David Szymanski

Happy to announce that Chop Goblins, Squirrel Stapler, and The Pony Factory are now available on GOG! www.gog.com/en/game/chop... www.gog.com/en/game/squi... www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

Something I just realized that I really don't like is that 6x7=42

store.steampowered.comDementium II on SteamThe original Dementium II, restored by the team who made it. William Redmoor wakes with fresh staples in his skull inside an asylum for the criminally insane, where the walls peel back to reveal somet...

The Dementium II PC port is out now! store.steampowered.com/app/5342930/...

I've been using my Anbernic RG477V to play Chrono Trigger, which is a really goofy piece of hardware in some ways but which I kind of love. Basically it's a really powerful vertical handheld that's also really big. Technically still pocketable, but only in the academic sense.

I guess technically there's no reason you'd use this over a more comfortable horizontal form factor (the RG477M is exactly the same except horizontal), but there's something immensely satisfying about playing games on a gigantic gameboy

Many of you look forward to winter because of the beautiful snow, the holidays, and the cozy feeling of relaxing at home. I, however, am looking forward to winter because I can get texture photos of the local scrap yard covered in snow.

@tafferking451.bsky.social

Judge: "Marlow the Endseam, you stand accused of pants euthanasia. The sentence is death!" Marlow: "I'm innocent I tells ya!" Judge: "Tell it to the judge!" Marlow: "All right... I'm innocent I tells ya!" Judge: "Objection restrained!" *Marlow is hung from the clothes line until dead*

David Szymanski reposted

Taffer King

Throughout the bank, there are security kiosks where constables (or even yourself) can trigger the alarms, turning your simple one on one encounter with a lowly officer into a messy ordeal against a whole squad.

Dude looks like he should be selling me Quiznos

When you finish Dark Souls 1 and load up Dark Souls 2

Hellraiser has the bolt cutters!

This pack of demon rat things just appeared out of thin air and is frantically running in circles

David Szymanski reposted

youtu.beTenebris Somnia - Launch TrailerYouTube video by New Blood Interactive

New Blood Presents 🩸 From Executive Producer Airdorf Games and Director Andrés Borghi An UNHOLY mixture of retro survival horror and live-action cutscenes A game by Saibot Studios Starring Clara Kovacic Tenebris Somnia. OUT NOW: youtu.be/vvZJ2mffnU4?...

youtube.comDementium II Coming to Steam October 20. Wishlist Now!YouTube video by Atooi

PROPER PC VERSION OF DEMENTIUM II IS COMING! I have played some of it. It's great. I'm waiting for the official release to finish it. Which is soon! store.steampowered.com/app/5342930/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn6q...

Me: being tortured in hell Pinhead: "You see, we have multiple instafail chases strung together without save points, and we have put unskippable story bits between them! Witness how much progress you lose when you falter for but a-" Me, losing patience: "Yes, 'to think I hesitated', I get it."

View full thread

Pinhead: "Is it not true that you only have time to play this game when your children are sleeping?" Me: "yes" Pinhead: "And is not true that your children often come into your office multiple times when they should be sleeping?" Me: "yes" Pinhead: "Behold! Unpausable first person spanking!"

In all seriousness I like this game but I'm not convinced it likes me.

Pinhead: "And does it not trouble your soul to know that the protagonist is voiced by Xalavier Nelson, yet you don't recognize his voice at all?" Me: "Yeah that's really bothering me" Pinhead: "Then succumb to further discomfort as he makes masturbation noises!"

David Szymanski reposted

v1.0 It is beautiful. It is ready. Two more days.

I choose to believe this is a Dusk reference

David Szymanski reposted

Four days. A game by Saibot Studios. From the mind of Andres Borghi.

This turned out to be a great idea and I'm sad I didn't do this years ago. Ended up further reducing down to Chrono Trigger, Zelda, and Hellraiser (since it's Halloween. I'll get back to the other two later) and once I'm done with Chrono Trigger I might go down to one main game and one pocket game

David Szymanski@duskdev.bsky.social

So I've tried to simplify down the number of games I'm playing, and I have it down to 4. Control and Divinity Original Sin 2 on PC Chrono Trigger on my at home handheld Link's Awakening on my Miyoo Mini That's still a lot of games but it's easier to focus on

@tafferking451.bsky.social

It's starting to make gaming a fun pass time again rather than something that feels like a chore/responsibility.

David Szymanski reposted

Taffer King

The frater of the monastery has been converted into a field hospital for the Constabulary. The strain on manpower has meant that quick and dirty amputations are the usual treatment.

I've had many names, but 'round these parts I'm known as

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

ivy sly@ivysly.com

There is so much even in the simplest OG games that has been lost to time and shifts in culture

You don't even have to have or want any nostalgic attachment to them or the era they were made in. If anything, not having that makes it more likely you'll find something interesting and new. Looking to the past can also sometimes be looking toward the future.

Hellraiser Revival is a game where after about two hours of shockingly explicit torture gore and sadism, you have to find a bdsm rubber duck to open a door.

The problem I'm having with B.U.G.B.I.T.E lore is that half of it is musings about God and the nature of evil and the other half is "this gun was created to shoot life lasers but they accidentally reversed the batteries so it shoots death lasers, making it highly effective against giant bugs"

David Szymanski reposted

John "Ducky" Szymanski

@ducky-dev.bsky.social

Szymantober continues! Wizard Boy news! We are planning a massive 1.0 update, which will be done with our new publishing partnership @orointeractive.bsky.social! This update is huge and will essentially give you a whole new experience from early access. Writeup below! (Ignore the horse)

One cool thing about Chrono Trigger so far is I keep entering situations where I'd expect a character to clumsily explainquestion the situation like "Huh? Where are we? We must be" etc etc, but it mostly just leaves you to actually use your brain a little and figure it out.

Not that the plot or progression are that complicated, but there have been multiple situations where I know a modern game would have had another character voice whatever questions the player has and then give answers to them, instead of letting you make assumptions.

David Szymanski reposted

John "Ducky" Szymanski

@ducky-dev.bsky.social

Welcome to Szymantober, in which a bunch of Szymanski announcements all clump together in one month. TO BEGIN WITH, My Friendly Neighborhood is coming to Switch 2 October 22nd!

I started out pretty AI neutral, aside from the environmental concerns, but I'm, being pushed into hating it more and more because it keeps making things I care about actively worse, and the results keep speaking for themselves in a really bad shitty way.

It's getting so you can't even disconnect and go enjoy niche interests without finding that someone's using AI to just spray manure everywhere because now there's nothing in their way.

I've been working on a very weird Pico8 game off and on. It's kind of a minimalist puzzle/adventure game. Would releasing it for free on Steam be nice or is that just adding to the deluge? It's a game that's going to have niche appeal at best, zero appeal at worst lol

When you wake up in the morning and check social media

I know I'll never be able to completely force myself to finish games before moving on to others, but I think it will be easier to avoid the newness dopamine chase if I literally don't have other options installed.

Ideally I think I need like 2-3 on PC and one on handheld but I'd already started Chrono Trigger so...

I decided to give Divinity Original Sin 2 a shot and damn the dwarf women are fine as hell

Also the rest of the game seems good

David Szymanski reposted

Less than two weeks 😱

This game has very nice art

I finally reached the end of my rope with the whole videogame choice paralysis thing and deleted every game from my PC except what I'm actively playing. Even Doom and Quake. I feel a little woozy.

Every few months I'm like "I should make a CRPG" and then it never goes anywhere because I have no idea where to even start designing or programming the framework for something like that.