Joe Baxter-Webb

I took part in a video from Indie Game Clinic about playtesting, which is a subject I feel strongly about 😤

Go watch it! It's good! (I'm not biased at all).

Cheese will get all the video games whether he likes it or not

Do the same thing with a dark fantasy/Thief theme?

Also, yes of course you can absolutely hit yourself in the kneecaps

Steam Community :: Rewindead Rewindead - Assassinate your target. Rewind time. Repeat the hit to get paid again and again.
Each rewind creates a new threat: your previous selves, all out for the same contract.

Honestly one of the best action games I’ve played since I started the channel.

Said similar things about Bloodthief. But there is something about designing for speed-running and scoring which forces devs to have to get a bunch of other actions game stuff right.

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The ULTIMATE Playtest Guide YouTube video by Indie Game Clinic

For anyone who’s interested in this stuff; here are a bajillion game devs discussing how they playtest games, and why they do it that way
youtu.be/zXNRJuc48Ek

There’s a guy who works in the thrift store who looks like Zizek

I was in an episode of “Brum”

Imagine hiring a billboard and then learning by some fluke that you could have it indefinitely for free, like some sort of monument, and then being like “nah”

My weirdest “work from my portfolio disappearing because GaaS” story is when a team I was in made a Fortnite map for a brand, and they only wanted it up during the month of their marketing activation, even though it would’ve cost them nothing to keep it online after that.

He says “Only You”!

Huge thank you to Inkle for putting together this massive book!!!

I wrote an essay about how your game is going to need *end to end* editorial late in dev and it's completely ordinary for it to be an unshippable mess until that happens

There’s also an English association where crank = grumpy/mad, I which puts an inflection on it which doesn’t exist in the original German, I think

Haha yes.
I learned at school for a couple of years but I am in no way fluent.
I just wanted to keep the hospital/doctor theme but something more playful.

Haha.

I was slicing them into rings. The guy suggested you cut down the grain/lines of the onions as it’s easier and then makes them easier to dice. He was right!

2. I love that we can use basically any music to soundtrack or promote our art (or life). You wanna put “Stay” by Shakespeare’s Sister on your pixel art platformer? Why not?! You can do that! That’s rad.

1. It’s very good for cooking tips (when it’s not being trolled by silly recipes). Last month a Michelin chef negged me into cutting onions differently and it was genuinely life changing.

Because we are always complaining about TikTok and short form vertical video in general, here are my two favourite positive things to do with the medium

I couldn’t have added anything new. I just remember reading some stuff from the time and it was “maybe we should consider why Lara Croft is a sexy lady” and them some dudes going “I don’t personally think that matters so we as a field should all decide it doesn’t matter”

When I first mentioned in a stream that the brand for our micro studio is “Krankenhaus”, someone in chat posted “who up kranken they haus”, and I might have to keep that

The original meaning of “AAA” comes from finance and basically refers to investments which are high value and low risk.

I guess if companies keep chasing GaaS games which don’t work like they want, then immediately shutting them down we’re gonna have to find a new term for Videogame Hollywood?

who else up tending their snail

“Virtue signalling” is a right wing dog whistle made by people who can’t understand why anyone would have actual morals which aren’t purely performative

feisty escargot

Yeah tbh if you’re not from that world it’s hard to comprehend how “x studies” is about analysing the thing but not in an attempt to get better at doing the thing (film and literature the same)

(the only people who were actually like “x doesn’t matter” about anything were male academics who were dismissing feminist concerns about things which didn’t personally bother them). None of it was about game design or how to make good games because that’s not what game studies is/for.

Right, although the supposed debate wasn’t really about which thing “matters” in terms of making games “good”, it was about which thing game studies scholars should be focussed on for understanding games as culture

Vampire survivors clone where the enemies are text scraped from rejected edits

I've only known Baby Globe for five minutes but if anything happened to him I would become John Wick

Right. like 3 papers (mostly by women) saying “perhaps we should consider representation and why this game has sexy butts” and then some nerds being dismissive and saying “it doesn’t matter that there are butts the character is a vehicle not a person”. Not the height of debate just same old same old