Shogun Ceanataur!!!

Shogun Ceanataur!!!

New star fox is the funniest thing of all time, I have been laughing for 20 mins, this is so good

ko-fi.com/maddisonb829... Okay, I opened the Ko-Fi page with the proper commission board. Rules and directions will be clearer than before, so I hope it can clean up some confusion. Also, considering my target audiences, I decided to price them a bit cheaper in general. Let's see how it goes.

I love Vanquish

It is kind of fucked up that the new Marathon is actually fun and cool (though it will probably decay over time w updates). The Bungie legacy of endemic mismanagement into good games continues

Drawing the cavemen series to add the historic context of two humankinds’ collaborations throughout the history while explaining their biological differences and trade-backs #Mutasmagoria

Some random ones ZeroRanger - Despair Persona 3 - Nyx Vanquish - Double Bogeys Library of Ruina - most of them

beach gen is back on a regular release schedule! we've got the most thorough podcast you'll find discussing COSMIC SMASH, its routing, and its score play. and we discuss the recent sequel a bit as well! enjoy here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJXz...

In case you don't use Backloggd, here's a compilation of my reviews for the first 3 Mega Man games over on my website! Shares would be greatly appreciated 🙂 lukegirard.neocities.org/posts/mega-m...

New video on the channel! I beat one of the hardest games ever. My 1CC run of ESP Ra De with commentary. Enjoy: youtu.be/NGD9L1mo4gs

neon inferno really surprised me with its quality, check out my review www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUvz...

What a ridiculous football game

Beach Gen Game Club is back with a lengthy discussion of @polygonbird.games’s 2025 shmup BIRDCAGE — a game explicitly designed around modern gamepads without upending core genre staples. youtu.be/_GCdGHq0SBU?...

The hubris beckons for the people who think they are at the top of the skill ceiling. #Magentahorizon

And here comes the new point-and-click project I'm working on. Do you like Speculative Evolution or a similar world-building project based on alien life? Do you like a game where information about the world plays a significant role in the puzzle clue? This might interest you.

Played a few hours so far, Angeline Era is very good. The highest praise I can give it is that it nails the tone, which is something I've been frustrated with in the past year with games. The immediacy of combat and breezy pacing lets the tone flow dynamically, demonstrate range, surprise

FOSSIL MAIDEN

343 Death in TGM2. Tetris melts my brain...

Back to the pre-Dread status quo for Metroid I guess...

I created a mod to buff Bloodbath Diablos' head and horn hitzones to match the sever hitzones and make the fight much more enjoyable for blunt weapons (imo) Now I can finally clear EX Bloodbath with Hammer.... gamebanana.com/mods/638456

Commission board is.... opened...? I'm in a weird situation. If you happen to be a German, I would need your help. Ich wäre euch sehr dankbar für eure Hilfe, insbesondere wenn ihr Deutsche seid.

Yesterday my friends and I got in a terrible life-threatening car accident. While we walked away with no bodily injuries, my car is totaled. As a Behavioral Technician that travels between counties for work, reliable transportation is needed. Any donations or shares are appreciated ❤️

Hesitant to celebrate Itagaki as a person but also sad to see a creative like that go, such vision is missed today

fuck it man here it is

Slowly going through Silksong, was down on it to start but now I'm more ambivalent. For a 2025 metroidvania the combat design is excellent, and I'm getting "woah there's stuff here" moments, but I'm still disappointed in how creatively similar this is to HK for such a long and unconstrained dev time

Little convo on exploration in games

Rain World is an alien game transported from a different timeline where they had a deep understanding of the craft itself and the sensibility to turn that towards emotional artistic ends. Its qualities and affect doesnt feel like it belongs at all in the culture of the last decade

314 death on TGM2/TAP, my third 300 and second on Switch. This game is unbelievably hard but I persist, my consistency slowly creeps up

maddison-baek.itch.io/magentahoriz... The DRM-free version of Magenta Horizon is now available on Itch.

I appreciate that IIDX (and similar games) is a fun game to learn and improve at, but also acts as a bridge to a whole scene and culture of music that's new to me. In general I'm more sensitive now to wanting games that connect me to life, the world, myself rather than simply distract from it

pang has been putting out a lot of short reads on random games, check them out if you're interested in the evaluative review style from a more informed perspective and without the Consumer Reports style cruft bsky.app/profile/birt...

Tetris got me feeling weird, thinking about mechanically driven games. They are more sport-like in their appeal and strengths, which sits weirdly with the "artistic expression" lens I and others have used for them. If we look at lit, film, theater, etc. 1/

"TGM2, the stacking in it, the style explored, the depth of decisionmaking to it, the complexity of interweaving game elements, almost... ehh, for me, this is one of, i suppose to use the internet term, its 'peak gaming'

Random game crit take. I'm convinced that the most important skill to have is self-awareness aka sensitivity to one's own feelings. Games (other art too) are fundamentally psychological, and felt experience is the empirical evidence that will ward off rigid overintellectualized frameworks

Cracked S1 with 775 lines in TGM2. The journey goes on...

back to q+a with a question from @lorddarias.bsky.social: what makes time limits useful? and why aren't they popular today? my answer: who says they aren't? find out more in the link below!

new article where I finally tackle friction... what does it actually mean? how should you use it? or should you avoid it in favor of more precise language? check it out in the link below!

youtu.be/85TI3YhmVxY #MoonlightMaelstrom #indiegame #indiedev #blender #lowpoly #godot3d

Been sucked into the rhythm game vortex with Arcaea, and the hit rate on songs for Arcaea in particular is astonishingly high. There's something elemental with these games about the combination of physical dexterity/timing/pattern recognition set to music. I get it now... youtu.be/OW8pMvedAtM

AARON GORDON IS HIM

Russell Westbrook has had some highs and lows on Nuggets but he was huge tonight in Nuggets Clippers game 7, everyone looked exhausted and hustled with some big plays and shifted the momentum. Crazy

in tandem with our crazy taxi beach gen episode releasing, I also put together a starter guide for the routing required to get up to the game's top rank: Crazy License. if you've played before but aren't sure how to take your game to the next level, hop on this guide! link below

Beloved game which is underdiscussed for how shockingly deep its systems are. Prob our best episode in terms of adding to the commons

Feel like I've been mostly connecting with more arcadey/short games these past few months, haven't really played much else tbh. Been shifting that way in general but now I'm really feeling it

This vid is exactly why IMO it's really important to push back on the idea of "fairness" in games and just directly defend unfair design on its countless merits. Cuz the arguments in the vid aren't wrong if you adapt the fairness above all framework, it's the framework itself that sucks

Been exploring a new genre, some quick thoughts on a very strange and idiosyncratic modern entry. Some interesting ideas but not sure I would put serious time into it. hotpockethpe.neocities.org/reviews/seki...

Lightly edited this. I don't own Wilds but the video comparisons of old vs. new for the moves are jaw-dropping, a couple were slowed down nearly threefold. Devs feeling unable to use fast enemy attacks creates a lot of issues and design constraints and is a big problem in many modern games

It's time to have a serious convo about parries www.patreon.com/posts/124359...

Been an eternity since my last vid, so here's a follow-up to my Ashes recommendation from last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQw...