Feverdream Johnny

💣🕴 choke on this! *I swiftly fly away like a mosquito. The bomb is so weak it just leaves a tiny welt on your arm and nothing more*

So when you copy DE's interpretation of tabletop gameplay, you're not just iterating on some loose concept; You're wearing DE's skin. If you really respected how these mechanics relate to DE's narrative, you probably wouldn't do the same thing again with a new coat of paint.

Normally I try to be patient about people copying homework. I get it, when you're starting out it's hard to know what you really want from your own games. We've all been there.

But Disco's mechanics aren't isolated systems. They're interwoven into the very core of the game's story and personality.

This execution is significant because Harry's personality is scrambled, and everytime you roll you're collapsing the superposition of all the voices and pushing Harry to rebuild himself into something new. This perspective on RPG mechanics has a fundamental link to the story being told.

In most RPGs dice rolls are external. You roll to interact directly with the world.

In DE, you're not always rolling to act, many times you're rolling internally to understand things. Most of the game's rolls are Harry's mind trying to piece ideas and feelings together to reach new insights.

We do not need more games that PLAY like Disco. We need more games that are as WELL WRITTEN and THOUGHTFUL as Disco.

DE's mechanics are there to make the player feel that Harry is struggling to converge back to some fixed state, even if it's not the original Harry Dubois.

I'm very exhausted with the idea of disco-elysium-likes. The thing I cared about in DE was its narrative design and writing, not just its mechanics in isolation. You could explore all kinds of ideas from tabletop games and crpgs, but instead you choose to shamelessly pantomime what DE did?

Buddy. You're really putting me on blast here.🕴💼 Guess I'm taking my hamster masseuse skills elsewhere.

Bluesky format crop of the poster/cover art I did for the physical edition of Norco! Has Kay on a motorcycle with Monkey. Mills and the orb are also here. The Norco industrial skyline silhouetted in the background with billowing golden hour clouds

A bluesky image crop of the fan art I did of Psycho Patrol R! Has the protagonist holding a 357 revolver and Mosin Nagant. His floating blue orb assistant next to him and his trusty mech behind.

A bluesky image crop of the fan art of Maschinen Krieger I did. The lone mech standing in a tide pool, clouds in the background

Bluesky image crop of the key art I did of PIGFACE. The protagonist, Exit, stands with baseball bat in hand. Her phone illuminating her face. An industrial skyline is silhouetted in the background with billowing clouds, seems like I've got a thing for that sort of environment lol.

Hey #PortfolioDay !
I'm Esteban Sanchez, New Mexico based illustrator!

I love making key art for games (like steam capsule art) and comic covers!

Feel free to send me a DM or email me through the email in my bio and on my website!
esanchezillustration.com

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

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Clapping and beaming with toddleresque delight when magic rat stands up, then screaming in despair and using my many combo attacks to smash things around my room when magic rat is crushed at the weight's behest

Da Swamp Thaaang

It's like that or shit like "Electric Sir Topham Hatt"

At least you'll die in style 🚬

Pressure Syncope One of the boss themes from my new game about a girl and her railgun

Here's one of the boss themes from my new game, hope it makes ya smile

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Count Orlock: Blehhhh dude omgggg I'm gonna suck ya neckkk xP ahaaa

Me: Uh pal it's 2024! LAST time I checked we ask for heckin consent to suck people around here! Take ya creepy ass back to the crypt, nos-fuck-ratu!!

The stunned countenance of this loathesome cad, now remorseful of his vile ways:

New writing strategy called "stay awake for 24 hours"

Popstar Booboo Keyes stuns fans after losing 50 pounds on the one molecule diet.

"It's all thanks to the humble molecule," she explains.

The molecule has gone on record to say "Shucks, well it ain't no thang, I got these lil suckers called 'atoms' doin the work!"

The atoms have gone on recor

Try ordering the molecule burger off the secret menu. It costs $1,000,000 to make and they blow it into your mouth from across the restaurant with nay but a single gust of breath

(At the mcdonalds drive thru)

Uhhh yeah I'd like one molecule of hamburger 🍔🤏🥸 with the secret shrinky sauce ☝️🥸 oh and can I get an atom of fry with that please 🍟🤏🥸 like yae big or so

Mugger: this is a muggery, give me ya wallet or suffer the sting of my blade!! Bitch!!

(My interpretive dancing instinct kicks in and I start to pop-and-lock-it, and while the mugger's lost in the rhythm I take my chance and swing my neck giraffe-style to effortlessly shatter all of his vertebrae)

Character who fights with a big knife by grabbing the blade all bloody and clobbering people with the handle

(swinging my fat dog around shotput style)

Ha ha, lotsa fun ey kid 🐶🤏😏 ain't nothin like rough housing with ol mr spin huh

(Losing my grip and centrifuging her at 50mph into the vase of grandpa's ashes)

ScheiBe!! ☝️😵‍💫 mein Peepaw's dust!!!!

Treasure Ltd. is still one of the best to ever do it, man

Roundup of the best short games i played this week 🧵

TROPIC OF DINOSAUR 🎨 by @bulboka.bsky.social a tactile physics collage, drag yourself through amazing textures, feels very Jan Svankmajer adjacent

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wishlist 500 caliber contractz <3

[Begins sliding around rapidly to dodge the poon brother's gunfire, only rhythmically pausing to fire a rocket with no lead-up]

[shakes head with a gentle laugh and begins playing the guitar quietly. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out and he snaps to attention, halting mid-chord] Shit... The buster poon brothers must be back... them sum'bitches just don't know when to give up! [Spits, then stands up to grab a rocket launcher]

[folksy southern voice] Yep, back in grade school we used to hang around this kid named "Sexy Parodius..." [warm chuckle] Strange boy, him. Used t' jump around and make bullet patterns, and we'd slide around like hockey pucks dodgin'... Heh... Well, y' can't do that nowadays, on account a' woke.

Don't lose your balance!!!! #memamorkin

#pixelart #gamemaker