whoa this is dope

top comment says this is DELTRON 3030 For Autistic White Guys and ive never felt more called out

'Magic: the Gathering': 20 Years, 20 Lessons Learned YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

That said one of the greatest presentations on game design and development of all time was at GDC, so it's not all bad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHg...

Truthfully I've always seen GDC as something of gatekeeping event, i.e. you're "in the industry" if you pay over $500 and go to GDC. The literal gatekeeping of the garden doesn't surprise me.

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Scully!

I just gave the demo a shot and yeah maybe. Their game is certainly better designed than mine ever was (playing blackjack against someone playing blackjack = smart) but the sleeve and the slot mechanics are the kind of tertiary add-ons you need to have options on the board. imo it overcomplicates

I took some ideas from Blackjack for the card draw but Blackjack is a casino game because it's incredibly binary (you win or you lose). Trying to extrapolate that binary out into a nuanced decision making playground is... complicated, to say the least. My bad solution was to add mechanics on top.

Interesting experience though. Part of my issue was that the fundamental idea for the game (the hook, if you will) was flawed from a game design standpoint.

for about 8-10 months i worked on this game, it was a card based roguelike where you were a wizard. for the life of me I could not get the mechanics where I wanted them and kept running into game design issues that ultimately I couldn't solve (basically kept the game from being fun).

there is now a snekflat mailing list snekflat.com

Context: why the game Minishoot' Adventures has an apostrophe

This goes so hard. Remember guys you can name your game whatever you want the world is free and we build it, market research and the idea of the average consumer is bullshit. The only true route to happiness is through expression of self

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added it to my Favorites yo

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nice work!

Hi!

I'm making NEGATIVE REVERIE, a turn based, gameboy-style, pixel RPG about intelligence, violence and technology.

I've been describing it as a "political sci-fi thriller" and you can Wishlist it on Steam, if you want to (but u don't have to 😊)!

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real

Reading online where people say "Prime 1 is a 10/10 but Prime 4 is an 8/10" makes me wonder what their scale looks like. What games are a 1/10 to them? Because if you don't have an example for both ends of the spectrum, you DO NOT HAVE A SCALE

also Retro, why the fuck is it called Thunder Shot. Thunder is the SOUND. It's a Lightning Shot! And you guys didn't fuck this up with naming Fire Shot and Ice Shot! for fuck's sake

Copyright Lateralis Heavy Industries 2025

welp, i finished Prime 4 and it is so mid that it hurts. i wrote up my thoughts longform on my site if you're interested in what i have to say:

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You are safe here, cause yeah this game is blisteringly average unfortunately

I was not correct about this. There are many concessions.

hell yeah

Favorite Metroid game?

immediately after writing this i realized that a game that literally killed its voluntary players would:
1. be incredibly popular
and:
2. reenable darwin's theory of natural selection, cleansing humanity's gene pool of people who would play a game you could die in

I don't get extraction shooters. Let's just accelerate to the logical conclusion of "it raises the stakes to lose stuff you spent real world time gathering":

if you die in the game a pneumatic tube in your gamer helmet rockets into your brain, killing you instantly

happy birthday!