Miguel Sternberg

Hear me out...

Univerally praised games are neat enough, but nothing hits quite like something unpopular that speaks to *you*.

So show-and-tell: Link and Explain a game that's UNDERRATED (sub-500 user reviews), UNDERRATED (sub 80% score) or BOTH (ideally!) that is near and dear to your heart.

Yeah 100% agreeing. That averaging and remixing is inherently lossy. I was just trying to think of how to describe that weird way in which it is lossy, because as you pointed out, it's not the same as noise or other lossy compression artifacts we're used to.

I'd maybe describe it as "remixed and averaged, without any intentionality."

I did the dumb NYT "can you identify AI writing test" and got emotionally sucker punched by it, not because of AI, but because the final human writing sample was written by an old friend of my parents (who died when I was still a baby).

The Early History of Falcom YouTube video by Bowl of Lentils

In the celebration of Nihon Falcom"s 45th anniversary, I can' recommended enough to watch this great video about the history of Falcom by @bowloflentils.bsky.social

Very instructive 🤓😎

#NihonFalcom #Falcom

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIcb...

Kyle Olson Pixelmancer and Game Artist. Open for work.

Hey everyone!

I am open for work. Looking for contract, part-time, full-time, anything! I have been making games for close to 15 years now and am happy doing 2D art in most styles, pixel art, UI, and managing.

Here's a link to my portfolio: kyleolson.artstation.com

Yeah, I don't generally need to write a ton of dialogue in my games, but so often the struggle is pairing it down to the shortest possible version that is still fun to read and delivers the needed info. This is somehow the exact opposite of that.

Keep hoping this garbage eventually does the same.

A descriptive title ("Mean Villager", "Cheerful Farmer" etc.) and a single line of dialogue could deliver more character in less time. As is so often the case, the folks building these things don't understand the basics of the medium they're working in.

No one wants *longer* rando NPC dialogue.

Suddenly glad I'm not at GDC right now, don't think I could handle all the AI slop tools.

Also this NPC has 3 pages of dull meandering dialogue, but they didn't bother to give them a name beyond "Villager 1"?

really glad to see everyone dunking on this

back in like 2011 or 2012 when I first started going to GDC as a SUPER BROKE poor ass kid, talking to random devs in those gardens was the only real way to make connections

fencing that off is utter horse shit. look for cool people on the Free Side

Um excuse me, how did this slip under my goblin radar?!

Added to my goblin collection 🥹

Cover to A Witch's Life in Mongol Volume 1

An ongoing interest in the history and cultures of the Mongolian steppes and Iran, as well as curiosity about the upcoming Science Saru anime adaptation led me to the manga A Witch's Life in Mongol. I'm enjoying it and I think it's worth your time.

Yeah, generally the take tells me that their knowledge of games is pretty shallow, they've played the big games everyone talks about but haven't really dug into the medium. Eg. the retro gamer who thinks they're well rounded because they've played Zelda, Metroid & Mario.

I sometimes see these sorts of examples used as proof that "EVENTUALLY a good game/movie/etc will get noticed."

Which ignores the more likely conclusion that for each great work that failed only to eventually succeed, there are dozens of others that didn't luck into a second chance to get seen.

Oof. Real truth is that there are easily more good games that have financially failed than good games that have succeeded.

Have an idea for a gaming event you wanna run in Toronto during June 11-17th? Submit it here!

📝 bit.ly/tgw26-neo

#ScottPilgrimEX is 100% funded, developed and published by @tributegames.com. Ubisoft isn't and never was involved. There's no Uplay required. When you buy Scott Pilgrim EX, you help Tribute Games make more cool games! Thank you for your support!

Also, theory: every good bit in a horror game in the last 20 years is basically Thief’s Return to the Cathedral. (Thief is the best horror game)

IMPORTANT THING 👽

I skipped over this story many times, I think because the title image just turned me off, and I was lazy about reading the fine print

a new weird 😈 games showcase is really important (!) we need more shit like this. enough with bland AAA oatmeal, focus on indies experimenting ✨

@hackintimseeley.bsky.social

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Jazzpunk - Night City Sessions, by Luis Hernandez 14 track album

its 𝔹𝔸ℕ𝔻ℂ𝔸𝕄ℙ 𝔽ℝ𝕀𝔻𝔸𝕐 !!

go grab the recently released Jazzpunk - Night City Sessions EP!

an eclectic mixture of hauntology, dub, dark ambient, and industrial electro-acoustic beats for your March nights

jazzpunk.bandcamp.com/album/jazzpu...

The (excellent) Secret Lives of Games podcast hosted @kissakolme.bsky.social, @jukio.bsky.social & @jwaaaap.com to have a big long chat about Nuclear Throne Update 100! Tune in and find out why bandits can't aim right here:

SDV - forage
#pixelart

everyone will be happy to know that my next game will feature 100% human-written code and no slop vibe coding

also the art is painstakingly human-made, because I can't imagine handing the reigns over to some aggregate generator

Kerberos story arc 1987 : While Waiting for the Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡を待ちつつ), Radio drama 1987 : The Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡), Live-action tokusatsu feature film 2024 : The Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡), Manga adaptation of the 1987 film[3] 1988 : Kerberos Panzer Cop (犬狼伝説), Manga 1991 : StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (ケルベロス 地獄の番犬), Live-action tokusatsu feature film 1999 : Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (人狼), Animated feature film 2018 : Illang: The Wolf Brigade (인랑), Korean live-action remake 2003 : The Killers (キラーズ), Manga short story 2003 : Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs (Rainy Dogs 紅い足痕), Manga 2005 : Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs (犬狼伝説 紅い足痕), Graphic collection (with "The Killers" and the previously unreleased "Act00") 2006 : Kerberos Panzer Jäger (ケルベロス 鋼鉄の猟犬), Radio drama 2006 : Kerberos & Tachiguishi (ケルベロスX立喰師 腹腹時計の少女), Manga 2009 : Kerberos Panzer Cops: Tokyo War (ケルベロス 東京市街戦 首都警特機隊全記録), Monograph (with Special Issue) 2009 : Kerberos Panzer Cop: Special Issue (前夜-ケルベロス騒乱異聞), Manga short story 2010 : Kerberos Panzer Cop: A Revision (犬狼伝説 20周年エディション), Graphic collection collecting revised Volume 1 and 2, with Special Issue[4] Tachiguishi story arc 1984 : Urusei Yatsura: Hisatsu! Tachigui Wars!! (うる星やつら ~必殺! 立ち食いウォーズ!!~), Television anime series episode (ep. 99) 1987 : While Waiting for the Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡を待ちつつ), Radio drama 2004 : Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝), Novel 2006 : Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝), Live-action/animated hybrid feature adaptation of the novel 2006 : Onna Tachiguishi-Retsuden (女立喰師外伝 ケツネコロッケのお銀), Short film 2006 : Kerberos & Tachiguishi (ケルベロスX立喰師 腹腹時計の少女), Manga 2007 : Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden (真女立喰師列伝), Short film

If you haven't checked it out, his indie stuff is genuinely weirder than the licensed anime he's known for. Heavy French new wave / theater of the absurd vibes. Unfortunately most of his major life's work, the Kerberos Saga isn't even available as fan translations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbero...

You Are Elon Musk by Kris Lorischild A Billionaire Simulator

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:

YOU ARE ELON MUSK

200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY

direkris.itch.io/elon

With that being said:

• There’s still no official response in regards to the Seven Seas Union or why Seven Seas employees were not i formed about the acquisition prior

hopefully we get a statement soon like this one but that remains to be seen

Media Do/Seven Sea issued a new statement regarding AI Translation

• They state that there are no plans to implement AI for their translation & localization work

• They clarify the AI Assisted tool MDTS was intended for JPN translators to TL Japanese literature & won’t be implemented at Seven Seas