His meaning James Howell.
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Sunday, 19 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I didn't know he did some, gotta check that out.
https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/caregiver-fantasy/
― Nhex, Monday, 3 September 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
that was great
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Every Mission is a Suicide Mission
https://longreads.com/2018/08/07/galaga/
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 September 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
The Bandai Namco documentation shared with me refers to Galaga’s original design as “simple, yet deep.” Its elegance lies in its ability to insist upon a high level of integrity in the gameplay. This is not a game that can be “point-pressed” by running up the score with needless actions. In Donkey Kong, by contrast, a player can mindlessly leap extra barrels for more points. Donkey Kong also boxes players in with a terminal “kill screen,” the interval where the game board simply doesn’t have the memory to continue play. The same is true of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. Scrambled code appears on the monitor and the game resets. Limited in such a way, the pursuit of a high score divorces itself from the game’s purpose: Dicking around with extra barrels has nothing to do with saving the princess. On Galaga’s hardest settings, however, the objective of the game and the achievement of a score are inextricably bound together. A high score is the product of existing well. At lunch a couple of days before ScoreWars, Mark tells me that’s the reason he loves the game: “It’s all on me.”
this is the comparative analysis i crave
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 September 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
ooooooo
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
great great article
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 September 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Yes
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.shacknews.com/article/103473/beneath-a-starless-sky-pillars-of-eternity-and-the-infinity-engine-era-of-rpgs
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
brief twitter threads worth reading
every quarter, some of my students are familiar with the first video game easter egg. (warren robinett's name hidden in an extremely difficult-to-access room in 1980's Adventure for the atari vcs.) none of them know the connection it has to labor rights.— ☽ anna anthropy ☾ (@adult_witch) October 22, 2018
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/180100803290/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
cool stuff
the insularity of jp devs' middleware extended pretty much all the way up until the past several years where they're now starting to adopt unreal engine en masse which is an interesting development
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Great article, thanks for that
― calstars, Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i can't recommend this series enough. very heavy on images. Tracing the Influence: Stolen Images in Games
for example:
https://i.imgur.com/P3nF4yM.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/4Jrg5yk.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 November 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
great find!
― calstars, Monday, 26 November 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
https://gamehistory.org/simcity/With soundtrack, sprites and 1991 prototype NES Sim City ROM!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
that is really cool!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
Yeah that was awesome!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
this guy's obsession with fitting all the Mario universe games into a coherent timeline is entertaining
https://tay.kinja.com/tag/warped-pipes
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 January 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
Great stuff !“Firstly, did the brothers actually even go on this journey together? Unlike its predecessor, The Lost Levels does not have a multiplayer mode and instead has players choose which character to play as at the start of the game. Also to the same point, the Princess specifically says “Our only hero” in the game’s conclusion. Is it possible that both brothers undertake this journey but separately and that only one succeeds in actually saving the Princess? Or are there even more timelines at work here then we realize? This will definitely be something to ponder moving forward.”
― calstars, Thursday, 24 January 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
if he hasn't figured out the Four Marios theory then he's gonna run into problems
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
MUSHROOM KINGDOM HAS 4-CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-PIPE MARIO CUBE
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 24 January 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Enjoyed this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlLPbLdHAJ0
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
i know there are no good podcasts but suspend disbelief for a second...
are there any ‘ good ‘ gaming podcasts
― ||||||||, Sunday, 27 January 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
thats pretty broad, what in particular are you interested in?
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
like news vs reviews vs analysis/deep dives into games
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
hardcoregaming101's top games of all time series would be great deep dives if they would only let the people talk who are good at podcasting and at playing with others.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
the only gaming podcast i ever listen to is three moves ahead which is a strategy podcast that mostly talks about strategy video games but sometimes board games too. it's... ok.
― Mordy, Monday, 28 January 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
argh dreaded doublepost
i used to listen to one shot which is a tabletop podcast but the RPG wasn't particularly good and the improv wasn't particularly funny. i'd like to follow something like three moves ahead but for tabletop/RPGs
― Mordy, Monday, 28 January 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
ive been meaning to check this out http://electricunderground.io/podcast/based on the blog posts ive read on the site, it looks to be a very in-depth podcast about shmups
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
that being said, this is worth reading: http://electricunderground.io/is-low-latency-emulation-cheating/
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
i am also interested in the subject of gaming podcasts, i have never heard a good one
tho i find pretty much all books/film/media convo/review podcasts incredibly tedious
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 January 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
yeah thats my general feeling as well
like the 'personality-driven' review/podcast outlets like giant bomb or easy allies are real popular, but ime none of them are particularly insightful enough or share my taste enough to be worth my time
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
Pretty into the GI cast these days, although I mostly watch it on youtube. I see it as more of a workplace comedy than a podcast, per se.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 28 January 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
the sad thing is that anybody who REALLY knows enough, and can put it together well enough and with interesting enough takes, to justify a podcast, should probably be doing something more lucrative with those skills. i'd love to know what longworth of "you must remember this"'s work week looks like --- does she make enough off of ad reads to justify all the reading the show implies, not to mention the work of writing a proper documentary script? most conversational podcasts would be way better as edited transcripts or just essays, but that's a lot more work and i'm not paying anybody so...
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 28 January 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
GI?
xpost i don't know her figures but i'd be shocked if you must remember this doesn't make pretty good money. but that's a globally known, hit podcast. you're right that there are easier ways to make a buck. particularly if you're starting from scratch.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 January 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
yeah I mean I bet she's doing good with it now but it's more like, how do you put that much work into it for so long while building that audience?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 28 January 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
Game Informer
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/iZT6JEOC3D8
I am not playing videogames for Presidents Day but watching videos of other people playing videogames.
― A Grape Ape Agape (Leee), Monday, 18 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Blindfolded, that is.
That is what you call irony.
https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/pac-man-the-untold-story-of-how-we-really-played-the-game/
https://i.imgur.com/fRRY8YT.jpg
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
Hahah wow, I mean that's a fun read and the pics are beautiful, but she writes it like she's expecting a pulitzer for it.
Reminds me actually, Martin Amis's Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machine got republished towards the end of last year and it's so great, definitely worth picking up (if you can stomach buying anything of his these days).
― JimD, Thursday, 28 February 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
Wonderful, joyous read that.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 February 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
Thanks KM, good one
― calstars, Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
“May all your quarters be red ones” lol
“she writes it like she's expecting a pulitzer for it.”Otm, tho still enjoyable!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
Really like the idea behind the pac-man piece, the physical interaction and the real world signs. Like how you see a keyboard with worn WASD keys and you know the owner plays online shooters.
I'd never considered the imbalance of pac-man till now - trying to think of other coin-op games outside the pac-world that were one-handed. Was the atari Star Wars booth a single joystick?
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
I think it was more of a steering wheel with fire buttons on it?QBert was one joystick, Marble Madness had one trackball.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
oh Frogger as well!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link