Never Ever Pick A Fight With The Detestable Health Bar Thief!!! He'll Steal Your Health Bar And Make It Hine Own

imagine a game that didn't have boss hp meters but one of the bosses, just one, did have a hp meter. it would go so crazy. it would knock your socks off. it would be so immense

i really enjoyed the dedicated anker store in odaiba... it felt like a glimpse into a future we were promised but never got. a serene place. a good place.

i need that video of mario in a genai-textured box listlessly running around like a depressed pet rat while an extremely loud orchestral arrange of the mario theme plays

y-yes its much better presented and technically superior but does it have a humorous cheese panini

thinking of the early level design of jumping flash which is often a highly sandboxy arrangement of funny objects to look at as you triple-jump over everything

i moved out into the countryside about a few months ago and i have to level with you. i have never wanted chinese food so badly in my whole life. i've got like ps2-style blurry vision where it just shows the last few frames with decreasing opacity while cool_Veins.png throbs on my screen

its never anything actually cool or scary i have nightmares about its always the damn fucking stupid resident evil 1 psx zombies in their weird bulky green jackets

good post breaking down how payment processors work, what itch could practically do, etc voidfox.com/blog/payment...

went 2 otakon last week and commissioned @kitsunderes.bsky.social to draw Tiger!!!! (theme/outfit was her choice!) she looks so beautiful and sassy i love it😊✨

Special Demonstrations #20 - Blue Revolver: Double Action is now live! This run features birb playing as Val with Stasis Field, and is a stellar run that's #2 overall on the leaderboards, so you're in for a treat! Many thanks to birb for the replay! youtu.be/_a2s97pLC6M

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

We're excited to announce the first playable demo of Prismidia! Check out the trailer below and download the alpha demo on Itch! ▶️ Demo on Itch: chaindamagegames.itch.io/prismidia-sp... #gamedev #indiegame #shmup #ScreenshotSaturday

well for me david it's gotta be Scary Maze Game.swf. it's a really addictive and relaxing one-more-try kind of game. huh? what are you talking about? (snort) of course i've beat Scary Maze Game.swf, david. imagine if i hadn't beaten Scary Maze Game.swf

(in the voice of a crestfallen souls series npc) why not try adding mushihimesama to your ludocene deck... although... heh heh! you may not like what you find! ha ha ha...

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way. colton.dev/blog/curing-...

i have been clicking games and typing things in on this for like an hour trying to see a single shmup. thus far the expedition has been unsuccessful. i may not make it back alive.

tomorrow i'll be getting on the phone and politely asking stripe who these furtive-ass banking partners are getting in the way of transactions everyone sees as legitimate, and how i know they won't take random umbrage with my own work or business

"goon", of course, means dubious australian whine, so i've no doubt that collective shout are happy to see the word get a new meaning

hard to overstate how irked i need to be at something to actually call a customer service hotline but fuck it, roll tide

we waited until software quality got really low thanks to penny-pinching and AI vibe coding to suddenly create lots of services that deal in sensitive personal information and biometrics. the shit that wants to scan your face to look at a titty is probably the lowest bidder and just as fly-by-night

Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here: stripe.com/legal/compla... Need to know what to say? Use this: bsky.app/profile/void... #itch #censorship

It's telling the reactionary strategy was to leapfrog storefronts, knowing they wouldn't give in as easily as payment processors. If a highly organized but unpopular campaign is using this tactic, that might be a sign about where YOU can most effectively channel your energy. bsky.app/profile/mamm...

world's first legitimate use case for cryptocurrency discovered

VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you

dr cuddy: house... i'm not approving the experimental miniature horse treatment. you need to learn that in this job, there are boundaries, and when we cross those boundaries it's our patients that die. (shot of dr house looking at a horse shrink ray while thoughtful incidental music plays)

www.reddit.com/r/AceAttorne... every time i shag your mum valve delists a random inoffensive visual novel

the classic lame excuse, "adult stuff is high-risk for refunds/chargebacks", is kind of funny in the context of Valve Software's "Can I Beat The Game Before The Refund Window Expires?" Steam

you know what they call dungeons and dragons in paris, jules?

Programmers engineered an entire industry of beautiful boutique TKL topre cherry blue o-ringed doubleshot mechanical keyboards and then broadly decided they'd rather debug random garbage than type lines of code

what the hell? they put a delicious-looking shooting game in the scrandle and i only have 22 hours left to take advantage of the steam summer sale?? store.steampowered.com/app/439490/B...

i suppose the only issue i really have with this chart is that setting up EoSD on a modern computer, translated, with wasd keyboard controls is roughly as difficult as like pierce-hyper

phone game with all the pomp and circumstance of a late-cycle gacha game but there's just one character, your wife, and she loves you, and she will never stop building towers to protect you from lanes of evil goblins

anyone want to position themselves as a buffoonish contrarian for people to make drama content about when i launch my petition to make iframe dodgerolls / shmups without bombs / the song "you can call me al" illegal

there should be a "global pass" system in metroidvanias like an aime/nesica/etc card. if you get the double jump in one metroidvania you now have it in all of them. it's time.

at the start of blue revolver's development, i made some placeholder assets by half-randomly chopping and mirroring sprites from a prior project. looked kinda cool AND annoyed woof enough to replace them quickly you might not need that diffusion model for placeholder assets...!!

do you think real cockney geezers say "you haven't got the minerals" when they play starcraft

📣BLUE REVOLVER is 50% off until july 10! store.steampowered.com/app/439490/B...

the hosting donation goal has been met! astonished and thankful at how quickly we got there. thanks for the support, all

how can the same scream be used for both "anguished defeat" on the ketsui game over screen and for "joyful victory" on an australian nutri grain advert? are these emotions more alike than they are different?

scrandle now has a ko-fi to cover server costs and fund new features ko-fi.com/scrandle thank u for scranning . . .

you should have explained to her that while the two "vertical type" hot dogs at the end certainly looked identical, the presence of the word "French" in one of them was obviously enough to significantly dissuade the mostly-English voters

[garegga] black heart mk2's infamous vulcan trap could very accurately be described as a dance -- though perhaps crucially, its the only attack like this and the rest of the fight is it throwing random murderous shit at you and sometimes giving you a dollar

i think it's pretty cool how the dark souls series has three totally different approaches to the world/scenario structure -- dks1 being a kind of "open labyrinth", dks2 being quite coy about being strictly hub-and-spoke, dks3 being a pretty straight shot with a few branches and a bit of backtracking

once i started seeing this exact screen in everything i became 25% more annoying to my friends and 250% more annoying to myself

i dont know about fighting games but whenever i see people say this of so many types of games, i feel like they enjoy reading and discussing patch notes more than playing the actual game in front of them (maybe overhaul mods were once an outlet for that type of person?)

just a headsup: the friday scrandle is 100% perfectable and every red mark is a stain on your heart in the eyes of anubis

what if i heard a guy with a really thick australian accent on the bus talking on the phone going "no, no, TOUHOU junko". i'd live solely on that alone for months like a burmese python

i have played the entirety of "cheesy" multiple times based on its status as a Classics of Game