Me: Let’s turn this game into a visual novel instead, with my current health issues it will otherwise take years to complete, and this way I can release something in 1 year..
Me 5 minutes later: Hyperfocus! Let’s build this game in a week! Maybe two! Surely that will work!
I really want to make the jump as well but I'm strongly attached to my dialogue system in Unity and haven't been able to find an UE alternative that lives up to it yet :(
Beautiful Groningen 💕
Working in games means your answer to the question "If you could do anything you wanted in life, what would it be?" isn't a different career, but the same career in a kinder version of the same industry.
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
Check Bullpen on ios. Not sure about its numbers but it's easily one of nicest games I've played in a while and it offers a ton of free content + a single purchase that unlocks thousands of puzzles and gets updated with new ones every week.
It's been a little over 10 years that Beyond Eyes was released!
I had kind of forgotten about it with everything going on my life but this morning I woke up with the music in my head.
While the game is no longer available, I'd love to share this with you! Enjoy <3
soundcloud.com/marcoalkema/...
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
On itch io, payment processors, and the developers and creatives affected
I wrote about the itch deindexing, stripe, a religious group & a call to action + shared amazing words from 25 affected creators who took their time to write me.
🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
#itch #indiedev #visualnovel #comic #novel
Forget ‘promising’, this game is really good! Unfortunately 20 minutes was all I could manage before I needed to stop for the day..😭
Playing video games has been near impossible since I got long covid but I woke up today feeling more than half decent so I’m finally going to try Dustborn for a little bit! Looks very promising so far 😁@redthreadgames.bsky.social
Oh, yeah absolutely. People are complex and full of contradictions and I wanted a system that could handle the versatility of relationships. I also love the idea of NPC's showing a different side of themselves, depending how they relate to the PC and really let some personality shine through.😊
I created a relationship system that allows NPC's to do that :D
Basically tracking 4 different stats: like, respect, attraction and reputation.
One NPC might respect you more if you disagree with them while another finds it kind of hot but only wants to sleep with you, not date you.
Looks fun! Is it being streamed somewhere?
Had a long chat with @woodwould.bsky.social about the challenges we're facing at Summerfall, about Malys, and about the kind of RPG we'd make if we could (and really want to). Check it out here: www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
Give this man and his studio a ton of money! Literally. As the Kickstarter for their new game only has 66 hours to go and helping it succeed will bring everyone a step closer to enjoying great RPG’s in the future 😘
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...
Gotta be real, I'm a little sad that current state AI is such a fucking mess, due to overwhelmingly negative practices surrounding it.
I remember back in uni when Project Milo was announced and how inspired I was by the idea of emotional AI and the possibilities it would open up... Reality is meh.
Honestly same! I keep going back to pastel hues and white backgrounds while everything I love is moody, dark and brooding...
I shot myself in the foot by using the word connection but still managed to get a respectable 86.43% 🥳
heya!
Add to that a lot of people whose first language isn't English are not familiar with the issues surrounding that word. For them it is just another slang word and they will use it more freely, lowering the bar for others to throw it around as well
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Listen, my Rook and Solas had some issues to work through after all that delightful Veilguard tension...
And @kaninsart.bsky.social flexed hard with this one to bring it to life 🤩🤩
#Solas #Dragonage
Last year I started collecting CDs again for the car and a few weeks ago I bought one of those portable cd/radio/cassette players from a thrift store to put in the kitchen.
I'm guessing mix-tapes will be the next phase ;)
There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
Fingers crossed! You got this :D
Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it
Like, 13 yr old me would never have guessed that weird self help book I randomly in a thrifted cabinet would decades later become the foundation of a personality system 😄
One of my favourite things about narrative design for games is being able to incorporate all these random tiny bits of knowledge and experiences I collected over the years.
That Aha! moment when you suddenly find that little nugget that fits exactly right is soo satisfying
It's not just me, right?
Don't know who needs to hear this, but
Unclench your jaw
Let your shoulders drop
Liquefy all your connective tissue for the nutrients
Slither bonelessly off your chair
Wick yourself up the walls through capillary action
Envelop the room
Become a new god
Become a new god
