i don't think i've ever been more mad at a silent protagonist than in Dragon Quest 11

Nintendo QuaidCube

Nintendo QuaidCube

new big blog post: being a level design tooling squeaky wheel through the ages www.joewintergreen.com/being-a-leve...

🚨🚨HEY KIDS, IT’S CONTEST TIME!!🚨🚨 Eagle-eyed players have spotted a bunch of new Easter eggs in our Poker Night at the Inventory remaster, including this unassuming mug with an SDN logo on it. (Max isn’t holding it in the game — you’ll have to find it yourself!) 🧵👇

pulling out a whole-ass kalimba and playing bad apple on the train is a wild use of free will

weirdly i think the closest comparison to playing spider-man in marvel rivals is probably playing soldier in tf2

why can i only twist my tongue in one direction

yeah i enjoy hanging out online for giggles and fun but for the record the moment i ever *approach* becoming the publicly known face of something successful, *all* of my social media is getting wiped and i'm done posting entirely. just doesn't seem worth it.

hades got super big (with good reason!) but for me transistor is still my favorite supergiant game. vibes are just off the charts for that one.

really resisting the urge to vent about personal insecurities on social media (since all my friends i vent to are asleep) as a compromise you get this vagueposting. you're welcome.

okay but actually what the fuck did that scatman song have to do with mario 64 what was going *on* on youtube in 2006

i think i would hate not living alone but also it would probably fix me

i keep wanting to look up steam controller videos out of excitement for mine getting here soon but they're all either the same unboxing video or some guy poorly trying to explain steam input. or both.

Japan-only

fucked up that AI ruined sparkle icons. used to be an icon with sparkles in it brought joy and intrigue instead of dread and despair.

i can't help but feel like playing with a gamepad in ffxiv has the potential to be *so* comfy (plus steam deck-enabling!) but i've put so much time in on mkb that relearning that shit on a controller just feels painful

look what they did to my boy

oh god star fox looks so bad

steam controller being immediately out of stock has me thinking about how this happens every valve hardware release. store plagued by issues and lots of frustrated people unable to buy the thing. i love valve's hardware but it feels like they never actually produce as much stock as they need.

that prototype green one is uh... hmm. i am glad they did not ship that.

i love my job but also i do sometimes wish i could take an indefinite break from working to focus on my busy schedule of Playing Every Video Game

this is me

just to put it on the record cause it feels like sometimes it needs saying. cigarettes are fuckin' gross! they smell awful and that smell lingers around wherever people smoke! please do not smoke anywhere near me if it can be at all avoided!

anyone know of any tiny game engines/frameworks that quickly allow for walking around talking to characters/examining things rpg/adventure game style? i want to do some game writing exercises/practice for myself.

i think i would use my ayn thor way more often if melonds and gamenative didn't inexplicably have insane audio latency when using bluetooth headphones

it's so disheartening how every time i have a conversation about video games with folks who don't play many games it's only a matter of time before Hogwarts Legacy comes up :/

in retrospect the single thing that ties together my favorite valve games is being insanely good at communicating to a player through visual design alone, whether that's character or level design.

i made my D&D character in Tomodachi Life and she walked out of her house and *immediately* fell in love with Robert Robertson

i think ditto is gonna call in timburr to build my roads

i think every new first person shooter should have the translocator from Unreal Tournament 99

what if i became even more powerful? would the world be ready for that? what if i was a character in a goofy fighting anime who just revealed she's been fighting with training weights on the whole time and now she's gonna take them off and kick everyone's ass? what then huh?

what if i became even more powerful? would the world be ready for that? what if i was a character in a goofy fighting anime who just revealed she's been fighting with training weights on the whole time and now she's gonna take them off and kick everyone's ass? what then huh?

“the northernlion supercruise” is the most obvious setup for a danganronpa style killing game i’ve ever seen

jokes aside today is homestuck day and i do think fondly of homestuck. it had a big influence on me in a bunch of ways, it just has a certain reputation that makes it vaguely embarrassing to talk about in public lmao.

today's date definitely has no significance to me idk what you're talking about and if i did you couldn't make me admit to it.

still thinking about my friend saying the furries are really into trains "because of zootopia"

several things can be true at once here: - it's really cool for indie animation like this to be in theaters - it's a real negative consequence that people have to deal with spoilers for two weeks. that sucks. - glitch actively chose the path that led to that - it's almost certainly still worth it

i tend to have pretty anti-carceral beliefs as a rule but i also think if you drive a car you've made louder than it needs to be on purpose you should get thrown in prison for life with no trial

really excited for rhythm heaven, although the like 30 seconds of a minigame song we hear in the new trailer reminds me of some of the worse tracks from megamix, which makes me a touch nervous.

i generally like the analysis/categorization linked here but "kei games" is just a truly terribad name for them whoof. we *gotta* come up with something better than that.

i think Kiera should be allowed to eat as much pizza as she wants that's just my opinion

The Game Industry is not prepared for the EARTH SHATTERING opinion:

That not what they're called... Never mind...Happy National Twinkie Day!

quantification offers an extremely limited perspective on what makes something successful and so many are doubling down on it and eating shit rather than dare consider a humanities-driven market analysis

using the Switch 2 and the Ayn Thor has made me desperately wish that the Steam Deck had a 1080p screen. regretfully it really does make a difference.

my first impressions of the ayn thor are quite good. the build quality and buttons feel nice and i think i kind of forgot what it's like to have a portable system this lightweight haha. out of the 10 or so steam games i've tried only one is giving me trouble, and GC/DS emulation feel great.

damn, women's beauty standards got hands 😔