I don't know but Gerry Anderson's son went to the same school as me and he once brought in some original Captain Scarlet puppets and stuff for us to look at and it was super awesome. Thank you for the opportunity to relive this minor incident I haven't thought about for 20 years or so.
But Alex the **:ales**
Me: I'll just have a diet coke please
Tavern Keeper, disdainfully: I can serve you: * **Local Ales:**
Heroically uniting the "Yerba Buena has been gentrified so now I have to lie about it being fenced off for some reason" contingent with the "Festival of Gaming must be all encompassing!" hard-liners via the powerful bridge issue of "music, while nice, is too loud"
I am old enough to have experienced the arrival of many silly words but I have to say "agentic" is one of the most annoying
I shall be there!
The "opaque onboarding" thing is similar. It's fine to require experimentation from the player but it's *not* fine to have ambiguity around basic verbs.
"Oh god I didn't know I could click on that" is as close to Just Bad as these things get.
Do it for a *reason* that you can state clearly.
Dan is right because of course he is BUT a good test when you do some weird design thing (especially with controls or UI) is "can the player see the benefits of this quickly?"
If you can't sell players on it then they will just ask for the "normal" thing endlessly until you implode.
It's just amazing to me how people try to set up these extremely convoluted / transactional frameworks for what reduces down "do humanity" and "sometimes help each other out with stuff". Absolutely boils my brain when I see someone get treated in a dismissive way.
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- Just treat everyone like a person
Thank you so much Nic! Awesome to see things shaping up for release.
Amberspire's incredible music is from @mode7games.bsky.social who captured the overall tone of the visuals and writing beautifully. Can't wait for everyone to hear more than just a snippet!
Very cool to see my soundtrack come together with everyone else's work in these recent teasers.
This game has The Vibes in abundance and Nic's thoughtful design is going to be of interest to many of you games people so please give it a look!
May the 4th (+2) we’ll be with you
Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!
Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.
PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!
s.team/a/3350750
Amberspire is out on May 6th! 🌇
Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.
Wishlist now on Steam!
Just purchased this from @inkle.co www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/ - looks extremely cool
My entire game soundtrack career
Amberspire news coming tomorrow 👀🌇
In the meantime, you can already wishlist our science fantasy city builder on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/
Oh my god I hate admin
System Shock mod where every Shodan voice line is replaced by a Flowdan bar
Heh yeah this looks rad
Overheard in a book shop: "Wuthering Heights? No way that's an actual book."
I have had my work passed off as someone else's or used without permission many times before - it is never simple.
At certain times, the repetitious campaigning and grandstanding is mega helpful and at other times it is counterproductive.
Trying to collapse every conversation about Marathon into a ritualistic performance of who can shout "Bungie stole art" the loudest does more harm than good to artists in general.
If it's so nuanced that you need to speculate on the exact content of a legal settlement doesn't it then deserve its own context? Doesn't this become unworkable for you if you miss any comment anyone makes about the game for the rest of time?
Not every single context needs to be collapsed into a litany of grievances? I thought the artist in question made a statement saying the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
📆 ON THIS DAY in 2006 • 20 years ago! 😮 @8bitpeoples.bsky.social releases Information Chase, 6 mp3s of chiptune powerpop. It's since come out on CD & vinyl, & I've performed its songs to audiences who have loudly sung along, despite there being no words. What could be more heartwarming than that? 🙏
Final day! Final pitch to those on the fence: We've successfully delivered 6 KS projects previously. ABIDE is fresh, for horror and for games. It is mature and well researched. It is brutal. Stop motion but also a proper game. We aim to be generous and to entertain with our games.
It's important to audit everything the second it's mentioned in any context
