Thank you everyone again! Labyrinth.os v1.0 is ready: dataerase.itch.io/labyrinthos

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

youtu.be/BdeHqesLx4s?... I like Godard's point in this (weirdly tense) interview about art being inseparable for economics. People pretend the stuff they like is free from economy (or more broadly. power) but Pollock was funded by the CIA, Michelangelo by the Pope.

I got it. i'll name my new game "no police: catrider." never been done before

i think this might be the perfect clip to explain how tekken 8 is right now

I think the important thing here is knowing that this is *baked* into the company from day 1. They've been doing this for 25 years, before even Miyazaki. The way you prevent that is have it just be fundamentally part of a company's culture. Miyazaki is great, but he's a great designer who fit *them*

Louder for the people in the back.

just like all art, intentional mechanical design of games reveals the fetishes of those who like and make the art. for example, battle garegga is about how i want to die a lot, and unbeatable is a game about how you cant see your feet if you have big boobs,

you good bro

Intermediate proficiency in Japanese is a curse because you learn to recognize how many crypto companies are sponsoring the shrine you're visiting

it's also really funny to me just how badly the tekken patches damaged my trust of dev communication. i was reading strive patch notes and was shocked that there were reasonable and even good changes

anyway imo fg devs need to stop wasting time trying to appeal to casuals by making the mechanics "easier." every newbie ive met in my entire life got into the genre bc there was a beautiful game they wanted to try, bc they love bridget, or bc it was an ip they liked (or they were friends with me)

i dont think the audience for fighting games has reached capacity either, but the genre is niche, no matter how you slice it. trying to chase massive monetary success by making a fg is a microcosm of terrible current state of the industry at large

dude am i gonna finally post fighting game discourse...

the amount of people reposting "dfk again?" while linking to the dfk news again without scrolling up in the chat to see if new dfk was posted again is actually so funny

i love when Several people are typing...

realized I never posted this photo I took of the crowd. pretty nice showing

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THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

i think a lot of discourse about video game remakes would not be solved but would get much better if we reintroduced the term Arrange Mode into common usage again

"Are indie games developing a gambling problem? We'll discuss this in our article by focusing in solely on recent examples that have slot facades while ignoring the entire history of mobile games made by actual gambling industry designers"

if you're still perceiving the player as an Agentic Unit who gets to Choose instead of the cog necessary to run the machine of level and enemy dynamics in 2026 you NEEED to catch up on the literature. It's time to get serious.

the topic of exploits in games is almost entirely focused on if you should use them (you should). I think there's good and bad exploits though and that doesn't really get discussed. I love this boss skip, it's really funny...->

though often ignored by "serious" gamers, the mobile and browser gaming spaces have long been bastions of arcade design even as style has wilted on console. ballistic showcases all of this in its purest form: scaling, score incentives, and cerebral play. link to my review below!

bro look at that fucking hitbox interaction when the tall guy tries to knee strike me it's beautiful

official mame (version 0.287) has now implemented these improvements, thanks to the hard work of bio_endo and other community members testing the past few months with shmupmame 4.3 it's not perfect (SDOJ expert for example is still inaccurate) but for the most part, we're getting there

is there a way to see a list of only live streams from youtube channels youre subscribed to or is that another feature theyve just inexplicably removed

wehhhh

im late to the cotton train but ive found a new favorite series

I should stop playing games so I can keep making games but games are too good

Remember those old commercials for like, fancy brand dinner plates like for 29.99 you can have the CAST OF CHEERS on FINE CHINA?? And it was like 'why do old people buy this crap?' That's all of ya'll with remakes

RIP Shinichiro Sato, the drummer for The Pillows. Most people know them for their contributions to FLCL, but they were one of the most consistent rock bands in history. 20 studio albums over 30+ years, not one of them bad. Here's four of my favorites. Living Field especially is an all-timer.

it doesnt get old

One of the hardest things about advocating for stronger artistic counter-cultures is that most people are broadly aware they are valuable (largely because, over many years, so many were eventually absorbed into mainstream tastes), but set an extremely low tolerance for abrasiveness from new ones.

player-paced action games need more hard timers or aggressive enrages to just end your run if you take too long. complaints about long checkpoints really just reveal that the player hasnt figured out how to play effectively yet and maybe theyd complain about those less if they just died instead

Cotton Rock With You launches August 6 in Japan Shoot 'em up game Cotton Rock With You will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC via Steam on August 6 in Japan for 6,380 yen, SUCCESS Corporation announced. It will support English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,…

fixed my tv and lost two garegga runs on stage six with 7.5m points each. wish i had more time to grind this out lol

my favorite is "I am an adult I don't have time to get good at a multiplayer game anymore" you aren't good at the singleplayer games you play either and that doesn't bother you. Hop in bro and get smoked like the rest of us instead of having an ego.

i know im in the minority for this but id rather a game just give me a wall of text about how to do all the cool shit than have it drip feed me or turn a large percentage of the game into an extended tutorial. put it in a manual if you need to, just design the most exciting, peak version of the game

Aftermath making an irrefutable point that should be relentlessly blasted at companies who (supposedly) make products for consumers to enjoy: Three years in, what can you really say that AI has added to your products that consumers actually like? At what point is it time to audit the magic beans?

reddit problem: our players are stupid reddit solution: make stupid games

not trying to be mean or pick a fight but humanoid robots are 100% a manifestation of a deep-seated desire to have slaves

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price electricity water clean air knowledge you name it they should be treated like the common thieves they are