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Back in 2018 I wrote an article about "political references added to video game translations" Then I did it again, a few weeks ago in 2025, so here is PART 2! legendsoflocalization.com/articles/pol... #translation #politics #翻訳

Наконец-то сдал рукопись.

I always think of that concept / art from @cinemaminddavid.bsky.social that updated the Fatal Frame series to be heavily inspired by Shiraishi and 90's Hideo Nakata J-horror stuff. A camcorder instead of a cursed camera. It looked amazing.

Published a video essay “What Cities Say in Anime”, a project I've been working on since August. Tons of sources, meticulous editing, calm narration. It's in Russian, but you can turn on automatic translation. youtu.be/jkMrCjJP_zw

Hey everyone! I am currently looking for a new job. I am open to freelance, part-time, or full-time work. Feel free to contact me or share my information with anyone who might be interested. Thank you for your support! #opentowork #conceptart #visualdevelopment #gamedev

An RPG where a paladin concept is understood by virtually everyone in-game and despised universally. The catch is that the most limitations on the power curve are imposed by paladins' allegiance to the church due to hierarchy and bureaucracy, intentionally so. You're not meant to produce miracles.

Написал немного мыслей про геймдизайн как реакцию, компромиссы Hollow Knight и структуру фрустрации игроков в Silksong. panmeditat.substack.com/p/silksong-m...

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Fascinating to see the popularity of astrology apps in India and how they keep users hooked: "A typical tactic is to offer a few free minutes, then drop a vague but dramatic twist right before time runs out — urging users to pay to hear the rest." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Essay i wrote instead of bluesky rambling. "Honor Studentism: Educational Underpinnings of Delusional Beliefs in the American AI Industry". please read and enjoy! I think about my time as an honor student and the connection to destructive tech work melodicambient.substack.com/p/honor-stud...

Episode 1 of BORZOI Cast is live! We’re kicking off our show with Andor, covering the first 2 arcs of Season 1 Very excited to share this, since this is our first time doing a podcast like this with @froshadowing.bsky.social, so please don’t judge too harshly :) Free on our Patreon:

Amidst the horrors of the world, Alina @froshadowing.bsky.social and I decided to start a podcast to talk about culture in the context of history, philosophy and economy First episode, dedicated to Andor Season 1, is coming out on Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Your knowledge retention doesn't suck because mobile phones have fried your brain, your knowledge retention sucks because you're wiki-diving at 3:30 AM on a Tuesday and haven't slept in 36 hours.

Снова нашёл кнопку постинга в телеге, я сожалею. t.me/cybervalhall...

once again thinking about how the single greatest work of sci-fi ever made is that one DoDonPachi DaiOuJou drawing

#bunny #rabbitart #animalart #acril

Попросил у супруги разрешения оформлять трэвлог-посты ее рисунками - красивые.

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Was initially just going to be a little study but I drew Marie weirdly small on the surface so thought I might as well add a background haha #Peripeteia

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

A reminder that it is almost always better to have janky placeholder or doodle art than AI-generated trash. Y'know what game did that? Slay The Spire, and EVERYBODY ON EARTH loves Slay The Spire.

Baroque is better-known internationally for its PS2 and Wii remake, but the original Baroque? That's a first-person dungeon-crawler modeled after Mystery Dungeon, only horror-themed and impossibly loaded with tension, ambiance, and disgusting visuals? That's Baroque in its finest form, on the Saturn

What gets me about the present panic about generative AI in high school settings is that a couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that many American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads, some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep... (1/2)

Mosa Lina: The Second Layer - 24 new tools - 180+ new levels - 38 new pieces of music Out now on Steam and Nintendo Switch™

Dragon's Dogma Online is back, baby! Translation and restoring content is still ongoing but there's a LOT of game there now running on unofficial servers. Still absolutely baffling that Capcom axed this one. Right in the middle with a big cross-promo event with the anime Overlord. Game owned.

the potential of the internet: infinite connection the actuality of the internet: permanent parallel play

OpenAI has been among the most aggressive in lobbying for this—again, to ban states from making laws that govern technology the company heralds as disruptive and all-powerful—so it is galling to say the least to hear Sam Altman saying *this week* how excited he is for AI to 'democratize' everything

E33 oddities and why this game is still important, cont'd. Back to the point of mechanical sense of agitation. The battle end screens show you real time spent in an encounter... in a turn-based game? You spend turns and action points but the time is measured in seconds in minutes.

I really wanted to like Clair Obscure AKA E33 but ended up feeling gaslit by the game which seems to be an eldritch child of FF XIII, Bioshock Infinite and God of War 2018. I never really understood what the phrase 'jingling keys' meant exactly but thanks to E33 I felt it.

Vladimir Nabokov would have fucking loved Twine, is what I mean to say.

Trailer for my epic upcoming action-adventure Zexion! Slightly abridged and remixed for Bluesky. Wishlist it at store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...! Wishlist indie games if you want to support indie devs! #indiedev #gamedev #gaming #screenshotsaturday

I suppose I could do so now - I could write an essay that talks at length about how Clair Obscur does and also does not fit the typical JRPG mold, but does some lovely things with it as a love letter to the genre... but meh Instead: check out our Kickstarter at www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum... 😉

roguelites to me are a bit of a "one weird trick" style of design - you can maximize playtime with limited time & budget by cleverly utilizing math. super tempting to make cuz they make you feel smart and keep players engaged. at some point there has to be a reckoning about this style of design tho.

I want to interview Sam Altman so I can get his opinion on the fact that a lot of his power users are incredibly gullible, spending millions of tokens per day on "are you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that you're not lying about not being conscious?"

Saw a few people getting mad about the timed hits/defending in Clair Obscur as some kind of new-fangled Fromsoft 'git gud' hardcore gaming stuff and... That's been a thing since Mario RPG very nearly thirty years ago. By all means dislike active elements in your RPG combat, but this is OLD stuff.

Just a reminder that instead of buying an ethically questionable corporate remaster of a middling game you've already played to death, you could play something like this, or Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, which also launched today!

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Another funky knight guy! Graphite on paper

Новый лонгрид. Bloodborne, измерения времени, геология травмы, трагедия прямохождения, ужасы обладания лицом и счастье проснуться слизнем. open.substack.com/pub/panmedit...

Playing Blue Prince hour 100.

guilty gear's roster is full of conventionally cool characters (sol, slayer, baiken etc). but for me it's all the unorthodox ones that really make the game so unique and fun. I-no, millia, bedman, zappa) and of course venom. incredible concept, flawless execution. welcome back

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Tinfoil hat theory time. IMO Jeff is onto something here. Japanese game dev had a seemingly far longer tradition of complex 2D art for video games, esp. considering how their monitors worked (bigger resolutions for hieroglyphs, easier processing of static images).

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To understand what Silicon Valley wants AI to do to art, we might look back 400 years, when the British textile industry used mass production to degrade the Indian craft of chintz—to the point that the entire art form was transformed into an insult for 'cheap-looking'. Chintz was the original slop:

Google just lost the big adtech monopoly case -- safe to say the entire web economy changes after this. And probably Google, forever. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...