people say they want narrative games to have a lot of choice but the bigger the choice the less it matters. if you can choose to kill a character then every other world state has to scope for a scenario where that char doesn't exist. even alive they can never meaningfully impact the story again

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Criminal government, traitors to humanity. I leave it to your discretion to determine what appropriate consequences are for that sort of treason.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

I don’t know how else to say it: we must be stopped.

Occasionally I see an artist frustrated and saying that they'll never be as good as they want to be, so why bother, and, like... No one is ever as good as they want to be? The more one improves as an artist, or as much of anything, the more the scope of what they know is possible expands.

i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.

It's time to face that books simply aren't a good medium for storytelling. Such a dry and linear medium has no way to convey systems or relationships outside of tiny snapshots to the player, or so-called "reader." This will be true until they innovate by adding LED screens and buttons to the books.

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019... This article's been going around and it's very worth reading. I can't help but see parallels with the infection of AI boosting, where solving the immediate task of saying words is superseding the actual purpose of the task -- learning to read.

Experimenting with using IK solvers to drive enemy movement #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Not specifically game design, but I think my primary principle for art in general: Find the tension, then emphasize it. Some people like to resolve it too. That part is optional though.

I have made a public demo for my game Bound City available! About an hour long, containing one zone and bits of others. Please check it out, wishlist, tell everyone you've ever met, fraudulently inflate my numbers, etc. Every little bit helps. store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

Also! Why am I not just posting the trailer directly? Here's the trailer!

I need to get in the habit of doing this... um, habitually. Here's my game's store page! It won't be out for a long while yet but wish lists and spreading the word will help that happen! Thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

I need to get in the habit of doing this... um, habitually. Here's my game's store page! It won't be out for a long while yet but wish lists and spreading the word will help that happen! Thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

#screenshotsaturday I don't know, does a trailer count as a screenshot? www.youtube.com/watch?v=D163...

i played an alpha build a year or two ago, and this game is going to be great.

After a few years in the cooker (and a few left to go), I've finally taken the big step of getting a Steam store page set up for Bound City! store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

This year I: Worked on Bound City. That is all. It's a lot of work! I had hoped to have chapter 2 done by April, and it's now looking likely...ish that I can finish it next month. Currently: 5 boss fights (3 new this year) 28 enemy types (16 new) 30-40k words (Lots new, hard to count)

After replaying Silent Hill 2 and watching most of a playthrough of the remake, I have to say that while it seems like a pretty good game, and maybe even a pretty good Silent Hill game, it doesn't seem like a very good adaptation of the things that were most interesting about Silent Hill 2

Added 2.5 new enemy types this week #ScreenshotSaturday i.imgur.com/jqcNiDl.mp4

Instead of on Twitter - let's try this here & see if it works by now. If you're developing a game, or released one: reply with the title, description, screenshots, and/or a link. Doesn't matter what stage of development you're in. Then repost this, and let's see what cool stuff we're all making.

After about an hour of attempts I'm prepared to state that the last boss of the Elden Ring DLC seems just extremely tedious. What a chore.

I've been working on enemies for my game. The design intention is that A) They all move differently and pose a completely different danger and B) They be fundamentally unsettling. i.imgur.com/gTQG2K8.mp4

Brain's been chugging, occasionally stalling. did someone install a crypto miner on this thing?

I did the thing a little bit ago. I mostly tried to stick to games I felt had significantly shaped my taste or conception of what games can or should do.

AMV of all of Dermott's scenes in Venture Bros. set to Tom Waits' Goin' Out West