The way arts education should happen is that on the first day, when students meet their professor, the professor should just say: "Go. When you can explain to me why the CG in Matrix: Revolutions looks outdated and the CG in Kung Fu Hustle is still perfect you can return, and our work will begin."
The strangest thing is that this is also the crowd you cannot force at gunpoint to play a game made more than ten years ago
Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!
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Death Stranding 3 - A Game by Hideo Kojima
One of the ways you can tell all these people never grew up is because this is how teenagers talk about what they want to do as a career. They think about the title they want as a status position, and not as the name given to people who do a kind of work in the world.
Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social! Did an amazing job!
They only get 8 dollars if they use the phrase "to say the least."
But they get a bonus on it if it is quite obviously not the least they could say!
Couldn't agree with this sentiment more! All these games are worth playing, but I'll give a shoutout to Tower of Druaga, which is a very fun and weird arcade game.
Always great to play video games from before everyone started to think they'd figured out how to make video games.
Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person
The thing that no one is thinking through is that if AI is conscious then it is plagiarism to have it write your midterm paper.
And also, all these companies are going to owe it a lot of back pay. Engineers aren't cheap!
I do not have the necessary expertise to make this claim, but I have had a strong feeling over the last dozen or so years that the visual language of figure skating has been slowly transitioning from ballroom dance and musicals to Final Fantasy and anime.
The feeling just got a lot stronger...
In fairness, this isn't too far from the position of a lot of gamers as well.
I saw a video titled "The History of SegWit and Taproot with Peter Wuille", posted by someone called Isabel Foxen Duke, and thought "This is either about a UK children's book author I've never heard of, or some Silicon Valley thing."
Turns out it's about BitCoin
The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...
Haha, well, I was probably trying to defend my generation's legacy
Hey @jessefuchs.bsky.social, remember when we had an exercise in Intermediate Game Design where students had to re-balance a deck of Magic cards?
I think about this little cutscene constantly.
Hard to find a more elegant sequence of pixel animation
At it's height I think Second Life had around 15,000 regular users, at a time when WoW had millions. And yet Second Life got huge write-ups in Time magazine like once a year.
If you don't know what Second Life is then look it up, and realize that we've been having the same arguments for 30 years.
Those of us old enough to remember Second Life can tell you that money people and mainstream journalists have always thought the most interesting thing about video games is 3D virtual worlds, and that the rest of it is just sophomoric nonsense.
<whimsical reminiscing soundtrack plays>
In memorandum of my 4 beautiful years curaring @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's annual No Quarter exhibition I've pulled together an archive of each of the 4 cohorts & the 16 weird & wonderful works they brought into the world
www.goodafternoon.uk/four-quarters
It's somewhat more galling in this instance because Sakurazaka was specifically inspired by an -arcade game- to write All You Need Is Kill!
But I suppose many arcade games are now, retroactively, roguelikes.
(I believe he was inspired by playing one of the Virtua Fighters)
Not to pick on this post, since I have observed this slow transition in student papers for several years now, but I am still sad that the term 'roguelike' has now devolved into denoting little more than a video game where you restart from the beginning.
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Introducing ShaderBeam - ShaderGlass' sister app focusing on applying @blurbusters.com CRT Beam Simulation technology to Windows desktop. Re-experience the motion clarity of CRTs on a modern high-refresh display. Free and open source.
github.com/mausimus/Sha...
The real crime is that there's no legitimate PC port.
But also, it's not like this is some ancient game! It still looks amazing on a 'modern console'! We're not talking Demon's Souls on the PS3 here!
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
My friend once told me he thought that a satire is most successful when it's beloved by the people it's satirizing.
Also, like alcohol, if the 3% of heaviest posters stopped all these businesses would probably fold overnight. They can't survive without the people that are most unhealthy about it
I've had conversations about how we should treat social media like alcohol, rather than hard drugs.
Not great for anyone, relatively harmless for most, an absolute life destroying problem for a fraction.
Posting, like drinking, all night and all day should be shameful and cause an intervention.
YouTube video essays are the reason I now have 'masterpiece' on the forbidden words and phrases list for my game studies class.
