Local man almost breaks into top 500 global while editing a video about Hollow Knight on the second monitor...

When we talk about "Streets of Rage 4 revived interest in beat em ups" its important to note that this type of guy is a big part of the "new fans"

We should normalize Turbo mode being an extra difficulty option in games

One of the worst things you can do as a person intrested in Game design, is uncritically try to increase design literacy. All it does is give people ammo to justify the bad things they like You have to instead critically increase literacy in your specific good design outlook

Discovering more and more Routes in Fight n Rage Really wish there was an ultra hard route that significantly cut down the playtime, cuz man... It's no Streets of Rage 4 length bloat, bur it's chasing it thats for sure

Me actually trying when editing my intros knowing I will just stitch my voice over random cool gameplay with a CRT effect for the rest of the video:

A Father and my fav game designer Tomonobu Itagaki passed along today Thank you for showing action games can be more even when philistines couldn't and still don't see it. Even when you missed, it was still interesting and worth seeing. Real artist RIP

For like 20 years of gaming history Arcade devs had to fine tune games that were challenging enough to keep players coming back, and fun enough to keep them playing, to make any money While console devs could just slap a cover on anything and get 60$ immediately w

The Arcades were such a damn quarter munching scam, I much prefer paying 90$ at once for a game I know nothing about

Fun Fact: It took me 1 hour more to crawl through Hollow Knights campaign and exploration... than it did for me to become top 0,4% of 100,000 players in Hyper Demon... I have no words...

How it feels to go to Backloggd to update my Hyper Demon log with PB 280 -> 307.241

LETS FUCKING GOOO!!!! TOP 700 GLOBAL WITH A BOSS KILL

With the recent info on NG4 out, my super hot take, is that it depends on the gameplay... If the gameplay is good, then its good whether its Ryu or Yaku as a skin if its bad, it could have been a total love letter to the series and I would still call it bad

Was shown a hyper-niche Procedural generated Arcade game called "Rolling Bird" that only costs 1$ Feels like another Post-Void type find Still struggling on the first level

E33 is free to be praised and win any other category But if it wins gameplay, it's the industry stating that turn based gameplay has 0 value, and is just a worse version of real time games

I understand that majority of THAT genre playerbase sees the gameplay as nothing more than a vehicle for other elements... But a turn based game that strategy boils down to segmented timing checks, should really not win anything gameplay related This is common sense

Procedural generation is not inherently tied to synergySlop Movement mechanics (rolls,dashes,etc) are not inherently tied to IframeSlop You can take the good without the bad in a lot of things ❤️

The two most overlooked skill sets that some games test, but players are blind to: Probability management, ans Vision Control Both for slightly different reasons

Having a hard time making sense of the current Backloggd roadmap votes. I thought it was clear to everyone that the main problem preventing Letterboxd popularity, is a lack of a real app Yet it isn't voted #1?

Hollow Knight script done, will record tomorrow after work, word count implies 15-20 minute video, maybe a little too long, but cant really smush it further

Forgot to log this into Backloggd from months back, oops backloggd.com/u/LocalBtnMa...

I was really tempted to give this one 2.5/5, but what saved it to a 3 was the aesthetic and hype and aura moments Never say I don't value aesthetics ever again

Currently cooking up design analysis (script stage) New better job, so been a bit busy with life, vid frequency will slow down a bit until I accommodate

Games focused on challenge, ideally should never feel fair in the moment They should feel impossible at all times, except when you do beat them, or when you pull off your game plan Skill based games that feel fair, have failed to emotionally engage you

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! (My entry into top 1000 in the world)

Such a fun and engaging experience, I really feel like I am beating them up!!!!!! :/

Will try now, will post thoughts

Also, keep in mind that straight up timers are also the LAZY, minimum effort choice Holistic, abstracted timers built into the design are much more compelling, and higher effort 80% of Action games don't even cover the bare minimum, that's how stagnant widespread design is

The convo around timers suffer the same thing We have to spend so much time and energy convincing people that timers are good When the reality is that they are a BASE thing that should be there by default in majority of games, and THEN you build things on top

store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/... The game is going through the Autumn sales season. Not 30%, but 40% price cut. That's even cheaper than, uhhhhh, a bag of two-days-worth groceries. Anyway you should get this one for the poor dev who has to face the winter night alone in a foreign place. 🥺

One of the depressing things about Action game developers not embracing Auto-scroll and Caravan as the definitive best spawn structure Is that if they did, we could now be talking about ways to merge both to shore up eachothers weaknesses

It's easy to declare that Hyper Demon is simply better than Devil Daggers But for all it's amazing benefits, Caravan spawning just does not have the inherent oppressive feel of Devil Daggers auto-scroll And that is a big part of the appeal

The brutal truth is that Physical games were killed the moment the first GB was downloaded over the internet, the market is just now catching up

Now that I am in the top 0.4% of Devil Daggers players... I died on the first skulls of the game consistently when I started Hard games have nothing to do with talent, they are not inaccessible, and its all a matter of practice and knowledge

Ever since I started making videos, its been a constant cycle of either not having enough footage, or when I do, not having the right footage...

Really want to make a game design video on "Doom: The Dark Ages" Ranged Parry but did not record any gameplay footage when I put 50 hours in to the game at launch...

My hands started shaking, and I began jumping around the room I can explain what factors create this, but to get it, you just gotta feel it man, I pray everyone feels like this about a challenging game once The freedom to try

I FUCKING GOT ITTTTT!!!!!

My earliest gaming memories: - Cad & Dinos in the Arcade with my Dad - Shitty chicken Euroshmup - Unreal Tournament - "The Kind of Dragons" and "Caveman Ninja" on the MAME Emulator - Neighbours from hell 1&2 I didn't discover Arcade design, I came home...

Im so close I can fucking taste it

Its like a virus spreading across interesting projects and degrading them

I think a big appeal of remasters and ports for people is getting to play a cleaned up, visually modernized, yet still clearly a time capsule Deus Ex remaster looks to be stuck between being too faithful, and taking liberties, and therefore looks ugly to everyone

Practice modes and training rooms are good

It's so important for EVERY player to try out a truly difficult game that can only be bested by being good If anything to atleast clarify where they stand in regards to the "freedom to try" Do you find it liberating? Your imagination in crafting a victory unleashed? Or not?

It's good to analyze game design, and explain in convulated ways why opt-in and sandboxy challenge is a negative But it's also good to cut to the chase, and speak feelings, because games are art It deflates the feeling of triumph, and robs the player of the "freedom to try"

Have been steadily hitting my goal of 1k views minimum for the last month, and I feel very lucky We are almost at 800 subscribers too, here's hoping we hit 1k soon

"Nightmare king Grimm"

My stupid chud grandpa fell into the local spider nest when coming home, fuck me

Big gaming has brainwashed you, because their goal is to keep you on a low brain activity treadmill to pump up that player retention stat In reality, if we are talking about compatibility with adult life Arcadey, and Rogue games are the only 100% compatible structures

Posts about "Challenge is too time consuming" are really funny It took me about 40 hours to complete a full run of Hyper Demon, without dying That is a little less than HALF of a Main+Side/DLC run of Witcher 3, and 10x more gameplay dense and to the point