. ] Ongoing analysis on the clever screen drawing tricks of a 21 year old. Thumb is two different pixel grids for Atari performance.
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Thursday, 2 January 2020
quote [ 'We should almost hire a 12-year-old to help us out with this,' an investigator wrote ]
So you wannna be the master of pokemon
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A People's History of the United States -
History of the US from the perspective of the Indians, Slaves, and Laborers.
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Monday, 30 December 2019
quote [ It was the company?s biggest project. ?We put everything in there,? Warner said, referring to the Muse?s store of programming knowledge and its suite of software tools. ?We were working with a professional recording studio. We went down there one fine day and I spent several hours on the microphone saying, ?Achtung!?? ]
Interesting people and sensible anecdotes. The original stealth game is indeed hailed as being clever and deep for it's time.
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Wednesday, 18 December 2019
quote [ While filming our upcoming documentary on Killer Instinct, we had a chance to sit down with Adam "Keits" Heart of Iron Galaxy and got into the hot topic of netcode in fighting games. ]
Since people seem to be interested in video game tech at the moment. Google Stadia is promising to use negative latency tech to improve netcode. One aspect of the puzzle has been solved but isn't used even for many games it works for. Here are two videos on "rollback netcode", which can vastly improve lag in deterministic environments, particularly fighting games. GDC video in extended
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quote [ How strategy games have held on to one of colonialism's most toxic narratives, and how they might finally be letting it go. ]
The world needs more Hex games
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Sunday, 8 December 2019
A year again already? You're welcome to post games with spare keys in the comments and PM for exchange, as usual.
More in-depth info + keys in extended.
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Thursday, 28 November 2019
quote [ Valve didn?t stop people from using Spacewar to sneak onto Steam, they just stopped people bragging about it ]
Interesting? that's the first time I heard about pirated games on Steam.
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Citations Needed -
A podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit.
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