Hey everyone! What have y’all been playing? I’ve mainly been running sts 2 (slay the spire 2) a ton! I think next is Mario Galaxy 2. I picked it up since it’s my bday today c:
The first time I thought they might actually get away with it was in 2021, when I first saw Mina Harker. Wizards of the Coast had just released a set of Magic: The Gathering cards titled Innistrad: Crimson Vow, an elegant set with vampires as its central motif. As always, the set came with the usual assortment of alternate illustrations for some of the marquee cards, which was something that I and most people who took the competitive side of the game seriously to an embarrassing extent made a routine of ignoring. This time though, the theme for the alternate art series wasn’t some stupid-looking sideshow—it was Stoker’s Dracula. A select few cards, including some that would be the strongest and most frequently played in the entire set, would have secondary but playable versions depicting recognizable characters from the literary classic.
Everyone within videogames knows the term “Games as a Service”, but we mostly use it when we talk about the business model of games that are aimed to provide a continuous experience to its players. However, you cannot run a Game as a Service, when you don’t also design it as such. I compare this type of approach to something similar to a Restaurant, where customers are sold an illusion of comfort that actually requires a lot of effort to keep up. We all know the stories of angry restaurant customers, who love to yell at service workers and in a way, the most vocal elements of videogames are very similar both in their expectations as well as their tone when they are not met.
I finally decided to return to Grimstone after a huge pause. I built a new team mainly because I wanted to play all the characters my GF didn’t see on her playthrough (as she’s watching my playthrough).
s&box, from the creator of the popular Source Engine sandbox Garry’s Mod, released three days ago. s&box is based on the Source 2 engine, and not only a sandbox but a game development and publishing platform, including publishing on Steam.
I really dislike their new DRM update even if its “testing the waters” , after being a fan for so long I’m set to completely drop them by the end of this year (yes I’m waiting for gta6).
The platformer Unless became free on April 12th. They felt it was not successful enough with the 5 USD price tag. They made it free, hoping that many more players would get to experience the game.
I am proud to announce that my open source games now has a license grant to use the polyform noncommercial license or polyform strict license instead of GNU GPL v3.0 in specific cases. Why did i do this you may ask, well there maybe times when developers have to use proprietary tools or programming languages and there maybe a TOS or EULA with either of those things that says you cannot release games commercially made with these tools unless specific requirements are done or only specific people can work on your games that uses these tools and thats what the license grant solves. To find out more go to the link to the site and the links to repos are in this link: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/
After decades of living in a linux-FOSS world, I noticed these games at a 2nd-hand street market:
- Starcraft (few different versions/themes)
- Age of Empires (few different versions/themes)
- Civilization
oogle has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world,” they said in their announcement. Its free version, which came out first, has been downloaded at least 30 million times, while the paid “Plus” version has had at least one million downloads. The visual novel has repeatedly made Engadget’s lists of favorite games over the years.
Halo Infinite’s art director and a developer who’s worked on the franchise for 17 years, Glenn Israel, is accusing senior Halo Studios staff of “numerous unethical and/or unlawful acts.”
Gunzilla Games, the studio co-founded by District 9 director Neill Blomkamp and developers of NFT-infected battle royale game Off The Grid, have been accused by a number of former employees of failing to pay staff for months on end. One former animator at the studio has also accused them of attempting to “silence” workers attempting to get the money they claim to be owed.
Scott Pilgrim EX is an interesting one. It sets out to do things a little differently than its cult classic predecessor in almost every regard. They could’ve merely gotten the band back together to do a straightforward sequel, making up for all the bugs and balance issues that arose from having to rush the first game out to release it alongside the movie. But they didn’t. Instead EX looks different, it sounds different, it’s structured differently, and the roster of playable characters is entirely different aside from the obligatory Scott and Ramona. I think this mostly works out and makes for a creatively worthwhile followup that does new things with the franchise, though there are some pacing issues that keep me from being completely crazy about it.
I am proud to announce that my open source games now has a license grant to use the MPL 2.0 instead of GNU GPL v3.0 in specific cases and now my site has info on how to optimize/tune my open source games for your experience and hardware. Link to site: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/
When I heard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 was back in the limelight thanks to an unusually steep $6 sale on Steam, I wasn’t too surprised. Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare reboot was extremely popular in its day, reinvigorating a series that tread water through the mid-2010s and ushering in an era of followups that’d build on its reimagined progression and class systems.
The book readers have it figured out. I listen to book podcasts and follow a lot of (I hate this word) bookstagrammers, and the turnover of a new year is the best time to do either of those things. This is because they’re all reviewing their reading goals for the year that was and the year to come. Did they finish the number of classics they’d hoped? Did they finish the bibliography of Ballard novels? And will next year be the year they really commit to #JanuaryInJapan, when all over the world people dedicate themselves to reading translated fiction from the country?
Started playing builders 1 on Steam Deck and while it’s missing a bit of the visual polish of pokopia, it’s a lot of fun so far. I didn’t play it when it was new but it’s definitely scratching a build/craft/explore itch without the decision paralysis of something completely open-ended like Minecraft.
Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan do I have the best service for video games as a developer or no? Here is what I did, I have versions of my games running natively and those versions are under the GNU GPL v3.0, That version has addon mod support and the example mods are under the BSD-3-CLAUSE license, run in fantasy computers, specifically right now the tic 80 and those versions are under the GNU GPL v3.0 with 2 conditions where the BSD-3-CLAUSE license can be used instead, and run in Game Creation Systems specifically Roblox right now where the licensing for those versions is the same as the Tic-80 versions. If anyone want the links to those games let me know and I will get them to you. When I license a game under GNU GPL v3.0 I also license it under creative commons attribution sharealike and when I license a game under BSD-3-Clause I license it under creative commons attribution because I want to make sure anything that is not covered by GNU GPL v3.0 or BSD-3-Clause is covered under an open license as well.
There are many scenarios in this game when you might want to move between far-placed rooms. Your active items restore their charge on completing rooms. An arcade might be your source of cash that you then want to spend in a shop on the other end of the map. You want to get to the boss challenge room but the only blood donation machine is in a secret room rather far from here.
[alt text: A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics, showing a scene where a monster is saying, “A government composed of monsters will never hold monsters accountable!"]
Dark Lord Simulator “Dominion of Darkness” is RPG/strategy where you are destroying/conquering fantasy world by intrigues, military power and dark magic.
Hey all! Apologies for being bad about these threads. All I can really say is life is kind of chaotic. I’m going to see if I can maybe get a bot to post these if I can’t do it a certain week. Thanks for being understanding.
I have a love-hate relationship with MOBAs, but Deadlock—after its new Old Gods, New Blood update—has dragged me back to the genre kicking and screaming. I’ve got over 2,400 hours in Dota 2 from my misspent uni years, and I’m currently sitting on 183 hours with Valve’s latest and counting.
If you had to pick a good love story, you might think of something classic, like Jane Austen’s Emma or Casablanca. Or maybe tragic, like Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin or Romeo and Juliet. Or possibly cozy, like Heated Rivalry or Netflix’s Nobody Wants This. What probably doesn’t come to mind is a video game love story, and there’s a good reason for that. Despite the appearance of variety, video game romances only come in one type. And it hardly even counts as a romance.
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Chloyster [she/her]
CharlesReed
ProdigalFrog
alyaza [they/she]
OppressedBread
Lucy [she/faer]
Kissaki
P03 Locke
Gamma
MoogleMaestro
durinn
Vittelius
sp3ctr4l
SSUPII
GandalfDG
onlooker
Chris Remington
coyotino [he/him]
Sibbo
Beko Pharm
CafeFrog
Jo Miran
