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Title: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on May 27, 2021, 04:17:52 AM

What was the first ever video game series to reach its fourth installment?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on May 27, 2021, 07:35:45 AM

if arcade variants count, my guess would be at pac-man or similar

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on May 27, 2021, 11:36:04 PM

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on May 28, 2021, 04:59:47 AM

No way, Dragon Quest IV and Ultima IV both predate Mega Man IV.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on May 29, 2021, 02:22:39 AM

The Jumper series by YoMamasMama

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on May 29, 2021, 10:50:40 AM

super bogus world 4

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on May 29, 2021, 08:01:52 PM

NEW super cat planet deluxe

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on May 30, 2021, 12:57:20 AM

i would not be surprised if there is something older than ultima (ultima iv released in 1985) but i cant think of anything.... old computer rpgs might be a good place to look. i thought maybe dragon slayer, but dragon slayer 4 was 1987. wizardry 4 was also 1987

oh this game from 1983 was apparently supposed to be the fourth zork game, but they changed their minds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanter_(video_game)
that wiki page describes it as part of the "zork universe" though so maybe it counts

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on May 31, 2021, 05:37:07 AM

didnt they just come out with pacman 99? with 99 sequels the 4th one must have been pretty early right  :pineapple: :pineapple:

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on June 16, 2021, 03:31:54 AM

anything interested from this yr's e3?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on June 16, 2021, 04:38:53 AM

I'm just saying that Elden Ring was the Dark Souls of E3 submissions

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on June 18, 2021, 08:03:35 AM

apparently metroid dread was a working concept for a sequel all the way back when metroid fusion came out, and metroid prime 3 even references "project dread" somewhere inside of it. i think it's cool that they're acutlaly making it.

also wario owns

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on June 18, 2021, 09:39:39 AM

wowns

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on June 19, 2021, 12:32:16 PM

squarewheelenix

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on June 21, 2021, 05:34:09 AM

wiilde

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on June 21, 2021, 07:30:01 PM

ducco

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 23, 2021, 05:43:22 PM

If Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was called Metroidvania for ripping off the Metroid gameplay will Metroid Dread get called Metroident Evil for ripping off the Nemesis gameplay?

Note: I've played neither Nemesis nor Metroid Dread.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on June 26, 2021, 08:03:57 PM

is RE the earliest game with that style of gameplay where youre always being chased

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on June 26, 2021, 09:10:41 PM

earliest i can think of is Clock Tower which released before resi and has scissorman chase you...

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 27, 2021, 03:47:58 AM

I got my 3DS set up with NES/SMS/MSX2/GB/TG16/TG16-CD/SNES/GEN/GG/GBA/Cave Story emulators.  I couldn't get MSX2's disk drive working though.

I think I like tinkering with software more than I like playing video games.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 27, 2021, 03:49:49 AM

It's kinda crazy how many people are willing to do stuff like hack old MSX roms to translate them.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on June 27, 2021, 08:54:02 AM

I have more fun modding games like Skyrim than actually playing them.  Something about the potential of it all is very satisfying.

In the end it's still just Skyrim, though.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on June 27, 2021, 08:56:34 AM

I hear the Wii U makes for a great emulator machine once softmodded.  It also has a much larger virtual console library than the Switch does (currently).

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 11, 2021, 04:24:32 AM

I downloaded Ys I for the TurboGrafx and all the maps I've found online are all different. ???

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on July 11, 2021, 10:04:17 AM

i think the ys i map got expanded from the ys eternal release onwards, so it might be that?

just had a quick look and this looks like a p good guide for the turbografx version, nice handdrawn map aesthetic https://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/TG16/Ys-BookI&II-Guide.pdf
though looks like some of the guide is cropped off

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on July 11, 2021, 10:14:11 AM

still gotta play more of ys 4 but last time i got stuck in a cave which felt like even more of a nightmare maze than the caves in ys i and ii

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on July 13, 2021, 03:25:15 AM

That's a nice looking guide.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 13, 2021, 06:09:15 PM

Takes one to know one.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 17, 2021, 03:55:41 AM

I spent a lot of effort turning my 3DS into a portable emulator machine and then Valve ruins everything.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on July 17, 2021, 10:55:20 AM

Maybe.  If it requires booting to full Linux to run the emulators, that won't be as convenient as just using the native Steam launcher.  Might have to faff around with input drivers and such then too.

Did you preorder the thing?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 17, 2021, 03:28:26 PM

Never preorder.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 18, 2021, 08:03:04 PM

...this is a stupid speedrunning category.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on July 28, 2021, 08:20:33 PM

word

i never preorder games and am still surprised at people do so and then complain that they wasted their money

maybe it made sense 20 years ago when games were in limited supply but everything is direct download now

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on July 31, 2021, 07:04:38 PM

I preordered The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

I only remembered I did when it showed up on my doorstep.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on August 02, 2021, 02:36:35 PM

Which VR headset do you have?  I own a Samsung Odyssey+.  WMR's platform isn't great, but no complaints for the price.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on August 13, 2021, 07:36:11 PM

does anyone have tips / technology reps for making short games like the kind that are on itch.io? ive never messed around with it before but i wanted to try it out

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on August 13, 2021, 08:26:38 PM

do you have any particular games or styles of games in mind? there's quite a variety of stuff on itch made from all sortsa tools and engines

not sure it'd be what you're after exactly but there's tools like Bitsy for making short narrative experiences, and Puzzlescript for making puzzle games, if you don't want to use a full blown engine like gamemaker or unity or whatever.
good at abstracting away all the underlying workings and letting you focus on the more important aspects quickly

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: cati on August 13, 2021, 09:01:08 PM

there's twine too, which is mainly used for choose your own adventure type games, but i'm pretty sure you can do enough scripting and styling to randomise elements or add rpg battle systems or whatever. and it'll integrate into other things like unity projects to handle dialogue systems.

i was using haxeflixel a while back for a few projects, and that seemed pretty good too for more general 2d stuff.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on August 14, 2021, 07:11:03 AM

i actually in general prefer more low-level game dev tools bc i like to have a lot of control over all the little parts of a game. that being said, i am open to learning an engine if the ability to be more specific about stuff is there.

i think probably i would use it for a platformer-ish thing, but idk i might want to do other rando 2d stuff.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on August 14, 2021, 03:24:21 PM

i think general purpose game engines like gamemaker and unity give you more than enough control to implement whatever mechanics and little details you want. the "low level" stuff you have less control over would be internal engine aspects like "what order does the game loop process things in" and "how do rendering instructions get batched and sent to the gpu", but even if these internal things are implemented differently from how you like to do it, the engines are flexible enough at a higher level to let you make basically whatever kind of game you want

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on August 14, 2021, 05:49:24 PM

Godot may be a good contender because if there's something low-level you want to change, you have full access to the engine's source code.

I don't know if it's ready for "prime time" yet, but I've enjoyed its workflow more than GameMaker in the short time I've spent with it.  Node-based trees seem more intuitive for me than GM's pseudo-OOP design.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on August 14, 2021, 06:39:22 PM

Quote from: SquareWheel on August 14, 2021, 05:49:24 PM

Godot may be a good contender because if there's something low-level you want to change, you have full access to the engine's source code.

I don't know if it's ready for "prime time" yet, but I've enjoyed its workflow more than GameMaker in the short time I've spent with it.  Node-based trees seem more intuitive for me than GM's pseudo-OOP design.

i'm in a small community where we make game engines for a certain community event

a fair few of us have transitioned from gms 1.4 to godot and i've heard very positive things about it. is it worth the switch? what are the main differences? as someone that's been using gm for 8 years or so, would i have an easy time learning it?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on August 14, 2021, 11:09:49 PM

oh it did not occur to me that in modern day game maker has export to html5 lol. i think something like game maker is probably fine for my purposes, i might try out godot tho sounds interesting.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on August 15, 2021, 02:01:13 AM

The biggest difference is Godot has no concept of rooms like in GameMaker.  Instead, everything is made up of nodes in a tree structure.  Nodes typically provide functionality, but can also be dummy nodes just to group things together (think <div> tags in HTML).

For example you might have a dummy node which represents the player.  It has some innate properties like a position, but doesn't do much else.  So you can attach a sprite node to give it a visual appearance.  Maybe add a sound node for handling player sound effects, and so on.

Collections of nodes can be saved as scenes.  You'd likely have a player scene, a scene for each enemy, one for the level layout, various menus, and so on.  They're inherently reusable assuming you don't build in too many dependencies.

What's neat about this approach is that any scene can be run by itself.  If you want to just work on the player, you can load them in by themselves.

There's some other cool features.  The editor itself is extensible, so you can write code which affects the editor.  For example a cannon could render its trajectory in the editor view for easier fine-tuning.  That's called a tool script.

There's probably still a bunch of missing features compared to more mature engines like Unity, but I'm really liking the direction of Godot.  It feels more intuitive to me than other game engines, and I really appreciate that it's fully open-source and encourages community contributions.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on August 21, 2021, 04:01:55 PM

Quote from: Tinister on June 27, 2021, 03:47:58 AM

I think I like tinkering with software more than I like playing video games.

I discovered that the Ys IV ROM for TurboGrafx-CD has not one, but two, English translation patches.

The first patch changes all the text to English.  That patcher was very specifically written for 32-bit Windows -- which I don't have here in 2022 -- so cue me setting up a virtual machine (after sourcing a Windows ISO, keys, etc.) just to copy ROM and patch files back and forth.

In the second patch, a ragtag bunch of vocalists offered their talents to dub the spoken parts.  However, this patch assumed a file format more raw than what I had, so cue me finding some cracked version of a virtual disc mounter so I could re-rip the ROM (with the first patch), apply the second patch, and re-format it back to the emulator-preferred format.

All of this took around a day and a half to figure out.  Now I have a fully translated ROM, just sitting on my 3DS, for me to play.  Any day now.  Yup...

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on August 23, 2021, 01:54:09 AM

I likewise have translated roms I intend to play, but probably won't ever.  Sorry Pokémon Card GB2.

Reminds me of modding Elder Scrolls.  Lots of enjoyment planning out mod synergies and interactions, but it always devolves into a half-completed stealth archer run anyway.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on September 26, 2021, 09:51:36 AM

since ch2 came out i finally got around to playing deltarune. cute game cant wait for ch 3 to come out in another 3 years for now.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on September 26, 2021, 11:45:28 PM

Wake me up when I can buy the complete set.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on September 28, 2021, 01:01:37 AM

that's why i didnt play ch1 lol. i played ch2 tho because im tired of getting all the music spoiled for me lol

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on September 28, 2021, 06:07:13 PM

Here's some interesting science on spoilers:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611417007

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on September 29, 2021, 04:24:46 PM

im usually okay with spoilers bc i usually need to read spoilers before deciding i want to read/watch something. but sometimes i enjoy the popping off in the way that you do when youre surprised.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on October 11, 2021, 06:28:33 PM

i just finished a 2008 game maker game (iji)

pretty wild

very unlike ludosity's other stuff since they're usually known for lighthearted games but i dig it

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on October 11, 2021, 06:49:19 PM

oh neat i didn't know the iji creator went on to co-found ludosity!

iji feels very a Classics of GameMaker to me, glad I still see people playing through it every now and then

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on October 11, 2021, 07:02:51 PM

i'm on a very puzzle game kick at the min. very excited for Bean and Nothingness (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706090/Bean_and_Nothingness/) which has a generous demo and sadly doesn't seem to have much presence/discussion that i've been able to find. but very solid mechanics and fun puzzles.

also enjoying Bonfire Peaks a lot as a cool 3d space puzzler - i love puzzle games where the moveset is incredibly stubborn. lots of fun mechanical consequences to explore.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on October 11, 2021, 07:24:23 PM

Quote from: juner on October 11, 2021, 06:49:19 PM

oh neat i didn't know the iji creator went on to co-found ludosity!

iji feels very a Classics of GameMaker to me, glad I still see people playing through it every now and then

card city nights 1&2 have a bunch of iji cards in them
(https://i.imgur.com/Rn6Qbrb.png)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on October 11, 2021, 09:38:49 PM

Cool, Iji is still being updated.  I never would've guessed that.  I always grouped it with Seiklus in that "Classic GameMaker" category.

Bean and Nothingness looks cool too.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on October 16, 2021, 08:02:07 AM

Quote from: wilde32 on October 11, 2021, 06:28:33 PM

i just finished a 2008 game maker game (iji)

nice, iji is one of my favorite games. replaying it with non-standard builds is hella fun.

also @ludosity yeha asha is playable in slap city, and i think they still make references to reallyjoel's dad. my dream is for iji to make it into NASB. and ye iji had a pretty major update recently (in a relative sense, i think maybe 2019) to the way pacifist run works.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on October 16, 2021, 08:06:53 AM

also in vidya game news i played metroid dread and it's such a good game. i havent liked a game this much in a while. idk how much the cutey zone still cares for hard games / long metroidvanias but i really enjoyed the experience, gonna try to 100% it now.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on October 16, 2021, 08:56:39 AM

Definitely gonna check it out if i see it for cheap (big if). Though i don't have any track record of finishing metroid games...

I think the last metrovan i played & finished was Hollow Knight. I missed a huge amount of hidden content but was p happy with my journey through the game so didn't really wanna go back and do cleanup duty. Thinking about my friend who plays through the souls games with a checklist for completion and that'd just be nightmare unfun for me... i like the idea of missing half the game and then replaying in 10 years and naturally bumping into new stuff.

Or maybe the last metrovan i played & finished was Monster Boy if that fits the genre expectations? That game owned, lots of good platforming and great music

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on October 16, 2021, 08:43:47 PM

ive also never finished a metroid game before. i was more motivated to finish dread though bc it's not like say super metroid where i basically already know everything about it already

ive had no interest in hollow knight, but ive heard a lot of good things about it, one of my friends siad it was the best game they ever played :U. i was interested in monster boy but it's sitting in my infinite backlog of games that i want to play but dont bc i never play video games anymore

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on October 19, 2021, 11:46:09 PM

i had great times with zero mission and fusion when i was younger but for some reason i have no interest in playing dread.... i keep hearing good things about it though

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on October 19, 2021, 11:55:17 PM

recently i enjoyed this game https://june-flower.itch.io/washout-spire it is a cool hard freeware platformer like in the good old jumper days. i feel like i flip back and forth between liking these kinds of games and finding them very boring. this one i liked and i got really into it and made a video with commentary....

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on October 19, 2021, 11:57:47 PM

theres a discord i am in where people have been talking about how they miss forums..... forums are pretty fucking sick!!!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on October 20, 2021, 01:53:31 AM

new pages hurt

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on October 20, 2021, 03:29:16 AM

Dread is a "long" Metroidvania?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on October 20, 2021, 11:03:58 AM

i guess when i said "long" i guess i didnt mean actually long i just meant something that wouldnt (causally) be beaten in a single sitting. that's how indiegames make me feel these days.

also i agree forums are sick. i wish i still had interests to find forums for and also that forums still existed

Quote from: aimaina on October 19, 2021, 11:46:09 PM

i had great times with zero mission and fusion when i was younger but for some reason i have no interest in playing dread.... i keep hearing good things about it though

tbh this is how i feel with a lot of games, so i feel. overall i dont even really play games that often anymore.

Quote from: aimaina on October 19, 2021, 11:55:17 PM

recently i enjoyed this game https://june-flower.itch.io/washout-spire it is a cool hard freeware platformer like in the good old jumper days. i feel like i flip back and forth between liking these kinds of games and finding them very boring. this one i liked and i got really into it and made a video with commentary....

i might watch thru this vid sometime - the aesthetic looks really cool but also im not a big hard platformer person anymore. :U

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on October 20, 2021, 07:40:10 PM

yeah i barely play games anymore i just make em..... i kind of want to get back into hard core gaming so i built up a list of "games i want to play eventually" but i havent actually played any of them yet

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on October 21, 2021, 03:36:57 AM

It's really hard.  =(

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on October 21, 2021, 03:48:37 AM

Washout Spire looks pretty neat.  Hardcore wall jumping platformer with few player assists.

Am I a bad enough dude to still enjoy these games?  Will check out your video, at the very least.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on October 29, 2021, 10:41:02 PM

Finally got around to playing.  Tricky game, man.  Got to chapter 3 and my wrist was already feeling sore.  Not sure I'm made for these games any more.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2022, 03:44:46 PM

I'm getting a lot of "Jumper Two" vibes from Mario vs. Donkey Kong on the Game Boy Advance.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on January 03, 2022, 11:44:56 PM

is that the game where mario can handstand ? that game was cool when i played the best buy demo of it

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on January 06, 2022, 12:36:08 AM

It's not cool now?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on February 01, 2022, 05:57:11 PM

Okaaaaaay why isn't anybody talking about this?
https://hubol.itch.io/igua-rpg-demo

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on February 01, 2022, 11:49:25 PM

I got an email from itch.io about it earlier.  I like it.  Really rad character creator.

RIP my gravitation potion trying to see if there was anything up here.  Get on it, box guy.

(https://i.imgur.com/Bh02ASI.png)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on February 02, 2022, 12:32:07 AM

haha shucks, i need to add more treats for balloning i think!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on February 04, 2022, 06:53:51 PM

Quote from: hubol on February 01, 2022, 05:57:11 PM

Okaaaaaay why isn't anybody talking about this?
https://hubol.itch.io/igua-rpg-demo

aus 2 looks pretty cool
what do you have against clowns though

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on February 04, 2022, 07:18:52 PM

I love clowns!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on February 07, 2022, 02:34:24 PM

Quote from: hubol on February 04, 2022, 07:18:52 PM

I love clowns!

catch the clown hd redux

im at 90% what have i missed

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on February 08, 2022, 05:58:46 PM

Click the Clown, you insensitive clod!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on February 09, 2022, 05:39:11 AM

Quote from: wilde32 on February 07, 2022, 02:34:24 PM

Quote from: hubol on February 04, 2022, 07:18:52 PM

I love clowns!

catch the clown hd redux

im at 90% what have i missed

you probably didn't fix the mirror?

Code: [Select]

        number(key.fromDiggingInTown) + number(key.fromInn) + number(key.fromTopOfCrateStack) +
        number(bigKey.piece1) + number(bigKey.piece2) + number(bigKey.piece3) + number(bigKey.reward) +
        number(desert.unlockedTemple) +
        number(desert.defeatedOversizedAngel) + number(costumeMirror.shardCollected) + number(costumeMirror.repaired)) / numbers;

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: wilde32 on February 15, 2022, 01:33:04 AM

Quote from: hubol on February 09, 2022, 05:39:11 AM

Quote from: wilde32 on February 07, 2022, 02:34:24 PM

Quote from: hubol on February 04, 2022, 07:18:52 PM

I love clowns!

catch the clown hd redux

im at 90% what have i missed

you probably didn't fix the mirror?

Code: [Select]

        number(key.fromDiggingInTown) + number(key.fromInn) + number(key.fromTopOfCrateStack) +
        number(bigKey.piece1) + number(bigKey.piece2) + number(bigKey.piece3) + number(bigKey.reward) +
        number(desert.unlockedTemple) +
        number(desert.defeatedOversizedAngel) + number(costumeMirror.shardCollected) + number(costumeMirror.repaired)) / numbers;

yeah that was it
also the original game maker tutorial was catch the clown

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on February 15, 2022, 02:02:18 AM

It couldn't have been.  Surely if I just search... (https://docplayer.net/31651007-Game-maker-tutorial-1-catch-the-clown.html)

Oh my god the Mandala effect was real all along.  We're in a parallel universe and there's no escape.  God help us.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on February 15, 2022, 02:20:35 AM

I only have this one small thing to remind me of what our world was like.  How simple and peaceful it was.  When everything still made sense.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/bWEuV2o.png) (https://cutey.zone/Click%20The%20Clown%20The%20Ultimate%20Collection%20Directors%20Cut%20Edition.zip)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on February 15, 2022, 04:24:29 PM

Have you minted an NFT of the game yet.

Not to sell or anything, just the exercise of putting dollars into crypto to pay minting fees.  It needs your money or it'll collapse.  🙁

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on February 20, 2022, 08:26:00 PM

If I liked Demons Souls would I like Elden Ring?

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Post by: SquareWheel on February 21, 2022, 12:27:57 AM

I think so.  The gameplay has changed in later Souls games to be faster and reaction-based rather than technical and resource-based (ie. managing stamina and spacing).  But their overall design has remained consistently good.  FromSoft excels in level design, environmental storytelling, and really gameplay mechanics as a whole.

I've preordered maybe three games in my life, but this was one of them.

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Post by: tisokresia on February 22, 2022, 10:34:05 PM

hi! i found this place through "clockwork calamity in mushroom worlds' : what would your do if the time's stopped tick ing? "
i'm excited to enter the world, but Eivlys wants my soul and I don't k now if it will be ok to just sign it away like that!
is there a guarantee that by the end of the game, i will have my soul back? thank you!

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Post by: dcco on February 23, 2022, 05:06:06 AM

sup. and sorry can confirm no more soul.

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Post by: dcco on February 23, 2022, 05:06:36 AM

click the clown actually nostalgic for me.

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Post by: tisokresia on February 23, 2022, 05:55:13 AM

Quote from: dcco on February 23, 2022, 05:06:36 AM

click the clown actually nostalgic for me.

the day's of the old game maker... hammer and ball games' site

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on February 23, 2022, 07:25:20 PM

Quote from: SquareWheel on February 21, 2022, 12:27:57 AM

I've preordered maybe three games in my life, but this was one of them.

What were the other two?

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Post by: SquareWheel on February 23, 2022, 07:51:41 PM

Monster Hunter: World and I think GTA: San Andreas.

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Post by: aimaina on February 25, 2022, 07:24:09 PM

Quote from: tisokresia on February 22, 2022, 10:34:05 PM

hi! i found this place through "clockwork calamity in mushroom worlds' : what would your do if the time's stopped tick ing? "
i'm excited to enter the world, but Eivlys wants my soul and I don't k now if it will be ok to just sign it away like that!
is there a guarantee that by the end of the game, i will have my soul back? thank you!

oh hello.... sorry you do not get the soul back but you can have this honeydew :honeydew:

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Post by: tisokresia on February 25, 2022, 10:24:03 PM

Quote from: aimaina on February 25, 2022, 07:24:09 PM

Quote from: tisokresia on February 22, 2022, 10:34:05 PM

hi! i found this place through "clockwork calamity in mushroom worlds' : what would your do if the time's stopped tick ing? "
i'm excited to enter the world, but Eivlys wants my soul and I don't k now if it will be ok to just sign it away like that!
is there a guarantee that by the end of the game, i will have my soul back? thank you!

oh hello.... sorry you do not get the soul back but you can have this honeydew :honeydew:

thank u for answering me....!! i will have to think about other ways to explore the world... thank you for creating it though!

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Post by: Tinister on February 26, 2022, 04:12:58 AM

I've been home for an hour and my console is still updating and installing.

I think I'm gonna go to bed.

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Post by: Tinister on February 26, 2022, 07:55:04 PM

Remember when you could pick up cartridges at the mall and be playing after the 5 minute drive home?

No $9.99/mo upsells and messages about how your game will be an inferior experience because you declined.

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Post by: dcco on March 01, 2022, 09:35:11 PM

is this concerning elden ring

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Post by: Nijuu on May 28, 2022, 05:58:05 AM

did anybody here ever play anodyne. i dont really have a strong opinion on the games quality (though the atmosphere/music can be nice) but there were a couple gags that seemed oddly tone breaking in terms of being datedly edgy or pop cultural and i found out it came out in 2013 and was a spawn of that timepoint in indie games and was like well that makes sense

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Post by: SquareWheel on May 28, 2022, 07:04:50 AM

It's been on my "will probably play eventually" list for about seven years.  Maybe one day I'll be between games and an indie Zelda-like will be just the ticket.  Though last time that happened I played Lenna's Inception instead.

Anodyne has a sequel now, if I'm not mistaken.

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Post by: hubol on May 28, 2022, 07:39:05 AM

never heard of it... the aesthetics dont look like something i'd super duper enjoy but maybe i will try it some time!

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Post by: aimaina on May 31, 2022, 08:28:29 PM

i like anodyne a lot, though mostly because of the postgame.... if it wasnt for how cool the postgame is i would probably think it is just ok. i wanna get around to playing anodyne 2 some time

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Post by: Tinister on June 04, 2022, 03:36:39 AM

Anybody here have any deep insight as to the moderation at /r/GameDeals?

Why is it not mandatory to put the raw cost in the title?

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Post by: SquareWheel on June 04, 2022, 05:12:21 AM

It's an international community and prices vary by region.  Discount percentages however are consistent 99% of the time which makes it useful to more people.  The price can be (and often is) included as additional information, though.

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Post by: tisokresia on June 04, 2022, 10:21:35 PM

Quote from: aimaina on May 31, 2022, 08:28:29 PM

i like anodyne a lot, though mostly because of the postgame.... if it wasnt for how cool the postgame is i would probably think it is just ok. i wanna get around to playing anodyne 2 some time

yes...!! i really love the postgame. i haven't played anodyne2 though. it reminds me of pacman 3d.

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Post by: dcco on June 05, 2022, 09:49:02 AM

recently played franken rpg - cute game. can anyone recommend similar games?

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Post by: Tinister on June 26, 2022, 05:27:42 AM

What's with VR these days?

Kind of feels like the catalog hasn't changed much at all.

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Post by: SquareWheel on June 26, 2022, 12:18:59 PM

Dang Facebook is buying up the exclusives, and I don't much care to join their ecosystem even with Revive.

Weirdly VR mods are one of the best new prospects.  Risk of Rain 2 in VR is intense.  Mods are less polished than say Alyx or Walkabout Minigolf, but still a lot of fun.

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Post by: dcco on August 02, 2022, 12:38:43 AM

oh dang a sequel to the hit game cactus block dropped

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Post by: 🐰 goodies 🐰 on August 22, 2022, 10:30:01 AM

Quote from: Tinister on June 26, 2022, 05:27:42 AM

What's with VR these days?

Kind of feels like the catalog hasn't changed much at all.

my response to most decent looking VR games ends up being “looks pretty cool”.

Alyx set a standard that nobody wants to invest the money to follow.

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Post by: SquareWheel on August 22, 2022, 11:52:34 AM

Alyx is so good.  The nice thing is it's continuing to get custom content.  Need to try out that Bioshock pack.  I played the original map it was based on and even that was high quality.

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Post by: 🐰 goodies 🐰 on August 22, 2022, 05:53:04 PM

Yeah the Bioshock one is on my TODO list, Trotim pays more attention to that stuff tho. The barrier of laziness gets in the way of VR a lot…

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Post by: SquareWheel on August 22, 2022, 07:06:53 PM

I don't know if I said it before but I'm so happy that you and Trots got together.  That's like the best thing to come out of this forum (which made cat planet).

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Post by: hubol on August 23, 2022, 06:09:58 AM

yes its very cute and sweet :dancedog:

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Post by: Tinister on August 24, 2022, 02:32:59 AM

Quote from: SquareWheel on August 22, 2022, 07:06:53 PM

this forum (which made cat planet).

Stolen valor alert

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Post by: dcco on August 27, 2022, 11:51:42 PM

everytime i play a vr game im like "damn this is actually pretty cool i should do it more often" but then i dont because playing i have a hard time even playing regular video games these days :(

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Post by: 🐰 goodies 🐰 on September 10, 2022, 08:38:23 PM

Quote from: SquareWheel on August 22, 2022, 07:06:53 PM

I don't know if I said it before but I'm so happy that you and Trots got together.  That's like the best thing to come out of this forum (which made cat planet).

Quote from: hubol on August 23, 2022, 06:09:58 AM

yes its very cute and sweet :dancedog:

Made me smile, thx :3

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Post by: wilde32 on September 11, 2022, 07:18:40 PM

probably the only good thing to come out of this forum to be honest

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Post by: SquareWheel on September 12, 2022, 05:14:51 AM

There's no need to turn a nice sentiment into a negative one.

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Post by: hubol on September 12, 2022, 05:34:30 AM

Yes!

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Post by: aimaina on September 13, 2022, 06:48:48 PM

despite everything a lot of good as hell shit came out of the forum that made celeste....

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Post by: dcco on September 18, 2022, 03:31:23 PM

after all these years i still prefer untitled to celeste.

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Post by: wilde32 on September 18, 2022, 03:38:39 PM

Quote from: dcco on September 18, 2022, 03:31:23 PM

after all these years i still prefer untitled to celeste.

me too but i think nostalgia's a heavy factor. i know the game back to front but i think modern me would probably get frustrated at the sometimes unclear path of progression if i were playing it for the first time today. though i still think untitled does the map better than most metroidvanias today lol.

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Post by: dcco on October 01, 2022, 09:12:06 PM

i dont think untitled is better, i just prefer exploration games in general.

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Post by: dcco on October 25, 2022, 08:11:47 PM

any cutie game devs have recommendations for minimalist 2d level editors? up to now ive just been using my own things but i dont feel like doing that for my current project.

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Post by: SquareWheel on October 25, 2022, 10:32:06 PM

That was sort of the goal of the Ogmo Editor.  Apparently there's a community maintained version of it now?  Oh what the heck Hubs has contributed to it too.  Must be good then.

https://github.com/Ogmo-Editor-3/OgmoEditor3-CE

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Post by: hubol on October 26, 2022, 12:36:27 AM

haha youre sweet :-) ogmo editor is not very good! but im kind of stuck with it for igua now

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Post by: dcco on October 26, 2022, 02:51:04 AM

oh yeah I remembered hubs using the ogom editor years ago, i was wondering if it would still be kicking though given how old it is. didn't know it went open source that's kinda cool

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Post by: aimaina on October 27, 2022, 07:03:26 PM

https://ldtk.io/ i have not used this (i use the game maker room editor) but i saw gifs of it on twitter and it looked pretty sick. might be worth checkin out if ogom isnt good

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Post by: dcco on October 30, 2022, 06:05:15 AM

hmmm it looks cool but i downloaded it and it seems very intimidateing to learn  :-X i guess that's always my excuse for not picking up new tools tho

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Post by: dcco on November 19, 2022, 10:56:10 PM

will goty2022 also be this thread or new thread

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Post by: Nijuu on November 20, 2022, 04:00:25 AM

Quote from: dcco on September 18, 2022, 03:31:23 PM

after all these years i still prefer untitled to celeste.

celeste is for gamers who want a perfectly calculated and finetuned speedrunning experience and untitled is for people who want to download weird midis and mspaint drawings off archived 2000s webpages

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Post by: dcco on November 22, 2022, 04:04:17 AM

i think celeste is a cool casual game too (i had super fun with it). i think it's more just the genre. also the lack of polish had a charm too

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Post by: dcco on December 09, 2022, 01:59:04 AM

Yoooooo was watching the game awards and they showed a trailer for Earthblade (new maddy game)

(i dont usually watch gameawards because ads but a friend was watching so i was lurking with them)

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Post by: dcco on December 09, 2022, 03:57:57 AM

might as well link it i guess

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Post by: SquareWheel on December 09, 2022, 04:05:14 AM

Artwork is kinda Towerfally.  Should be cool.

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Post by: dcco on February 16, 2023, 05:29:32 PM

Unexpectedly, I made another game (it is actually just a remake of BlockDude)

If the graphics on the 5th level give you a migraine you can use [N] and [M] to scroll between graphical styles.

https://www.jlasers.com/games/test/

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Post by: hubol on February 17, 2023, 06:25:37 AM

Can't wait to check it out!

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Post by: wilde32 on February 17, 2023, 06:49:00 PM

hubol space telescope

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Post by: hubol on February 17, 2023, 08:01:28 PM

dang i think i am too impatient for this game! i got to level 4 and gave up! i am a scrub.................................

but i like how it looks. cutey!

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Post by: dcco on February 18, 2023, 04:08:40 AM

you can press the F key to toggle fast movement which lets you move faster. but if you were already doing that - still fair, i remember the original game being kind of tedious especially in some of the middle levels

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Post by: SquareWheel on February 18, 2023, 08:55:03 AM

This game does not have a high tolerance for error.  You placed that block in the wrong spot and I will never forgive you for it.

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Post by: wilde32 on February 18, 2023, 01:36:00 PM

it kinda hurts my ears, the sound effects are very loud and seem to have clipping issues
some of the filters are a bit overbearing, for example the green in stage 3
i think it would be better if the A/D keys would automatically move you up a block instead of using W, i end up mashing W when trying to move.
pretty cool gam though, i dont know how difficult it would be to add an undo last move button but that would be a nice qol change

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 19, 2023, 06:44:29 AM

yeah i implemented the gameplay exactly how it is on the calculator (which was limited by the fact that uhhhh it was on a calculator). i probably wont revisit this project for a while bc, but i did originally have an idea for a more complex block game (with more mechanics + online database) - if i ever get around to that i definitely will add some kind of undo + more intuitive controls.

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Post by: dcco on February 19, 2023, 06:45:04 AM

also working on a thing for lugwig's game jam using the same render engine  :dancedog: :dancedog:

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Post by: hubol on February 20, 2023, 07:56:52 PM

love how it looks, and still love that sound

is the engine some hot custom stuff???

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Post by: suizinshu on February 23, 2023, 04:46:45 AM

that rendering is really pretty.... looking forward to where u go with this  dcco!!
also hubol apparently there was a siivagunner mashup of #FE11C5 from "2" ???

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Post by: dcco on February 23, 2023, 06:25:24 AM

thanks :) yes the rendering engine is custom - (ive been learning opengl shaders and stuff). it's nice because i can make 3d games despite my extremely limited ability to make 3d assets.

Quote from: Kaynato on February 23, 2023, 04:46:45 AM

also hubol apparently there was a siivagunner mashup of #FE11C5 from "2" ???

just in time for 2/22/22

(also sup havent seen you in a while kaynato)

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Post by: suizinshu on February 23, 2023, 07:57:20 AM

ahhh tbh i forgot my account pw! for a while i had to make do with another, before i recovered it.
mostly bc i kinda redid my whole active internet presence for a while, did streaming, before realizing that i did much prefer peace & quiet

ive been doing stuff in nim with vulkan for rendering but it proved So Messy that im going back to opengl... but still with a lot of customization. i feel it on 3d asset pain though. my blender ability is limited to a total of 5 hours spent on making a cursed animation

ideally i can get some engine whipped up for the game that ive finally whittled down into a workable small idea. ive tried godot even but just i want the control and flexibility that full control over the game code that going from gl gets me. plus i managed to get nim->shader macros working for both desktop and emscripten, so that's a huge plus. so nice to write glsl in the same language as the rest of the code and be able to target web and pc just by changing build target.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on February 23, 2023, 07:58:47 AM

oh yeah also this year has been pretty hectic. family drama, ecological disasters, house damage (being fixed now) sick a whole lot and my health is kinda on the fritz. hoping to get better soon though.

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Post by: SquareWheel on February 23, 2023, 02:52:04 PM

Sorry to hear about your health and other concerns.

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Post by: suizinshu on February 23, 2023, 04:47:34 PM

thank u squarewheel...! i really do appreciate it.

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Post by: hubol on February 23, 2023, 08:13:26 PM

ah i hope you feel better soon ;-(

i have never heard of the nim programming language before now. it looks cool! i hope it has async/await--that's my jam!!!!

 as for the song from "2", i didnt know that happened! but i did know of a playlist with all the other "2" songs!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on February 24, 2023, 04:02:34 AM

thank u hubol!! it's also been rly cool to see what youve been up to on twitter.

nim does have async! https://nim-lang.org/docs/asyncdispatch.html
for 2d stuff theres already a pretty good selection of stuff and 3d is getting there too.
one of the really nice things is you can use c/c++ libraries with like really light effort.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 25, 2023, 06:19:26 PM

Quote from: Kaynato on February 23, 2023, 07:57:20 AM

ahhh tbh i forgot my account pw! for a while i had to make do with another, before i recovered it.
mostly bc i kinda redid my whole active internet presence for a while, did streaming, before realizing that i did much prefer peace & quiet

ive been doing stuff in nim with vulkan for rendering but it proved So Messy that im going back to opengl... but still with a lot of customization. i feel it on 3d asset pain though. my blender ability is limited to a total of 5 hours spent on making a cursed animation

ideally i can get some engine whipped up for the game that ive finally whittled down into a workable small idea. ive tried godot even but just i want the control and flexibility that full control over the game code that going from gl gets me. plus i managed to get nim->shader macros working for both desktop and emscripten, so that's a huge plus. so nice to write glsl in the same language as the rest of the code and be able to target web and pc just by changing build target.

well, it's good seeing you :) - and yeah hope your personal stuff gets better.

it kinda sounds like you and i have a similar game dev approach lol. i also really like messing around with low-level / making my own engines. been learning typescript to get into web games, but im basically writing an entire language over it to wrap around everything so i dont actually have to write javascript lol.

nim seems like a cool language although im never a fan of actually doing manual memory management. also im always skeptical of using newer languages for game dev because i feel like their interactions with opengl are always poorly documented. sounds like nim is.... okay-ish?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 25, 2023, 06:21:03 PM

also i finished my game for ludwig game jam  :dancedog: :dancedog: - it can be played in browser.

https://jlasers.itch.io/save-spark

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Post by: hubol on February 25, 2023, 08:44:52 PM

Wow! I loved that. It was really cute. I really love how it looks and you know I love that one song.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I was surprised by the boss battle! It was cool and I'm glad I got to use my time slow power! The ending screen was cute too.

Also can you post the source? I'm really curious what your abstractions over typescript are! I'm also interested in this lexer.js file??!?! And the wmap.png is cool!!!!!!

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Post by: hubol on February 25, 2023, 08:52:34 PM

i think maybe the only thing that bugged me was

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the little flame enemies that bounce around forever. when you boomerang them, they make a sound like the other enemies that indicates theyre taking damage, but i dont think they are!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 25, 2023, 11:30:56 PM

Quote from: hubol on February 25, 2023, 08:44:52 PM

Also can you post the source? I'm really curious what your abstractions over typescript are! I'm also interested in this lexer.js file??!?! And the wmap.png is cool!!!!!!

Yeeeee, the source for this game is on github here - https://github.com/dcco/save_spark (https://github.com/dcco/save_spark) . To be honest, the abstraction is really just an entirely different language, which I compile into Javascript and then run using eval :U  The lexer is defined in oth_lite/_flex/ts.jacoblex and compiled using something called "jacoblex". The parse is defined in oth_lite/src/z/parse/parser.ts tho, and I think you can get a better feel for what the syntax is like by looking at the types there.

wmap.png was my jank way of avoiding having to actually find a level editor - all the level data in the game is read from that and emap.png + emap2.png . was definitely starting to run out of usable colors tho lmao.

Quote from: hubol on February 25, 2023, 08:52:34 PM

i think maybe the only thing that bugged me was

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the little flame enemies that bounce around forever. when you boomerang them, they make a sound like the other enemies that indicates theyre taking damage, but i dont think they are!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ahhh yeah i probably should have taken that out. they technically are taking damage but their health is set to something stupid like 100.

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Post by: hubol on February 26, 2023, 12:26:57 AM

That's pretty amazing. It looks like you're even lexing, parsing, and compiling it all in the browser too! Very, very neat.

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Post by: SquareWheel on February 26, 2023, 04:34:29 AM

I wouldn't even know where to begin in creating a DSL.  Making me feel inadequate over here ducko.

Good job.

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Post by: hubol on February 26, 2023, 07:46:42 PM

sylvie should do a ted talk about SylvieScript which she used in CCinMW and probably also Sylvie Lime?!

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Post by: dcco on February 26, 2023, 09:10:01 PM

dang i didnt know sylvie also made her own scripting language that is sick.

Quote from: SquareWheel on February 26, 2023, 04:34:29 AM

I wouldn't even know where to begin in creating a DSL.  Making me feel inadequate over here ducko.

tbf this is what i was in grad school for so i ought to be good at it. it's not really very marketable either, am currently looking for a cs job (in a specific region) and uhhh not a lot of places are looking for that specific skillset.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 09, 2023, 04:02:40 AM

Any ever hear of a game called Klonoa?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I just bought a WonderSwan and looking for grames.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on June 09, 2023, 05:16:12 AM

I've heard of it, but I don't know anything about it.  Maybe it's like cloaca.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on June 09, 2023, 01:56:48 PM

klonoa looks really really cute!!!! but ive never played

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Post by: SquareWheel on June 09, 2023, 07:30:43 PM

I only know it from its recent Steam release (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730680/Klonoa_Phantasy_Reverie_Series/).  I like these retro platformers appearing on Steam, like Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (https://store.steampowered.com/app/411960/TY_the_Tasmanian_Tiger/), or SpongeBob's Battle for Bikini Bottom (https://store.steampowered.com/app/969990/SpongeBob_SquarePants_Battle_for_Bikini_Bottom__Rehydrated/).

Also I don't have any nostalgia for it whatsoever, but even Glover (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257880/Glover/) made its way over.

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Post by: juner on June 10, 2023, 03:24:45 PM

klonoa ps1 is probably my fave game ever :dancedog: will always recommend, very good 4-5h long platformer

haven't played moonlight museum but know it's a lot more puzzly like the klonoa GBA games which were pretty fun.

let us know what cool Wonderswan games you find, I've never really looked into the system

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 10, 2023, 11:24:09 PM

Quote from: juner on June 10, 2023, 03:24:45 PM

klonoa ps1 is probably my fave game ever :dancedog: will always recommend, very good 4-5h long platformer

Is the remake (Phantasy Reverie Series) a worthy remake?

Quote from: SquareWheel on June 09, 2023, 07:30:43 PM

Links links links

Having trouble losing your subreddit, huh?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on June 10, 2023, 11:31:50 PM

The WonderSwan flash cart market is the epitome of cottage industry.  Rarely in stock and janky as heck.

One of them cannibalizes official carts to make them, which feels weird from a preservation perspective.

I don't have one yet. =(

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: juner on June 11, 2023, 03:45:32 PM

Quote from: Tinister on June 10, 2023, 11:24:09 PM

Is the remake (Phantasy Reverie Series) a worthy remake?

Yeah definitely, it's basically the same old klonoa 1 and 2 with new lick of paint, and not much else is particularly 'remade' about them outside of aesthetics. certainly the easiest way to play them these days.

I never really thought about the manufacture of more ubiquitous flashcarts and chips like for the DS etc, it'd be interesting to see the scale of the companies involved

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on August 31, 2023, 01:53:44 AM

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ac89cbf0-9d0b-401d-b8cb-5316056d498f

dang this would be Pog (celeste lego product push)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on November 01, 2023, 04:08:38 AM

i played void stranger recently and it has taken over my life

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: aimaina on November 02, 2023, 09:22:58 AM

i've only had a month or so to sit with it but i think void stranger is one of my favourite games of all time

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Post by: SquareWheel on November 02, 2023, 06:01:14 PM

I shall wishlist immediately based on both of your recommendations.

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Post by: dcco on November 03, 2023, 12:48:46 AM

same hm

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on November 03, 2023, 12:53:20 AM

the black and white art-style is really cool. these days ive been following indie game twitter and there's so many cool retro-style artists there *-* there's one person who does a bunch of zx spectrum stuff which i especially like. also pico-8/picocad stuff

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on November 13, 2023, 09:10:06 AM

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/652006645156675634/1173547071685529620/SPOILER_image.png)

i played stargirl recently and it was very fun... (spoilers inside)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on December 14, 2023, 07:20:04 PM

https://cohost.org/kuraine/post/3715198-we-have-no-hope-and the kuraine post about void stranger came out and it's rly good as anticipated ...!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on December 18, 2023, 06:44:46 AM

some friends recommended corru.observer to me a few times and i finally played it...
it's incomplete right now but there's already so much that's made with so much love.

i think this is definitely like a full multimedia experience rather than what i might explicitly call a game. New Literature?
it was really engrossing and im still captivated by the story and world and characters and all of that...
the ideas are really fascinating and tie into a lot of things that are even existent today. it's amazing
& the art is just so incredible and powerful and suitable for the medium. it all comes together really splendidly.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on December 19, 2023, 07:43:15 AM

Quote from: suizinshu on December 14, 2023, 07:20:04 PM

https://cohost.org/kuraine/post/3715198-we-have-no-hope-and the kuraine post about void stranger came out and it's rly good as anticipated ...!

is this a review of a game? should i play the game first not to get spoiled

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: suizinshu on December 20, 2023, 08:55:56 AM

oh yeah it's absolutely filled with deep spoilers. id recommend playing first for sure

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on January 03, 2024, 06:37:12 PM

Man some of these last few mario maker levels remind me of Jumper custom levels
https://vxtwitter.com/Catster17/status/1742583258645197197

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Post by: hubol on January 04, 2024, 12:48:04 AM

that does have some jumper energy!!

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Post by: SquareWheel on January 04, 2024, 12:59:48 AM

That reminds me that I should really try Celeste still.  It seems really popular online!

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Post by: dcco on January 08, 2024, 08:13:39 PM

Celeste is pretty good although gameplay is basically just more polished version of the other Maddy games. i think people are also really into the storyline and music.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Nijuu on February 01, 2024, 11:25:43 AM

i didn't get into it as much as a lot of people but after beating i still felt it was worth playing.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Nijuu on February 01, 2024, 11:30:21 AM

or maybe you already played it in the last month since your post.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Nijuu on February 01, 2024, 11:33:15 AM

did anybody see that the lyle in cube sector dev randomly showed up again with a "retro 3d" style platformer. i haven't played that one yet but probably should.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2575900/Corn_Kidz_64/

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on February 01, 2024, 07:18:24 PM

Quote from: Nijuu on February 01, 2024, 11:30:21 AM

or maybe you already played it in the last month since your post.

I started it last night actually.  Played the first three chapters then was too sleepy to continue.  Enjoying it so far!

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on February 02, 2024, 12:47:15 AM

Quote from: Nijuu on February 01, 2024, 11:33:15 AM

did anybody see that the lyle in cube sector dev randomly showed up again with a "retro 3d" style platformer. i haven't played that one yet but probably should.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2575900/Corn_Kidz_64/

I played a bit but got scared by how big it started feeling! I love how it looks and sounds! The characters were cute, too. It's been a while so I might go back and restart.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 03, 2024, 12:29:00 AM

oh dang it's a long game? might have to sheck it out altho ive been finding lately that 3d platformers are quite hard for me :U kinda prefer 2d

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on February 13, 2024, 11:02:19 AM

Quote from: SquareWheel on February 01, 2024, 07:18:24 PM

I started it last night actually.  Played the first three chapters then was too sleepy to continue.  Enjoying it so far!

Finished it now!  Game gets tough in the final chapter and the C Sides.  Lots of fun though, and super polished.

Also, are you seeing what I'm seeing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/BM7uEKS.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/yFMW33v.png)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on February 15, 2024, 02:39:09 AM

real ones know. im gonna make an indie game with a 3-4 remake

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on March 19, 2024, 05:57:31 AM

y'all been playing any cool new video games in the year 2022

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on March 19, 2024, 09:48:34 AM

I downloaded the Archthrones demo (https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/1765) for Dark Souls 3.  It's purdy good.

Also been playing a lot of Risk of Rain 2 lately.  Been slowly leveling up the Eclipse difficulty levels, which basically add a new challenge every time you get a successful win.  I played some more Risk 1 after the remaster came out too, but have basically finished with it now.

Am excited for the Elden Ring DLC.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on March 23, 2024, 08:39:46 PM

Quote from: SquareWheel on March 19, 2024, 09:48:34 AM

I downloaded the Archthrones demo (https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/1765) for Dark Souls 3.  It's purdy good.

Also been playing a lot of Risk of Rain 2 lately.  Been slowly leveling up the Eclipse difficulty levels, which basically add a new challenge every time you get a successful win.  I played some more Risk 1 after the remaster came out too, but have basically finished with it now.

Am excited for the Elden Ring DLC.

ive kinda been thinking of picking up a DS/elden ring/from software game for the sole purpose of being able to say old Maddy Games™ are harder. maybe elden ring but not sure if my struggling laptop could really take it also am poor.

mostly sticking with platformers these days bc idk theyre still my jam. played a bit of celeste 64, and 3d metroidvania pseudo-regalia. and uhh maybe am looking into some other indie metroidvanias that came out. i got into running mario 64 tho and that's been eating up a lot of my time :U surely i get back into gaming soon tho  :lemon:

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on March 24, 2024, 02:25:56 AM

I finally played through Hollow Knight some months back and really enjoyed it.  Just a marvellous game.  I do enjoy metroidvanias but they can also be a bit of an investment sometimes, so I'm always a bit hesitant to start a new one.

I'm not sure if Maddy's older games are harder than Souls titles or not.  They're very precise and that would be difficult for a lot of people.  On the other hand, Souls games (at least the more recent ones) are more reaction-based, and that presents its own difficulties.  I think either could be difficult for people with low motor control, but both skills can also be improved through practice.

I've played so much of both that I really don't have that beginner's context necessary to evaluate it fairly anymore.

I played through Celeste 64 after finishing the C-Sides in the regular game.  I really liked the Mario Sunshine-esque stages.  Overall though I was content to put it down after the hour or two I spent with it.

I saw one of your SM64 runs on my Youtoobs.  I recognized some of the tricks, like the backwards bomb carrying.  It seems like a tricky but very fun game to learn speed tech on.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on July 17, 2024, 02:42:50 PM

Happy July 17th, friends!

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Post by: hubol on July 17, 2024, 10:26:10 PM

Yoooooooooo!

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Post by: suizinshu on July 18, 2024, 05:08:35 AM

Happy 17th...!!

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Post by: dcco on July 25, 2024, 03:57:06 AM

im late but happy 17th (idk what happened on the 17th)

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: dcco on August 06, 2024, 01:47:00 AM

new sylvie game dropped Pog

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on August 06, 2024, 11:02:00 PM

That was fun!  One of those keys was real mean.

The game reminded me a lot of Ittle Dew, since the paths you can take branch depending on the spells you unlock.  I finished in 49 minutes, though didn't get the true ending.  I have some guesses as to how that might be done, but I'd need to play around more.  I'm a little worried that I need to beat it deathless based on the ending message... but that's probably not going to happen.

Cool game!  I think it's real nifty that you're still releasing freeware projects after all these years, chuchu.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: SquareWheel on July 31, 2025, 11:32:04 PM

Quote from: SquareWheel on July 17, 2024, 02:42:50 PM

Happy July 17th, friends!

Oh my god I forgot to check in this year.  Sorry everyone!!  Hope you had a great July 17th anyway.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on May 17, 2026, 08:30:50 PM

I impulse bought a console called a NeoGeo AES but I'm not gonna be able to play it until next year.  I hope it's good.

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: hubol on May 18, 2026, 02:18:30 AM

Will you update us next year?

Title: Re: Official Video Games Topic for the Year 2022
Post by: Tinister on May 18, 2026, 04:26:49 AM

If I'm not dead I promise to update (but can't promise specific timelines).