if you look carefully you'll notice Marc is hugging his sister's butt and her foot is on his head
Monday, 9 September 2024

Universe for Sale

quote [ I have to lend a paragraph to the art style. It?s reminiscent of ?90s Saturday morning cartoons, bright and colorful and full of expression. Every character you can interact with has a portrait, and discovering each of them is like unwrapping a small gift. ]

Nice review of a short and beautiful and pretty bizarre game. See extended for trailer.

[SFW] [games] [+1 Good]
[by Paracetamol@8:00pmGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 24 August 2024

A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed.

quote [ In 2021, the Game Accessibility Conference presented an award titled the ?Susan Banks Advocacy Award? to an individual who upholds the accessible mission and uplifts disabled voices. In 2022, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) received an email from an anonymous source questioning whether Banks had ever actually existed. ]

Crazy story ? metafilter discussion has some interesting opinions, as in: the added exposure of those portals did help accessibility concerns.
[SFW] [games] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@6:25pmGMT] [2 comments]

Thursday, 22 August 2024

Centrist Simulator

quote [ Just when I thought I had gotten through all the metacommentary of this game, I opened the settings to see "Confirmation Bias" and "Normalize Status Quo." Beyond being a great commentary, this game is absolutely hilarious. ]

Whoa, pretty hard number game with rather heavy message. Winnable though.
[SFW] [games] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:33pmGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 19 August 2024

Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit

quote [ At 380MM monthly users and nearly 6B hours of monthly usage, Roblox is already one of the biggest media properties globally ? not just the most played video game. Very few products ever get to Roblox?s size, let alone continue growing. ]

This media analyst has been posted before, but the in-depth business stuff is just too interesting to pass on.
[SFW] [games] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@7:57pmGMT] [1 comment]

Friday, 9 August 2024

Voxel Displacement Renderer

quote [ I've been developing a custom real-time renderer which uses very small voxels to produce a distinctive visual style [...] ]

Crazy technique to speed up voxel design. Note the creation of stairs via displacement maps in the thumb.
[SFW] [games] [+2 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:30pmGMT] [0 comments]



Thursday, 8 August 2024

What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana?

quote [ Clicker games are the inevitable end-point of the rise of bots and microtransactions... ]

When all you needed was one clicker
[SFW] [games] [+1 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

Beyond Good & Evil and the 13th MDisk

quote [ 01h bit marks save slot as existing, and 2000h seems to be a game-specific index of checkpoint location (Peyâ??jâ??s workshop in our case). Unhighlighted bytes also seems to contain some game-related info (I suspect Hovercraft races, Lootersâ?? caverns and main quests). This leaves us with 20 significant bytes related to the hashing. What are they? ]

Reverse engineering Hex code through dozens of pages, mixed up cyrillic translations and long-gone internet easter eggs to open the last of 14 in-game boxes of a 20 year old game. (found on lobste.rs)
[SFW] [games] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@7:17amGMT] [2 comments]

Saturday, 3 August 2024

Fill In The _____

quote [ Pondering the evolution of Mad Libs and Droodlesâ??two iconic brain games from the 1950s that share an inventor. ]

And it turn you to a mad lib
[SFW] [games] [+1 Funsightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:03amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 24 May 2024

Final Profit

quote [ Added a witch hint about collecting dividends ]

Great bizarre shopping management sim if you can accustom to the JRPG style. No combat, female party cast, supposedly inspired by Recettear.

quote via 1.2 patch notes on itch.io
[SFW] [games] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@5:23amGMT] [1 comment]

Saturday, 18 May 2024

The Creator Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong

quote [ When they were still in arts school in Seattle in the early 1990s, Jesper Myrfors and Sandra Everingham would sometimes look for inspiration by exploring Fort Worden, an abandoned 19th-century military base at the entrance of the Puget Sound. To them, it felt like a dwarven ruin. One day they found a trap door hidden [â?¦] ]

Magic the Gathering pull out my Vorpal Sword

[SFW] [games] [+3 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]



Previous 10 entries >



Posts of Import
Karma
SE v2 Closed BETA
First Post
Subscriptions and Things

Karma Rankings
ScoobySnacks
HoZay
Paracetamol
cb361
Ankylosaur