I often see talk among game designers, especially arcade/niche game designers about tricking normies into liking something or other. I think it's prob better to do the exact opposite and be as clear, blunt & honest as possible through your game's design itself

A morning stream??? We’re trying out something new and hope you enjoy! Join us at 10am EST for our first Filler Episode! • • • • • #circavision #fillerepisode #art

Join me in the mornings at @circa.vision for some art and games! www.twitch.tv/circavision

one of the best discussions of AI I've heard, very good stuff

it’s just about that time folks See you on the 26th 🙏 #circavision #24hourstream #onemoregame

Bosconian kicks ass

After many years of development, the Kowloon's Gate English Patch is now available.

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i started a root beer blog, lol

videogames are good you just need to be playing itchio pervert stuff or viewtiful joe

Update! My website has been updated! maxfarinatoart.com I'm also selling the comic digitally now so check it out!

that's right that's right THAT'S RIGHT

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

100% human grade stupidity ❤️ • • • • • #notai #fuckai #art #humanmade #circavision

I think a consequence of realizing that gaming has no proper artistic movements is that u have to start viewing the medium primarily through the lense of tech cuz thats responsible for most movements & most lines/categorizations.Absent of tech pressure,ppl were never going to be fans of "pure" games

Just watched a Square Enix interview with Hiroyuki Ito about Dungeon Encounters, which includes pearls of game design wisdom such as "I put a value of 12 there because it felt right" and "I can't remember what that's for".

Papa! Papa!

I am waiting for the indie renaissance of this style of PC Engine CD/Sega CD game that immediately predates FMV, where fully cel-animated cutscenes are traced over frame by frame with pixel art drawn in real time

It's the 26th anniversary of Mega Man Legends 2! If you weren't aware, we released an English patch for Mega Man Legends 2: Episode 1, a prequel demo with a unique story that never released outside of Japan!

The argument here is so good and should be applied to more games, Legends included www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfL9...

We have a Youtube channel! Keep up with it for future updates www.youtube.com/@maxfarinato...

As uncomfortable as it can be, discussing taste is really important for game design stuff. Sometimes design discussions try to tiptoe around the topic of tastes cuz "I think you have bad tastes" comes off as elitist & is hard to justify "objectively".

Yesterday marked 36 years since the debut of Galaxian 3: Project Dragoon at Expo '90. A hydraulically-powered amusement ride seating 28 players, it is one of the most influential video games of the 1990s and without question the most important game you cannot play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLgN...

Whenever I hear someone wanting a remake of an already good game with “modern” mechanics, all I hear is someone wants homogenized personality-less crap

Top comment on r/technology lol www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

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I always thought I’d only get to listen to the soundtrack but EGG CONSOLE shocked me with putting The Scheme on Switch.

Sacrificing control in games for a cinematic stumbling animation is 99% horrendously lame. There's probably at least one example where it's okay, but goddamn. Looking at you, RE9

Hell yeah video games

Everyone’s loving Requiem right now but we’re gonna head back to where it all began Join us tonight at 8 for of the Resident Evil remake! Only on twitch.tv/circavision

I don't dislike the remake but you are 100% right on why it's worse. I've often said the original is like clockwork, all the parts of the combat slot together amazingly to make it a game about very limited movement and crowd control, and the remake just loses that in the translation

every time I mention not liking RE4 Remake someone asks for my thoughts on it. these are my thoughts on it. I am going to link to this post every time someone asks that from now on

@yuzokoshiro.bsky.social never fails

hell yeah

Another great video from Electric Underground

Went out to a local game swap meet to see @max.circa.vision and had a guy there try to fucking *aggressively* get me to take this ps2 tabletop thing like you'd see at a dentist office or something (like the picture below except missing the screen and all wood and really heavy

Did a video on Jeffrey’s Epstein’s numerous ties to the cryptocurrency industry from it’s early days. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Anno is joking. He's buds with both Miyazaki and Tomino (Gundam) and knows that they didn't even really breakout until their late 30s/40s. Anno himself was 35 when NGE came out. Despite what you may have heard, Japanese people can be funny and sarcastic on purpose.

I call it whig history : vg edition cuz that's basically exactly what it is. It's a belief that the artform is linearly improving & developing over time, which ofc relies entirely on reductive data like sales or retention Also I like comparing games to music cuz music's similarly abstract

Also a coping tool for people to explain why they don't connect with older pieces of art for a medium they feel familiar with and feel ego around. "Left me cold — just goes to show that the medium has evolved over time" rather than recognizing an area that requires different forms of engagement.

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

Here's the first page for the upcoming issue! I hope you're looking forward to it.