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.

We've got a new store open! And guess what? We also have a new shirt! You buy it, the little guy on it will love you forever: circavision-llc-shop.fourthwall.com #shirt #potato #noAI #chalk #handdrawn

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.

Now that Code Veronica has wrapped up, what will the next Scary Vision be?? Put your guesses in the comments below and tune in tonight at 8 to see what they choose! Only on twitch.tv/circavision • • • • • #explorepage #fyp #scary

Swing by the Gothic Marketplace in New Haven, CT! I’ll be there all day so swing on by. We’ve got comics, fan art and other merch #comic #fanart #sticker #magnet

Getting ready for the first big table! Come on by. We’ve got comics, stickers, and magnets. Want a personalized sketch? We got that too! #comic #sticker #magnet #sketch

Here at Circavision, we’d like to take a moment to remind you to take interest in your partners’ interests… regardless of how janky the Ferris Wheel might look Oh and also we’re live at 8 tonight! See you there! • • • • • #fyp #explore #magfest #valentinesday

this is a really good object lesson in why you should always question the conventional wisdom that the popular, least-frictive thing is best and going to be the best ad infinitum and is the only way forward

aranofsky ran out of satoshi kon material to copy, huh

I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.

modern AAA yes but also I am sick to fuck of shunting roguelikes into games out of a perception that the games themselves are insufficiently complex and nuanced without the imposition of dice rolls

New Wizard and Hero Tokens featuring artwork from @max.circa.vision :) #mtg #finalfantasy #mtgcommander #mtgedh #mtgff #ffix #vivi #tokens

"We're making something unique" says the genre dev making a typical generic genre game for an existing, established audience that tries & fails to reinvent things that were already done properly decades ago

HD-2D was an interesting experiment but, I think it's ugly most of the time. Instead of doing something interesting with color palettes it's just forcing bloom lighting and blur over the pixels. It winds up feeling like pixel art that's ashamed to be pixel art.

we need more indies who've stared at Namco logos for years www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_6...

Thanks again for lettin' me spin my tunes Magfest and @circa.vision, this was a 5am impromptu thang, but I had a BLASsst

one of those games that I resented as a child because I did not have the patience to really come to grips with its controls but now that I am an adult fatigued with all video games being functionally identical I really cherish those little oddball ventures

I spent the morning going into an unprocessed collection because "I think we have footage of this too!" and it turns out that we have the exact same tape. I think ours is the master shot by @parisi2274.bsky.social