Archaeological Game Design Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation by Florence Smith Nicholls Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis submitted!!!
more musou is the way life should be
let's hope this brings a 4k blu ray wave
wuthering waves and zenless zone zero do well for a reason
i always try to say that the earth has a limited number of computers that can be made from it. and we're soon going to be nonsensically pushing that limit
meta take me on a date first
this has been on my mind for several years, from where does video gaming (originally gambling) become video games (the things we love). how and can they be separated?
(race relevant later) sure is something to write down.
The way Games treats its critics and scholars is so fucking childish. Oh, you'd like to enrich my craft by putting it in context and thinking closely about it? Fuck you.
how do you do the elevation then? 😱
computer expensive do you have subscription
Lately it's almost physically uncomfortable when I to see this stuff: respected people debating which is the best game: The Witcher, or God of War (etc.).
Imagine watching revered food critics debate which is the best burger in the entire world: the Whopper, or the Big Mac.
Painfully embarrassing.
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i curse everyday that people think I want to "talk" to my IDE
I hope I can make this! looks great
the infinite space of linkedin posts
It was a big inspiration to me but have yet to really identify the way to bring that similar power into a solo game.
Have you read the gm-less game Microscope (or any of Ben Robbins' works)? I really love how they have turned authority into a kind of baton pass situation in their ttrpgs, allowing a lot more fluidity in the authorship of the played fiction.
honestly... spreadsheets have never let me down after a decade and a half of lifting (but i hear good things about hevy)
in my dream world every combat adventure game has "turn on/off damage"
asus about to start selling the 5090 at $5090
we gotta start developing games for raspberry pi 4 level hardware atp
this would make a killer print series
the age of exclusive computing
One day you're going to be having a conversation and someone will say "hey, remember when everyone went crazy over LLMs?" and everyone will laugh and you'll say "wow, I haven't thought about those in a decade." Some Generation Gamma kid will ask what you're talking about but they won't believe you
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lets be even more radical and just have cheat modes built in again. we used to play big head mode and it was fine. let's add magnet auto lock heads too
"Something that I have found difficult for non-artists to understand is that the ‘early messy stuff’ that non-arty folks insist can be ‘fixed by a human artist later’ is where the best work is done."
True of every creative field. You can't start building halfway up; the foundation has to be sound.
