#GameDesign
New Skeleton Code Machine this week! Looking at 10,000 game jams on Itch.io. Here's the teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLQKUPqZL4
#boardgames #boardgamedesign #rpgdesign #ttrpg #python #itchio #gamejam #gamedesign
#gamedev 🕹️ weekly investments round-up on💸 March 3rd week. A thread 🧵
TapNation and The Sandbox have partnered up
Web3 studio Jungle has raised $6 million in investment
https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-shout-out-to-new-585
#gamedesign #mobilegames #gamedevelopment #useracquisition #growth #UA #gamedeveloper #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #mobilegaming #businessofgames
Kotaku: The Mystery Of GTA V's Six-Star Wanted Level https://kotaku.com/the-mystery-of-gta-vs-six-star-wanted-level-1702882721 #gaming #tech #kotaku #actionadventuregames #cheatinginvideogames #openworldvideogames #clicheusername #grandtheftauto #rockstargames #windowsgames #videogaming #gamedesign #videogames #sports #gta
Kotaku: Elden Ring Stats Reveal What Bosses Killed Players The Most https://kotaku.com/elden-ring-malenia-rock-sling-shadow-erdtree-dlc-1850243803 #gaming #tech #kotaku #videogamesdevelopedinjapan #openworldvideogames #playerversusplayer #projectileweapons #bandainamcogames #windowsgames #fromsoftware #videogaming #bandainamco #gamedesign #eldenring #rocksling #sports #gaming #margit #souls
Back in 2012...with my Android game entry 'GEM' on one of the biggest tech festivals Campus Party Europe in Berlin I reached the 5th place in a 24h game hackathon of 115 participants...
#gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamedesign #gameconsole #retrogames #retrogaming #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #commodore64 #commodoregames #handheld #videogames #collectable #retrocomputer #oldtech #palmtop #classiccomputer #retrotech #retrotechnology #indiedev
Enemy death 🦠
after the death animation, the sprite of the last frame is passed to the effects system, which understands that it is necessary to create an object with sprite and shader, then change the value of the shader over time
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224030/Erra_Exordium/
#gamedev #madewithunity #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiedevhour #indiegamedev #gamedevs #leveldesign #unitytips #gamedesign #pixelart #ドット絵 #픽셀아트 #indiegame #gaming
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Design Dive - Episode 8
'Shaken Not Stirred'
The Legacy of GoldenEye 007
J'ai répondu aux "19 questions" de Troy Costisick, un test de game design croisé sur le blog du Lapin-marteau. Ces questionnaires sont un moyen intéressant de réfléchir à un jeu que l’on crée, de clarifier ce qu’on a envie d’en faire, et de mettre le doigt sur tel ou tel aspect peu développé ou que l’on n’avait pas envisagé sous certains angles. C'est parti.
https://kosmoslejeuderole.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/les-19-questions-de-troy-costisick-appliquees-a-kosmos/
#KosmosJdr #jdr #JeuDeRôle #GameDesign #TroyCostisick #LapinMarteau #jeu
One of my game prototypes called 'Refender'. A nice Defender clone with parallax scrolling and lot of action included...
#gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamedesign #gameconsole #retrogames #retrogaming #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #commodore64 #commodoregames #handheld #videogames #collectable #retrocomputer #oldtech #palmtop #classiccomputer #retrotech #retrotechnology #indiedev
Been trying to think of ways to do game dev/design without coding (because that's just too difficult for me at the moment mentally)
I wonder if designing some mockups of a game in Inkscape/Krita would work as an OK substitute for game prototyping
Won't be able to try out the game to see if it's fun or not, but maybe it could give me a clue if it's worth prototyping in the first place?
I always struggle to finish the last 5% of a project. It's like it's almost done but there these essential last bits I just can't figure out and then I want to throw it all away. How do you cope with that? #ttrpg #gamedesign
@ThatTupperKid is on his way to #GDC to pitch a stealthy, gravity-defying Kamikaze game!
What's your favorite stealth-based game?
Registration due TODAY for the 16th annual game design challenge from Jennifer Ann's Group.
⭐ Submit your pitch by midnight.
Theme: Critical Thinking
Prize Money: $10,000
Website with info about critical thinking, FAQs, rules, and to submit your pitch:
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
@stopTDV @gamingagainstv @CriticalThinkingGames
#CriticalThinking #GameDev #GameDesign #indiedev #games #GDC
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 63
'How Rockstar Designed Horses for Red Dead Redemption 2'
do you have a workflow archiving old game design docs to review what ideas didnt make the cut in later stages? if so how do you do it?
do you make a doc/page for each stage of change or do use some kind of changelog or else?
Critical Thinking Cat is scooting while thinking about critical thinking games.
✔️ Register by tomorrow.
📆 Submit a pitch by March 19
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Topic: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#Caturday #VideoGames #CriticalThinking #indie #GameDesign #GameDev #Nonprofit #EdTech @stopTDV @psychology @sociology
What are you doing this Caturday?
✔️ Register by tomorrow.
📆 Submit a pitch by March 19
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Topic: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#Caturday #VideoGames #ProSocial #CriticalThinking #Progressive #GameDesign #GameDev #Education #Edutooter #Communication #Students #Teachers #FollowFriday #PublicHealth #Prevention #Nonprofit #EdTech @stopTDV @edutooters @communicationscholars
VIDEO OF THE DAY
The AI of Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - The Secret AI Testers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQd1Y7gYug
I'm putting together a "placeholder" cover for #RosewoodAbbey (for the playtest then I'll hire an actual graphic designer).
Would you mind voting for the option(s) you prefer and maybe comment them? ♥️
FYI, this game is an adaptation of #BrindlewoodBay to play monastic mysteries inspired by The Name of the Rose, and Cadfael.
PS: thanks @randomColorContrasts for the inspiration #TTRPG #IndieTTRPG #gamedesign #GraphicDesign
A primer on Graffiti and its use in both reality and games.
Thinking about learning design through the lens of #gamedesign necessarily leads us to rethink many of the counterproductive & contradictory structures & systems of #school.
So what can #educators learn from #videogame design? 🎮
Mon article pour @ifiction cette semaine : comment détourner des tests de personnalité bullshit en un outil de #GameDesign qui vous permet de créer des systèmes intéressants et laissant place au #roleplay !
http://www.fiction-interactive.fr/statistiques-et-personnalite/
Très content de cet article, qui m'a permis d'évacuer ma frustration d'avoir dû faire des tests de personnalité bullshit 😁
#FictionInteractive #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeDesign #ConceptionNarrative #JeuDeRole
❓ Can you design a non-violent video game about critical thinking?
📆 Register by March 19th
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Topic: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#VideoGames #ProSocial #CriticalThinking #Progressive #GameDesign #GameDev #Education #Edutooter #Communication #Students #Teachers #FollowFriday #PublicHealth #Prevention #Nonprofit #EdTech #StPatricksDay
@edutooters
@communicationscholars
iHDRI - Another website for high quality and free HDRI environments.
#B3d #Blender3d #Gamedev #GodotEngine #3D #hdri #BlenderLatino #indiedev #indiegame #gamedesign
Business of Games: Why Hybrid-casual over hyper-casual
Bullish vs Bearish: in 2022, hypercasual games saw a decline of -22% in downloads, i.e. decrease in 1B yearly downloads, and hybrid-casual games saw an uptick of +13% in downloads.
https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-why-hybrid-casual
#gamedesign #mobilegames #gamedevelopment #useracquisition #growth #UA #gamedeveloper #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #mobilegaming #businessofgames
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 15
"The Perfect Organism"
The AI of @AlienIsolation.
#FeedbackQuest time!
This weekend we discover new #IndieGames while learning, finding inspiration, and connecting with #IndieDev.
Giving feedback is a way to learn by exploring new patterns, innovative moves, and common mistakes in #GameDesign.
Ultimately, it is always about having fun!
So, join us and #indiequesting this weekend to try the newest games and #demo together.
Back in 2014...auch PHASE OUT hat es damals in die Ausstellungsvitrine im Retrobereich der #gamescom geschafft...
#c64 #c64games #c64mini #c64g #c64maxi #commodore64 #commodoreamiga #commodoregames #c128 #commodore128 #c64c #8bit #16bit #retrogaming #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamedevelopment #phaseout
GDC has been kind enough to make my 2015 presentation available to watch online free.
I discuss some of the work our nonprofit org does with video games to prevent violence. Also, why we believe video games are the best solution to engage & persuade young people about sensitive issues.
🌐 https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022007/Gaming-Against-Violence-Effectiveness-of
[CW: death]
#GDC #GameDev #Advocacy #GameDesign #Prevention @stopTDV @gamingagainstv @communicationscholars
Kotaku: BotW Speedrunner Gets All The (Farming) Hoes Faster Than You https://kotaku.com/botw-twitch-streamer-limcube-all-hoes-speedrun-totk-1850234869 #gaming #tech #kotaku #thelegendofzelda3abreathofthewild #emergentgameplay #videogamedesign #gamedesign #videogames #nintendo #speedrun #limcube #ganon #boko #hoe
Redid Super female for tinysquad.org - open source card driven skirmish game. Co-designers wanted. #opensource #boardgames #gamedesign
Critical Thinking & Violence Prevention
▪️ Applying critical thinking to real-world problems will help learners improve their social skills & problem-solving skills.
▪️ Improving decision-making & problem-solving skills will increase learners' resilience to violence.
@publichealth @sociology @edutooters
@communicationscholars @stopTDV #Violence #Prevention #PublicHealth #Education #GameDesign #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Resilience #ProblemSolving #SEL
Kait Tremblay's new book on world building seeming pretty solid from this first glimpse over on GameDeveloper. Well worth a quick read:
#WorldBuilding #NarrativeDesign #GameDesign
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/book-excerpt-collaborative-worldbuilding-for-video-games
Back in 2015...PHASE OUT on Commodore Format Power Pack tape no. 64...
https://commodoreformatarchive.com/yep-power-pack-64-is-here/
#c64 #c64games #c64game #c128 #commodore64 #commodore128 #commodore64games #vintagegaming #vintagecomputer #oldvideogames #oldcomputer #videogamer #8bitgaming #8bitcomputing #8bit #puzzle #puzzlegame #phaseout #tape #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign
Wonderful discussion of Hollow Knight and Death's Door, two fantastic games which have very different approaches to environmental storytelling.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 62
'AI in Your Graphics Card - How Nvidia's DLSS Works'
Well, anyone want a new #printandplay #boardgame to test this weekend? <3
I'm releasing TABLETOP ARCADE: ROLL & SNAKE, a free PnP game inspired by the old Snake videogame
In each of the 6 levels in the game, you need to eat 4 fruits as fast as possible to get points — but the fruits will become obstacles to increase the difficulty of later levels!
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE on @itchio:
https://gabtoschi.itch.io/roll-snake
So this weekend I tried out Starship Troopers: Terran Command, and tonight I watched the Paul Verhoeven Starship Troopers movie from the 90s. Between the two of them I think I learned some stuff about #NarrativeDesign and #GameDesign
Follow along for a 🧵 !
TFW you have spent nearly a decade trying to build a games degree at your university, and now it is live on the site! #gamedev #illinoistech #gamedesign #experiencedesign #highered
https://www.iit.edu/academics/programs/game-design-and-experiential-media-bs
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 65
'How Townscaper Works'
Back in 2016...Chris Hülsbeck und Andreas Escher auf der Gamescom 2016. Dort haben sie mir die C64-Tape-Version von Turrican 2 unterschrieben.
#turrican #amiga #c64 #c64games #c64mini #c64g #c64maxi #commodore64 #commodoreamiga #commodoregames #c128 #commodore128 #c64c #8bit #16bit #retrogaming #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamedevelopment
Thank you to Georgia Game Developers Association (GGDA) for spotlighting our latest game design challenge!
🌐 https://www.ggda.org/news/10000-game-dev-contest
#GameDev #GameDesign #CriticalThinking @stopTDV @CriticalThinkingGames
Back in 2017...a great picture shows the cartridge version of PHASE OUT LPE taken by @commodorecollection on Insta...
#c64 #c64games #c64mini #c64g #c64maxi #commodore64 #commodoreamiga #commodoregames #c128 #commodore128 #c64c #gamedev #8bit #retrogaming #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamedevelopment
What makes for a satisfying hacking minigame?
Would love opinions, rants, or even links!
Hey folks! I've absolutely adored my time working on Star Wars: Hunters (working within the Star Wars IP has been a *life-changing* experience), but I'm seeking to move on to the next great thing:
Seeking the next right fit for a new role/position surrounding either Level Design Leadership and/or higher-experience/Principal level LD work. I've been in the industry 15 years now - primarily in the AAA 1st/3rd person action/shooter space for both Singleplayer + Multiplayer games, and I am passionate about collaborative, healthy, creative dev teams.
Would love any support or connections to new exciting projects that you have for this next journey!
Kotaku: Dead Island 2 Devs Think 'Development Hell' Wasn't So Bad Actually https://kotaku.com/dead-island-2-development-hell-release-date-dambuster-1850220494 #gaming #tech #kotaku #homefront3atherevolution #openworldvideogames #yagerdevelopment #dambusterstudios #thedambusters #danevanslawes #windowsgames #deadisland2 #sumodigital #videogaming #deadisland #deepsilver #gamedesign #videogames #evanslawes #homefront #yager #rpg
#VideoGames #Nintendo #GameDesign #ShigeruMiyamoto #interviews #archives
'In what must have been an incredible effort, one person has managed to compile over 450 interviews, appearances, writings, and recordings of Shigeru Miyamoto between 1985 and today.... Every single item, where possible, has been documented, sourced, and sometimes even scanned in.'
AIIDE 2023 Call for Papers is out!
Are you an AI dev in the games industry? We'll be publishing a separate "Call for Case Studies" very soon, asking for talks from the industry.
Expect an announcement in a week or so, or ping myself or @jurie for more details!
*whining voice*
but I don't want to a/b test my possible play material improvements! I just want to make one and go with it instead of testing which of the two makes things better!
I've done it! I've completely redesigned the disappointing #OneDnD Druid into something useable.
Curious for a preview? Feel free to drop by the Dragoncrown Games' Discord for the draft!
#DnD #Druid #GameDesign #TTRPG
https://discord.com/invite/ySqrzHKDCz
Don't do content/achievements in games based on challenges streamers self-impose in other games, you should be able to have time & skill to beat it yourself if you're making the game. Ppl will just be left with incomplete games. Just make the game able to have self-imposed stuff.
🎉 The critical thinking video game design challenge is now accepting your game pitches!
⭐ You have until March 19, 2023 to submit a pitch about a video game for adolescents about critical thinking.
▪️ $10,000 total prize pool.
▪️ Finalists notified March 30.
▪️ Finalists will have from March 30 - June 30, 2023 to develop their games.
❤️ Presented by the nonprofit org Jennifer Ann's Group [@stopTDV] whose focus is on helping teens have happier, healthier lives! Their Gaming Against Violence [@gamingagainstv] program is an award-winning approach to engaging & empowering young people.
Details, rules, and more:
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#CriticalThinking #GameDesign #GameDev #Prevention #PublicHealth #IndieGame #IndieDev #Nonprofit #Videogames
My interests include... #digitalArt #2dAnimation #3D #gamedesign #design #artHistory #modernArt #indigenousArt #folkArt #asianArt #music #musicProduction #funk #jazzFusion #progRock #psychedelia #gardening #cooking #boardGames #TTRPGs #JRPGs #cRPGs #strategyGames #managementSims #sciFi #fantasy #drama #thrillers #zolo #camp #kitsch #documentaries #vr #technology #frontEnd #javascript #linux
Here's why #TheVideoGameLibrary is a great resource for...
🏗️ Architects
Virtual cities have been part of the #gaming landscape for decades. Their buildings, roads and monuments.
Here's just a few books in #TheVideoGameLibrary that cover the topic:
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org
#Gaming #VideoGames #VideoGame #Game #Gamer #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #GameDesign #GameDev #GameDevelopment #IndieGame #Indie #IndieGameDev #Architecture #Cities #Cityscape #VirtualWorld #Artbook #Atlas #Maps
I have a game design problem, which probably boils down to a UI problem: tanks in Roar of Alliance have a bunch of different possible modifications. Remembering to always execute the effect of all of the vehicle modifications is somewhat cognitively taxing.
Right now, the mods are noted as small check boxes on the vehicle sheet with tiny iconographic explanations of their effects.
Yay!
I had to learn video editing to bring it to you.
Here's the first of my series of #RosewoodAbbey playtests recorded with #TheGauntlet. ❤️
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 43
"Smooth Sailing"
Test-driven Development in @SeaOfThieves
So, I have not made much progress on my own projects for a few days because I have become obsessed with fixing the #OneDnD Druid design.
Hooo, boy. Talk about a stinker...
#TTRPG #DnD #GameDesign
I'm two #RosewoodAbbey playtest session reports behind. 😅
I wish I was better at writing them.
Anyway, let's have a go here at remembering what it's worth writing down. 🤔
#TTRPG #gamedesign #IndieTTRPG
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Time again for a new #introduction !
This'll be a lot like the one I had on mastodon.lol and backed up here.
I'm a #ADHD #trans #lesbian who loves her wife and hates capitalism. I frequently flip around the following hobbies:
- #TTRPG s, like #ICRPG and #DnD (running and playing, but mostly writing and pining),
- #programming casually, be it in #rust or #python or #p5js depending on how much I feel like debugging that week, (a ton no matter what)
- #tokiPona , mostly enough to say things at the TTRPG table in a language other than common,
- tropes and themes in #scifi and #fantasy , mostly to inform my #gamedesign hobby
- the history behind a lot of those topics. I frequently have what I call "pseudo-nostalgia": a nostalgia for a time I didn't live through.
- Thinking a lot about leftist theory! I'm not super well versed bc I can only get so angry at the world all at once, but I'm working on it!
also wow the 10k character limit here is just 😙🤌
When a plan doesn't come together https://decafbad.net/2023/03/03/when-a-plan-doesn-t-come-together/ #ADayInTheLife #DeepThoughts #GameDesign #Computers #misc
Attention Kiwi TRPG creators! #KiwiRPG is now accepting members:
https://www.kiwirpg.com/community/apply-to-join-kiwirpg/
#ttrpg #gamedesign #podcast #streaming #ap #actualplay #rpgtheory
We're having an organisational hui this weekend, so apply now if you want to be part of that!
New #GameDesign blog post: Cutting features that were “too fun” in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
This is exciting - congratulations!🎉
We've published one game developed using Godot ('Sea of Roses' on Steam). The game needs some updates and I'm looking forward to exploring Godot 4.0 to make that happen. Congrats again!
Is there a community of Godot users on Mastodon?
#Godot #GameDev #IndieGame #GameDesign #VideoGames @gamingagainstv @stopTDV @LifeLovePublish
I have a question for game designers.
Where do you get your information about #gamedesign? Do you have any tips for books, articles, videos? As a beginner, I would be glad for any information!
It seems to me that the internet is full of information on how to develop games, but not how to design them. 😐
Announcing the 2023 Life.Love Game Design Challenge: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.Games
Game pitches accepted starting March 7th, 2023. $10,000 in prizes for non-violent critical thinking games.
❤️ This is our 16th annual game design challenge.
To learn more about critical thinking and the game design challenge visit our website and follow our account here!
@stopTDV @gamingagainstv #CriticalThinking #GameDesign #GameDev #Contest #IndieGame #IndieDev #Education #Prevention #Violence #ACEs #Nonprofit #PublicHealth
@edutooters @publichealth @communicationscholars
New note on my video game blog! And I finally start talking about actual unique game mechanics. Pretty excited about that.
This time I talk about a game mechanic called Attention and how it generally works.
https://oneyearrpg.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/you-need-to-pay-attention/
I have been working on Potluck for the past few months and it's taking shape real nice. This week in my blog I took a look at the project from functional perspective: what can you play with it and how.
Happy to report that for the first time in my four years teaching game theory as a module in my #GameDesign class, the modified Prisoner's dilemma I always play with my class finally failed. Everyone was very disciplined and held the line! The kicker: now I have to give everyone who participated an 1% extra credit towards their grade!
I've been watching a lot of Norse/Viking/Saxon type series on TV and Netflix recently.
I woke at 5am with a whole bunch of rules and ideas in my head for a tabletop settlement building game. A couple of hours of scribbling and I have the love child of Majesty, Banished and Age of Empires written up and codified on paper, just with a "character" sheet and using D10s instead of a computer. Even @Jo said she'd try it.
I hate my brain when I have a few days off work. 😆
My current pet project is implementing a terminal-based version of the French #Belote card game in python. I'm aiming for it to be as close as possible to playing with other humans, including AI with different levels that commit human-like mistakes. The bases are functional and four computer players can play a full dummy game. Next, I need to work on AI and visual layout.
Kyoto on the Day of the Cold Wave, Once Every Ten Years.
#Japan
#photography
#SilentSunday
#PhotoMonday
#gamedesign
#Thanksgiving
#マストドン写真部
#introduction for new server. I moved my anarchist account and I hope this will be the last time. :)
I'm Aidan -- nickname Bird, hence my screenname here: TheBird.
I am a #nonbinary, #queer, #disabled #ScienceFiction #writer. I have #LongCovid, and it sucks. I am still working on diagnoses for other possible chronic illnesses.
I have a second account at Aaidanbird@disabled.social, where I focus on needs of that community there.
Interests: #Anarchism #CommunityCare #MutualAid #Justice #DisabilityJustice, #Antiracism, #LGBTQIA #Accessibility
#CityDesign #WalkableCity #AccessibleCity
#gaming, #GameDesign, #writing #poetry #cartography, #physics, #astronomy, #worldbuilding, #music, #cats, and #art. I draw #maps.
My Elivera world, of which most of my writings are set, is located here: http://www.worldanvil.com/w/elivera3A-the-lost-ones-aidanbird
My Elivera world is a solarpunk world, where I explore various #AntiCapitalist ways of existing. Capitalism has never existed on Elivera and will never exist. A lot of the "nations" of Elivera are run by horizontal democracy and are experiments with collectives (some anarchist in bent and others experiments with communist approach to society).
I keep a database of saved #Covid studies and articles. I update it 2x a month. It's on #notion. I set it up with tags. Link: https://bit.ly/AidansCovidDatabase
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #AirFilter #MasksAreAnAccessNeed
I have a SUPER FLUFFY cat named Sgt. Quark Amaya McFluffers. He's my little buddy.
And that's about it. I'm not new to Mastodon by the way. I'm just posting this so I can pin it for others to see.
The campaign for There Is Only One Bed and Queer Sir, is now live on IndieGoGo!
They're a pair of 2-player games about queer romance as inspired by tropey queer fanfic that use the same character and situation generation but are played in two different ways. Both games end when one person declares their love and the romantic tension is resolved into a happy and successful queer relationship.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/there-is-only-one-bed-and-queer-sir/
竹林の中にひっそりと眠る、逓信省のケーブルハット。
#Japan
#photography
#SilentSunday
#PhotoMonday
#gamedesign
#Thanksgiving
#マストドン写真部
What if the Knight from #HollowKnight was introduced in Smash?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzK5KnRlEu8
Oh this video is so good.
Double Fine have released their documentary about the making of Psychonauts 2 for free. I’m four episodes in (out of 32!!) and it’s glorious.
It feels so amazing to want a piece of media so bad, to have it exceed your expectations, and then to get such a thorough and well-crafted account of its creation.
Dear fediverse and folks at @discuss.systems – here comes a brief #introduction. First things first: I'm Peter, 37, dad of 2, postdoc at Ilmenau Tech/Germany. Posting personal views and stuff that fascinates me.
Originally joined to talk and learn technology. That said, I'm basically a #nerd-of-all-trades and so are my interests and topics I might toot or join discussions about. Below is a not even semi-exhaustive list of relevant tags… Executive summary in bio 😉 .
Tech stuff:
* #Operatingsystems concepts, design, implementation #os #osdev #osdesign
* Information security, especially #accesscontrol #infosec #cybersecurity #itsec #cti
* Programming languages #rust #rustlang #c #cpp #lisp #ada
* #Gamedev #gamedesign #godotengine #bevyengine
* #Linux #fedora #debian
* FOSS #vim #mutt #texlatex #i3wm #qutebrowser #gnu
Science stuff:
* #Space #astrodon #spaceflight
* Future technology #scifi #sf #sciencefiction
* #Robotics
* #History
* Constructed languages #conlang #lojban #esperanto #fiatlingua
Other stuff:
* #Creativewriting #writing #storytelling
* #Animals #dogs #cats #birds #pigs
* #Music #metal #jazz #piano #orchestralmusic
* #Photography #filmphotography #analogphotography #fujifilm
* #Japanese language and culture #japan #nihon
* #Tibet #buddhism
* Magic the Gathering #mtg #magicthegathering
* #Snooker
* #Laphroaig #craftbeer #mojito
Some authors:
* Jorge Luis #Borges
* Kurt #Vonnegut
* Isaac #Asimov
* James #Tiptree Jr.
* Jeff VanderMeer #southernreach
* #StephenKing
* Colin #Thubron
* Eliot Pattisons #tibet
* Jon Krakauer #intothewild
* Tim Butcher #bloodriver
* Michael Marrak (German only, sadly enough)
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AI and Games - Episode 45
"Sandbox Assassin"
The AI of @Hitman 2016
Probably old news to seasoned adventure game designers but I just compiled a list for myself on adventure game design principles. Anything I have missed?
Looking forward to watching Theresa Jean Tanenbaum's talk on trans game studies:
"In this talk I argue that game design - like magic and activism - is a framework for invoking and materializing seemingly impossible desires for ourselves, and our world. Within the "magic circles" of both play and witchcraft we assert truths about the world that are decoupled from the often-arbitrary rules and power structures that govern daily life."
#GamePreservation is a thing I have some sympathy for, and when #Microsoft decided they won’t ship #Minesweeper with #Windows anymore, I felt a piece of my childhood die.
Recreating it with https://mnswpr.com was a way to assure myself that at least I could still let my kid (and others who might enjoy it) know about the game.
Did you know they created the game specifically to teach the world how to use the mouse? By recreating, and letting power players use it, I got some very insightful user feedback on handling mouse events 😁 handling a millisecond of difference on right-click and left-click, the sort if thing.
A lot of people have built muscle memory for the game, and subtle #design decisions (like how the size of the squares affects mouse distance travel) will mean a ton for their experience.
Was a nice project. :)
#gameDev #gameDesign #browserGame #briowserGames #webdev #frontend
Videogames are very often focused on killing and crime, to the detriment of everything else ("If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail").
If you remove them, a wide design space opens up. You should try it.
#gamedev #gamedesign #tabletopgamedesign
"I simply can't bring myself to promote the emotion that killing is fun, that committing crimes is fun"
This quote from Toshihiro Nagoshi (the creator of the Yakuza game series) really resonates with me and my values.
#gamedev #gamedesign #tabletopgamedesign #ryugagotoku
I created a character stats screen to document my life this year. This is January's interface. Every time I design a visualization I learn something about knowledge translation.
#design #visualization #uidesign #gamedesign #dashboarddesign #infographic
although now long forgotten as a historical curio of 2000s web idealism, the OLPC "One Laptop Per Child" project attempted to produce a low-cost, high-reliability laptop suitable for kids in low-income environments.
one of the upshots of the program was that SimCity was open-sourced for the OLPC XO-1 computer, and it was included on every machine. this little article by don hopkins does a great job of tracing its history through Sun Microsystems.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/open-sourcing-simcity-58470a275446
All the Roguelike Celebration 2022 videos are up! There were some great talks this year!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi7jNGNQhwdhCEXB7oYNy28zdChFCk0AR
#RoguelikeCelebration #Roguelike #VideoGames #Conference #GameDesign
Had an idea for an RPG where you must create and foster a small town - and by how you cultivate it, it creates characters that you can use in dungeon crawls. Like, imagine if the character generator portion of most games ... was THE game. Character generator: the game. #gamedev #gamedesign
@bugsmith But also more recently, been playing #TriangleStrategy while waiting to get sleepy at night. I think it has a potential to define a new genre pf strategy games, with the political lobbying of votes mechanics. Lots of #geopolitical parallels in the game. :) #gamedev #gamedesign
Love those moments when you've been enjoying a challenging game for hours/days already, then something *clicks* in your understanding of the mechanics and suddenly it's all better--still challenging, but just better.
I think all the good games I've played have this moment.