I see a lot of game developers grumble about how "metroidvania" or "roguelike" are bad genre descriptors, but I feel like "wizardrylike" would be a way more coherent descriptor for games with character sheets and turn-based combat than "role playing game".

Doom is a JRPG 1. a simplified highly derived form of ultima and wizardry 2. damage calculations and enemy behaviours are all determined by dice rolls 3. a straightforward power progression structure over complex character building

From: Tchou-Tchou (1972), dir. Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada

"100 Meters" by Kenji Iwaisawa (On-Gaku) is coming to Netflix on December 31. www.netflix.com/title/81785821

Did the lab rats in Pluribus get their own hive mind or does everybody on earth have a dozen rodents squeaking in their heads

Started watching Prehistoric Planet. Very impressive CGI creatures, but it's a kinda lousy documentary. If you have Attenborough narrating an animation of a pack of T Rex swimming in the ocean you should follow it up with 10 minutes of Paleontologists explaining their reasoning for it.

Game developers need to stop making 3D platformers with twin stick controllers in mind. Video game genre entirely about lining up your camera and then holding forward + jump and the "normal" input for them is the one where you need to wait for the camera to point the direction you want.

Slices of Lives

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Chainsaw Man movie is great. I will always love maximalist battle shonen nonsense ❤️

wondering what the maximum number of unique debuffs can be applied to a player in Deadlock is. It's gotta be at least 15

Played the 500 Caliber Contractz demo. Weird game. There's barely anything resembling level design, just a big pile of concrete with some places to go. Pressing any 2 buttons is guaranteed to send you flying forward. Maybe the most pure expressive platformer I've played? I kinda respect it.

Nim is a fun language until you need to do literally anything involving inheritance.

"Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 Trailer ("The Culling Game" Part 1 / January 2026). And "Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution" movie is also coming this fall (compilation of Season 2 "Shibuya Incident" + first two episodes of Season 3). www.youtube.com/watch?v=MePL...

Deadlock's big character update is good. Feels like there's a good distribution of new player-friendly characters and more gimmicky ones like Doorman. I'm not a MOBA player so it's interesting to compare what abilities can do compared to hero shooters- I like how Victor's ultimate is a passive.

Playing Lorn's Lure. Frustrating. Levels avoid explicit obstacles like spikes in favor of making any fall greater than 20 feet instantly kill you. Many intended falls are around 18 feet, so a lot of this game involves repeatedly breaking your ankles until you have a sense of where the obstacles are.

Deadlock's map design is weird. Across the middle it's fine (lane phase, midboss, bridge power-ups) but the rest is confusing. - Walker choke points cause spam-heavy fights. - Rooftops are too high for normal shooter high ground, they're only useful for movement.

Kinda funny playing Yellow Taxi and seeing Atari announce a new Bubsy 3D that *doesn't* use tank controls. No ingenuity! No whimsy!

Poking at Deadlock again. I'm able to pull my weight in matches now, but I'm still not convinced the moba elements contribute much to the game. Sliding into boxes is kinda fun.

Played Yellow Taxi Go Vroom. Good! The movement is great- tank controls are unique, launching myself off of ramps is a lot of fun. Level design's kinda hit-or-miss, there's a lot of gimmicks that don't complement the fast-paced movement.

Been loosely following the development of the "Jai" language. J Blow markets it as a "gamedev language" but the main selling points are "no garbage collection" and "run code during compilation" which don't seem remotely useful to me. His first game in the language is a block-pushing game.

Reading about obscure systems programming languages. Here are my thoughts: Nelua: Kinda looks like Go but with lua-inspired syntax. Static typing, minimal OOP features. A lot of language 'features' rely on writing C-style macros. Can't imagine why someone would use this over LuaJIT.

Kaizen's great. Some major quality-of-life improvements over Opus Magnum- not having to restart the simulation for every small change is a huge deal, editing instructions generally feels smoother. Game's atmosphere feels a little twee compared to Opus, though I haven't gotten too far.

Picked up Hyper Demon. Neat. Combat feels good, very structured- There's enemy variety! There's space control! Movement feels bad. It's hard to tell when I'm on the ground, all movement abilities are mapped to the jump key and have very subtle audio/visual cues. A lot of aimlessly mashing space.

Played the ULTRAKILL demo. It's okay I guess. Replicates a lot of what I don't like about DOOM 2016, you can get very far by running in a circle and mashing the shoot button. I like that it's a lot more straightforward than doom though: no quicktime event mechanics, less platforming.

10S Forever is a fun video game

Lua should let me override the = operator

Played the Leap Galaxy demo. Fun! Good level designs. Camera's great, easy to react to oncoming obstacles.

Playing Deltarune chapter 4. Coolest thing ever. Tons of great artwork and music. Boss gimmicks are fun, and I enjoy the climbing sequences.

Played Deltarune: Chapter 3. Lukewarm on it. Feels twice as long as it should be- the NES sequences go on forever, the dialogue is repetitive. The big TV man is obnoxious, feels like if Spamton in ch2 got 5 hours of screentime. The final boss sequence is really clever, though.

Saw Sinners. Kinda dumb movie. There's like 3 good jokes. The vampires were lame- there's very little tension with them and no good action scenes. Visually bland, one million medium shots of people standing in a very orange warehouse. Could've just made an album.

I should be allowed to run openscad files in blender. that should just be a basic functionality of the software that's been around for 5 years

Opinion on Spelunky 2 dramatically improving after figuring out how the shortcut system works

Bunny rotation #pixelart

mushrooms #love2d #gamedev

Break the targets. #love2d #gamedev

they should add wrecking ball back to overwatch competitive

Feeling mixed on Overwatch Stadium. It's too brawl-y; AoE healing and high damage just means everybody's fighting in a big clump. Mini-Doomfist Lucio is a lot of fun, though.

Look at this thing I found

Overwatch Stadium looks interesting but the character roster is really strange. Seems weird to make a casual ability-focused mode and only include like 2 damage characters that aren't hitscan. Hope to see Venture added to the mode soon.

Reading Jojo Stardust Crusaders. Pretty good, interesting seeing how gory older shonen jump stuff could get. At the part where the gang goes to India and I feel like someone's throwing racism flashbangs at me every other page :/

Playing Ordia. It's decent for a mobile game, but kinda boring. New ideas are introduced too slowly, level structure is repetitive and unfocused. The most exciting feature is missing a jump and watching your character pinball-bounce to a rest spot. The vector graphics look pretty nice.

Pretty amazed by Ambidextro. Some of the best level design I've seen in platformers, and the movement feels perfect. The music and artwork are fun, too.

Got everything wrong except for "weird party game that uses mouse", but that's all that really mattered so I'm proud of my prophetic talents.

Getting my switch 2 presentation predictions in: - new 3D mario gonna be open world like bowser's fury. it'll look okay - splatoon 4. it will be more splatoon. it'll have mouse support - weird sandbox game that uses the "mouse" feature, not mario maker - weird party game that uses multiple mice

HASTE is out. It's okay. Good: - The new bosses are pretty great, love the giant ship. - Fewer gameplay interruptions- Endless mode is nice, I like being able to plan routes on the level selection menu. - Feels like perfect landings are more forgiving?

wrecking ball is so strong in overwatch that when I see other players on him they don't even wave hello at me anymore. a golden age for the hamster

"Marble It Up! Ultra" is surprisingly bad. Levels resemble mario kart tracks but gaining speed is heavily punished and using shortcuts requires endless trial and error. The lack of air control is fine, but the sluggish acceleration + low friction feel terrible.

Been playing a few number-go-up slop games lately. Nubby's Number Factory is the most impressed I've been with the genre, the pachinko stuff opens the game up for a lot of interesting upgrades and synergies. Currently kinda small but there's a lot of novel stuff in it.

Playing the Haste: Broken Worlds demo. Pretty awesome, movement feels great and it's fun getting speed upgrades and just barrelling through levels. Excited for the full release!