rethy

rethy

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Looking at old Fire Emblem map sprites and who the shit is this lanky looking Creep at the end here?

I watched a couple of Japanese travel vlogs of Canada last year for research and a tourist referring to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip as "Elizabeth-sama & Philip-san" is the funniest thing I've seen in my life.

A thought I've been batting around the past couple of days is whether the recent issue of games taking "too damn long to let you start playing the game" is partially due to the extinction of game manuals.

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Mandatory nuance, I love a good diagetic tutorial, but if I'm excited to sit down and play a new game for 1 hour, I wanna be playing the video game by the end of that hour. Most complaints I see are people who love big complex games not wanting to slog through the first few hours every playthrough.

A thought I've been batting around the past couple of days is whether the recent issue of games taking "too damn long to let you start playing the game" is partially due to the extinction of game manuals.

Now games are more front loaded with introducing dozens of proper nouns and 5 minutes where you need to prove you can jump and basic attack before drip-feeding you the rest of the controller layout. Get jump-scared by a full page of written text explaining a crafting system that you will forget.

Every single post-apocalyptic video game has Robarts Library on its moodboard. It's like they put a photo of my uncle in literally every GDC talk on art direction ever.

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look its simple: if roger rabbit is exonerated the toons gain control of the acme corporation leading to "coyote vs acme". if roger rabbit is convicted, humans retain control as seen in "looney tunes: back in action". if marvin acme is never killed then chip and dale rescue rangers (2022) happens

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Though primarily a comedy, it does reflect my sincere beliefs about JRPG writing that: - Genetic determination is fake and stupid - Moms are three-dimensional people with their own histories and relationships This specific mom is more two-dimensional, but you get the idea.

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Reminder that my really good video game is out and you can play it right now for FREE. You can experience for yourself: - "a surprisingly tight combat system" - Secret Boss?? - Mom

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It's live! The RPG Maker game I've been working on for the better part of the last year is complete and free to download on itch. Playtesters have been saying "It's really funny," "It's actually really good," and "I like [...] your mom." rethy.itch.io/ohnoitsthewi...

Reminder that my really good video game is out and you can play it right now for FREE. You can experience for yourself: - "a surprisingly tight combat system" - Secret Boss?? - Mom

rethy@rethy.bsky.social

It's live! The RPG Maker game I've been working on for the better part of the last year is complete and free to download on itch. Playtesters have been saying "It's really funny," "It's actually really good," and "I like [...] your mom." rethy.itch.io/ohnoitsthewi...

Me talking about some animation I love: "If you look closely you can see they actually applied a watercolour filter to the shadows and distance models so they blend into the backgrounds better, pretty incredible stuff." Me talking about some video game I love: "Check out this dog shit."

Every day I am learning about new Dark Wares and I am getting stronger.

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I'm streaming Franky Joe and Dirk on the Tiles aka the game that is only fuckass sliding block puzzles featuring instant kills on the player (not kidding!) twitch.tv/tietuesday

Anime is pretty notorious about making adult characters unrealistically young given their role, appearance, and personality, but I could believe that Quifrey and Olruggio are two 23 year olds at the end of their ropes.

#rpgmaker Anyone know the best place to look for legacy engine support at the moment? Everywhere I check seems kinda dead, but that may be a function of all the community vets are in full crisis management mode for the next while.

Me when I start eating a really messy sandwich that I can't put down or else it will completely fall apart: 'This only ends when one of us dies.'

I saw a comment like "this is like a ghibli movie" on some cute japanese office antics what are we even doing here folks.

Witch Hat Atelier is the ONE I'll let people call "ghibli-esque" because yes, it is cute and pastoral, but it is also sufficiently anti-fascist.