Pokemon definitely has a multimedia edge over other franchises but even without that push, yearly franchises have always done good with kids. Like even now those kids horror games do so well just because the episodic format gives em something to look forward to

two weeks later and i still can't get this out of head, especially as i work through some of my first FF games the internet loves to give modern pokemon shit for its graphics, but by refusing to participate in the AAA graphics arms race, they have unambigiously dominated the culture. they won.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed

re4

ONE. THIRD. and countless lives destroyed because of it.

‘Uncle Grandpa’ creator Pete Browngardt retweets an old sketch of Uncle Grandpa with a gun in his mouth as a response to the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger news.

so bold of game freak to put annet futatabi in the next pokemon

every single time an epic choral jrpg song has english lyrics they're so bad it makes me go this is why you do it in latin or just make up some fithos lusec wecos vinosec nonsense

People who talk about game design and view games as art should make more analogies to other artforms & see if it sounds right in that context. A lot of conventional "design wisdom" sounds like absolutely bonkers corporate unofficial marketing wing nonsense when you apply it to any other medium

genuinely had no idea declines drops from declines drops would be here, hot diggity

the thing that a lot of people don't understand is that the NES/Famicom didn't have only one generational leap. It had two. It was basically three generations of technological and design leaps in a single console - it's just that the West got the NES already part-way through the second leap.

alien soldier is my favorite game cause you can tell it was made by a guy who wanted to fuck the megadrive

Don't let imposter syndrome stop you!! We want to hear what y'all got to share! 🎮✨🗣️

hi, I worked in indie games for 10 years and sorry, they're also burning down. you just don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news when a studio of 19 lays off 7, even when it's 200 small studios doing that

your honor mega man fan games

i feel like the big indie game layup nobody has done yet is a mega man clone but with magical girls. like an actual school setting and a tone kinda like OG sailor moon and beating the stage bosses gives you new transformations

Could you imagine being Sonic and Eggman listening to this detective noir retelling of events and then he just stops to pine for this girl's mom. Like you know this girl and you know this girl's mom too and he starts fantasizing about her putting her arm around him. Cracking tf up

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🎨 Not been feeling well for the past few days so doodled some Bomberman to cheer myself up 💗

there are ten fooly coolys and thirty evangelions and a hundred gundams about how it's actually gay to like the thing you're watching so i guess i'm glad that each subsequent 6/10 Dragon Ball series is just like Goku............... there's a guy......... who wants to hit you REALLY hard.............

we're reaching levels of "MR KRABS I WANNA GO TO BED" not previously thought possible (1/2)

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

Well I mean... that's how I imagine it went down. #pixelart #gameboy

i think the megadrive is the funniest case of this to me cause they really made the system with the intention of "we gotta rival the famicom and pc engine!" to quickly changing that purpose to "we gotta rival the super famicom!" within the span of like... three years

Worlds Unite (Issue 52)

quick

floppy

level design is moreoften than not the most time-intensive part of game design, so why is everyone so bad at it these days

Two moots dropping visual novels in the span of a month, love to see it

Plectra Spectre is here. a free 3d visual novel with an original soundtrack! violetbooks.itch.io/plectra-spec... co-developed with @aokorothebest.bsky.social (art) and @rombuffer.itch.io (code). it's my most ambitious and personal game yet.

More watercolor practice

trying to think about things less as 'vibes' and more as 'headspace'. works that immerse you in the way the artist perceives and compartmentalizes

my son that i hate

Pragmata sketch 🙏

Disaster Arms' complete soundtrack is now on YouTube, in per-video 2-loops format www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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made macaroni with cottage cheese, that's the biggest life hack on the planet

Hot take about parents from a parent and former teacher. You are responsible for your child using the internet. Not every other cunt on the planet. Fuck digital ID.

honestly the most disappointing thing about pennys big breakaway is there's no levels about going down that should have been a no-brainer. all the best sonic games have levels about going down

I Wanna Take You For a Ride! #mvc2 #art

Fondly remembering Landstalker's platforming

Playing Penny's big breakaway and loving it but it goes like ever too slightly too hard into the mario odyssey-isms. Theres too much air control imo

And one last old artwork post celebrating the recent launch of @pd-cgt.bsky.social's wonderful Somnabuster. Everybody should play it!

i have to imagine selling games on steam makes you feel like you, personally, are being trapped in a satanic world of illusions every single day of your life