fell into a youtube hole last night watching a series called 'boundary break', where a guy pokes around in areas outside the limits of videogame spaces
super-dorky but i love this shit - here's the dark souls iii one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbaA6_84gyY&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO&index=24
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:40 (six years ago) link
directly related but not specifically about games - http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-04-bungies-13-year-battle-to-kill-crunch-culture
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 August 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
"A lot of people get burned out because they don't take the vacation, so as a manager part of your job is to make sure they do," Timmins said. "Leadership needs to set examples. It can take years for a culture to develop; for people to believe it's okay to take a vacation, that it's not a crazy crunch culture where something bad is going to happen when they come back."
i wish i could staple this to my PMs' foreheads (i don't work in games, but i am a software dev; at one point this summer i worked 29 days in a row, and we still haven't launched)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
good article. hope people in the business read it!
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
https://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/the-runescape-players-who-farm-gold-so-they-dont-starve-1819720013
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
herne bay arcade, kent. not rly heavy on video games but there’s some good vignettes:http://www.seasphotography.org.uk/search/results/6b8242cef3ec13ea3a46da0b9e2ecbf7
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
https://splendorsvendor.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/behold-a-paleblood-sky/
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 5 November 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/one-of-the-most-famous-faces-on-twitch-refuses-to-let-t-1820333034
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
good one
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
So the developers behind one the first idle RPGs to take off have announced they’re abandoning the free-to-play model because it’s unethical:http://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Regarding Metal Gear Solid samples in Burial's 'Untrue'.
https://kottke.org/17/12/the-making-of-burials-untrue
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Not a whole lot on Metal Gear Solid, but thanks for linking that, lots I didn't know yet
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
this is not "worth reading" but is it weird that i think Tim Rogers is my favorite person to hear talk about videogames? is anyone else a tim rogers fan?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
Where be the kingfish
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
me, usually
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
Tim Rogers and his little lackey wanted to fight me and my friend at an E3 party because he was wasted and mad we didn't know who he was
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 December 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
hah! that sounds right.
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 December 2017 07:14 (six years ago) link
yeah i read/listen to everything he does. i highly recommend the "violence island" podcasts. they are basically battle royales styled after grade school playground debates (basically: who would win in a fight, X or Y). my favorite moment was during a battle between Flubber and Bo Jackson, the two merge together and become the unstoppable Flubbo Jackson.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
like some sort of overdriven bo jackson
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
i like tim rogers's more recent content. met him a couple times at pax and he seemed alright
― ciderpress, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
yeah he has a pretty cool series on Kotaku about translating FFVII
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
can't find violence island?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
the original podcast was hosted at www.earthblows.com. the site is down now but you can still find the archived shows:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064152/http://earthblows.com/
there are also some recent ones on youtube. this is the Christmas 2016 episode, "Violent Night", where they pit all the movie Santa Clauses against each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYA0KlWoY4
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
the first episode of Violence Island has Godzilla vs. Tinkerbell i believe. they argue that she could either fly into his nasal cavity and disconnect his brain or explode his heart from within, or that she could sprinkle dust on him and cause him to float away (winning her the match by ring-out). when her character's homicidal tendencies were questioned they looked to her temper and the low key jealousy and violence shown towards Wendy in the "Peter Pan" film.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
tink could also shoot godzilla with a gun
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 December 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
or oversalt his tater tots after swapping his high blood pressure meds with sugar pills
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 December 2017 07:32 (six years ago) link
I love Tim Rogers’ content and also I have a crush on him.
― .oO (silby), Sunday, 17 December 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
the classic content-supplemented crush
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 17 December 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/no-man-s-sky-players-had-their-first-war-and-it-killed-1821399331
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 18 December 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800924/silver-snipers-senior-counter-strike-team
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
http://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2017/12/cinco-paus-dev-notes.html
Knowing that the majority of my audience won't be able to read everything made an interesting design constraint, gave me extra inspiration about how to make everything deducible through reason and experimentation - not a bad goal anyway (as every game designer learns - players do not read the instructions)! From a few reactions I've gotten it seems like for some people it is much more upsetting to encounter a genuine foreign language than gibberish symbols or no text at all; I don't quite understand this but I find it a valuable experience to spend time in an environment where things aren't made for people like me, and if I can share some of this to challenge others then I'm happy.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
http://www.sirlin.net/posts/adding-a-friend-in-street-fighter-5
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
oh wow adventures in subcontracting
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
what there's another new brough game okay no one needs anything from me this month right
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/12/18/16175268/indie-developer-road-trip
― Nhex, Friday, 5 January 2018 08:40 (six years ago) link
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n8ea/how-sierra-and-a-disgraced-cop-made-the-most-reactionary-game-of-the-90s
― na (NA), Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
i was too young to remember was a horrible human being Daryl Gates was
― Nhex, Friday, 19 January 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link
good thing videogames have now moved on from blithely endorsing the misuse of state power huh
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
(that was a really good piece tho, thx for posting)
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
the 90s were terrible except for the techno
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
a lot of the techno was terrible too tbf
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
That is true of all the days that have passed since MIDI
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
i remember the LA Riots and D.A.R.E., had no idea the guy behind all of those was brought in to take over the Police Quest series!
at this point it wouldn't be too hard to draw lines directly from Halo/COD and Microsoft to US military recruitment (and for people failing that, enrolling in police academy)
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
he claims to have invented SWAT as well. he's like ground zero for paramilitary police propoganda
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 11:47 (six years ago) link
this article from a couple of years ago is pretty good on the direct and indirect links between gaming and the military: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-02-02-the-military-recruitment-of-gamers
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
Great story on Police Quest. Game looks super pleasant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BR1u-qT3J4&feature=youtu.be&t=3h18m50s
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
Oops, link here
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
thought the article was kind of patchily-written/edited but still well worth reading, thanks! ken williams perpetually coming off worse and worse in my mind. one of the living avatars of how easily west-coast/60s counterculturalism slid into reactionary 80s-mustached business conservatism.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 January 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
The counter-cultural Sierra stuff was always pretty conservative! Leisure Suit Larry, for obvious reasons. And Space Quest, which I don't think has a female character till the 4th game.
(I never played any of the Roberta Williams stuff till recently - Colonel's Bequest holds up quite well!)
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link