i gotta stop watching random youtube reviews of games. the hit rate of a recommendation being actually good is so low im just getting mad every time i click on something and have to hear about how this rando considers a game hugely flawed because it isn't a smooth, frictionless experience

greetings from hell

its a crime that right analog stick has been trapped in camera control jail. it was born to swing nets, twirl propellers, control a second character or RC car. let right analog stick live

oh god. yeah, we did not make this. please report this or, well, put a better way: we did, because the app is just a very bad, semi-functional port of the demo's arcade mode behold original game do not steal: RHYTHM BEAT [arcade mode]

there is currently no official version of unbeatable on mobile devices. if you see one out there, it is stolen content bootlegged from us. i would recommend against spending money on such apps. we cannot guarantee their content and we obviously do not support them

Games are more interesting imo when you don't look at the controller as a thing you're trying to erase.

it was messy but two weeks ago i finally cleared through the spikeout ducktales boys from the beginning on 1 continue. learned a lot in the process and then immediately flipped the dips to the highest difficulty lol dont have much time to grind but this is some of the most fun ive had playing games

People anthropomorphize video game enemies in a way that creates really fucked up discussions and critical eval. Where if enemies are good at pantomiming "aggressive gameplay" their design is treated as good even if it's completely unfit for the types of player mechanics the game they're in has

There are many things to love about Rami’s top 10 for 2025 but this is one of my favourites.

Happy new year. 🚬

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

you ever think about how star fox is just a rail shooter with a parry

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

I literally thought this was a Greature at first

you ever think about how star fox is just a rail shooter with a parry

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

ok planet harriers is incredible i love this

Love the results screens for Under Defeat. You see some cute girl playing around on the beach and at the bottom it’s like, “There were 3,000 enemy casualties.”

battle garegga is interesting to consider wrt the subject of what we consider an accessiblity issue vs what is content/difficulty. the games intentionally have low-contrast bullets, often making them difficult to read, and over time the general vibe has been that this was something to be corrected

im convinced that a lot of modern gamers dont even really like games, they just like "progression" and would rather have a product that gives them a bunch of little treats on a timer than have to actually play something

i love that people are listing any game they played during the year for GOTY but if i did that it'd just be the same list every year

still havent played all the games i meant to play this year so i cant make a real goty list but. my top 3 is still (in no order) under defeat's steam release, shuten order, silksong

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

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amazing things are happening on shmupcord

Frustrated by the fact that nobody's making Elevator Action/Rolling Bird style games I spent the past week+ making a tiny game like this myself, the main bulk of it is done just gotta do some finishing touches & release

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is such a cliched type of post to make so I wanna promise I'm not just leftist-venting, but games really get hurt in all ways by how little time they had before capitalism made it an Industry. Commercialism is so thoroughly baked into gaming culture.

You know, the more I think about this, the more this annoys me. Not the people's responses but the fact that dynamic difficulty is seen as an uncreative category. It's PURELY inertia and self fulfilling prophecy - devs treat it like a "flow machine" and players simply learn to view it that way

it's also the reason why so much of videogame criticism is formatted like consumer reports on appliances. the emphasis on supposedly objective scores, not just overall, but categorised. imagine novel reviews being broken down into seperate scores for grammar, amount of unique words, page count, etc!

“Game design” as in “how can we psychologically manipulate the player into Maximum Retention EnterGagement over the course of a 3 month battle pass season” is satan But “game design” as in “how many dudes can we put on the NG2 staircase without red ringing the player’s 360” is essential

my contribution to unbeatable

Others have noted this before, but it's ENRAGING to see corporations and bosses give this bullshit "A.i." trash FAR more leeway for error and general crappiness than they'd ever give any human creator.

spending the holidays at the mall sonic

“bsky is boring!” 1) good 2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment 3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it 4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands 5) read book 6) walk outside

finally deactivated my Twitter. i already wasnt posting there but now I'm fully out. if anyone on there is claiming to be me there, its not me

I'd post more specific work ive done for unbeatable but most of it is spoiler related so idk maybe after magfest or something

if they put sin and punishment 2 on switch 2 nso that might be what finally convinces me to get one

this year I was thinking I should be more openly a hater online but I dont think I have the energy to keep it up. big respect to all you haters out there

go buy hellsinker, under defeat, mamorukun recurse on steam

how did they invent a fish that tastes like milk

Crow Country is 50% off in the Steam Winter Sale! 🐦‍⬛❄️ Every copy sold, stream, video, piece of fanart or recommendation to friends or followers helps Adam and me make our next game, and hopefully another after that! store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

what is a hug if not a command grab

i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!

video games are great