nothing wrong with liking it ofc but holy shit was the discourse around haptic feedback and adaptive triggers INSUFFERABLE back in 2020/2021. legitimately insane just how overhyped that shit was.

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

It's easy to miss how much effort the better martial arts movies put in blocking and choreography to prevent you from asking what the off-camera goons are doing, and why they aren't all overwhelming the main character through numbers. Because the alternative is that they all end up looking stupid

There's no greater joy in gamedev than making nasty little freaks that spike the player's blood pressure as soon as they enter the screen

おこばやし😠

as men are wont to do

onimusha demo. i think i would be mildly impressed with this combat if this was assassin's creed.

かわいいね…わんぷりも買えばよかったなあ。わんぷりはぷりきゅ〜と揃えたから買わなかったんだよね

that's a lot of sony video games alright. nothing else to comment

"Boy, I miss your mother" "I know she loved you a lot father" "She could perform an air combo when I could no longer do so"

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

always found it odd how people frame re5's inventory as exclusively fitting for the action game re5 is. if a monster is lumbering towards me in a more horror-oriented game, i'd think having to grab stuff out of my inventory in real-time while exposed adds to the tension/horror?

I have come to prefer the word "irreducible" over "meaningful" in regards to decisionmaking in games

love

hitman reborn's power system literally being called "boxes" makes it sound like a parody of 2000s shonen battles that are based around constant powerups and reveals regarding opening the metaphorical box - his shikai, his bankai, his super saiyan form, his new technique. all of those are boxes

アルカナシャドウちゃんできた🖤

まだ途中。アルカナシャドウ美少女だなあ

This week's #DragonFable release is LIVE! Circe needs some assistance with her latest mission to help Queen Victoria! And since you're such good friends, of course you're going to lend a hand! Also, DragonSlayer has been massively updated! dragonfable.com/gamedesignno...

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

I am pro-analysis when it comes to art But I think sometimes people get so caught up in the analysis that I never really hear about the role art even plays in their lives Are you enjoying yourself? Is it a healthy part of your day? Has it improved your outlook on life? That sort of thing

Happy 5 year anniversary to the Retro Sanae translation! Here's an updated version to remind everyone of the passage of time! x.com/KangaerunaMi...

Japanese livestream update conferences for Japanese franchises may have the lowest information density out of anything to ever exist

“As long as you clarify that its just your personal opinion people won’t be mad” One of the biggest lies on the internet lol

Dude you should read this superhero deconstruction comic. No I'm serious dude it's about how being a superhero would actually derail your life and it would actually be so difficult to juggle that and also school and a job and relationships and it's completely thankless. Oh what's it called? Spider-m

You dont control the buttons you press, the developer had to program them in

This week's # DragonFable release is LIVE! The Book 2 Reimagined Project continues, with Master of Puppets, and the DragonSlayer class has been reworked! Check out the details in the Design Notes! dragonfable.com/gamedesignno...

"Just drawing simple shapes for practice is boring" mfs when you add a scoring system

the problem with "objective criticism and judgments" is that it assumes not merely a shared set of values and a standard, but a broadly similar or equal weighting and bar on each value.

My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010

こむぎお誕生日おめでとう！🎂🥳

hmm. yeah changing that one back was a good call

This part in particular explains the issue I have with not just Xeno story interpretation. But also how people discuss Suda51’s Kill the Past games. Retroactively assigning higher stakes to certain moments through external means to try and explain why those moments are shallow on their own

メイド喫茶🖤✨ #precurefanart

To be quite honest, I kinda don’t take the term “clickbait” seriously anymore from anyone that doesn’t make content themselves

Shogun Ceanataur!!!

🧡🐥

a working definition of depth in games: depth is the game layer's ability to resist a player's simplification and compression of the game state. it exists as a tension between a solved state (a puzzle) and pure noise (gambling).

I don't think the trend of gambling allusions in indie games will have legs in the long term, because the thing about treating game design as an optimization puzzle for addictiveness/flow state is that once someone found their perfect flow state game, what would they get out of the 100 other ones

'Blood' is the 'Ninja Gaiden 2' of FPS games because it is barely held together by a single enemy type that everyone complains about

ヒルマリ

the onion's called shot will end up being true no matter what

People already said almost everything wrt boss design but I think something worth noting here is that a lot of "lukewarm takes" people have actually have insanely radical design implications, they feel lukewarm to ppl because they're mainstream industry norms

my recent Earthbound tribute artwork

すぐこういうことする（かなり過去絵）

これはOPで週替わりだった大好きなシーン（捏造）（過去絵）

store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/... Magenta Horizon; A game that is permanently on sales for its content and quality… is on sales again! Spread the words!